Add to Calendar! This webinar will introduce the recent work on cost-effectiveness and budget impact thresholds with the aim of strengthening the methodological foundations of economic evaluations for health policy development. The discussion will start with 2023 publication of the faculty members in The Lancet Global Health, that has introduced a novel method to estimate […]

Add to Calendar! This webinar will explore key concepts, methods, and international evidence on health inequality aversion. The session will begin with an introduction to health inequality aversion and an overview of one of the methods used to elicit the parameters. It is followed by presentations from four countries, Australia, Uganda, Japan, and India, that […]

Add to Calendar Health policymakers often turning to social scientists for insights about how to improve citizens’ health decisions and outcomes. However, these insights can only inform policy insofar as they are comparable—and unfortunately, different intervention ideas are typically tested across different samples on different outcomes over different time intervals. In my talk, I will […]

Add to Calendar Linking individuals across administrative registers, we investigate impacts of antidepressant treatment among Danish children who have been referred to a child psychiatrist. Leveraging conditional random assignment of patients to psychiatrists with different prescribing tendencies, we find that treatment increases school test scores. These impacts are larger among children of mothers who have […]

Add to Calendar Algorithmic decision-making in Clinical Care: Evidence, Equity, and Economics Across Health Systems As algorithmic decision-making tools—ranging from traditional rule-based models to advanced AI systems that learn from data—become integral to clinical care, understanding their real-world impact is more crucial than ever. This panel brings together experts to explore the evidence behind effectiveness, scalability, […]

The Financing for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Special Interest Group (SIG) is organizing an online networking session before the 2025 IHEA Conference to be held in Bali, Indonesia. This SIG brings together a global network of health economists specializing in health financing, with a focus on financing policies and reforms that support the pursuit of […]

The Financing for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Special Interest Group (SIG) is organizing an online networking session before the 2025 IHEA Conference to be held in Bali, Indonesia. This SIG brings together a global network of health economists specializing in health financing, with a focus on financing policies and reforms that support the pursuit of […]

Add to Calendar Three researchers in economics will present their work-in-progress on the topic of mental health and climate change. The presentations will be followed by a moderated discussion. Speakers: Beate Thies, University of Vienna; James Hall, University of Birmingham; Tamma Carleton, University of California Berkeley

Add to Calendar The IHEA Econ-Omics Special Interest Group is pleased to invite you to our next Early Career Researcher (ECR) Journal Club. The webinar will take place from 8-10am UTC (9-11am BST / 6-8pm AEST) on Tuesday 15th July. The webinar will feature presentations from three ECRs, followed by a discussion facilitated by a […]

Add to Calendar This study evaluates drug regulation in the United States by examining a product that was unexpectedly judicially exempted from drug regulation in 2010: e-cigarettes. We compare these effects to nicotine replacement therapy, which was not exempted. Our analysis shows that this exemption led to significant increases in e-cigarette innovation, as evidenced by […]