HERC is excited to announce it will be hosting a new classroom-based course in Oxford (UK): Understanding and Predicting Choice Behaviour in Health: Preference Elicitation and Analysis 22 – 24 April 2024 This is an intensive 3-days course designed for those who need to perform discrete choice analysis in healthcare and who would like to […]
This webinar offers an overview of how digital innovations reshape healthcare, with a focus on telemedicine and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Beginning with telemedicine, Dan Zeltzer will present the impacts of increased patient access to primary care providers via telemedicine following the surge in adoption around the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, followed by a […]
Featured speaker: Heather Royer, Professor, UCSB Heather Royer's research focuses primarily on Health Economics. Her work focuses on three main areas: disentangle the causal effect of education on health and fertility, how incentives affect healthy behaviors such as exercise and eating healthy, and the effects of changes to health care services. Her work has been […]
The deadline for abstracts submission for the 2nd Croatian Health Economics Workshop is approaching. The workshop – organised by the Croatian Health Economics Association - will take place in Dubrovnik on 20th-22nd May 2024. Prof Stephanie Von Hinke will deliver the keynote speech this year. Please see here for all details about the call and workshop. […]
We are pleased to announce an open call for papers for the 2024 Rosenkranz Global Health Policy Research Symposium at Stanford University, to take place on Tuesday, May 21, 2024. The Symposium is a day-long event that showcases innovative global health policy research from any discipline. The keynote speaker will be Mark Dybul, Co-Director of […]
Featured speaker: Rowena Jacobs May 23 at 7am EST / 12-noon BST REGISTER NOW
The Global Health Systems Summer Institute provides early- and mid-career public health professionals with cutting-edge skills in a variety of global health topics. The Institute is also a great opportunity for part-time MPH and other Hopkins students and fellows to learn a valuable set of skills in an in-demand and rapidly growing field of public […]
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Does deferring school entry for children born just before the enrollment cutoff date improve their mental well-being? We address this question using administrative data on prescriptions for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in England. Higher ADHD rates among early school starters are often attributed to a peer-comparison bias caused by differences in relative age among […]
Increasingly, low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are considering establishing or expanding health insurance (HI) to achieve universal health coverage (UHC). However, the evidence on the impact of HI in LMICs over the last 20 years is mixed. The session will explore the motivations of a country to pursue health insurance, and what we have learned […]
Professor Veenstra will present his research evaluating the benefits, risks, and costs of population-level genomic screening for adults. Drivers, barriers, and evidence gaps for both rare, high-risk genomic variants and more common moderate risk stratification approaches will be discussed. This presentation is part of the Econ-Omics Talks series and will include a brief speaker interview […]
