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 […]
Submissions are now open for the 13th Workshop on the Economics of Risky Behavior, scheduled to take place in Opatija, Croatia on July 4-5, 2024. Keynote Speaker: Giovanni Mastrobuoni (University of Torino) Organizers: Erdal Tekin (School of Public Affairs, American University & NBER) Ana Bobinac, Igor Francetic, Lana Kovacevic (Croatian Health Economics Association) Workshop Dates: […]
July 8-12, 2024, online Faculty Owen O’Donnell is Professor of Applied Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is a Research Fellow of the Tinbergen Institute, Netspar and the CESR/Schaefer Center for the Study of Health Inequality. Tom Van Ourti is Professor of Applied Health Economics with a focus on health and inequality at Erasmus University Rotterdam and a Research […]
July 8-12, 2024, online Faculty Owen O’Donnell is Professor of Applied Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is a Research Fellow of the Tinbergen Institute, Netspar and the CESR/Schaefer Center for the Study of Health Inequality. Tom Van Ourti is Professor of Applied Health Economics with a focus on health and inequality at Erasmus University Rotterdam and a Research […]
Spanish: El 01 de marzo de 2020, se diagnosticó el primer caso en República Dominicana, y el 17 de marzo de 2020, el Gobierno dominicano anunció una serie de medidas sanitarias, sociales y económicas. Entonces, se conformó una comisión de alto nivel para la Prevención conformada por diferentes Ministros incluyendo al Superintendente de Salud y […]
The 2nd CINCH-dggö Academy in Health Economics will take place from August 19th-August 23rd 2024 at the University of Duisburg-Essen. More information here: dggö » 2nd CINCH-dggö Academy in Health Economics (dggoe.de)
