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Call for Applications: IHEA Executive Director
Di McIntyre, who has served as IHEA Executive Director for the past 10 years, will be stepping down at the end of the year. The Board has issued a call for applications for the Executive Director position. Full details of the call can be found here – please review all information, including the person specification so that you can submit a fully motivated application.
2025 IHEA Congress in Photos
Thank you to everyone who joined us in Bali for the 2025 IHEA Congress! We’re incredibly grateful to all our attendees, speakers, and session organizers for contributing to such a vibrant and engaging event. A special thank you to InaHEA for their generous hospitality and support in making this Congress possible.
We’re excited to share a few photo highlights from an unforgettable week of learning, networking, and collaboration. Please find some highlights of the 2025 IHEA Congress in Bali, co-hosted by the Indonesian Health Economics Association (InaHEA) below.
Prof. Hasbullah Thabrany, Chair of InaHEA (centre)
Over 1,500 delegates from more than 100 countries registered
A record 33 pre-congress sessions organized
Two plenary sessions
Anne Marie Thow speaking at Opening Plenary
83 organized sessions and 156 individual abstract driven sessions
Which included 202 Flash Oral presentations … with a prize for the best of these
Scientific Committee Co-Chairs with Best Flash Oral Presentation Prize Winner:
Wala Kamchedzera for her presentation: “Infecting the Wallet: The Economic Burden of Healthcare Associated Infections in Malawi.”
Two other presenters received Honorable Mentions:
- Sovathiro Mao (also in photo) for: “What Contributes to Out-of-pocket Health Expenditure in Cambodia’s Uncovered Population? A Distributional and Decomposition Analysis Using Survey Data” and
- Sebastian Neumann-Böhme for: “Experiment to Reduce Emergency Care Overutilization by Guiding Patients with a Triage Service in Germany”.
Presentations to Student Paper Prize Winners in the opening plenary
(Left, above) Student Prize Winners with Prize Committee Chair Tinna Ásgeirsdóttir, IHEA President Kara Hanson and InaHEA Chair Prof. Hasbullah Thabrany (Marie-Anne Boujaoude, Hidetoki Nakayama both 2025; Yuki Kanayama 2024)
And to the Adam Wagstaff Award winner in the closing plenary
(Right) Anne Mills with Rym Ghouma, Adam Wagstaff Award winner
Lots of networking
None of which would have been possible without the IHEA and InaHEA organizing team
And the amazing volunteers!
Recordings of the plenary sessions and some of the pre-congress sessions will be posted on the IHEA website in the near future.
Science for Health Systems Inaugural Conference
The Science for Health Systems Conference is a global forum to share new research on the measurement and improvement of health system performance. This inaugural conference will bring together researchers, policymakers, and implementers from multiple disciplines and regions of the world to share health system research methods and findings to maximize health impact. We especially welcome research that is comparative, large-scale, and focused on health system reform and redesign.
The conference brings together researchers, policymakers, implementers, trainees, and other stakeholders working across multiple disciplines and all regions of the world to engage around health system methods, results, and policies that maximize health impact.
Registration Rates:
Low- or Middle-Income Country – As classified by the World Bank Country and Lending Group.
Student / Early Career Researcher – Postdoctoral fellows and academics in first two years of employment
Click here to register. Early Bird rates end August 1st.
Upcoming Events
Pharmaceutical Drug Regulation and Mortality: Evidence from E-cigarettes.
Date: September 8, 2025
Time: 3:30 AM – 4:30 AM UTC
Speaker: Michael Pesko
Presented by: Economics of Risky Health Behaviors SIG
Applying Mendelian Randomization in Health Economics – Bridging Genomics and Cost-Effectiveness
Date: September 16, 2025
Time: 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM UTC
Speakers: Prof. Zanfina Ademi and Padraig Dixon
Presented by: Economics of Genomics and Precision Medicine SIG
Advancing Health Equity through Distributional Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (DCEA)
Date: October 8, 2025
Time: 10:00 pm – 11:00 pm UTC
Speakers: Dr Melanie Lloyd and Dr Hadley Stevens Smith
Presented by: Economics of Genomics and Precision Medicine SIG
Stay tuned for more on upcoming IHEA webinars! You can view all 2024-2025 events here.
Check out our website here.