January 2025 Newsletter

Happy New Year from IHEA

We would like to wish all of our members, volunteers, and committee a Happy New Year! 2025 is set to be an exciting year for IHEA, with our biennial IHEA Congress taking place in beautiful Bali this July. We also have a range of engaging and educational webinars, mentoring and fellowship opportunities, and more planned throughout the year. Looking forward to a year of opportunity, learning, and growth!

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Update on 2025 IHEA Congress in Bali

We are thrilled at the massive interest in the 2025 IHEA Congress – we received over 25% more abstract submissions, and more than double the number of pre-congress session proposals, than previous records. This bodes well for a jam-packed and exciting event.

Information on the pre-congress sessions will be advertised soon; there is great diversity of topics in the program and there will be something of interest to almost everyone on both Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th July, so plan on arriving early to benefit from these sessions.

We would, however, alert abstract submitters to two challenges that result from the high number of submissions:

  • The intensive peer-review process undertaken by the Review Panel, Program Chairs and Scientific Committee Chairs is taking longer than planned – submitters will only be informed of the outcome at the end of February / early March;
  • As the number of sessions, and hence presentation opportunities, is comparable to other Congresses, the acceptance rate will be lower and the quality ‘bar’ higher than in recent years.

The Scientific Committee is exploring ways to include as many presenters as possible while maintaining high quality. These include introducing sessions for lightning or elevator 3-minute presentations and restricting the number of presentations during the congress to one per person.

We will release the outcomes of the Scientific Committee process as soon as possible, but we do not expect to be able to do so before the end of February.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank the members of the Review Panel, who worked tirelessly during December and early January reviewing individual abstracts and organized session proposals. Your contributions are greatly appreciated.

Maiken Skovrider Aaskoven · Cristiana Abbafati · Yubraj Acharya · Folashayo Adeniji · Khurshid Alam · Paul Allanson · Lazaros Andronis · Laura Anselmi · Kjartan Sarheim Anthun · Micaela Antunes · Bolaji Aregbeshola · Jackline Aridi · Grace Armijos Bravo · Eric Arthur · Adam Atherly · Arthur Attema · Emmanuel Ayifah · Karan Babbar · Cate Bailey · Namal N. Balasooriya · Amrit Banstola · Ranju Baral · Michael Berger · Andres Berruti · Galina Besstremyannaya · Priya Bhagowalia · Stefan Boes · Corneliu Bolbocean · Igna Bonfrer · Frederik Booysen · Laia Bosque-Mercader · Fiammetta Bozzani · Eoghan Brady · Katie Breheny · Robert J Brent · Christian Brettschneider · John Buckell · Elzbieta Buczak-Stec · Norma Bulamu · Julie Campbell · Natalie Carvalho · Adriana Castelli · Chitalu Chama-Chiliba · Jen-Yu Amy Chang · Gang Chen · Susan Chen · Jinyang Chen · Zhuo Chen · Gowokani Chijere Chirwa · Chen-Han Chueh · Louisa Collins · Laura Cornelsen · Ana Correa Ossa · Edson Correia Araujo · Benjamin Craig · Enrica Croda · Alison Cuellar · John Cullinan · Angela Daley · Claire de Oliveira · Damien de Walque · Manuela Deidda · Angela Devine · Joseph Dieleman · Linda Dynan · Tobias Effertz · Habib Hasan Farooqui · Inna Feldman · Ama Fenny · Giulia Ferrari · Anne Fitzpatrick · Sebastian Fleitas · Harry (Ted) Frech · Emma Frew · Wolfgang Frimmel · Rui Fu · Ahmad Fuady · Jacopo Gabani · Yunwei Gai · Agnes Gatome · James Gaughan · Sean Gavan · Christian Gericke · Geir Godager · Irina Grafova · Eleanor Grieve · Harminder Guliani · Gulcin Gumus · Nils Gutacker · Nicole Hair · Piya Hanvoravongchai · Rubayyat Hashmi · Steven Hill · Ann Holmes · Michal Horný · Martin Howell · John Hsu · Frances Ilika · Adeel Ishtiaq · Aleksandra Jakubowski · Tricia Johnson · Christin Juhnke · Billingsley Kaambwa · Alphoncina Kagaigai · Fabrice Kampfen · Lucy Kanya · Anup Karan · Lukas Kauer · Marcus Keogh-Brown · Syed Afroz Keramat · Viktorija Kesaite · Jaewhan Kim · Seonghoon Kim · David Kim · Irina Kinchin · Stefan Kohler · Rositsa Koleva-Kolarova · Tekin Kose · Deliana Kostova · Emanuel Krebs · Narimasa Kumagai · Brendan Kwesiga · Stella Lartey · Lei Lei · Rolando Leiva-Granados · Changle Li · Li-Lin Liang · Ka Keat Lim · Meng-Yun Lin · Haizhen Lin · Stephan Lindner · Chengxu Long · Luis Loria-Rebolledo · Oscar Lourenco · Akim Tafadzwa Lukwa · Tom Lung · Fiona Lynn · Błażej Łyszczarz · Elham Mahmoudi · Rashidul Mahumud · Marshall Makate · Giorgia Marini · Sithabiso Masuku · Logan McLeod · Filip Meheus · Nidhiya Menon · Michela Meregaglia · Shafiu Mohammed · Flavia Moi · Patrick Moore · Toni Mora · Bernard Moscoso · Haizhen Mou · Christine Mpundu-Kaambwa · Peter Murphy · Mercy Mvundura · Nurhasmadiar Nandini · Arnab Nayak · Nichola Naylor · Rifkatu Nghargbu · Nhung Nghiem · Lien Nguyen · Hoa Thi Nguyen · Peng Nie · Felix Obi · Eric Obikeze · Yewande Ogundeji · Jason Ong · Obinna Onwujekwe · Ismael Ortega · Evans Otieku · Alfredo Palacios · Tom Palmer · Alfredo Paloyo · Sungchul Park · May Ee Png · Timothy Powell-Jackson · Mohammad Habibullah Pulok · Jianchao Quan · Troy Quast · Carlota Quintal · Ana Quiroga Gutierrez · Rajesh Kumar Rai · Rezwanul Rana · Adam Raymakers · Vivian Reckers-Droog · Carlos Riumallo Herl · Carlos Rojas Roque · Caroline Rudisill · Ramzi Salloum · Eirini-Christina Saloniki · Filipa Sampaio · Chris Sampson · Sabina Sanghera · Vishnu Prasad Sapkota · Abdur Razzaque Sarker · Sisira Sarma · Flavia Sarti · Reshmi Sengupta · Mujaheed Shaikh · Gopal Ashish Sharma · Suneeta Sharma · Sophy Shih · Ajay Singh · Kompal Sinha · Marina Soley-Bori · Susan Sparkes · Joanne Spetz · Divya Srivastava · Swati Srivastava · Christian Suharlim · Marufa Sultana · Kim Sweeny · Sara Syeda · Casey Tak · Ajay Tandon · Chengxiang Tang · Michelle Tew · Evelyn Thsehla · Florian Tomini · An Duy Tran · Aviad Tur-Sinai · Jorge Ugaz · Eline van den Broek-Altenburg · Giovanni van Empel · Veronica Vargas · Sukumar Vellakkal · Bruno Ventelou · Martin Vu · Josephine Walker · Cheng Wan · Caroline Watts · Edward Webb · William Weeks · David Whitehurst · William Whittaker · Daniel Wiesen · Ed Wilson · Marta Wilson-Barthes · Jingxian Wu · Muzhe Yang · Di Yang · Fadima Yaya Bocoum · Amanuel Yigezu · Tansel Yilmazer · Serena Yu · Dahai Yue · Wei Zhang · Qi Zhang · Hao Zhang · Yang Zhao · Ivan Zimmermann


14th Meeting of the Australasian Workshop on Econometrics and Health Economics

This workshop will provide a forum for the development and dissemination of applications of econometrics and other quantitative approaches in health economics. It will follow the format of the long-running European workshops on econometrics and health economics.

We are now calling for papers for presentation, with up to 14 papers to be accepted. Presentations by doctoral students and early career researchers are encouraged.

The number of workshop participants is strictly limited, and participants will be expected to attend the whole meeting.

Date: July 16 – 18, 2025

Location: Monash University Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Australia

Registration details will be provided in early 2025.


Latin American Health Economics Network – Call for Papers for the 2025 RIDGE MAY Forum

The Latin American Health Economics Network will hold its annual workshop together with other LACEA’s networks at the 2025 RIDGE MAY Forum, Universidad del Pacífico, Lima, Perú, on May 14-15, 2025. The deadline for submission has been extended to February 7th, 2025. 

Full papers, in PDF format, should be submitted online via the RIDGE website: https://ridge.org.uy/ridge-forums/

Around 12 papers will be selected, each of which will have 45 minutes for presentation, feedback, and discussion. Authors will be able to select a first and second preference of workshops to present the paper, although the papers may only be presented once. 

Submit your papers now!


Upcoming Events

Shifting Gears: Navigating Career Transitions Across Sectors

Date: February 3, 2025 

Time: 9:00 am – 10:30 am UTC

Presented by: Dr. Brett Doble, Dr. Christopher Rouen, and Dr. Christine Leopold

Learn more here 

The Intended and Unintended Effects of E-Cigarette Policies on Tobacco and Non-Tobacco Health

Date: February 3, 2025 

Time: 3:30 pm – 4:30 am UTC

Presented by: Professor Joseph J. Sabia 

Learn more here

Econ-Omics Talks: Evaluating and Valuing Pharmacogenetic Testing

Date: February 11, 2025 

Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM UTC

Presented by: Professor Katherine Payne

Learn more here 

Rescheduled – Current and Emerging Issues of Strategic Purchasing of Healthcare Services for Health Systems’ Efficiency and Quality

Date: February 13, 2025 

Time: 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM UTC

Presented by: Inke Mathauer

Learn more here

Stay tuned for more on upcoming IHEA webinars! You can view all 2025 events here.



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