Board of Directors
iHEA Board of Directors TOR [PDF - 82KB]
President
Anne Mills
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Anne Mills is Head of the Faculty of Public Health and Policy, and Professor of Health Economics and Policy, at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The Faculty, with around 200 academic staff, has a total research grants portfolio of £85m, and teaches around 140 research degree students, 290 London-based MSc students, and 1000 distance-learning MSc students. Anne Mills has researched and published widely in the fields of health economics and health systems in low and middle income countries. She founded, and is Director of, LSHTM’s Health Economics and Financing Programme, which together with its many research partners, has an extensive programme of research with low and middle income country partners. She has also had extensive involvement in supporting capacity development in health economics in low and middle income country universities and research institutes. She has advised multilateral, bilateral and government agencies on numerous occasions; was a member of WHO’s Commission on Macro-economics and Health; and co-chaired one of the two Working Groups for the 2009 High Level Taskforce on Innovative International Finance for Health Systems co-chaired by Gordon Brown. In 2006 she was awarded a CBE for services to medicine and elected Foreign Associate of the US Institute of Medicine. In 2009 she was elected Fellow of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences and received the Prince Mahidol Award in the field of medicine. She is President Elect of iHEA.
President-Elect
Terkel Christiansen
University of Southern Denmark
Terkel Christiansen is professor of Health Economics at University of Southern Denmark, and he has for more than a decade been the leader of the Health Economics Research Unit at this university. His was among the first to teach Health Economics in Denmark in the 1970s, and he was co-founder of NHESG, the Nordic Health Economists’ Study Group. In his research he has been internationally oriented and taken part in several EU funded projects as well as other projects based on international collaboration. He has served on several advisory boards to the Ministry of Health or National Board of Health. In 2007 he was the local host of iHEA’s 6th World Congress in Copenhagen.
Past President
Guillem López Casasnovas
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Guillem López-Casasnovas (BA in Economics, BA in Law, PhD, University of York) has been Professor at UPF since 1992. He is the founder of the Research Centre on Health and Economics (CRES) at UPF and was the director until 2005. He has served is as a member of the Directors Board of the Bank of Spain since 2005, and he serves as advisor of the Spanish Ministry of Health and Social Policy, the Catalan Health Ministry, and as expert of the World Health Organization (WHO) on health inequalities in the European Union, among others.
Treasurer
James F. Burgess, Jr.
Boston University
Jim Burgess is an Associate Professor of Health Services in the Boston University School of Public Health with over 15 years of extensive health care management, health economics research, and educational experience putting health services research into practice in diverse settings. He also serves the health economics field as a founding co-editor of the electronic Health Economics Letters, the first fully electronic peer reviewed journal in health economics, and as a founding co-editor of iHEA News. For the past four years he also has been a member of the Audit Committee for the Association. He has a primary appointment in the Management Science Group of the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) where he currently is an organizing member of the Secretary's Advisory Group on VA Physician Productivity and Staffing and the VA Learning Xchange, a leadership group promoting organization learning and change. His wide-ranging intellectual and research pursuits include special interests in considering effects of local context in efficiency analysis, audience differences in provider quality profiling, and patient heterogeneity in risk adjustment.
Some of his important first authored publications include "Federal Provision of Health Care: Creating Access for the Underinsured," published in 1991 in the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved; a series of articles on technical inefficiency in health care with Wilson, including one in 1996 in Management Science; and two articles published in 2000 on health care profiling using hierarchical models, including one in Journal of Health Economics entitled "Medical Profiling: Improving Standards and Risk Adjustments using Hierarchical Models". Other published research with numerous co-authors include studies of hospital competition and relationships to HMO business, hospital quality and cost functions, risk adjustment and profiling in diabetes care, design of global budgeting systems, productivity and staffing models in hospitals, industrial organization of health care providers, and the impact of distance and other factors on the use of outpatient health services. At Boston University, he currently co-directs the masters and doctoral programs in Health Services Research.
Current Directors
W. David Bradford
University of Georgia
W. David Bradford, Ph.D. is the Busbee Chair in Public Policy in the Department of Public Administration and Policy at the University of Georgia. He was formerly the Director and founder of the Center for Health Economic and Policy Studies at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) and has been a visiting faculty member at Yale Medical School and a tenured faculty member in the Department of Economics at the University of New Hampshire. Dr. Bradford has numerous publications (both in peer-reviewed outlets and in book chapters) and professional presentations and is co-editor of the peer-reviewed journal Health Economics Letters.
He is also on the editorial board for the journal Health Economics, serves on the editorial board of the newsletter of the American Society of Health Economists, and is on the oversight boards for both the American Health Economics Conference and the Southeastern Health Economics Study Group.
David Cutler
Harvard University
David Cutler is currently the Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics at Harvard University, a faculty member at the Kennedy School of Government, and recently completed a five-year term as associate dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for Social Sciences. Professor Cutler served on the Council of Economic Advisers and the National Economic Council during the Clinton Administration and was senior health care advisor to Barack Obama's Presidential campaign. Professor Cutler also advised the Presidential campaign of Bill Bradley. Among other affiliations, Professor Cutler has held positions with the National Institutes of Health and the National Academy of Sciences. Currently, Professor Cutler is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a member of the Institute of Medicine.
Andrew Jones
University of York
Andrew Jones is Professor of Economics at the University of York, UK, where he has been Director of the Graduate Programme in Health Economics since 1994. During that time the MSc in Health Economics has had over 500 graduates from more than 70 countries. He is joint editor of Health Economics and of Health Economics Letters and he edited the Elgar Companion to Health Economics. He organises the European Workshops on Econometrics and Health Economics and is the research director of the Health, Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG) at the University of York, visiting professor at the University of Bergen and adjunct principal research fellow at Monash University. He chaired the student competition committee at the Inaugural iHEA World Congress in Vancouver in 1996, and at the 2nd iHEA World Congress in Rotterdam. He has organised publication of the prize winning papers in Health Economics for each of the subsequent conferences. He is a member of iHEA’s Arrow Award committee.
Maarten Lindeboom
VU University Amsterdam
Maarten Lindeboom is Professor of Economics at VU University Amsterdam. He studied econometrics at VU University of Amsterdam and graduated in 1986. He received his Ph.D. at Leiden University in 1992 and held positions at Leiden University and Tilburg University; and visiting positions at Bristol University and the University of Michigan. He is also associate editor of Health Economics. His research interests are Health and Labor economics, in particular issues related to Health and Work, The measurement of health and The Determinants of Later Life Health and Mortality. He has published among others in American Economic Review, the Economic Journal, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Health Economics, Health Economics, Social Science and Medicine, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Demography, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (series A & B) and Journal of Human Resources.
Alastair McGuire
London School of Economics
Professor Alistair McGuire [B.A.;M.Litt; Phd] is a Professor in Health Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Prior to this he was Professor of Economics at City University, London after being a Tutor in Economics at Pembroke College, University of Oxford. He has been interested in the economics of health care for over 20 years and has written numerous books, articles and reports in this area, as well as participating in many advisory roles to various national and international governments and pharmaceutical companies. He established the MSc in Economic Evaluation in Health Care at City University and the MSc in International Health Policy (Health Economics) at the LSE. He directs the latter.
American Society of Health Economists (ASHEcon) Representative
Laurence Baker
Stanford University
Laurence Baker, Ph.D. is a health economist and Professor of Health Research and Policy at Stanford University. His research examines a variety of health care economics and policy questions. He is the author of numerous works on the effects of financial incentives and organizational structures on the delivery of health care and health care spending, including extensive work on technological change in medicine and work on managed care and its effects. He also studies health care regulatory policy, efforts to improve quality in health care, and policies that affect the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Dr. Baker serves as Chief of Health Services Research at the Stanford University School of Medicine, and has been appointed Fellow of the Center for Health Policy at Stanford University and Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, MA. He also holds a courtesy appointment in the Stanford University Department of Economics, and directs the Stanford University School of Medicine’s Scholarly Concentrations Program. Dr. Baker was the recipient of the ASHE Medal from the American Society of Health Economists in 2008 and the Alice S. Hersh Young Investigator Award by the Academy for Health Services Research and Health Policy in 2000. In 1997 and 1999 he received the National Institute for Health Care Management’s research prize for his work on managed care. He serves as Senior Associate Editor for the journal Health Services Research, on the editorial board of Medical Care Research and Review. Dr. Baker received his Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University in 1994.
Australian Health Economics Association (AHES) Representative
Bruce Hollingsworth
Monash University
Professor Bruce Hollingsworth is Director of the Centre for Health Economics, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. He is recipient of a Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (VicHealth) Public Health Fellowship. His previous appointment was at the University of Newcastle, UK. He has a PhD (Newcastle, UK), MSc Health Economics (York, UK), and BA (Hons) Economics.
Research and international collaborative publications are principally in the area of efficiency measurement with respect to the production of health and health care, social determinants of health, and the translation of research into practice. Among current large grants, he is Chief Investigator on: an NHMRC Programme Grant on chronic disease prevention; a DoHA grant on Depression; an NHMRC grant on the costs and benefits of complimentary and alternative medicine; Chief Investigator A on two ARC Discovery Grants, to look at health production, and to look at the economics of obesity; as well as Associate Investigator A on an NHMRC Health Services Research Programme Grant focusing on modelling health care systems.
Bruce supervises seven PhD students, co-organises the Australasian Workshops on Econometrics and Health Economics, and is an Associate Editor of Health Economics.
He runs the health economics email discussion list, is on the iHEA International Standing Scientific Committee, is an active member of health economics organisations worldwide, is an invited speaker at many international conferences and to Government bodies, is referee for 38 international journals, a referee of international standing for the ARC, the NHMRC and several international grant bodies, and has over 150 publications.
Health Economics Study Group (HESG) Representative
Bob Elliott
University of Aberdeen
Robert F. (Bob) Elliott is a Professor of Economics and Director of the Health Economics Research Unit at the University of Aberdeen.
He has been a visiting Professor at Universities in the USA, Australia and Europe including Cornell, New York, Stanford and Wisconsin, in the USA, and Universita Cattolica, Milan, Italy. He has been a consultant and adviser to a large number of national and international organisations including HM Treasury, the OECD and European Commission. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE). In 2007 he was appointed one of the two Independent Commissioners to the UK Low Pay Commission which recommends the UK National Minimum Wage.
His research interests lie in the fields of labour and health economics, with a particular focus on health service organisation, workforce and the economics of resource allocation. He is author of papers in the leading health economics and general economics journals, including the Journal of Health Economics, Health Economics, the Economic Journal, Economica and the Journal of Human Resources. He is author and editor of nine books including Labor Economics: a comparative text, McGraw-Hill and Advances in Health Economics, John WileyExecutive Director
Thomas Getzen
Temple University
Thomas E. Getzen, Ph.D., founder and Executive Director of iHEA, is Professor of Risk, Insurance and Health Management at Temple University, and has also been a visiting professor at the University of Toronto, the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy at Princeton University, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and the Centre for Health Economics at the University of York, and serves as the editor-in-chief for "HEN-Health Economics Network" in collaboration with SSSRN, associate editor for Health Economics, and as a reviewer for a number of medical, health services, and economics journals. His textbook Health Economics & Financing (Wiley; 4th ed., 2010) is used in graduate and undergraduate programs throughout the world and his research and consulting focus on the macroeconomics of health, forecasting medical expenditures, physician supply, price indexes, financing and, public health economics. Professor Getzen periodically updates the forecasting model of "Long Run Medical Cost Trends" for the Society of Actuaries, and current serves on the Institute of Medicine Committee on Public Health Strategies.