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April 26, 2006
HERG Open Day
Location: Uxbridge, England, UK
Date: 26 April 2006
HERG Open Day: Wednesday 26th April 2006: 1.00pm to 7.00pm
We would like to warmly invite you to a special Open Day HERG is holding to mark a further important phase in the continuing development of HERG, specifically its designation as one of four new Specialist Research Institutes at Brunel and the beginning of work within our fourth, five-year programme grant from the Department of Health.
The day will provide an opportunity:
- to find out more about the work of HERG;
- to take part in a panel discussion on ‘NICE: Health Economics in Practice’; and
- to attend the inaugural lecture from Professor Julia Fox-Rushby
In addition we are available in the morning, by appointment, to discuss in more detail any specific matters such as possible research collaborations, consultancy projects, or post-graduate training.
Wednesday 26th April 2006
- 10.00 - 12.30
Opportunity for detailed discussions with HERG staff in the Gaskell Building (By appointment only) - 13.00 - 14.00
Buffet lunch (Howell Building) - 14.00 - 15.30
‘NICE: Health Economics in Practice’ (Howell Building)
Panel Discussion chaired by Professor Chris Jenks, Vice Chancellor of Brunel University, followed by general discussion and questions.
Panel: David Barnett (Chair of the NICE Appraisal Committee); Adrian Towse (Director, Office of Health Economics); James Partridge (Chief Executive, Changing Faces); Martin Buxton (Director, HERG) NICE has become a key user of economic evaluations in their appraisal process, and economic evaluations are the key part of the evidence to NICE. The four members of the panel will briefly present their views on what the Committee needs from economic evaluations, the challenge to industry in providing the evidence, the extent to which patient groups and the public understand and accept the economic approach and NICE’s stimulus and challenge to methodological development. There will be an opportunity for questions and comments. - 15.30 - 16.45
Display of posters, papers, reports etc and opportunity to meet staff (Gaskell Building)
The display will provide an overview and examples of the type of research that HERG undertakes, and an indication of the range of its national and international collaborators and sponsors. HERG staff will be on hand to answer specific questions or to talk more generally about our work. We particularly welcome the opportunity to discuss future collaborations of one sort or another 17.00 -18.15
Inaugural Lecture (Howell Building)
Professor Julia Fox-Rushby
‘Maximising health, wealth and happiness: a challenge to public health’ Julia, who obtained both her first degree and PhD in Health Economics from Brunel, returned to a Professorial post a year ago. Her inaugural lecture will focus on some of the challenges presented in evaluating and judging which public health interventions in the UK are most likely to increase health, wealth or happiness. She will draw on her previous research in Kenya, which developed a measure of health-related quality of life amongst a rural community, and India, which examined the willingness to pay for interventions that reduce malaria, and reflect on how economic evaluation in the UK might account for a fuller range of benefits in the future.18.15 -
Refreshments (Howell Building)
Full details can be found at the following link Please complete and return the acceptance form to help us plan for the appropriate numbers.
We look forward to the opportunity of meeting both old friends and new contacts here on the 26th April.
