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October 4, 2006
ESF-IfW Conferences on The Global Health Economy - New Technology and Medical Decision Making: Normative Models and Empirical Practice: European Science Foundation
Location: Salzau Castle (near Kiel), Germany
Dates: 4-9 October 2006
Deadline for Applications: 7 August 2006 (deadline extended)
- Chair: Uwe Siebert UMIT, Hall, AT & Harvard Medical School, Boston, US
- Co-Chair: Peter Zweifel University of Zürich, CH
A certain number of grants (covering the conference fee and possibly part of the travel costs) will be available for young researchers. Grant requests should be made by ticking appropriate field(s) in the section #5 “Grant application” of the application form.
With support from the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung für Wissenschaftsförderung and the State Government of Schleswig-Holstein through its Gesundheitsinitiative
Invited Speakers will include
- H. Bleichrodt Erasmus U. Rotterdam, NL
- J.L. Bosch Erasmus U. Rotterdam, NL
- A. Briggs Glasgow U., UK
- D.I. Brixner Utah U., Salt Lake City, US
- K. Claxton York U., Heslington, UK
- D.E. Detmer Virginia U., US
- L. Eeckhoudt CORE Louvain-la-Neuve, BE
- E.-M. Engels Tübingen U., DE
- A.C. Gelijns Columbia U. New York, US
- R. Körfer Bochum U., DE
- M. Krahn Toronto U, CA
- T. Lindholm Stockholm U., SE
- F. MartÃn-Sanchez National Institute of Health Carlos III, Madrid, ES
- D.O. Meltzer Chicago U., US
- J.S. Pliskin Ben-Gurion U., IL
- P. Propping Bonn U., DE
- M.S. Roberts Pittsburgh U., US
- J.M. Robins Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, US
- D. Timmermans Amsterdam U., NL
- M. Sculpher York U., UK
- U. Siebert UMIT Hall, AT & Harvard Medical School, Boston, US
- P. Zweifel Zürich U., CH
Scope: Rapid advances in medical knowledge and technology have long been recognized as a key challenge to the theory and practice of medical decision making. From an economic point of view, the need to revise and update decision making rules as new knowledge and diagnostic and therapeutic choices become available represents an investment problem - both in the management of individual patients and in the management of medical technology at the systemic level. Fundamental uncertainty and often irreversible consequences of specific choices abound. At either level, efficiency requires that investment decisions be based on the timely supply of evidence on a technology’s efficacy and cost-effectiveness. This necessitates further improvements in the methodology of health technology assessments, including more comprehensive economic evaluations, as well as in the set of institutions that govern health care practice and determine how quickly new information diffuses, how careful it is evaluated, filtered and targeted at those most likely to benefit from it, and how the risks associated with the adoption of new technology are allocated.
Our conference comprises five thematic sessions with invited presentations and additional short talks and poster viewing sessions. The main sessions are titled:
- Trends in Medical Technology – Focusing Devices, Technological Trajectories, and Forecasting,
- The Science of Medical Decision Making – Producing and Using Information for Efficient Risk Management,
- Medical Infrastructure, Insurance, and the Diffusion of Innovation,
- Methods for Estimating the Causal Effect of Medical Interventions from Observational Data,
- Priority Setting, Health Technology Assessment, and Research Investments.
Young researchers from economics, medicine and related disciplines are invited to apply for this conference and contribute their own ideas and research findings for selected short talks and poster viewing sessions. Grants to cover the conference fee and a generous contribution towards travel costs will be available for the best young applicants. In addition, there will be talks selected from poster abstracts and prizes awarded for the best posters. The overall objective is to build international and interdisciplinary research networks in the area of medical decision making.
Application Form & Programme available online
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