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April 20, 2010
Methods for the analysis of panel data in health and health care:Hosted by the Health, Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG)
Location: York, UK
Dates: 20th-22nd April 2010
3 day computer-based course hosted by the Health, Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG),
University of York, 20th-22nd April 2010
This is a three-day course focusing on the use of applied quantitative
methods for the analysis of panel data encountered in health and health
care. The course is run by the Health, Econometrics and Data Group, a
collaboration between the Centre for Health Economics and the Department of
Economics and Related Studies at the University of York.
The course is aimed at PhD students and junior researchers or policy makers
working in applied health economics.
The course will explain applied health economics methods relevant to the
analysis of panel data obtained from administrative or observational
sources. Topics to be covered will include an introduction to panel data
techniques including linear models and fixed and random effects;
instrumental variables; non-linear panel data models; dynamic models;
discrete-time duration models. Throughout the course, computer-based
practical exercises will be used to show how these methods can be applied
using the statistical package Stata.
The aims of the course are to introduce young professionals to the main
techniques used in applied health economics, and to provide practical
experience with the application of such techniques. By the end of the
course, participants should be able to:
- formulate empirical problems involving longitudinal micro-data on health and health care
- select appropriate econometric methods
- understand methods of estimation and be able to implement them, using appropriate software
- interpret the results of the analysis
Course content
The course will cover topics relevant to the analysis of health and health
care data. Sessions will be split between lectures and computer-based
practicals.
The course will be held in the EXEC/computer-training lab in the Alcuin
Research Resource Centre (ARRC: http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/arrc/). The
software package used for the practical examples is Stata and each
participant will have access to a PC with Stata 10 installed. Stata
do-files containing the code required to complete the practical exercises will be
provided. A basic familiarisation with Stata will be an advantage. Further
information on Stata can be found at: http://www/stata.com/
Data sources relevant to the practical exercises will be provided.
The programme
The course will be provided by members of HEDG: Andrew Jones, Nigel Rice,
Silvana Robone, Pedro Rosa-Dias and Eugenio Zucchelli.
Online registration will be available shortly:
http://www.york.ac.uk/res/herc/research/hedg/index.htm
The Health, Econometrics and Data Group is supported by funding from the
Economic and Social Research Council under the grant RES-060-25-0045.
April 20, 2010: Short Course
July 1, 2010
Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Training in Mental Health Policy and Economics Research
Location: online
Date: July 2010
Final Prgram is available at http://www.icmpe.org/
The Training is sponsored by the Section on Mental Health Economics of the
World Psychiatric Association.
The entire Training will be conducted through the website
http://www.icmpe.org/
The Training material and the related references, are available to the
Participants through password on the ICMPE
website upon registration. It will enable
participants to receive substantial information prior of the interactive
events to be held at http://www.icmpe.org/ in July 2010.
The Training is comprised of the following courses:
MAPPING OF MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES WITHIN COUNTRIES
Shekhar Saxena
M.D., Co-ordinator of the Team Mental Health: Evidence and Research at
World
Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
MENTAL HEALTH POLICY, SERVICES AND EVALUATION RESEARCH
Howard H. Goldman
MD, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of
Medicine, Baltimore, USA
ECONOMIC EVALUATION FOR HEALTH CARE DECISION MAKING
Michael Drummond
Ph.D., Professor of Health Economics, Centre for Health Economics,
University of York, UK
MENTAL HEALTH FINANCING POLICY AND OUTCOMES ANALYSIS
Teh-wei Hu
Ph.D., Professor in Graduate School, Professor Emeritus of Health
Economics,
University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
ECONOMIC EVALUATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH INTERVENTIONS
Martin Knapp
Ph.D., Professor of Health Economics, Centre for the Economics of Mental
Health, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London; and Professor of
Social Policy, LSE Health & Social Care, London School of Economics, London
UK
July 1, 2010: Postgraduate/Non-Degree
July 28, 2010
Advanced Modelling Methods for Health Economic Evaluation (3-day Workshop)
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Dates: 28-30 July 2010
This 3-day modeling course is to be held in the Millennium Hilton Hotel
in Bangkok, Thailand.
The short course has run over a period of 7 years as a successful
collaboration between the Universities of York and Glasgow in the UK,
and McMaster University in Canada. The Bangkok course will also involve
researchers from the Health Intervention and Technology Assessment
Program (HITAP) in Thailand.
The teaching faculty for the modeling course will be:
- Mark Sculpher (University of York, UK)
- Andrew Briggs (University of Glasgow, UK)
- Elisabeth Fenwick (University of Glasgow, UK)
- Ron Goeree (McMaster University, Canada)
Tutoring will also be provided by researchers at HITAP.
This is an advanced course focusing specifically on decision modelling
and intended for people currently undertaking modelling for health
economic evaluation within the pharmaceutical and medical device
industries, consultancy, academia or the health service. It is also
appropriate for those reviewing or preparing economic evaluation
evidence for public health authorities.
By the end of the course participants will be expected to:
- Develop and populate a decision model
- Populate a Markov model with and without time-dependent probabilities
- Undertake probabilistic sensitivity analysis (PSA) to reflect parameter uncertainty
- Present the results of a PSA using net monetary benefits and cost-effectiveness acceptability
curves
- Assess expected value of perfect information.
- Model developed in Microsoft Excel and in Treeage
- Gather experience relating to the use of economic evaluation in public policy decisions
The course will provide an introduction to decision models including
decision trees and standard Markov models. Greater sophistication will
be added as building blocks over the 3-day workshop.The course involves
a mixture of lectures and computer based exercises. Participants will
need to bring their own laptop computers for the exercises.
Participants are expected to have attended a general advanced course in
economic evaluation or be comfortable with the contents of “Methods for
the Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programs” by Drummond et al
(Oxford University Press, 2005).
As an addition to the main teaching modules on modeling, we will have
sessions at the end of Days 2 and 3 on the use of HTA in decision
making. On Day 2 the focus will be on the use of model-based economic
evaluation to inform policy decisions about the adoption of health
technology. On the final day a session will consider the use of
systematic reviews in HTA. HITAP will be leading these sessions: Dr.Yot
Teerawattananon (program leader of HITAP), Dr. Sripen Tantivess (senior
researcher of HITAP) and Miss Jomkwan Yothasamut (researcher).
Cost of the 3-day workshop:
PRIOR to March 1, 2010: Public/Academic Sector: $2,000 (Canadian
dollars) Commercial Sector:$2,500 (Canadian dollars)
AFTER March 1, 2010: Public/Academic Sector: $2,500 (Canadian dollars)
Commercial Sector:$3,000 (Canadian dollars)
If you would like more information or would like to register for the
course in Toronto please contact Christine Henderson
hendersc@mcmaster.ca.
To find more details about the Bangkok course and to register go to
http://www.path-hta.ca/workshop.htm
A version of this course is also being run at:
July 28, 2010: Short Course
September 1, 2010
PhD in Economics: Economics Department at IUPUI
Location: Indiana, USA
Start date: Fall 2010
The Economics Department at IUPUI is pleased to announce a new PhD in
Economics. We will be accepting our first entering PhD class for Fall
of 2010. Fellowship support will be offered on a competitive basis.
The program will specialize in Health Economics. Students will begin
with PhD core training in economic theory and econometrics, emphasizing
microeconomic theory and microeconometrics. Specializing in health
economics will allow us to offer a two-course field sequence in health
economics as well as a course focusing on the institutional context of
health, health care, and health insurance. Importantly, students will
also take elective courses such as biostatistics, epidemiology,
bioethics, or health policy, giving them a background that will
facilitate working in the interdisciplinary teams with whom health
economists often interact. In addition to econometric theory, we will
also offer a year-long empirical econometrics sequence, emphasizing
statistical packages, working with large datasets, and problems in
applied econometrics. We plan strong disciplinary training in micro
theory, econometrics, and health economics enhanced with exposure to
other related disciplines central to health and health care.
More information on the department and the program is online at
http://liberalarts.iupui.edu/~econ. Questions can be emailed to
econphd@iupui.edu.
September 1, 2010: PhD
September 15, 2010
Advanced Modelling Methods for Health Economic Evaluation A Computer Based Course
Location: Glasgow and York, UK
Dates: York: March 29 - 31, 2010; Glasgow: September 2010 (dates to be confirmed)
The Public Health & Health Policy Section at the University of Glasgow
and the Centre for Health Economics at the University of York are
jointly running three-day courses on advanced modelling methods to be
held at venues in Glasgow and York. The next course will be held in
2010, the course will be run at the University of York from 29th - 31st
March 2010. Booking forms are online now. The course will be also run in
Glasgow in September 2010. Dates to be confirmed. Please contact The
Public Health & Health Policy Section at the University of Glasgow
directly if you would like to attend the September 2010 course.
This is an advanced course focusing specifically on decision modelling
and intended for people currently undertaking modelling for health
economic evaluation within the pharmaceutical and medical device
industries, consultancy, academia or the health service. Participants
would be expected to have attended an advanced course in economic
evaluation such as the Expert Workshops in the Socio Economic Evaluation
of Medicines run by the University of York.
Further details and booking information is available from the following links
York based course or Glasgow based course.
September 15, 2010: Short Course