Postgraduate/Non-Degree
November 23, 2010
Postgraduate Course in Health Care Organizations Management (in spanish)
Location: Madrid, Spain
Dates: November 23th/ Until 3rd June 2011 (26 ECTS Credits)
For more information in spanish please see this link
November 23, 2010: Postgraduate/Non-Degree
December 1, 2010
PhD Studentship MRC methodology: ConDucT
Location: Bristol, United Kingdom
Application deadline: 1st December 2010
The MRC ConDuCT Trials Methodology Hub brings together research into the commissioning, design, and conduct of RCTs, and is hosted by the University of Bristol School of Social Community Medicine.
Within the Health Economics Theme we are offering a 3 year MRC Ph.D. studentship supervised by Dr Sandra Hollinghurst under the topic “Estimating productivity changes for economic evaluation”
If you are interested in taking up this Ph.D. studentship please send your CV, with a covering letter telling us: why you would like to study for a Ph.D. with the ConDuCT hub; why this project interests you and what research you might do to address the research question.
Please send these by mail or e.mail to:
Victoria Webster:fovew@bristol.ac.uk
School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Canynge
Hall, 39 Whatley Road, Bristol, United Kingdom, BS8 2PS
For more information on ConDucT see: http://www.epi.bris.ac.uk/postgrad/pdf/ConDuCT_PhD_programme_prospectus.pdf
For informal enquiries please contact:
Sandra Hollinghurst: S.P.Hollinghurst@bristol.ac.uk
or Sian Noble: s.m.noble@bristol.ac.uk
Closing date for applications: 1st December 2010
Latest date for commencing PhD 1st March 2011.
December 13, 2010
Empirical Policy Evaluation in Health: University of Lausanne
Location: Lausanne, Switzerland
Dates: December 13 to December 17, 2010
Registration: Online until 30.11.2010
Prof Maarten Lindeboom (VU University, Amsterdam), Dr. Bas van der Klaauw (VU University, Amsterdam)
Presentation:
The aim of this course is to provide the students with state of the art econometric methods for evaluation of public policy. The course deals with theoretical literature on causal inference in lectures, but emphasis is given to empirical applications using micro data. The course therefore includes also practical computer assignments using Stata
Objectives:
The key objective of the course is to make students familiar with empirical tools for public policy evaluation and to provide an introduction to working with micro data
Course Homepage: http://www.ssphplus.ch/phdcourses-hep
December 13, 2010: Short Course
January 12, 2011
Advanced Course in Applied Health Economics: University of York
Location: York, UK
Dates: 12th-14th January 2011
Title: Methods for the analysis of duration data
Presented by: Prof. Maarten Lindeboom, Free University of Amsterdam
A 3 day course hosted by the Health, Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG), Centre for Health Economics and Department of Economics and Related Studies at the University of York, 12th-14th January 2011.
A two and a half-day course focusing on the use of duration data with wide applicability to research in health economics. Econometric models of durations are used to model the length of time spent in a given state before transition to another state. Durations may, for example, consist of time to death, time spent in a health state or free from ill-health, and time spent in hospital. Typically, standard regression based techniques are not appropriate for modelling such data and instead attention needs to be given to the choice of distribution function, the sampling scheme used to derive durations, the censored nature of duration spells and possible transitions to one of several states. Duration spells or the probability of a transition out of a state may be modelled.
The course will be delivered by Professor Maarten Lindeboom, a renowned expert in micro-econometrics and the analysis of duration models.
The course is aimed at PhD students and researchers or policy makers working in applied health economics. It will introduce participants to different treatments for duration data with a focus on established and recently developed techniques. Appropriate terminology and formal methodology for estimating these models will be presented together with extensions to cover unobserved heterogeneity, multiple spells and competing risk models. The focus will be on introducing the fundamental principles and concepts encountered in the literature.
The aims of the course are to introduce research professionals to the main techniques used in the analysis of time-to-event or duration models. Lectures will be complemented by practical computer-based exercises. By the end of the course, participants should be able to:
- Appreciate different approaches to modelling duration data
- Select appropriate methods for empirical estimation
- Develop an understanding of methods for estimation and inference
- Interpret results from analyses
Course content
The course will cover topics relevant to the analysis of health and health care data.
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 sessions is Stata and each participant will have access to a PC with Stata 11 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.
More information and registration form can be found here
January 12, 2011: Short Course
February 21, 2011
Advanced Methods of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
Location: Sydney, Australia
Dates: 21-23 February 2011
The Health Economics Research Centre, University of Oxford, is pleased to announce that this internationally renowned 3-day course is offered in Sydney in February 2011 in collaboration with the University of Sydney.
This course teaches the latest methods for performing a cost-effectiveness analysis of a healthcare intervention, provides hands-on experience of the techniques, and is taught by a team of experienced researchers from Oxford University.
Visit our website to see full details. http://www.herc.ox.ac.uk/courses and to book.
Sydney in February 2011 is in addition to our usual dates in December and July each year in Oxford.
There are places available in Sydney at earlybird discounted rates. And a few remaining places in Oxford for December 2010.
Inquiries: herc@dphpc.ox.ac.uk
February 21, 2011: Short Course
April 9, 2011
Part 2 Global Health Leadership Forum: An international executive short course: successful approaches and innovation in health policy and management.
Location: San Francisco, California, USA
Dates: April 9-13, 2011 with an optional extended Kaiser Permanente Study Tour through April 15, 2011.
The Global Health Leadership Forum: An international earned certificate course on solutions in health policy and management.
An offering from the University of California, Berkeley, the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics and the Center for Research in Health Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
The University of California, Berkeley, Barcelona GSE and UPF CRES announce the seventh annual cycle of the Global Health Leadership Forum. This unique certificate program focuses on key health policy and management issues which have been converging internationally. Participating leaders learn about policies and implementation approaches that work and about current innovations. Participants join in small group discussions with global experts, receive leadership training, and become part of the GHLF alumni network of 180 past participants. These leaders hail from 43 countries in a wide variety of occupations such as executives of service delivery, insurance and pharma organizations; professors; ministers of health; and NGO leaders.
Part 1 of The Global Health Leadership Forum will be held in Barcelona, Spain from July 18-23, 2010 and Part 2 will be held in the San Francisco Bay Area from April 9-13, 2011 with an optional extended Kaiser Permanente Study Tour through April 15, 2011.
For more information, visit the website: http://ghlf.berkeley.edu
June 15, 2011
Health economics, health policy and health management
Location: London, UK
Venue: London School of Economics and Political Science
Length/Date: All courses are 4-5 days in length
Website
December 2010 Courses
- Health Economics
- Financing Health Care
- Measuring Health System Performance
- Measuring Health Outcomes
June 2011 Courses
- Resource Allocation and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
- Health Administration and Management
- Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy
- Introduction to Medical Statistics, Clinical Trials and Epidemiology
- Statistical Methods in Economic Evaluation
- Healthcare Information Systems
Specific information on the course content and exact dates
Description:
These courses will allow participants to engage with other professionals to achieve one or more of the following objectives, depending on your course choices:
- Learn about basic health policy and economic principles
- Develop an understanding of the theoretical underpinnings of health systems and health economics
- Gain knowledge of management and administration within the context of health care and pharmaceuticals
- Acquire practical skills to undertake cost-effectiveness analysis, economic evaluation and clinical trials research
Courses will include a combination of lectures and seminars and if appropriate, computer-based workshops.
Contact person:
Jane Schiemann
Programme Administrator
Department of Social Policy
London School of Economics
Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE
Phone : +44 (0) 207 955 7205
Email : health.shortcourses@lse.ac.uk