Short Course
May 26, 2008
Health Policy and Politics - Role of Government and Politics in Health Policy
Location: Lugano, Switzerland
Dates: 26-30 May 2008
Registration deadline: 30 April 2008
Venue: University of Lugano
- Prof. Peter C. Smith (University of York)
- Prof. Rosella Levaggi (University of Brescia)
Presentation: This course offers an analytical overview of the role of government and politics in health policy. It is also intended to familiarize doctoral students with the health policy research literature and selected questions in the field. The course will include lectures, invited lecturers and discussion sessions.
Objectives
At the end of the course, participants should have acquired the following capabilities:
- Understanding on how health care systems are constructed: the political, economic, social and historical contexts of their development.
- Understanding the relationship between federalism and health care policy
The course is part of the a series of seven modules offered as the International PhD Courses in Health Economics and Policy intended for PhD students who are wishing to enhance their specific knowledge and sharpen their capabilities in the field of health economics and policy.
Full details are available online
July 9, 2008
Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Training in Mental Health Policy and Economics Research – ICMPE, Venice
Location: Venice, Italy
Dates: 9-19 July 2008
Registration deadline: 15 April 2008
Organiser: International Center of Mental Health Policy and Economics (ICMPE)
Website: http://www.icmpe.org/
Email: moscarelli@icmpe.org
Training Description: Leading international authorities from the different core disciplines of the field (psychiatry, psychology, economics, health policy, services research) will serve as instructors for the formal in-person courses. The teachers have been distinguished speakers at international congresses, have published extensively in international peer-reviewed journals, have relevant experience in academic education and training. This course provides an interdisciplinary, introductory approach to the core components of the field. It will develop a common, “core” set of information and expertise that is needed by all researchers, regardless of discipline, to conduct research in this area and to communicate with one another in a common language. The participants will be trained in each of the core components of the field of mental health policy and economics and provided a picture of how the disciplines relate to each other and are integrated to produce high quality research in this field. The participants will learn what each discipline contributes (principally clinical, health services analysis, health economics, health policy, study design and methods) in joint research projects development. It will enable participants both to refine the contribution of their specific discipline and to develop awareness of when they need to rely on collaboration with informed researchers from other disciplines to design and conduct a “sound” research project. .
The Training material and the related references (Syllabus and References) referring to the issues that each instructor will cover, are available to the Participants through password on the ICMPE website upon registration. It will enable participants to receive substantial information prior of their Courses..
Training 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 RESEARCH: EPIDEMIOLOGY AND SERVICES 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 9, 2008: Postgraduate/Non-Degree
September 1, 2008
School in Panel Data Econometrics: University of Leicester
Location: Leicester, England, UK
Dates: 1-5 September 2008
Application Deadline: 21 May 2008
We are pleased to announce the School in Panel Data Econometrics which will be held from the 1st to 5th of September 2008 at the University of Leicester. The aim of the School is to introduce participants to the techniques of panel data econometrics and their application to economic data.
The School is held by Professor Badi Baltagi and will be open to 20-25 participants. Applicants should submit a CV and a cover letter no later than 21 May 2008 to the following e-mail address: paneldata@le.ac.uk . For further information please see the following web page. http://www.le.ac.uk/economics/paneldata
or contact Dr. Francesco Moscone at the e-mail address: fm83@le.ac.uk
September 1, 2008: Short Course
September 17, 2008
Indirect and Mixed Treatment Comparisons
Location: Leicester, England, UK
Dates: 17-19 September 2008
Venue: Vaughan College
Course Organizers: Prof Keith Abrams, Prof Tony Ades, Debbi Caldwell, Dr Nicola Cooper, Dr Sofia Dias, Dr Alex Sutton and Dr Nicky Welton.
Intended Audience:
- Anyone undertaking or managing health technology assessments, including in the context of cost-effectiveness analysis.
- Statisticians, familiar with the principles of meta-analysis, who wish to learn about Bayesian methods for evidence synthesis particularly in the context of cost-effectiveness analysis.
- Anyone responsible for managing systematic reviews.
Overview: This course is for health economists, statisticians and decision modellers, and systematic reviewers interested in the extension of pair-wise meta-analysis to indirect and mixed treatment comparisons, in the context of either clinical effectiveness or economic evaluation.
The course focuses on Bayesian methods for statistically combining evidence from networks of trials, integrating statistical estimation within a probabilistic modeling framework. The assumptions underlying both pair-wise meta-analysis and mixed treatment comparisons are critically examined. The course also covers methods for detecting and managing heterogeneity and inconsistency.
This is an informal, hands-on course, based on a mixture of lectures and practical work on published datasets using the Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo package WinBUGS. Course tutors are available throughout to answer questions and help with exercises.
It is a collaboration between the Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester and the Department of Community Based Medicine, University of Bristol.
Further Details and booking form can be downloaded at http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cobm/research/mpes
September 17, 2008: Short Course
December 4, 2008
Health Econometrics Workshop
Location: Milan, Italy
Dates: 4-6 December 2008
Venue: University of Milan - Bicocca
In recent years, health econometrics has been playing an important role in supporting health and social care policy decisions. This Workshop provides the opportunity to disseminate advances in the methods and applications of health econometrics.
Submission of papers: Papers for the Workshop will be selected on the basis of full drafts. Papers should be sent in electronic form to the address healthecon@le.ac.uk no later than 1st September 2008. Decisions will be made by 20th September 2008. Authors will have the opportunity to submit their papers for publication in a special issue of Economic Modelling.
There will be 5 keynote speakers:
- Badi Baltagi - Syracuse University
- William Greene - New York University
- Alberto Holly - University of Lausanne
- Andrew Jones - University of York
- John Mullahy - University of Wisconsin
For further information about the Workshop you can contact Dr. Francesco Moscone at fm83@le.ac.uk or visit http://www.le.ac.uk/economics/healtheconometrics/
December 4, 2008: Short Course
January 11, 2009
Global Health Leadership Forum: University of California, Berkeley
Location: San Francisco, California, USA
Dates: 11-18 January 2009
Venue: TBA
Website: http://ahlf.berkeley.edu/
An innovative program for senior health executives: a program from the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health, co-founded with UPF/CRES, Barcelona
Description: A certificate program in which renowned senior faculty and leaders from key international and national organizations interact with high-level participants regarding evidenced-based solutions to key policy and management issues. Participants grapple in a practical manner with the issues and options that have been converging internationally. The alumni network has over 100 leaders from 35 countries.
Sample Issues Include:
- Workshops on leadership and evidence-based management
- Effective policy implementation and strategies for health systems change
- How to assure quality
- Achieving appropriate public vs. private health insurance mix
- Innovations in payer and health delivery connections
- Lessons learned from managed care techniques / innovative budgeting techniques
- Using cost-effectiveness analysis to define “best coverage and delivery buys”
- Making use of the new consumerism
- “Information therapy” prescriptions for consumers
- Technology changes and future health care predictions
- Workshops on pandemic preparedness and health care ethics
- IT and care management systems including a field trip to Kaiser Permanente
Selected San Francisco Speakers:
- Sir Richard Feachem, First Executive Director, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria;
- Ian Morrison, health care futurist;
- Leonard Schaeffer, founding Chairman of WellPoint; high level officials from Kaiser Permanente;
- Arnie Milstein, expert on health care purchasing, and expert faculty from UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco.
Faculty Advisors: Richard M. Scheffler, Dean Stephen M. Shortell (UCB Faculty), Guillem Lopez-Casasnovas (UPF Barcelona), and Alex Preker (World Bank)
Program Director: Meg A. Kellogg
Email: ghlf@berkeley.edu
Applications: Currently being reviewed for San Francisco January 2009