iHEA

Membership Information

Ready to join?	Sign up for 2010 Membership
What membership should I take out?	Check out our Individual, Student, Low Income, Affiliate membership descriptions.

Need Help?

If you have any questions or need help in deciding what type of membership is right for you, contact Christopher Martin.

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2010 iHEA Memberships

2010 Plans	Individual	Student or Low Income	Affiliate	Low Income Affiliate
Membership in iHEA	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
No Charge for Submitting Abstract to 2011 Congress	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Subscription to our online newsletter iHEAweek	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Early Bird Price Before December 15 2009	$60	$30	$50	$20
Regular Price After December 15 2009	$85	$55	$75	$45

Note: There are no refunds on memberships.

Our Membership Options

Our Regular Individual Membership

$60 USD Early Bird Price for 2010

This membership is best for academics and professionals who wish to join iHEA and help in its work. Membership provides preferred rates: for example, people with a 2010 Membership won't have to pay the the non-Member Submission fee for abstract submission for the 2011 Toronto Congress

Students

$30 USD Early Bird Price for 2010

Currently enrolled students are eligible for a low-cost membership in iHEA. Student membership has all the benefits of our Individual Membership including all conference related discounts. As well, student members enrolled in Universities or other Educational Institutions with organizational memberships in iHEA can apply for a Scholarship for Conference attendance. Check with your institution to see if they are organizational members.

Low Income

$30 USD Early Bird Price for 2010

iHEA supports research and academic development in developing countries by providing low-cost memberships and conference attendance scholarships.

Already Belong to an Affiliate Organization?

$50 USD Early Bird Price for 2010

$20 USD Early Bird Price for Low Income Affiliates in 2010

Members of national associations affiliated with iHEA are eligible for our Affiliated membership Rate. Please remember to specify on the join form to which affiliate organization you belong in order to be eligible for the Affiliate price. You must be a member in good standing of one of these organizations to get the reduced iHEA membership rates. If you are not a member, you might want to contact the organization and join:

• Colombian Health Economics Association (ACOES)
• Spanish Health Economics Association (AES)
• Italian Association of Health Economics (AIES)
• Australian Health Economics Society (AHES)
• Portuguese Health Economics Association (APES)
• American Society of Health Economists (ASHE)
• Collège des Economistes de la Santé (CES)
• Croatian Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Health Economics (CSPHE)
• Health Economics Study Group (HESG)
• Taiwan Society of Health Economists (TaiSHE)

Current Low Income Affiliates

• Nepalese Health Economics Association (NHEA)

Why Become an iHEA Member?

What Your Membership Means to You

iHEA maintains a number of services for its members and the health research community at large. These include:

1. Conferences
   The Worldwide Congress of Health Economists, held biennially (Vancouver 1996, Rotterdam 1999, York 2001, San Francisco 2003, Barcelona 2005, Copenhagen 2007, Beijing 2009 and coming soon Toronto 2011) is iHEA's premiere research showcase. It features current peer-reviewed research and provides flexible networking opportunities for researchers, students, industry representatives and policy makers alike. Conferences are also designed to allow contentious issues to be aired while providing a forum for hearing from a variety of viewpoints. Perhaps most importantly we have embarked on a process of making as much of our conference proceedings freely available on-line through our conference web site. iHEA also collaborates to support regional and national health economics meetings.
2. National/Regional Associations
   iHEA attempts to provide both support and technical assistance to regional and national association that are under development around the world. The association also works with established associations to provide a central focus for the internationalization of health economics.
3. iHEAweek
   iHEAweek is our weekly electronic newsletter that provides our members with timely e-mailed information on jobs, conferences and other information valuable to our members.
4. iHEA Scientific Committee
   160 expert health economists are appointed by the board to serve on the standing Scientific Committee. They constitute the review panel for the sessions at the iHEA conference and are also called upon as reviewers for other conferences and journals, and for technical assistance.
5. University Members
   Universities that become organizational members of iHEA will have their graduate and professional training programs listed in our Education Directory, will be able to have their working paper series posted into the archives (pending) without charge, are able to apply for Conference Scholarships, and share in the governance and scientific review of iHEA.
6. healtheconomics.org
   At iHEA's web site a user can browse for jobs currently available, find members in various countries, register for the iHEA conference, search for other types of conferences, access the newsletter archives and governance reports, link to journals, books, national associations, government agencies and information repositories, or read articles of interest regarding health economics activities.
7. Students
   One of the most important mandates of the association is supporting the development of health and health care research students. To that end, iHEA maintains a low-cost full-service membership for students. They are able to find information on jobs, conferences for presenting their work, research for their theses and access to mentors and research support through the membership network. iHEA also provides many students with reduced or waived conference fees, and has recently created cash and honoraria for the top three student papers presented at each conference.

Why YOU should Join iHEA

Our members are the defining purpose of iHEA. The broader the representation of individual and organizational memberships, the more relevant the association is and the more services it can develop for its members. As a result you can tap into a network of established and emerging health economists, the latest research and other resources that will make your job easier. Your membership, however small or large, is why iHEA continues to thrive.

Why Organizations Should Join

Organizations that support the development of health economics as a field need to be a part of the main professional body. Although iHEA governance is based on individual membership participation, those individuals' link to health economics is usually most strongly expressed by their institutional affiliation; a university, a government agency, pharmaceutical company, NGO or consultancy. These organizations build the strength and expertise of health economics by supporting iHEA, and in turn are able to raise their profile and participation in health economics as a field of research and study. While benefits of organizational membership are real, organizational membership is a recognized demonstration of institutional support for health economics as field.

Organizational Membership

Where before we had several different types of Institutional membership with varying benefits, we have decided to simplify the structure to make it easier and less expensive to help support iHEA. There is now one price ($500 before Dec 15, $600 after Dec 15) for all institutions (which includes a free individual membership in iHEA). There are some special benefits for Universities that join iHEA including exclusive access to a special student scholarships for individuals who attend member institutions.

Core Benefits of Organizational Membership

• No cost regular exhibition space at iHEA's World Congress
• Reduced cost premium exhibition space and conference advertising
• Acknowledgment of your organization's support including a hyperlink from our site
• Inclusion in iHEA information directories
• Reduced cost Featured Job listings: Organizational members pay 50% of the regular weekly rate
• Free regular job-postings and research announcements
• Free individual membership benefits for one person in your organization.

(For University Org members only):

• Exclusive access to student scholarships for iHEA Conferences for students of member institutions

If your institution is interested in other ways of promoting health economics and iHEA's mission, there are opportunities to work with us to provide scholarships, special events, and more. Contact Bill Swan for more information and to discuss how your institution or organization can work with iHEA.

Conference Sponsorship Opportunities

In addition to our membership levels, it is also possible to sponsor certain elements of our conferences directly. Please contact iHEA if you are interested in supporting the association in this manner:

• Student conference scholarships
• International conference attendee scholarships
• Conference materiel
• Dinners, lunches, nutrition breaks
• Receptions

Why Industry and Government Should Join

As iHEA represents the largest gathering of serious researchers in health economics, industry membership provides an opportunity to join the dialogue, providing context and information often not discussed. iHEA has worked hard to ensure that all viewpoints have an opportunity to be taken into consideration as researchers and analysts are best able to decide the ultimate worth of the research. An example of this commitment is iHEA's adoption of a fully blinded review of all contributed research abstracts (with separate interest disclosure for all submissions, whether from NGOs, academia, governments or industry). This ensures that all researchers have a fair shot of presenting at iHEA conferences on the promise and strength of their research, not their affiliation. The iHEA Board is very aware of the need for a diversity of views to enable effective governance. Therefore special efforts are made to ensure that there is a wide representation of geographic and organizational interests built into the governance and committee structures of the association.

Why Individuals Should Join

Individual membership is vital to the credibility of our professional association. It is the breadth of individual support, from researchers, professors, consultants, policy makers and analysts at all levels which strengthen the association. We rely on personal commitment, identification and support to be a truly independent researcher-based association. As such, only individuals have the right to vote during a General Meeting.

Advocacy and iHEA

Conflicts of interest are inherent in health economics as many interests are represented and served in iHEA. The support of one position over another, even with seemingly innocuous issues, will ultimately pit the interests of one element of the membership against another. This is why iHEA does not advocate on any issue. Ultimately, the role of iHEA is to improve the rigor and standards of the process -- not to endorse a set of conclusions.