Congress

The IHEA congress, held every second year, is the only global forum for health economists to engage around the latest methodological developments, present recent research findings and explore the implications of this research for health policy and practice. The IHEA congress includes presentations across the full spectrum of health economics’ fields.

IHEA 2025 Congress

Bali, Indonesia | July 19 – 23, 2025

Recordings
Scientific Committee
Funding Partners

Opening Plenary
Pre-Congress Sessions

Opening Plenary: Using Economic Policy Instruments to Improve Health: Challenges and Opportunities

Professor Anne Marie Thow, Professor in Public Policy and Health, University of Sydney.

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Opening Plenary: Key Issues in Indonesian Health System

His Excellency Budi Gunadi Sadikin, Minister of Health, Indonesia.

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Some of the pre-congress session organizers have made available recordings of their sessions so that those not able to attend can benefit from viewing them. In some cases, the organizers have also made available copies of the presentations made in the session.

Improving Financial Protection in Health: Strengthening the Evidence to Policy Pipeline

Organizer: World Bank

Recalibrating Post-Pandemic Fiscal Health: Fiscal Policy, Health Financing, and Sustainable Recovery in Asia and the Pacific

Organizer: World Bank

Presentation

EQ-5D in the Indo-Pacific Region

Organizer: EuroQol Group

Building capacity for conducting Systematic Reviews of Economic Evaluation

Organizers: Stellenbosch University

Open Source Approaches to Economic Evaluation in Low- and Middle-Income Country Contexts

Organizer: Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

Early-Career Researcher Session

Organizer: IHEA Early-Career Researcher Special Interest Group, supported by Elsevier, Springer and Wiley

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Lessons from Indonesia’s Strides Towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC) over the Last Decade

Organizers: Ministry of Health, BPJS Kesehatan, World Bank (Indonesia Office), University of Gadjah Mada, University of Indonesia, and Erasmus University Rotterdam/Rotterdam Global Health Initiative

Presentation (All Slides)

Scientific Committee

The Scientific Committee (SC) plays a critical role in IHEA congresses given that the program is based on abstracts accepted through a rigorous peer-review process. An open call is issued for IHEA members to express their interest in serving on the panel to review abstracts submitted for each congress. Those who have served on the SC Review Panel for at least two recent congresses are eligible to be considered to serve as Program Chairs. There are two to three Program Chairs for each health economics field, who work together to finalize the abstract acceptances (from the review panel scores) and compile individual abstracts into coherent sessions. To be considered for the position of overall SC Co-Chair, an IHEA member needs to have served as a Program Chair for at least two recent congresses.

Members of the Scientific Committee for the 2025 Congress are listed below.

Paula Lorgelly

Chair

University of Auckland/Waipapa Taumata Rau

Karen Grépin

Co-Chair

University of Hong Kong

Program Chairs

Review Panel

Program Chairs

Review Panel

Funding Partners

Funding partners play a critical role in the success of the IHEA congress, particularly to keep registration fees affordable and to support the participation of full-time students and delegates from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).

Funding partners can make a general contribution to assisting with congress costs, or can specify how they would like their funds used. The main options for specified fund use are:

To assist delegates in financial need: LMIC delegates and/or students
Support for a specific event during the congress, such as the opening reception, the main social event, the mentoring lunch for students and early career researchers (ECRs), or pre-congress session for ECRs

Contributions of any size are greatly appreciated and all contributors will be acknowledged. There are specific benefit packages for contributions of USD25,000 and above.

Gold US$75,000 +

3 complimentary delegate registrations
Half-day pre-congress session* (70 seater)
Acknowledgements: Logo & name on program, website, plenary slides & banners

Silver US$50,000 +

2 complimentary delegate registrations
Half-day pre-congress session* (30 seater)
Acknowledgements: Logo & name on program, website, plenary slides & banners

Bronze US$25,000 +

1 complimentary delegate registration
90 minute pre-congress session* (30 seater)
Acknowledgements: Name on program, website, plenary slides & banners

* All pre-congress session proposals will be reviewed for appropriateness by IHEA and local organizers

Funding partners for 2025 Congress

Gold:

Bronze:

Future Congresses

The 2027 Congress will take place in Guayaquil, Ecuador and will be co-hosted by the Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL) from July 10-14, 2027.

This will be the first time the IHEA Congress is held in the Latin American region.