The HERU short course on ‘Using Discrete Choice Experiments in Health Economics’ will take place in Aberdeen, Scotland, from 23rd to 25th September 2025. Now in its 22nd year, the course is aimed at anyone interested in the application of Discrete Choice Applications (DCEs) with a special focus on health. This course provides: An introduction […]
Add to Calendar! Mental health disorders tend to emerge in childhood, with half starting by age 14. This makes early intervention important, but treatment rates are low, and antidepressant treatment for children remains controversial since an FDA warning in 2004 that highlighted adverse effects. Linking individuals across Danish administrative registers, we provide some of the […]
Add to Calendar The IHEA Econ-Omics Special Interest Group is pleased to invite you to a webinar with Dr Melanie Lloyd, Monash University and Dr Hadley Smith, from Harvard Medical School exploring Distributional Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (DCEA) and its role in informing health policy decisions to advance health equity. The webinar will take place from 6-7pm […]
External Event- The Science for Health Systems Conference is a global forum to share new research on the measurement and improvement of health system performance. This inaugural conference will bring together researchers, policymakers, and implementers from multiple disciplines and regions of the world to share health system research methods and findings to maximize health impact. […]
Add to Calendar! A large literature documents that quitting cigarette smoking may lead to weight gain because nicotine is an appetite suppressant and metabolic stimulant. However, researchers in this literature emphasize that the health benefits of smoking cessation exceed the harms from the weight typically gained. New products, such as electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS), […]
Add to Calendar! Two research presentations: 1. Interoperability of U.S. hospital electronic health record (EHR) systems remains limited, especially across vendors. We study how these frictions affect patients through a direct effect on information exchange and an allocative effect on patient flows. When hospitals switch to the same vendor, charges and readmissions fall 4% and […]
Add to Calendar! Speaker: Sebastian Tello - Associate professor of public policy and economics at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Sebastian's fields of specialization are Public Economics, Health Economics, and Applied Microeconomics. He has […]
Dear colleagues, We are pleased to invite submissions for the 10th Workshop in Behavioral and Experimental Health Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam on December 11th and 12th, 2025. The workshop is part of the activities of the Behavioral Experiments in Health Network and brings together economists and behavioral scientists who apply behavioral-economics insights and experimental methods to […]
