Event Archive

Aberdeen 2024, HERU Short course: Using DCEs in Health Economics

This event was fully booked

Our short course on 'Using Discrete Choice Experiments (DCEs) in Health Economics' will take place in Aberdeen from 24th - 26th September 2024. Please note that the course is now fully booked. Contact the DCE course email for a place on the course waiting list. The course fee includes teaching material, accommodation, all lunches,...

HERU External Seminar - Dr Thao Thai

This event was cancelled

Dr Thao Thai is a Research Fellow at the Monash University Health Economics Group (MUHEG) in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine. Seminar Title: The effect of emoji scale on preference inversion In discrete choice experiments (DECs) with duration. Preference inversion often occurs in health valuation studies when respondent preferences do...

Economics-HERU joint workshop on Health, Well-being and Environment

A workshop from the University of Aberdeen Economics unit and the Health Economics Research Unit (HERU) on theme of Health, Well-being and Environment.

HERU External Seminar - Professor Tim Bolt

Professor Bolt is a health economist at Saitama University in Japan. His current research focuses on the application and development of Discrete Choice Experiments (DCEs). Seminar Title - A DCE to support deployment of an STI PoCT device in Sub-Saharan Africa. This presentation will introduce parallel choice experiments undertaken to support an randomised...

HERU Seminar - Dr John Buckell

Dr Buckell is a senior researcher with a joint appointment at the Health Economics Research Centre (HERC) in the University of Oxford Nuffield Department of Population Health and the Biomedical Research Centre in the Nuffield Department of Primary Health Care Sciences. His current work focuses on behavioural research in subject areas including...

HERU Seminar - Professor Cam Donaldson

We are delighted that Professor Cam Donaldson will deliver a HERU seminar.  Cam Donaldson FRSE is Yunus Chair and Distinguished Professor of Health Economics at Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU), where, from 2016-21, he was Pro Vice Chancellor Research. He is also Professor at Australian National University. As well having previously held...

Canada 2024 - HERU Short course: Using DCEs in Health Economics

Our popular short course 'Using Discrete Choice Experiments (DCEs) in Health Economics' took place in Banff, Canada, from 20th-22nd February 2024. The event was offered in collaboration with colleagues from the O'Brien Institute for Public Health at the University of Calgary, Canada. There is more information on the course at the 'Using...

HERU seminar - James Altunkaya

The first HERU seminar of 2024 will be delivered by James Altunkaya, an NIHR Doctoral Research Fellow in the Health Economics Research Centre (HERC) at the University of Oxford Nuffield Department of Population Health. In the seminar James will present his work on 'Examining the impact of structural uncertainty using simulation challenges...

Aberdeen 2023 - HERU Short course: Using Discrete Choice Experiments in Health Economics

Our popular short course 'Using Discrete Choice Experiments (DCEs) in Health Economics' takes place in Aberdeen from 19th - 21st September 2023. There is more information on the course at the 'Using Discrete Choice Experiments in Health Economics' webpage.  **Note that the course also takes place in Banff, Canada, from 20th-22nd February 2024.

HERU External Seminar - Dr Faical Akaichi

Dr Faical Akaichi is a Research Fellow at Scotland's Rural College (SRUC). He is an applied economist with a specialisation in behavioural economics, food marketing and econometrics.  Title: Does ethnicity influence people’s preferences for the attributes of COVID-19 vaccine: evidence for a large discrete choice experiment in the UK. The uptake of the...

HERU External Seminar - Professor Julie Ratcliffe

Professor Julie Ratcliffe is Matthew Flinders Fellow and Professor of Health Economics in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences at Flinders University, Australia. She is also the Health and Social Care Economics Theme Lead for the Flinders University Caring Futures Institute. Professor Ratcliffe's talk is titled: “If we don’t measure...

HERU External Seminar - Professor Chris McCabe

Professor McCabe is Professor of Health Economics at Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) where he is part of QUB’s contribution to the Belfast City Region Deal supporting economic development in the life sciences sector. He has a joint appointment across the Centre for Public Health in the School of Medicine, Dentistry...

External Seminar - Katherine Carr, Newcastle University

For this HERU external seminar, we are pleased to welcome Katherine Carr, health economist, Newcastle University, to HERU. Katherine will be presenting her work on resource allocation and priority setting in dentistry. Further details of the presentation will be posted when available.

Using Discrete Choice Experiments in Health Economics - HERU course in Aberdeen, Scotland

This event was fully booked

This course covers the theoretical and practical issues of DCEs in health economics. The course takes place over three days in Aberdeen. We've ran the course annually for a number of years, with a short break due to the COVID-19 pandemic.  The course will take place from 19th to 21st September 2022...

External Seminar - Lachlan Cameron, University of Melbourne

Lachlan is a PhD student at the Health Economics Unit, University of Melbourne. His PhD is in gambling and mental health, and he will be presenting his paper on a discrete choice experiment (DCE) examining gambling choices (in the context of online horse racing), the impact of inducements offered by the gambling...

Using Discrete Choice Experiments (DCEs) in health economics - HERU course in Banff, Canada

HERU and the O’Brien Institute for Public Health, University of Calgary are collaborating on running a short course on 'Using Discrete Choice Experiments (DCEs) in health economics'. The course will be held at the Banff Conference Centre, Alberta, Canada from 20-23 February 2022.   The aims of the course are to provide: An introduction to the theoretical...

Joint HERU/Economics Seminar - Cecilia Noboa

HERU and the Economics Department at the University of Aberdeen have organised a joint seminar from Cecilia Noboa, a PhD Candidate at the Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay. The title of the seminar is: Nudging healthy food choices. Abstract: This paper analyses the impact of a healthy food nudge intervention on purchases made by...

HERU External Seminar - Kristjana Baldursdottir

Title of the seminar - Life satisfaction and body mass index: estimating the monetary value of achieving optimal body weight.

HERU External Seminar - Dr Stuart J. Wright

The title of the seminar presentation is - Accounting for capacity constraints in economic evaluations of precision medicine.

HERU External Seminar - Professor Thijs van Rens (Hybrid event)

The seminar will be presented by Professor Thijs van Rens of the University of Warwick. He is a Professor of Economics and academic co-lead of the University of Warwick's Global Research Priority on Food, where he leads the 'Food and Health' theme. His research interests are macroeconomics, business cycles, labour markets,...

External Seminar - Lisa Norrgren (MS Teams)

 Time preference, illness and death. Abstract: This presentation investigates the predictive power of time preferences on the risk of early mortality and illness in adulthood. Using a unique cohort of 12,956 individuals born in 1953, interviewed in 1966 and followed with register data up to 2018, it finds that patient adolescents...

External Seminar - Professor Deborah Marshall

Title - Applications and use of DCEs in decision making Professor Deborah Marshall has experience in technology assessment agencies, academia and pharmaceutical and diagnostics industry research settings in Canada, the United States, and Europe. Her research program examines methods to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of healthcare services in the context of...

External Seminar - Assistant Professor Jonathan Sicsic (MS Teams)

Coherent but arbitrary: understanding ordering effects in health preference elicitation tasks.

SHE Virtual Seminar - Health Economics and COVID-19 Vaccines

Join us for a Scottish Health Economics (SHE) virtual seminar on 'Health Economics and COVID-19 Vaccines'. Programme: Introduction and SHE update (Marjon van der Pol, University of Aberdeen). Economic evaluation of COVID delivery models (Neil Chalmers, Public Health Scotland). COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the Scottish population of working age: a survey experiment of vaccine...

HERU external seminar (via Teams) - Dr Dean Regier

Title: Resource allocation for genomics and rare disease diagnosis: where we were and next steps for evaluation Abstract: Genomic testing presents an opportunity to rapidly diagnose rare diseases, the majority of which are believed to be genetic in origin. Both the rare disease setting and the context of genomic technologies pose specific challenges...

Joint HERU/Business School seminar

A research seminar with Professor Stephen Machin, Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. Title: Labour market shocks during the COVID-19 pandemic, inequalities and child outcomes Authors: Claudia Hupkau (CUNEF & CEP, LSE), Ingo Isphording (IZA), Stephen Machin (CEP, LSE), Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela (CEP,...

Scottish Health Economics (SHE) virtual seminar

Using economic methods to elicit the UK general public's preferences for government responses during a pandemic

HERU External Seminar (online) - Associate Professor Richard Norman

Using DCEs to value health for economic evaluation: state of play and future challenges.  Abstract: Discrete choice experiments (DCEs) have become increasingly widely used to value health, with the potential of use in construction of quality-adjusted life years (QALYs). Relative to other leading methods, they are cheap, easy to implement, and generally...

HERU External Seminar - Dr Heather Brown (Online)

Title: Food standard hygiene rating data: a longitudinal data set to evaluate changes in the food environment over time. Abstract: This presentation will outline several ongoing projects related to evaluating the impact of the food environment on health and health inequalities. I will start by discussing the Food Standard Agency Hygiene Rating...

HERU External Seminar - Dr Cesar Revoredo Giha (Online)

Prices, marketing and food choices. Abstract: The presentation will briefly cover two topics: the nutritional impact of trading down in quality and the potential impact of restricting the advertising of discretionary food products. As regards the first topic, Defra in its publication ‘Family Food’ produces a calculation of trading up and down in...

HERU/SHE Workshop - Using Health Economics Evidence in Health Care Decision Making

This event was cancelled

Using Health Economics Evidence in Health Care Decision Making This free workshop from HERU and Scottish Health Economics (SHE) provides an introduction to the identification, appraisal and application of economic evaluation for policy-making in healthcare. The workshop is suitable for NHS staff who manage budgets or resources who wish to know more...

8th Annual Research Symposium: Evidence Innovation

This event was cancelled

8th Annual Research Symposium: Evidence Innovation. This annual symposium is hosted jointly by Healthcare Improvement Scotland (HIS), the Health Economics Research Unit (HERU) and the Health Services Research Unit (HSRU) at the University of Aberdeen, and the Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professions Research Unit. Dr Graham Scotland of HERU is presenting...

HERU Seminar - Dr Anju Keetharuth

This event was cancelled

Dr Anju Keetharuth, Health Economics and Decision Science, School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield.  Title: The Recovering Quality of Life (ReQoL): can it be the new instrument to generate QALYs in evaluating mental health interventions?  Abstract: This talk will cover the new patient reported outcome measure (PROM) for use...

HERU External Seminar - Jamie O'Halloran

 Jamie O’Halloran, PhD Student at the Danish Centre for Health Economics, University of Southern Denmark, will present on his research. There is a sandwich lunch available at 1pm. Title: Time to retire? Changes in GP behaviour prior to retirement. Abstract: In many healthcare systems, a large proportion of general practitioners (GPs) are retiring. This study...

HERU External Seminar - Dr Tobias Borger

The first HERU External Seminar of 2020 will be delivered by Dr Tobias Borger, Lecturer in Economics at the University of Stirling.  The talk is on 'Preferences for coastal and marine conservation in Vietnam: accounting for differences in individual choice set formation'. Abstract: This study has two objectives. The first is to estimate the value...

Using Discrete Choice Experiments in Health Economics Course

This event was fully booked

This popular course covers the theoretical and practical issues of discrete choice experiments (DCEs) in health economics and in 2019 took place over three days from the 13th to the 15th November at the Park Inn Hotel, Aberdeen. The course takes place annually and was fully booked for 2019. Contact Alison Findlay with enquiries about the waiting list...

HERU External Seminar - Dr Yuanyuan Gu

The next HERU external seminar will be delivered by Dr Yuanyuan Gu. Yuanyuan is currently undertaking a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship on health econometrics with Professor Andrew Jones at the University of York. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at Macquarie University Centre for the Health Economy (MUCHE). Yuanyuan completed...

Cafe Scientifique - What should we value in healthcare?

Explore what impacts funding for NHS treatment, and the questions surrounding what we should really value in a climate with limited resources.

HERU Seminar - Sebastian Neumann-Böhme

The first HERU External Seminar of the 2019/20 session will be delivered by Sebastian Neumann-Böhme, PhD Candidate, Department of Health Economics, Erasmus School of Health Policy and Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam. Title: Trust me; I know what I am doing. Does domain experience reduce preference reversals in decision making for others? Authors: Sebastian Neumann-Böhme*, Stefan A....

Scottish Health Economics - Launch Conference

Scottish Health Economics (SHE) is being launched to support, promote and further develop health economics in Scotland. SHE is a collaboration of health economists from Scotland’s Universities, NHS and Government. Our aim is to bring together researchers and users of health economics to explore the development and application of health economics in Scotland. All...

DCE short course in Banff, Canada

Using Discrete Choice Experiments in Health Economics: Theoretical and Practical Issues   HERU are running a Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) course in collaboration with the O’Brien Institute for Public Health, University of Calgary, from 8th-11th September 2019 at the Banff Conference Centre, Alberta, Canada. The aims of the short course are to provide: An introduction to the theoretical...

3rd Economics of the Health Workforce Conference 2019

The 3rd Economics of the Health Workforce Conference 2019, 14th July 2019, Basel, Switzerland, will be held in conjunction with the International Health Economics Association (iHEA) Congress to focus on micro-economic studies of the health workforce.  Dr Diane Skåtun of HERU is on the Conference Planning Committee.

HERU Seminar - Dr Anna Heath

Dr Anna Heath is a a Bio-statistician at SickKids hospital in Toronto within the Child Health Evaluative Sciences (CHES) program, an assistant professor at the University of Toronto in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and an honorary research fellow at University College London in the Department of Statistical Science. Her...

HERU Seminar - Dr David Meads

Dr David Meads is an Associate Professor at the Leeds Institute of Health Sciences at the University of Leeds. David leads the Economic Evaluation for HTA module on the Health Economics MSc. He is lead economist on several trials, decision modelling and patient preference studies. David is a co-applicant and lead health economist...

HERU Seminar - Chiara Pastore

Chiara Pastore is a PhD student in the Department of Economics and Related Studies at the University of York. She is interested in econometric methods for policy evaluation and in the determinants of socioeconomic inequalities in health. Her current work focuses on the impact of educational policy on health behaviours and health. Chiara is...

7th Annual Research Symposium: Evidence for Value in an Era of Realistic Medicine

This annual sympisium is hosted jointly by Healthcare Improvement Scotland and the Health Services Economics Unit and the Health Services Research Unit at the University of Aberdeen, and the Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professions Research Unit. The 2019 programme includes: Stirling Bryan, Scientific Director, BC SUPPORT Unit, Canada Richard Norris, Honorary Fellow, School of Social...

HERU Seminar - Elizabeth Lemmon

Elizabeth Lemmon is a Research Fellow in the Department of Economics at the University of Stirling. Her research interests are around longitudinal economic analysis; the economics of ageing; the economics of social care; health and social care interactions; and unpaid carers. Elizabeth is a former summer intern at HERU. Title: Variations in domiciliary free personal care...

HERU Seminar - Dr Laura Cornelsen

Dr Laura Cornelsen is an Assistant Professor in Public Health Economics and an MRC Career Development Fellow at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Her current research interests focus on understanding linkages between public health and food systems changes, including the role of food prices as well as health-related food policies...

HERU Seminar - Dr Seamus Kent

Dr Seamus Kent is a Senior Researcher at the Health Economics Research Centre (HERC), Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford. His research interests are centred obesity, chronic disease, economic modelling, and the use of large cohort and linked electronic health record data.  Title: Food on prescription: should total diet...

HERU Seminar - Dr Anikó Bíró

Dr Anikó Bíró, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Economics Centre for Economic and Regional Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, will present the second HERU seminar in December. Dr Bíró's research interests lie in the fields of labour economics, health economics and the economics of ageing. Dr Bíró was...

HERU Seminar - Lucy Abel

Lucy Abel is a health economist working at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford. Her research involves using both decision analytic modelling and trial-based evaluations to assess the cost-effectiveness of primary care diagnostic, prognostic and monitoring interventions. She has a particular interest in assessing...

Annual HERU DCE Course - Using DCEs in Health Economics

This event was fully booked

DCE Course. Using Discrete Choice Experiments in Health Economics: Theoretical and Practical Issues.   The Methods of Benefit Valuation Theme Expert Discrete Choice Experiment Course took place from 21st - 23rd November 2018 at Jury's Inn, Union Square, Aberdeen. The course is held annually over three days and is aimed at those interested in the application of DCEs in...

Café MED - Informing Health Policy: Is it time to celebrate or innovate?

Professor Mandy Ryan of HERU and Professor Craig Ramsay from the Health Services Research Unit (HSRU) are speaking at this informal Café MED event at the Suttie Centre, University of Aberdeen. In 2018 we celebrated seventy years of the NHS and the award of the Queen’s Anniversary Prize to the University of Aberdeen for the health economics...

Identifying, Appraising and Applying Health Economics Evidence for Public Health

This training course was ran by HERU on behalf of the Health Economics Network for Scotland (HENS). Providing an introduction to the identification, appraisal and application of economic evaluation for policy-making in public health, the course is suitable for planners, finance directors and other health and social care staff who...

HERU Seminar - Julie Ratcliffe

Professor Julie Ratcliffe is the guest presenter of this HERU seminar. Professor Ratcliffe is Professor of Health Economics in the Institute for Choice, School of Business at the University of South Australia. She also holds honorary professorial positions in the Institute for Health and Wellbeing at the University of Glasgow and...

HERU Seminar - Dr Philip Kinghorn

The first HERU External Seminar of the Autumn 2018 programme will be delivered by Dr Philip Kinghorn, a Research Fellow in the Institute of Applied Health Research at the University of Birmingham. Dr Kinghorn previously worked in HERU from 2010 to 2012. His research interests relate to the measurement and valuation...

HERU Seminar - Professor Andrew Jones

This HERU Seminar will be delivered by  Professor Andrew Jones, Professor of Economics at the University of York. Professor Jones is one of the leading econometricians in health and has a special interest in the determinants of health and health inequalities.   The title of the seminar is: Equity, opportunity and health. Abstract: The new...

HERU Seminar - Dr Nora Ferdjaoui-Moumjid

The seminar will be delivered by Dr Nora Ferdjaoui-Moumjid, Associate Professor, Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University.  Title of the seminar presentation: From healthcare users’ preferences to shared decision-making in the medical encounter : key messages and future issues in France. Abstract: Our research project seeks to achieve a dynamic "balance" between standardizing collective concerns...

HERU Seminar - Dr Rebecca McDonald

Dr Rebecca McDonald, Lecturer in Economics, Department of Economics, University of Birmingham will deliver the May external seminar. Title: Understanding the composite dimensions of the EQ-5D: an experimental approach. Authors: Rebecca McDonald (University of Birmingham); Tim Mullett (University of Warwick); Aki Tsuchiya (University of Sheffield) Abstract: The EQ-5D(-5L) includes two composite dimensions: “Pain or Discomfort”...

Joint Business School / HERU Seminar - Dr Matt Dickson

This is a joint seminar from the University of Aberdeen Business School and HERU. Dr Matt Dickson from the University of Bath will present the seminar. Title: The causal effects of education on adult health, mortality and income: evidence from Mendelian Randomization and the raising of the school leaving age. Abstract: On...

6th Annual Research Symposium, co-hosted by HIS, HERU, HSRU and NMAHP-RU

The 6th Annual Research Symposium takes place on 24 April 2018 at the COSLA Conference Centre in Edinburgh. The theme of the event is Evidence for integration - what can research tell us about health and social care integration and its role in improving outcomes? The annual event is organised by Healthcare...

HERU Seminar - Professor Aki Tsuchiya

This HERU seminar will be given by Professor Aki Tsuchiya of the University of Sheffield.  The seminar starts at 1pm, with a sandwich lunch available from 12.30pm. Title: An exploration of the non-iterative time trade off method to value health states. (with Yan Feng, Arne Risa Hole, Milad Karimi, Ben van Hout) Abstract: Time...

HERU Seminar - Dr Silvia Mendolia

Dr Silvia Mendolia, Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Human and Social Capital Research, University of Wollongong, returned to HERU to deliver the external seminar on 12 December. Dr Mendolia previously worked at HERU and also delivered an external seminar in 2015. The title of the presentation was: Partners’ mental health and individual well-being: a compensating...

HENS Workshop: Identifying, Appraising and Applying Health Economics Evidence for Public Health

This free training course is run by HERU on behalf of the Health Economics Network for Scotland (HENS). Providing an introduction to the identification, appraisal and application of economic evaluation for policy-making in public health, the course is suitable for planners, finance directors and other health and social care staff...

HERU Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) Course

This event was fully booked

HERU's Annual DCE Workshop

Professor Reed Johnson - IAHS Seminar

Professor Reed Johnson of the Duke University School of Medicine made a short visit to HERU in November. While at HERU, Professor Johnson delivered a seminar as part of the Institute of Applied Health Sciences (IAHS) seminar series. The title of the seminar was 'Putting economics back into health economics: utility-theoretic generalized QALYs from discrete-choice...

HERU Seminar - Dr Trine Kjær

The first confirmed HERU External Seminar for 2017/18 will be given by Dr Trine Kjær, Associate Professor, Centre for Health Economics Research (COHERE), University of Southern Denmark. Title: Preferences for QALYs at end-of-life: an empirical study. Abstract: Recently there has been an increased policy focus on whether gains generated for patients with terminal illness should...

Stated Preference Seminar - Professor Deborah Street

Professor Deborah Street of the Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation at the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia will deliver a presentation for the HERU Stated Preference Seminar Series on 13th September. Title: What can simulations tell us about DCE design performance? Abstract: In this presentation, after briefly recalling what a discrete...

Health Economists' Study Group Meeting

HESG Summer 2017 Meeting at HERU

HERU Seminar - Dr Sarah Wordsworth

The seminar will be given by Dr Sarah Wordsworth, Associate Professor and University Research Lecturer, Nuffield Department of Population Health, Medical Sciences Division, University of Oxford. 12.30pm - 1.30pm, with a sandwich lunch at 12pm. The seminar will take place in Room 1:029 Polwarth Building, Foresterhill. Title: Health economics and genomic sequencing: challenges and opportunities Abstract:...

HERU Seminar - Eskild Klausen Fredslund

Eskild Klausen Fredslund is a PhD student at the Centre for Health Economics Research (COHERE) at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense. The title of the seminar presentations is 'Time preference and health behaviours – can time preference explain attendance to the gym'.    

HERU Seminar - Professor Rhiannon Tudor Edwards

The second HERU seminar this month is given by Professor Rhiannon Tudor Edwards, Co-Director of the Centre for Health Economics and Medicines evaluation (CHEME), Bangor University, Wales. Title: Return on investment, prevention, Marmite and more. 1 in 3 children in Wales live in poverty. At birth, there is an 18.9 year difference...

HERU Seminar - Dr Helen Mason

The first of two HERU seminars in May will be given by Dr Helen Mason, Reader of Health Economics, Yunus Centre for Social Business and Health, Glasgow Caledonian University. The title of the seminar is 'Back to basics? A role for cost-benefit analysis in the evaluation of public health interventions'. Abstract: Evaluation of complex...

HERU Seminar - Professor Dorte Gyrd-Hansen

The second HERU seminar this session from a member of COHERE staff is from Professor Dorte Gyrd-Hansen, Head of COHERE - Center for Health Economic Research, Department of Business and Economics, University of Southern Denmark, Odense. The seminar will take place from 12pm to 1pm in Room 1:029, Polwarth Building, Foresterhill. Title: A stated preference...

5th Annual Research Symposium

The 5th Annual Research Symposium took place on 16 March 2017 at the COSLA Conference Centre in Edinburgh. The theme of the event was 'Evidence for sustainability - exploring the current evidence underpinning ways to create sustainable health and care systems'. The event was organised by Healthcare Improvement for Scotland (HIS), Health Economics Research...

Can we tax our way out of obesity?

Organised by the Cromar Future Group in conjunction with the University, a series of talks through 2016/2017 held in the MacRobert Hall, Tarland

HERU Seminar - Professor Morten Raun Mørkbak

The frist of three seminars by COHERE staff and students this session is from Professor Morten Raun Mørkbak, Associate Professor, Department of Business and Economics, COHERE, University of Southern Denmark, Odense. Title/topic: Incentivized vs. stated intertemporal choices and real physical effort tasks - a cross domain study of individual time preferences. Abstract:Studies have...

DCE Workshop - Banff, Canada

Using Discrete Choice Experiments in Health Economics: Theoretical and Practical Issues

MUNROS Policy Conference

New and Extended Roles for Health Care Professionals: Practice, Outcomes, and Costs

HERU Seminar - Dr Florian Tomini

The first HERU seminar of 2017 will be given by Dr Florian Tomini, Health Economist, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Medical Technology Assessment, Maastricht University Clinical Center, Maastricht, Netherlands. The seminar is in Rm 1:029 from 1pm to 2pm, with a sandwich lunch at 12.30pm. Title: Understanding the value of social networks in...

HERU Seminar - Dr Emmanouil Mentzakis

The second December HERU external seminar will be given by Dr Emmanouil Mentzakis, Associate Professor in Economics within Social Sciences, University of Southampton. Title: 'Non-market resource allocation and the public's interpretation of need: an empirical investigation in the context of health care'. Abstract: The concept of need is central to the non-market allocation of...

HERU seminar - Dr Peter Eibich

The first of two December HERU external seminars will be given by Dr Peter Eibich, Senior Researcher, Nuffield Department of Population Health, Medical Sciences Division, University of Oxford.   Title: The effect of retirement on (health) behaviour. The seminar will take place in HSB-115, Health Sciences Building, Foresterhill. Other HERU seminars are featured on the HERU...

Data Linkage Showcase 2016

The Farr Institute of Health Informatics Research Scotland, Administrative Data Research Centre for Scotland and Urban Big Data Centre will host a 1day event on Tuesday 29th November 2016 to showcase Scotland's research strengths, support services and opportunities in cross-sectoral data linkage.

HENS Workshop on economic evidence for public health

Health Economics Network for Scotland (HENS) Workshop Identifying, Appraising and Applying Health Economics Evidence for Public Health Speakers: Paul McNamee, Graham Scotland, Aileen Neilson, Stirling Bryan (HERU) and Cynthia Fraser (HSRU). SummaryThe course provides an introduction to the identification, appraisal and application of economic evidence in health care. Attendees included health care planners, finance directors...

Today's student, tomorrow's heavy drinker?

Café Variété - meet world leading experts in an informal environment

HERU DCE Workshop

Using Discrete Choice Experiments in Health Economics: Theoretical and Practical Issues The Methods of Benefit Valuation Theme 2016 Expert Discrete Choice Experiment Workshop on 'Using discrete choice experiments in health economics: theoretical and practical issues' will take place from 2nd - 4th November 2016 at Jury's Inn, Union Square, Aberdeen. Further details on the course...

HERU Seminar - Professor Tony Scott

Professor Anthony Scott leads the Health Economics Research Program at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, University of Melbourne and is an Honorary Professor at HERU. The title of the seminar is 'Pro-social motivation and public sector work: evidence from physicians'. Abstract: Pro-social motivation amongst health professionals is arguably stronger...

HERU Seminar - Logan Trenaman

The last HERU external seminar of the 2015/16 session will be given by Logan Trenaman, a PhD researcher at the Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, Canada.  Logan works with Professor Stirling Bryan and is a guest of HERU for the week around the seminar. The seminar is on...

HERU Seminar - Christoph Kronenberg

Room 3:052, Polwarth Building, Foresterhill, University of Aberdeen

Economics / HERU Joint Seminar

This is a joint seminar from the Economics Department at the University of Aberdeen and HERU. The speaker is Dr Climent Quintana-Domeque, Associate Professor in Economcis at University of Oxford. His research interests encompass economic development, health economics, family economics and labour economics. The title of the talk is 'The demand for season of...

HERU Seminar - Helen Weatherly

Room 3:052, Polwarth Building, Foresterhill, University of Aberdeen

IAHS Cross-disciplinary Workshop

The workshop was presented by members of HERU’s Methods of Benefit Valuation team, as well as colleagues from across the IAHS. HERU are internationally known for their work on Discrete Choice Experiments (DCES), much of our applied and methodological work has been carried out in collaboration with IAHS colleagues. The workshop provided...

HERU Seminar - Dr Arne Risa Hole

Room 3:052, Polwarth Building, Foresterhill, University of Aberdeen

HERU Seminar - Professor Navrud

Reliability of meta-analytic benefit transfers of international value of statistical life estimates: tests and illustrations.

4th Annual Research Symposium: Mobilising Evidence to Drive Improvement

Co-hosted by Healthcare Improvement Scotland (HIS), Health Services Research Unit (HERU) and the Health Economics Research Unit (HSRU).

HERU Seminar - Dr Praveen Thokala

The Sheffield Type 1 Diabetes Policy Model

HERU Seminar - Dr Manuel Gomes

Developing appropriate methods for the analysis of missing data in health economic evaluation of RCTs

HERU Seminar - Professor Jan Abel Olsen

Reducing inequalities in what? The Norwegian priority setting commissions' views on prospective shortfall versus lifetime shortfall.

HERU Seminar - Rita Faria

The value of implementation: how to invest in getting cost-effective technologies into practice.

HERU Seminar - Rita Faria

The value of implementation: how to invest in getting cost-effective technologies into practice.