Event Archive

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

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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,...