Event Archive

2019

September

• DCE short course in Banff, Canada

  08 - 11 September 2019

  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...

July

• 3rd Economics of the Health Workforce Conference 2019

  14 July 2019, 08:30 - 16:30

  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.

June

• HERU Seminar - Dr Anna Heath

  11 June 2019, 12:30 - 13:30

  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...

May

• HERU Seminar - Dr David Meads

  28 May 2019, 13:00 - 14:00

  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

  14 May 2019, 12:30 - 13:30

  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...

April

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

  25 April 2019, 09:30 - 16:00

  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...

March

• HERU Seminar - Elizabeth Lemmon

  12 March 2019, 12:30 - 13:30

  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...

February

• HERU Seminar - Dr Laura Cornelsen

  05 February 2019, 12:30 - 13:30

  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...

January

• HERU Seminar - Dr Seamus Kent

  14 January 2019, 12:00 - 13:00

  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...

2018

December

• HERU Seminar - Dr Anikó Bíró

  06 December 2018, 14:00 - 15:00

  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...