Welcome to the Health Economics Research Unit website. HERU has been at the cutting edge of economic research into health for over thirty years. We pride ourselves on the high quality of our empirical and methodological research. Our research aims to make a real difference both to the effectiveness and delivery of health services and to the health of populations in Scotland and other countries…

Bob Elliott, Director.

Research Assessment Exercise 2008
Staff from HERU made a major contribution to the University's submission to Unit of Assessment 7 (UoA 7), Health Services Research by being returned with the highest scoring return for the University of Aberdeen. With a grade point average of 3.05, HERU was joint top of the UK league in health services research. For further information click here.

Latest News

New MSc Economics of Health

HERU together with the Department of Economics will be offering a new MSc in the Economics of Health at the University of Aberdeen starting in the 2012/13 academic year. Click here to read more...

Mode effects in stated preference survey research

Researchers from HERU were recently awarded a grant by the MRC Methodology Research Panel to investigate mode effects in stated preferences survey research. This 30 month project will be led by Dr Verity Watson in collaboration with Dr Terry Porteous (Academic Primary Care and Prof. Mandy Ryan (HERU). For more information click here.

Staff vacancies

Professor of Health Economics
Closing Date: 2nd March 2012

Director of Health Economics Research Unit
Closing Date: 29 February 2012

HERU Seminar On the 7th February,                                             Professor Cam Donaldson of the Glasgow Caledonian University will present his seminar "Markets and health in the home of Smith and Yunus: a personal journey through health economics"

Latest edition of HERU News is now available... download here now (pdf)

2012 DCE Workshop

Discrete choice experiments in health economics: Theoretical and practical issues.

9th-11th of April 2012, Banff, Alberta, Canada

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