HERU Seminars

Upcoming Seminars

12/03/13, 1-2pm, Level 7, IMS Building,
Andrew Leicester, The Institute For Fiscal Studies,
Title:  Price-based measures to reduce alcohol consumption

16/04/13, 1-2pm, level 7, IMS Building, Jose Luis Pinto Prades, Chair in Health Economics at the Yunus Centre for Social Bus?iness & Health and Glasgow School for Business & Society, Glasgow Caledonian University, Title:  Sequence effects in the evaluation of health states

07/05/13, 1-2pm, Level 7, IMS Building,
Dr Sandy Tubeuf, Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds,
Title:  Income patterns according to teenage birth: is the baby to blame?

 

Seminars are held either in the Conference Room on Level 5 of the Insitute of Medical Sciences building, Foresterhill (click here for directions) or in room 3.052 in the Polwarth Building. (click here for directions)

 

All welcome to attend – for further information contact Verity Watson

Past Seminars

  • 26/02/13, 1-2pm, Level 5, IMS Building,
    Keith Bender, SIRE Professor of Economics in the UoA Economics Department. 
    Title:  Performance Pay and Health.

  • 06/02/13, 11.30 - 12.30, Level 7, IMS Building, Bob Elliott, (HERU) & Christine Bond, (CAPC), University of Aberdeen.    European Commission FP7 Project.  Title:  Health Care Reform: The iMpact on practice, oUtcomes and cost of New ROles for health profeSsionals (MUNROS).  For more information, click here.

  • 6/02/13, 1-2pm, Level 5, IMS Building, Professor Keith Bender, SIRE Professor of Economics in the University of Aberdeen Economics Department.  Title:  "Performance Pay and Health".
  • 5/01/13, 1-2pm, Level 7, IMS Building, Paola Manzini, University of St Andrews, Title:  TBC
  • 3/11/12, 1-2pm, Room 115, Health Sciences Building, Mark Dusheiko, Centre for Health Economics, The University of York, QOF and Avoidable Emergency Admissions
  • 0/10/12, 1-3pm, IMS Level 5, Pierre Yves Geoffard, Paris School of Economics Title: the Measurement of Health Inequality, Wednesday 10th October, 1-3pm, IMS Level 5.  Click here for more details.
  • 27/07/12, 11-12pm, Room 3.052, Polwarth Building - Associate Professor Kirsten Howard (The University of Sydney) Community Preferences for the Allocation & Donation of Organs - The PAraDOx Study
  • 10/05/12, 12-1pm, Room 3.052, Polwarth Building - Dr. Craig Mitton (University of British Columbia) Title TBC
  • 08/05/12, 12-1pm, Level 5 Conference Room, IMS Building - Stéphane Luchini (GREQAM Marseille) Equivalent income and fair evaluation of health care
  • 13/03/12, 11-12pm, Room 1.029, Polwarth Building -  Prof. Alan Whiteside (University of KwaZulu-Natal)  A Safe Sex/No Sex Month: Could it work? Innovative Responses for Preventing HIV Transmission.
  • 06/03/12, 12-2.30pm, IMS Level 5 - Dr Emma McIntosh (Glasgow University). The Economics of Parkinson's: broadening the scope of costs and benefits.
  • 07/02/12, 12-2.30pm, IMS Level 5 - Professor Cam Donaldson (Glasgow Caledonian University) -  Markets and health in the home of Smith and Yunus: a personal journey through health economics.
  • 06/12/11, 12.30-2.30pm, IMS Level 5 - Professor Paola Manzini (University of St. Andrews) - Models of Bounded Rationality.
  • 11/11/11, 12-1pm, Polwarth 3:052- Professor Mickael Bech (University of Southern Denmark) - The inter-regional variation of mixed reimbursement systems in Denmark.
  • 06/10/11, 12-2pm, IMS Level 5 - Professor Denzil Fiebig (University of New South Wales) Consideration sets and their role in modelling doctor recommendations about contraceptives.
  • 22/09/11, 11-12pm, IMS Level 5 -   Professor Stirling Bryan, (Director at Centre for Clinical Epidemiology & Evaluation, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, and Professor, School of Population & Public Health University of British Columbia)  'Innovation' in health care: all talk and no substance?
  • 27/06/11, 11-12pm, IMS Level 7 - Ben Craig (H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute) IAHS Seminar "Incorporating Patient Experiences into US Comparative Effectiveness Research" (pdf)
  • 07/06/11, 12.30-1.30, IMS Level 5 - Dr Richard Grieve (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine) - Estimating cost-effectiveness results for subgroups: a comparison of methods.
  • 03/06/11, 11-1pm, IMS Level 7 - Ben Craig (H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute) HERU Internal Seminar. "Online Technological Constraints in Experimental Health Economics" (pdf)
  • 10/05/11, 1.30-2.30* - Eric Delattre (ENSAI - Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Analyse de l'Information) - The determinants of physicians' choices for location: a discrete choice analysis for French General Practitioners
  • 03/05/11, 1.30-4*, - Dr Donna Rowen (University of Sheffield) - Developing and testing condition-specific preference-based measures: Lessons learnt and policy implications.
  • 05/04/11, 12-2.30*, - Dr Arne Risa Hole (University of Sheffield) - Measuring and testing for gender discrimination in physician pay: English family doctors.
  • 22/03/11, 12-1, 3.052 Polwarth - Dr Bernard van den Berg (University of York) - A composite measure of health care quality to purchase care in the Dutch system of managed competition.
  • 01/03/11, 12-2.30*, - Dr Adriana Castelli (University of York) - Measuring NHS outputs and productivity
  • 06/12/10, 12.15-1.15, - Professor Mickael Bech (University of Southern Denmark) - Political or dental power in private and public service provision – a study of municipal expenditures for child dental care. (cancelled due to adverse weather conditions)
  • 02/11/10, 12-2.30*, - Dr Marisa Miraldo (Imperial College) - Experimental evidence on health habits and time and risk preferences.
  • 12/10/10, 1.30-2.30, - Professor Joanna Coast (University of Birmingham) - Assessing capability for economic evaluation in health care.
  • 15/06/10, 12pm, 3.052 Polwarth - Andy Willan (University of Toronto) -   Expected Value of Information and Pricing New Health Care Interventions (pdf)
  • 06/04/10, 12pm, 3.052 Polwarth - Angela Robinson (University of East Anglia) - European social value of a QALY project (EUROVAQ).
  • 02/03/10, 12pm, 3.052 Polwarth - Rachel Baker (Newcastle University) - THE social value of THE QALY?  UK and European experiences.
  • 12/01/10, 12pm, 3.052 Polwarth - John Cairns (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine) - Inconsistent health state valuations.
  • 01/12/09, 1pm. - Nigel Armstrong (Durham University) - Decision Analytic Models for both Policy and Shared decision making: The example of Thrombosis in Stroke.
  • 02/06/09 - Richard Cookson (University of York) - Measuring healthcare inequality using administrative data.
  • 03/03/09 - Barbara McPake (Queen Margaret University) - Developing a health systems typology for high mortality countries: an approach using an exploratory data collection tool.
  • 03/02/09 - Colin Tilley (University of Dundee) - Treatment Intensity and Provider Remuneration: an analysis using matched patient - provider data.
  • 02/12/08 - Andrea Manca (University of York) - Using propensity score methods to analyse individual patient level cost effectiveness data from observational studies.
  • 11/11/08 - Michael Rosko (Widener University, Pennsylvania) - Measuring Hospital Inefficiency: Do Different Methods and Measures of Patient Severity of Illness and Quality Make a Difference?
  • 04/11/08 - Paul Boyle (University of St Andrews) - Changing places and changing people: Longitudinal Analysis of Deprivation, Migration and Health.
  • 07/10/08 - Steve Birch (McMaster University and University of Manchester) - Health human resources planning and the production of health: Development of an extended analytical framework for needs-based health human resources planning.
  • 23/09/08 - Paul Jensen (University of Melbourne) - Hospital Type and Patient Outcomes: An Empirical Examination Using AMI Re-admission and Mortality Records.
  • 16/06/08 - Anne Mills (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) - Health economics research in low and middle income countries: addressing critical policy questions.
  • 05/02/08 - Liz Fenwick (University of Glasgow) - Pre-trial modelling for directing research.
  • 15/01/08 - Hugh Gravelle (University of York) - How satisfied are GPs? Response bias in job satisfaction surveys.
  • 04/12/07 - Steve Morris (Brunel University) - Obesity and psychological wellbeing.
  • 21/11/07 - 16.00-17.00 - Maarten Lindeboom - Free University, Amsterdam - Health Shock, Disability and work. (Edward Wright Building, S86. Old Aberdeen)
  • 18/09/07 - 12.00-13.00 - Chris McCabe (University of Leeds) - Cost effectiveness thresholds in resource allocation - the role of budget impact, equity and patient values.
  • 14/06/07 - Christine Godfrey (University of York) - Cost-effectiveness of telephone smoking cessation services.
  • 10/05/07 - David Cohen (University of Glamorgan) - A misplaced role for cost utility analysis in the economic evaluation of public health.
  • 19/04/07 - Rowena Jacobs (University of York) - Financial management of Foundation Trusts.
  • 29/03/07 - Richard Smith (University of East Anglia) - Should we help respondents to 'construct' their willingness to pay?
  • 08/02/07 - Andrew Briggs (University of Glasgow) - Event-based modelling of clinical trial data for economic appraisal: heterogeneity and transferability.
  • 11/01/07 - David Madden (University College Dublin) - Body Mass Index and the Measurement of Obesity.
  • 14/12/06 - Colin Green (University of Southampton) - Exploring the social value of health interventions: preliminary findings from a discrete choice study.
  • 16/11/06 - Stephane Luchini (GREQAM, Marseille) - Does charity begin at home for pollution reductions?
  • 25/10/06 - Martin Forster (University of York) - The 'weight of evidence', epidemiology and the tobacco story: 1920-1963. Industry and Public Health Service Perspectives.