Event Archive

2022

June

• External Seminar - Lachlan Cameron, University of Melbourne

  22 June 2022, 11:15 - 12:15

  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...

February

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

  20 - 23 February 2022

  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

  09 February 2022, 15:00 - 16:15

  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...

January

• HERU External Seminar - Kristjana Baldursdottir

  26 January 2022, 14:00 - 15:00

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

2021

December

• HERU External Seminar - Dr Stuart J. Wright

  15 December 2021, 14:00 - 15:00

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

November

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

  17 November 2021, 15:00 - 16:15

  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,...

August

• External Seminar - Lisa Norrgren (MS Teams)

  11 August 2021, 11:00 - 12:00

   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...

July

• External Seminar - Professor Deborah Marshall

  28 July 2021, 15:00 - 16:00

  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...

June

• External Seminar - Assistant Professor Jonathan Sicsic (MS Teams)

  30 June 2021, 11:00 - 12:00

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

• SHE Virtual Seminar - Health Economics and COVID-19 Vaccines

  09 June 2021, 12:00 - 13:00

  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...