Event Archive

HERU External Seminar - Dr Tobias Borger

The first HERU External Seminar of 2020 will be delivered by Dr Tobias Borger, Lecturer in Economics at the University of Stirling.  The talk is on 'Preferences for coastal and marine conservation in Vietnam: accounting for differences in individual choice set formation'. Abstract: This study has two objectives. The first is to estimate the value...

Using Discrete Choice Experiments in Health Economics Course

This event was fully booked

This popular course covers the theoretical and practical issues of discrete choice experiments (DCEs) in health economics and in 2019 took place over three days from the 13th to the 15th November at the Park Inn Hotel, Aberdeen. The course takes place annually and was fully booked for 2019. Contact Alison Findlay with enquiries about the waiting list...

HERU External Seminar - Dr Yuanyuan Gu

The next HERU external seminar will be delivered by Dr Yuanyuan Gu. Yuanyuan is currently undertaking a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship on health econometrics with Professor Andrew Jones at the University of York. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at Macquarie University Centre for the Health Economy (MUCHE). Yuanyuan completed...

Cafe Scientifique - What should we value in healthcare?

Explore what impacts funding for NHS treatment, and the questions surrounding what we should really value in a climate with limited resources.

HERU Seminar - Sebastian Neumann-Böhme

The first HERU External Seminar of the 2019/20 session will be delivered by Sebastian Neumann-Böhme, PhD Candidate, Department of Health Economics, Erasmus School of Health Policy and Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam. Title: Trust me; I know what I am doing. Does domain experience reduce preference reversals in decision making for others? Authors: Sebastian Neumann-Böhme*, Stefan A....

Scottish Health Economics - Launch Conference

Scottish Health Economics (SHE) is being launched to support, promote and further develop health economics in Scotland. SHE is a collaboration of health economists from Scotland’s Universities, NHS and Government. Our aim is to bring together researchers and users of health economics to explore the development and application of health economics in Scotland. All...

DCE short course in Banff, Canada

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...

3rd Economics of the Health Workforce Conference 2019

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.

HERU Seminar - Dr Anna Heath

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...

HERU Seminar - Dr David Meads

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...