Event Archive

HERU Seminar - Chiara Pastore

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...

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

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...

HERU Seminar - Elizabeth Lemmon

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...

HERU Seminar - Dr Laura Cornelsen

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...

HERU Seminar - Dr Seamus Kent

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...

HERU Seminar - Dr Anikó Bíró

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...

HERU Seminar - Lucy Abel

Lucy Abel is a health economist working at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford. Her research involves using both decision analytic modelling and trial-based evaluations to assess the cost-effectiveness of primary care diagnostic, prognostic and monitoring interventions. She has a particular interest in assessing...

Annual HERU DCE Course - Using DCEs in Health Economics

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DCE Course. Using Discrete Choice Experiments in Health Economics: Theoretical and Practical Issues.   The Methods of Benefit Valuation Theme Expert Discrete Choice Experiment Course took place from 21st - 23rd November 2018 at Jury's Inn, Union Square, Aberdeen. The course is held annually over three days and is aimed at those interested in the application of DCEs in...

Café MED - Informing Health Policy: Is it time to celebrate or innovate?

Professor Mandy Ryan of HERU and Professor Craig Ramsay from the Health Services Research Unit (HSRU) are speaking at this informal Café MED event at the Suttie Centre, University of Aberdeen. In 2018 we celebrated seventy years of the NHS and the award of the Queen’s Anniversary Prize to the University of Aberdeen for the health economics...

Identifying, Appraising and Applying Health Economics Evidence for Public Health

This training course was ran by HERU on behalf of the Health Economics Network for Scotland (HENS). Providing an introduction to the identification, appraisal and application of economic evaluation for policy-making in public health, the course is suitable for planners, finance directors and other health and social care staff who...