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This is a joint seminar from the University of Aberdeen Business School and HERU. Dr Matt Dickson from the University of Bath will present the seminar. Title: The causal effects of education on adult health, mortality and income: evidence from Mendelian Randomization and the raising of the school leaving age. Abstract: On...

The 6th Annual Research Symposium takes place on 24 April 2018 at the COSLA Conference Centre in Edinburgh. The theme of the event is Evidence for integration - what can research tell us about health and social care integration and its role in improving outcomes? The annual event is organised by Healthcare...

This HERU seminar will be given by Professor Aki Tsuchiya of the University of Sheffield.  The seminar starts at 1pm, with a sandwich lunch available from 12.30pm. Title: An exploration of the non-iterative time trade off method to value health states. (with Yan Feng, Arne Risa Hole, Milad Karimi, Ben van Hout) Abstract: Time...

Dr Silvia Mendolia, Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Human and Social Capital Research, University of Wollongong, returned to HERU to deliver the external seminar on 12 December. Dr Mendolia previously worked at HERU and also delivered an external seminar in 2015. The title of the presentation was: Partners’ mental health and individual well-being: a compensating...

This free training course is run 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...

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HERU's Annual DCE Workshop

Professor Reed Johnson of the Duke University School of Medicine made a short visit to HERU in November. While at HERU, Professor Johnson delivered a seminar as part of the Institute of Applied Health Sciences (IAHS) seminar series. The title of the seminar was 'Putting economics back into health economics: utility-theoretic generalized QALYs from discrete-choice...

The first confirmed HERU External Seminar for 2017/18 will be given by Dr Trine Kjær, Associate Professor, Centre for Health Economics Research (COHERE), University of Southern Denmark. Title: Preferences for QALYs at end-of-life: an empirical study. Abstract: Recently there has been an increased policy focus on whether gains generated for patients with terminal illness should...

Professor Deborah Street of the Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation at the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia will deliver a presentation for the HERU Stated Preference Seminar Series on 13th September. Title: What can simulations tell us about DCE design performance? Abstract: In this presentation, after briefly recalling what a discrete...

HESG Summer 2017 Meeting at HERU