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HERU Blog post on giving a patients a voice in rare disease research
The latest HERU Blog post looks at the importance of 'Giving patients a voice in rare disease research'. We highlight ongoing work in HERU where we are undertaking an economic evaluation of genome-scale testing for the diagnosis of rare disorders in Scotland. The research aims to understand if genome-scale testing...
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2019 HERU Annual Report
The 2019 HERU Annual Report is available. The report highlights some key achievements over 2019, provides an overview of the Unit’s activities and details the research we are undertaking across the Unit’s four research themes. It also details our publications, the projects we are working on, and our capacity building...
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Save the Date! DCE Course in Banff, Canada, March 2021
Using Discrete Choice Experiments in Health Economics: Theoretical and Practical Issues HERU and the O’Brien Institute for Public Health, University of Calgary are running a short course on 'Using Discrete Choice Experiments (DCEs) in health economics', from 8th-10th March 2021 at the Banff Conference Centre, Alberta, Canada. The aims of the short course are...
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Welcome back to HERU to Ben Sakowksy
We're very pleased to welcome Dr Ruben Sakowsky back to HERU. Ben recently completed his PhD in HERU and has now started as a Research Fellow in the Unit for four months. Ben will work on the qualitative component of a project that aims to analyse data on individual and...
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HERU Blog post on obesity interventions
The latest HERU Blog post is entitled, 'Interventions for severe obesity: value for money?' and looks at the REBALANCE (REview of Behaviour And Lifestyle interventions for severe obesity: AN evidenCE synthesis) project. The study examined different treatments for severe obesity and identified bariatric surgery as the most cost-effective intervention. The...
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SHE launch event and survey results - HERU blog post
We've published a HERU Blog post looking back at the launch event of the Scottish Health Economics (SHE) group. SHE is a collaboration of health economists from Scotland’s universities, NHS and government. The aim of SHE is to support, promote and further develop health economics in Scotland. The launch event,...
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Welcome to Mesfin, and visiting students
Welcome to Dr Mesfin Genie who has joined HERU as a Research Fellow. Mesfin was previously a visiting PhD student in HERU for six months in 2017/18. Initially, Mesfin will be working on a project researching the impact of the cost attribute on choice behaviour using choice experiment and eye-tracking...
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HERU Blog post - reflections on HERU's 'Applying DCEs in Health Economics' course
The last HERU Blog post of 2019 reflects on the 'Applying Discrete Choice Experiments in Health Economics' course that we ran during the year in Canada and in Aberdeen. The Canada course was ran in collaboration with the O’Brien Institute for Public Health at the University of Calgary in September,...
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HERU Newsletter - December 2019
The December 2019 HERU newsletter has been published. In the newsletter we highlight the launch event of Scottish Health Economics (SHE) and report from recent events and activities where researchers from HERU reflected on valuation in health economics. We also provide an update on the courses we offer, including our...
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HERU Blog post on preferences for cancer follow-up care
The latest HERU Blog post highlights a study HERU researchers were involved in that examined cancer survivors preferences for the type of follow-up care they received. The post was instigated by recent research from Macmillan Cancer Support on the increasing number of people living with cancer and the resulting pressures...