Subject: iHEA News - September 2020
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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2020 04:17:01 +0000

International Health Economics Association

iHEA News is the official newsletter of the International Health Economics Association.

Please note that this newsletter only contains summaries. To access a full version PDF of this newsletter, please click here.

Congress News

Call for abstracts: 2021 iHEA World Congress on Health Economics

iHEA is pleased to invite you to join us virtually in July 2021 for the 14th World Congress on Health Economics, which has the theme of Health Economics in a Time of Global Change. iHEA Congresses are well established as the forum to engage around the latest research findings in health economics from around the world, the implications of this research for health policy and practice, and new methodological developments in the discipline.

Although the 2021 congress will be held virtually, it will be comparable to our usual congresses in terms of session slots and there will be several parallel sessions in each slot. There will also be an innovative e-poster component to the program. We would like to encourage health economists to make submissions in the form of an individual abstract or an organized session. Abstract submissions ARE NOW OPEN and will close on December 7, 2020.

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Call for early career researchers in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) to submit draft abstracts for the 2021 iHEA Congress

For the first time, iHEA will be offering support to early career researchers (ECRs) in LMICs who would like to submit an abstract for the 2021 iHEA Congress. The program, which is being co-ordinated by iHEA President Winnie Yip and Manoj Mohanan, requires LMIC ECRs to submit their draft congress abstract by November 4, 2020. A team of established health economists will review each abstract and provide detailed feedback on how the abstract can be improved by November 20, to allow researchers to finalize and submit their abstracts before the submission deadline of December 7, 2020.

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Call for expressions of interest to serve on the iHEA Scientific Committee Review Panel

iHEA is currently seeking expressions of interest from experts in Health Economics to serve on the Review Panel of the Scientific Committee for the 2021 iHEA Congress.

We are looking for abstract reviewers with research expertise covering the full spectrum of fields within health economics. These broad fields are:

Health beyond health care services: non-medical production of health and the value of health

Demand and utilization of health services

Supply of health services

Health care financing and expenditures

Economic evaluation of health and care interventions

Evaluation of policy, programs and health system performance

Specific populations

Cross-cutting themes and other issues

Full details of the sub-fields within each of these fields can be found here.

Expressions of interest should be submitted online here. Please note: If you served on the Scientific Committee for the 2019 congress, you should not complete this form; you will be contacted directly to find out if you are willing to continue serving on the Review Panel.

Nominations for the Review Panel close on October 12, 2020.

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SIG News

Doctoral (PhD) work currently being undertaken by iHEA members: a database

The conveners of the Early Career Researcher Special Interest Group (ECR-SIG) are pleased to present a new database that provides information about the research interests and thesis topics of current doctoral students.

We hope that this database will:

Promote connections/networking amongst current students, especially for individuals working on the same topic areas;

Increase awareness about ongoing research topics and research topics in the pipeline;

Increase awareness of the next generation of health economists, raising their profiles and improving their visibility in the job market.

If you are currently undertaking doctoral work, you can add your details to the database by completing the form at the bottom of this page.

If you have any queries about this initiative, please email one of the ECR-SIG conveners (see here for details) or contact [email-masked].

- ECR-SIG conveners (James, Giulia, Angela, Thorhildur and Tiara)

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Awards

Call for Nominations for the 2021 Student Paper Prize

Deadline: January 11, 2021

The International Health Economics Association (iHEA) is pleased to invite nominations for the Annual Student Paper Prize in Health Economics. Nominations should include a brief letter of nomination (250 words max) and a copy of the paper (preferably pdf).

A student is defined as someone currently studying (full or part time) at a higher education institution, at either Masters or Doctoral level. In addition, students who have completed their studies in the year previous to the announcement qualify as long as the paper was written while registered as a student.

Please submit nominations, and address queries by email to: [email-masked].

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Webinars

Empirical examples of equity-informative economic evaluation in LMICs

Tuesday, October 27, 2020 | 10:00 AM ET

Speakers: Dr. Frida Ngalesoni; Asst. Prof. Akshar Saxena

Hosted by the Equity informative economic evaluation SIG

After introducing some principles and methods in our first webinar we will now move on to look at some empirical applications.

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CLICK HERE TO ACCESS PAST WEBINAR RECORDINGS

Hot off the Press

Two new books, which have been contributed to by several iHEA members, will become available in the next few days.

September 30 sees the publication of the latest Oxford University Press Handbook in Health Economic Evaluation, entitled Distributional Cost-effectiveness Analysis: Quantifying Health Equity Impacts and Trade-Offs, edited by Richard Cookson, Susan Griffin, Ole F. Norheim and Anthony J. Culyer.

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Career Center

The iHEA Career Center allows you to post your job openings and fellowships, find potential candidates and search new positions. It is open to members and non-members alike. We do hope that you utilize this tool and should you have any questions, please reach out to [email-masked].

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