Reports from conferences and other meetings, recently attended by our authors.
I attended the European Health Economics Workshop (EHEW) in Oslo. The workshop has been running for almost 20 years and it shows. Most participants have attended many editions of EHEW, which has and continues to shape the field of health… Read More »Meeting round-up: 18th European Health Economics Workshop (EHEW)
Last week I attended a conference that was very different to any that I’ve attended before. It was the first meeting of a new society – the International Society for Economics and Social Sciences of Animal Health (ISESSAH). I and… Read More »Meeting round-up: International Society for Economics and Social Sciences of Animal Health inaugural meeting
The perfect tonic to the January blues, this year’s winter HESG took us to Birmingham. Continuing the trend of recent years, 100+ health economists gathered in a major chain hotel to discuss 50 odd papers currently in progress in our little… Read More »Meeting round-up: Health Economists’ Study Group (HESG) Winter 2017
The 33rd Plenary Meeting of the EuroQol Group took place in Berlin on 15th and 16th September 2016. The meeting was hosted by Wolfgang Greiner of the University of Bielefeld. I chaired the Scientific Programme together with my co-chair Anna… Read More »Meeting round-up: EuroQol Plenary Meeting 2016
This was my first experience of the biennial conference organised by the International Society on Priorities in Health Care. The society was founded in 1996 at the University of Birmingham in the UK and returned to its spiritual home 20… Read More »Meeting round-up: Priorities 2016
The European Health Economics Association has been going for a few years now, but this is the first EuHEA conference I’ve been able to attend; happily, in Barcelona. The ‘student-supervisor’ conference has a slight adjustment to the classic HESG format. A student… Read More »Meeting round-up: Third EuHEA PhD Student-Supervisor and Early Career Researcher Conference
First of all, I have to admit I was part of the organising committee of the Health Economists’ Study Group (HESG) meeting that took place in Gran Canaria from the 21st to 23rd June 2016. My views might therefore be… Read More »Conference round-up: Health Economists’ Study Group (HESG) Summer 2016
I attended the inaugural Patient Reported Outcomes Measures (PROMs) Conference in Sheffield on Thursday 9 June 2016. Supported by four NIHR CLAHRCs across England, it offered an opportunity for those who work with PROMs to present to over 100 people… Read More »Conference round-up: PROMs Conference Sheffield 2016
Last October saw the first meeting of the Medicine, Markets and Morals Network. Today and yesterday I attended their third and final (for now) meeting in London. The network brings together researchers from across the social sciences and humanities to discuss… Read More »Conference round-up: Medicine, Markets and Morals Network Meeting Three