Reports from conferences and other meetings, recently attended by our authors.
The 4th catchily-titled EuHEA PhD Student-Supervisor and Early Career Researcher (ECR) conference took place from 6th–8th September 2017 in Lausanne, Switzerland. Students and ECRs can attend alone but are encouraged to bring their supervisors or other senior colleagues with them,… Read More »Meeting round-up: Fourth EuHEA PhD Student-Supervisor and Early Career Researcher Conference
The CINCH Academy took place for the fourth time in Essen, Germany, from August 28th to September 3rd, 2017. We were twelve PhD students participating in the summer school coming not only from Germany but also from the UK, Netherlands,… Read More »Meeting round-up: CINCH Academy 2017
The 7th annual Vancouver Health Economics Methodology (VanHEM) meeting took place on June 16 in Vancouver, Canada. This one-day conference brings together health economists from across the Pacific Northwest, including Vancouver, Washington State, and Calgary. This has always been more… Read More »Meeting round-up: 7th annual Vancouver Health Economics Methodology (VanHEM) meeting
The 16th Annual International Conference on Health Economics, Management & Policy took place this June, as it does every year, in Athens, Greece. The conference is run by the Athens Institute for Education and Research, which was established in 1995… Read More »Meeting round-up: 16th Annual International Conference on Health Economics, Management & Policy
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