September 25, 2008
Location: Rockville, Maryland, USA
Dates: September 25-26, 2008
Venue: Bethesda North Marriott Hotel and Conference Center
The National Institute of Mental Health is pleased to announce “The 14th NIMH Biennial Research Conference on the Economics of Mental Health: Toward Building a High Performance Mental Health System.”
The biennial economics conferences are an integral part of the dissemination and research portfolio development activities of the Division of Services and Intervention Research (DSIR) of NIMH. These scientific conferences are convened exclusively for presentation and discussion of original, rigorous and innovative technical research papers in mental health economics.
This year the theme of the conference is building a high performance mental health system. Improving the efficiency of mental health care is an important policy goal, and can lead to higher quality of care and improved clinical outcomes.
Program Committee:
- Douglas Leslie, Ph.D., Co-Chair, Medical University of South Carolina
- Agnes Rupp, Ph.D., Co-Chair, NIMH/NIH
- Anirban Basu, Ph.D., University of Chicago
- Benjamin Druss, M.D., M.P.H., Emory University
- Susan Ettner, Ph.D., UCLA
- E. Michael Foster, Ph.D., UNC
For more information and to register for the conference, please visit: http://econnimh.dgimeetingsupport.com/Home.aspx.
September 25, 2008: Mental Health
October 17, 2008
Location: Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Dates: 17-18 October 2008
Abstract submission deadline: 16 June 2008
Sponsored by the Lister Hill Center for Health Policy, University of Alabama at Birmingham
The purpose of this invitational conference is to present and promote active exchange and discussion of the latest health economics research among senior and junior economists. Meals and lodging will be provided. Transportation to Birmingham is the participants’ responsibility.
Ten papers will be accepted for presentation. The conference will consist of a full day of presentations on Friday, October 17 and a half-day of presentations on Saturday, October 18. Each paper will be allotted 60 minutes, including 40 minutes for presentation and 20 minutes for discussant comments and discussion from the floor. The number of participants in the conference will be limited.
For further information, please contact Michael Morrisey, (205) 975 -8966, or morrisey@uab.edu.
Steering Committee:
- W. David Bradford (Medical University of SC)
- Marisa Domino (University of North Carolina)
- Alvin Headen (North Carolina State University)
- Richard Lindrooth (Medical University of SC)
- Michael Morrisey (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
- Christopher Ruhm (University of North Carolina at Greensboro)
- Frank Sloan (Duke University)
October 17, 2008: Health Economics
October 18, 2008
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Dates: 18-22 October 2008
Venue: Hyatt Regency Penns Landing
This year’s program is expected to be largest yet, bringing together investigators from the broad range of disciplines whose research focuses on medical and health decision making and behavior and its application to clinical care and policy. Highly interactive research presentations, keynote talks, special symposia and short courses will provide attendees the opportunity to explore diverse topics in medical decision making, decision and behavior theory, and novel analytical methods applied to health care and health policy.
Highlights of this year’s meeting include:
- Keynote address by J. Michael McGinnis, MD; Senior Scholar at the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and Executive Director of the IOM Roundtable on Evidence-Based Medicine, giving an overview state-of-the-art summary of comparative effectiveness research, identifying key challenges and opportunities that must be addressed by the research community to effectively incorporate comparative effectiveness research into policy and practice.
- U.S. Presidential Candidates’ Proposals for Comparative Effectiveness and Health Care Reform – Presentations by senior health policy representatives for John McCain and Barack Obama; responses by senior national health policy experts.
- Comparative Effectiveness Symposium: “Risk Communication and Behavior: A Research Agenda
- Assessing Medical Interventions: What Needs to be Taught and Why Aren’t We Doing It?
- Comparative Effectiveness Symposium: Non–Experimental Methods More than 300 oral and poster presentations of new research spanning the full range of research disciplines, analytical domains and health care applications relevant to medical decision making in practice and policy.
- Leading researchers will provide an overview of groups of related abstracts, placing clinical and methodological contributions within the context of the field, followed by discussion among session attendees.
- Featured abstracts from the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, the leading research group for PhD cognitive and behavioral psychologists.
- Of special interest to attendees from outside North America, our new Global Health Working Group will hold its first meeting during lunchtime on Monday, October 20th.
Discounted rates are available for early registration through September 19th.
The full program brochure is available at http://www.smdm.org/documents/Brochure.pdf
For more information about SMDM, please go to http://www.smdm.org/.
October 18, 2008: Health Policy
October 23, 2008
Location: NewcastleGateshead, England, UK
Dates: 29-31 October 2008
Venue: Sage Concert Hall
“Managing scarcity in health care: theory-to-practice and practice-to-theory”
In October 2008, the conference of the International Society for Priorities in Health Care returns to the UK, this time to the north-east of England. Formed in 1996, following the first international conference on this topic held in Stockholm, the purpose of the Society is to provide a forum in which researchers and practitioners involved in priority setting can exchange ideas and experience. Particular importance is placed on: getting research into practice; learnings across poorer and richer nations; and encouraging practitioners to learn about approaches to priority setting and researchers to learn from real practical experience.
Much has changed in the eight years since the Society was last in the UK. Building on this, the main theme of this conference is very much about achieving greater action on priority setting and improving frameworks used for this purpose across lower and higher income countries. Thus, we aim to:
- achieve participation from practitioners at all levels of health care (from national through to local) as well as the public;
- create a vibrant environment for two-way learning, from theory to practice and practice to theory;
- enhance learning about managing scarcity in more equitable and efficient ways, and, thus, for the greater benefit of the populations we serve.
Key topics for discussion and presentation will be as follows:
- theoretical and methodological advances in priority setting (reconciling health system objectives, the ethical and the economic, understanding how organisations learn and how organisations can change, developments in health technology assessment, evaluating pubic health interventions)
- practical advances in priority setting (accounting for the politics of health care, managing scarcity in resource-deprived environments of lower-income countries, achieving disinvestment in health care)
- achieving real solutions (handling the ‘media storm’, legal issues and conflict resolution in priority setting, meaningful public involvement, making the ‘academic’ practical)
- knowledge transfer and exchange (working across sectoral and disciplinary boundaries, learning from the private sector, barriers to engaging in knowledge transfer research)
- information to underpin decisions (can we make decisions with little evidence? what are the informational requirements of decision makers both at a national, local and individual client levels? Can these be met?)
You will soon be hearing form us about keynote speakers and the process of abstract submission and workshops. Until then, please mark this exciting event in your diaries. The conference has a Local Organising Committee which is being convened by the Institute of Health Society at Newcastle University by Angela Bate and Cam Donaldson.
To receive regular updates please register your interest with Eileen Coope (eileen.coope@ncl.ac.uk).
Conference web page: http://www.healthcarepriorities.co.uk/. We look forward to seeing you in NewcastleGateshead in 2008.
October 23, 2008: Health Care
Location: Vienna, Austria
Dates: 23-24 October, 2008
Venue: Renaissance Hotel-Imperial Riding School
This event will bring together a strong selection of speakers and discover their unique approaches and techniques in order to maximize observational research performance. Together, we will be examining the growing role of non-interventional research in achieving stronger safety results, better cost effectiveness outcomes and higher drug performance.
Speakers include:
- Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics, USA-Vice President & Head Pharmacovigilance & Medical Safety
- Baxter Innovations, Austria-European Medical Director, Clinical Operations
- Amgen, Austria-Executive Medical Director Eastern Europe
- Sanofi-Aventis, Hungary-Affiliate Pharmacovigilance Head & Regulatory Medical Affairs Manager
- Astellas, UK-Senior Director, Medical Affairs & Health Economics Europe
- UCB Global Medical Safety & Risk Management, Belgium-Safety Physician, Ass. Director
- Biogen Idec, USA-Associate Director, Neurology
- Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care, Germany-Deputy Head of Department Non-drug Interventions
- Medical University of Vienna-Head of Ethics Committee
- BPI, German Pharmaceutical Industry Association-Head of Clinical Research and Pharmacovigilance
- Stiefel Laboratories, UK-VP Global Pharmacovigilance, EU Qualified Person for Pharmacovigilance
and many more …
Together, they will deliver knowledge, expertise, insights, opinions, facts and data that can add strategic intelligence and real-value to your business.
Why attend?
- Find out when to run observational studies, for what purpose, where, what size, how they should be designed.
- Learn how patient and disease registries can be utilized to enhance pharmacovigilance and market access campaigns.
- Hear the real life experiences of those who have successfully performed observational studies and how they overcame significant challenges.
- Discover for yourself what is “best practice” in non-interventional research, by understanding both the strategic & operational perspectives and practical challenges.
To request full agenda please contact Andrea Valent at NextLevel Pharma
andrea@nextlevelpharma.com
Ph: + 421 2 3266 2621
http://www.nextlevelpharma.com/
October 23, 2008: Pharmaceuticals
October 25, 2008
Location: San Diego, CA, USA
Date: October 25-29, 2008
For details please visit: http://www.apha.org/meetings/future_past.htm
October 25, 2008: Health Economics , Public Health
October 28, 2008
Location: Havana, Cuba
Dates: October 28-31 2008
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Presidents: José Ramón Balaguer Cabrera & Roberto Verrier Castro
Vice-Presidents: Pedro Hidalgo Prado, Osvaldo Castro Miranda & Blanca Rosa Pampin Balado
Chair Scientific Committee: Ana María Gálvez González
CONTACTS
SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZATION:
Manuel Alvarez Muñiz
Organizing Committee Coordinator
Email: malvarezm@infomed.sld.cu
HOTEL BOOKING:
Vivian Calzado
HAVANATUR
Email: viviancalzado@havanatur.cu
UNDER THE AUSPICES OF:
- Asociación Nacional de Economistas y Contadores de Cuba (ANECC)
- Ministerio de Salud Pública de Cuba (MINSAP)
- Sociedad Cubana de Economía de la Salud (SCES)
- Asociación Brasileña de Economía de la Salud
- Asociación de Economía de la Salud de Argentina
- Asociación de Economía de la Salud de Chile
- Asociación de Economía de la Salud del Uruguay
- Centro para el Control Estatal de los Medicamentos (CECMED) de Cuba
- Agencia de Vigilancia Sanitaria (ANVISA) de Brasil.
- Organización Panamericana de la Salud
- Escuela Nacional de Salud Publica de Cuba
CONFERENCE BACKGROUND:
THE III LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN CONGRESS ON HEALTH ECONOMICS is a continuation to its two former congresses held in Brazil (2004) and Argentina (2006). Now, the main subject of the congress will be “The Role of Health Economics, as a means to face the health needs of the Latin American and Caribbean peoples, within the framework of solidarity and integration processes”. Cuban experience in these subjects is quite large and rewarding, expecting therefore this congress will result satisfactory to criteria exchange, in benefit both to the Economists as well as to the Health Specialists, regarding an integrating and socializing approach.
At the same time will take place the “FIRST SCIENTIFIC WORKSHOP OF REGULATION AND ECONOMIC EVALUATION OF SANITARY TECHNOLOGIES”, bearing the objective of promoting the exchange of viewpoints, experiences, knowledge and projects over pharmaceutical market regulations, price control of medicaments and the application of pharmacy-economy in the decision-making process.
CONFERENCE SUBJECTS:
- Health Economy involving the Latin-American Integration Process.
- Public Financing and State Involvement.
- Planning and Resources Management and Control.
- Health Economic Efficiency.
- Health Services Financing.
- Planning and Management of Health Services Personnel.
- Personnel Forming in Health Economics
- National Pharmaceutical Policies and Economic Regulation of Medicaments.
ATTENDANTS PROFILES:
Professionals, technicians and personnel linked to Health Economics and related disciplines. Also, professionals and health technicians interested in Health Economics and Economic Evaluation of Sanitary Technologies
THE SCIENTIFIC SCHEDULE OF THE CONGRESS WILL CONSIST ON FOUR MODALITIES:
- Conferences.
- Round-table conference over the same subject.
- Free themes.
- Posters.
CALL FOR PAPERS:
Applicants interested in presenting their expositions in any of the afore mentioned modalities, are to send them (preferably finished), prior to June 30th, 2008 for its approval, to the President of the Scientific Committee:
Dra. C. Ana María Gálvez González
galveza@infomed.sld.cu
econ@ensap.sld.cu
In case of summaries, the following scheme is recommended:
- Introduction
- Objective
- Methodology
- Results
- Conclusions.
Names of authors and co-authors are to be included. The name of the expositor of the paper to be presented must be highlighted within the names of the authors and co-authors. The corresponding acknowledgement of receipt will be sent in due time.
PUBLICATION:
All works accepted will be mentioned in the relevant CD of the Congress
REGISTRATION FEE
Delegate: 250.00 CUC
Accompany: 60.00 CUC
October 28, 2008: Health Economics
Location: Newcastle-Gateshead, England, UK
Conference dates: 28-31 October 2008
Venue: Sage Concert Hall
“Managing scarcity in health care: theory-to-practice and practice-to-theory”
In October 2008, the conference of the International Society for Priorities in Health Care returns to the UK, this time to the north-east of England. Formed in 1996, following the first international conference on this topic held in Stockholm, the purpose of the Society is to provide a forum in which researchers and practitioners involved in priority setting can exchange ideas and experience. Particular importance is placed on: getting research into practice; learnings across poorer and richer nations; and encouraging practitioners to learn about approaches to priority setting and researchers to learn from real practical experience.
Much has changed in the eight years since the Society was last in the UK. Building on this, the main theme of this conference is very much about achieving greater action on priority setting and improving frameworks used for this purpose across lower and higher income countries. Thus, we aim to:
- achieve participation from practitioners at all levels of health care (from national
through to local) as well as the public;
- create a vibrant environment for two-way learning, from theory to practice and
practice to theory;
- enhance learning about managing scarcity in more equitable and efficient ways, and, thus, for the greater benefit of the populations we serve.
Key topics for discussion and presentation will be as follows:
- theoretical and methodological advances in priority setting (reconciling health system objectives, the ethical and the economic, understanding how organisations learn and how organisations can change, developments in health technology assessment, evaluating public health interventions)
- practical advances in priority setting (accounting for the politics of health care, managing scarcity in resource-deprived environments of lower-income countries, achieving disinvestment in health care)
- achieving real solutions (handling the media storm, legal issues and conflict resolution in priority setting, meaningful public involvement, making the academic practical)
- knowledge transfer and exchange (working across sectoral and disciplinary boundaries, learning from the private sector, barriers to engaging in knowledge transfer research)
- information to underpin decisions (can we make decisions with little evidence? what are the informational requirements of decision makers both at a national, local and individual client levels? Can these be met?)
You will soon be hearing form us about keynote speakers and the process of abstract submission and workshops. Until then, please mark this exciting event in your diaries. The conference has a Local Organising Committee which is being convened by the Institute of Health Society at Newcastle University by Angela Bate and Cam Donaldson. If you would like any more details or to make any suggestions, please contact Eileen Coope (eileen.coope@ncl.ac.uk).
We look forward to seeing you in Newcastle-Gateshead in 2008.
October 28, 2008: Health Care
November 17, 2008
Location: New York, USA
Dates: 17-19 November 2008
Venue: New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge, NY.
Abstract Submission deadline: 30th April 2008 (please send the abstract to the local organizing committee secretary: Kyle Handley at the email address NYSEA2008@gmail.com)
Submission of final paper: 1 August 2008
Final date for registration: 29 October 2008
Spatial Econometrics is becoming more and more popular in many scientific fields. The 2nd World Conference of the Spatial Econometrics Association aims to bring together economists, econometricians and regional scientists to discuss the present achievements and future challenges and opportunities.
Visit http://www.spatialeconometricsassociation.org/
Papers on any health economics topic dealing with spatial issues are welcome.
November 17, 2008: Econometrics
November 30, 2008
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Dates: 30 November - 2 December 2008
Abstract submission deadline: 16 June 2008
Subject: HIV/AIDS; Care; Treatment; Prevention; Public Policy; Economics
Contact: For more information contact the Conference Secretariat, International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care (IAPAC), 123 W. Madison, Suite 1400, Chicago, IL, 60602, USA; E-mail: scorey@iapac.org; Phone: +1 312 795 4942; Fax: +1 312 795 4938; or access the following website(s): http://www.iapac08.org/ or http://www.iapac.org/
Notes: Abstract submission deadline is June 16, 2008; early registration deadline is August 15, 2008
Registration fees: $250-350* by August 15, 2008; $350-450* by November 3, 2008; $450-550* late or onsite registration (* dependent upon IAPAC membership status)
Description: IAPAC 08 is primarily an abstract-driven conference, which will feature 152 oral abstract presentations (including late breakers) as well as poster presentations. Abstract-driven sessions will address issues in three tracks: HIV Clinical Management (Track A); HIV Prevention and Psychosocial Support (Track B); or Human Rights, Economics, and Public Policy (Track C). Abstract contents will be either research-based data using established scientific methods or demonstrate experience and information from individuals or institutions working in the field. The non-abstract-driven components of IAPAC 08 will address a variety of current viewpoints and issues. These will include a keynote address, the Jonathan Mann Memorial Lecture, 18 plenary presentations, a panel discussion, six (6) interactive case-based sessions, and satellite symposia. The world’s most distinguished researchers, clinicians, and policy experts will be invited to focus their presentations around the overall IAPAC 08 theme of “Stronger Together.”
November 30, 2008: Econometrics , Health Care , Health Policy