Markus Haacker

Who can and cannot get vaccinated right now: nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Practice on time horizons in global health inconsistent, causing variation in results on cost-effectiveness. Adopting longer policy periods returns weak guidance on current interventions. More differentiated approach needed. academic.oup.com/heapol/advance… @RifatAtun @CGDev @UCLIGHE

@PaulAtherton13 @caitlin_tulloch @RifatAtun @CGDev @UCLIGHE @JPAL Rarely. Sometimes health economic studies report an internal rate of return. Agree that this is out of line with investment approach in some other sectors, for some good reasons but also potentially misleading when comparing across sectors.

@markushaacker @caitlin_tulloch @RifatAtun @CGDev @UCLIGHE @JPAL Thanks for clarifying. It's a fair argument, but does mean comparisons across possible investment sectors are misleading. Do you know if they also report the capital returns rates?

Discount rate of 3 percent applied in global health is out of line with economic context of low- and middle-income countries, where higher rates would be appropriate. Gap causes bias in cost-effectiveness analysis. cgdev.org/blog/setting-d… @RifatAtun @CGDev @uclighe

Today 1pm at #IHEA2019. Targeting treatment coverage in policy analyses biases results on HIV prevention effectiveness - impact on deaths underestimated by 1/2, $ savings overestimated by factor 2. Slides: hu-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal… … @UCLIGHE @GHP_HarvardChan @RifatAtun @CGDev

Discussing HIV & NCD intersection in Botswana at #IHEA2019 Basle tomorrow, Tue, 8.30am. KH, HS 102. Demographic implications of HIV, greying of AIDS, HIV as co-existing disease on NCDs. Access slides: hu-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal… @UCLIGHE @GHP_HarvardChan

Thank you to @UK_HESG and @HEG_UEA for an excellent meeting. No thanks to UEA for appalling hygiene on campus - bedbug infestation! @uniofeastanglia @UEAConf

"Greying of AIDS" => overall burden of #NCDs accelerates, and #HIV among NCD population rises, while headline HIV prevalence falls. #botswana jogh.org/documents/issu… @RifatAtun #Globalhealth

Excited to be joining @cgdev, advancing economic analysis of pressing challenges in #globalhealth. cgdev.org/expert/markus-… @kchalkidou @idsihealth @glassmanamanda #NCDs #HIV

'All I hear is anger and frustration': how Brexit is affecting our mental health theguardian.com/politics/2019/…

Commemorating Alan Krueger - economics as a human science nyti.ms/2ugEL2B

Congratulations to @gregggonsalves on this well-conceived, clear-headed, and personal NYT piece, which provides a much need counterpoint to the often ignorant and ill-conceived press coverage on the London #HIV patient. nytimes.com/2019/03/09/opi…

Insightful and enjoyable application of social science to "Rituals of global health: Negotiating the World Health Assembly" tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… @ProfRichSmith

We must stop turning a blind eye to the world's #health crises wef.ch/2tCbsqM

#IMF on resource needs for attaining #SDGs, and macroeconomic and fiscal contributions to closing resource gap. Delivering on the SDG agenda requires additional spending in 2030 of US$2.6 trillion, including an average 15% of GDP in low-income countries: imf.org/en/Publication…

Human costs of an economic crisis: Infant mortality in Venezuela between 1985 and 2016 - The Lancet Global Health #seccestitle120" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thelancet.com/journals/langl…

Inspiring. Problem with Scientific Credit. nautil.us/issue/66/clock… via @NautilusMag

@Cutler_econ Estimates of the income elasticity of VSL by Viscusi and Aldy (2003), as pointed out in Becker/Elias 2007 JEP piece, see. p. 11 fn. 2 - role of 3 (related) estimates from India.