Economics of Children's Health & Wellbeing

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the call for abstracts is open for the 16th World Congress on Health Economics! Submit your individual or organized session abstracts by Nov 19, 2024. Submit your abstract here: vmx.m-anage.com/home/US/2025ih… #IHEA2025

Applications are open for 2025 Pre-Congress Sessions! Connect with global experts before the main event kicks off. Spaces are limited and will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. For more details visit: lnkd.in/gtQmHXCs #IHEACongress #IHEA2025

📢 PhD students & ECRs: Present at the IHEA Economics of Children’s Health & Wellbeing SIG Research Showcase! 📅 Thurs Oct 24 ⏰8 PM AEDT 📍Zoom Email Dr. Ha Le (ha.le@deakin.edu.au) or Dr. Ramesh Lamsal (tui8@cdc.gov) by Oct 20 to join! #ChildHealthEcon #IHEA @ha_le1701

🚨 We want to hear from you! 🚨 Economics of Child Health & Wellbeing SIG members, please take 5 mins to complete our survey. Your feedback helps us understand your needs & shape the future of our SIG community! 🌟 Survey link: q.surveys.unimelb.edu.au/jfe/form/SV_0P… Hosted by UniMelb

If you missed our recent webinar on “Starting School and ADHD: When Is It Time to Fly the Nest?” by Dr. Joaquim Vidiella-Martin from the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford. The recording is available on youtu.be/K8MNXHhMogw?si…

As kids head back to school, @NicAuBlack spoke to @abcnews about food insecurity & learning: "There's a lot of evidence to show that if we can ensure that children are healthy, they’re going to skip fewer days at school" abc.net.au/news/2024-05-1…

We have an important update regarding the location of the 2025 IHEA Conference. The 2025 IHEA Congress will no longer be hosted in Calgary, Canada and will now take place in Bali, Indonesia, hosted by InaHEA. Please read the official statement here: healtheconomics.org/wp-content/upl…

The first international Delphi on the topic suggests that contrary to what has been done in previous child health valuation studies, efforts should be made to involve both older adolescents (16+ years) and adults in child health valuation. New paper in SSM doi.org/10.1016/j.socs…

📢Have you used a mindfulness app to practice kindness or compassion meditation? We'd love to chat for our study on the impact of these apps and your time will be reimbursed. Interested? For more details, visit go.unimelb.edu.au/3ge8, or email luara.karlson@unimelb.edu.au.

Don't miss our Director @JulieASimpson50 presenting the next @MACHAustralia #EMCR lunchtime webinar on alternative fixed trial designs - April 17th; registrations are now open ⬇️⬇️

I am pleased to share a manuscript from my PhD. I delved into how pediatric CUAs measure, incorporate and report family spillover effects @ChildHealthEcon @DSCCollab #spillovereffects link.springer.com/article/10.100…

🚨New publication! 🚨 In this paper, @VivianReckers and I follow up on earlier work that suggested that people use heuristics more often in valuation of children's health rdcu.be/dxOMR. @ChildHealthEcon @EuroQol @EsCHER_EUR (1/3)

Excited to share our latest article published in @plosmedicine: #plosmedicineauthor" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/a… @MenziesResearch @HEU_unimelb A 🧵about our study 👇🏼 1/

A big shout-out to all @GenrYPAGs, especially our local @YPSGWMids who've been an asset and a great partner in research 'for young people by young people'! Look them up here: generationr.org.uk @NIHRresearch @NIHRcommunity @HealthEcon_WMS

Measuring HRQoL in <5 yr olds?🧒This new paper, using P-MIC data, reports CHU9D with guidance notes was valid & reliable and suitable for use by parents of 2-4yr olds. @xiuqin19 @kmdalziel @brenjmulhern @ReneeJones4567 @nancydevlin1 @HEU_unimelb ➡️ link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Melbourne Health Economics is excited to announce our short courses for April and October 2024 #healtheconomics #QALYs #ICERs @unimelbMSPGH @HealthPolicyUoM mspgh.unimelb.edu.au/centres-instit…

Check out the December 2023 issue of the Melbourne Health Economics newsletter! Congratulations to the whole team, so many great achievements in 2023! #healtheconomics @UniMelbMDHS @unimelbMSPGH @AusHealthEcon mspgh.unimelb.edu.au/news-and-event…

Meet the team: Lizzy is a Research Fellow at @EiGEN_UoM. Her research uses preference-elicitation methodologies to understand issues, opportunities, preferences, and economic values associated with the implementation of genomics. Outside of work Lizzy loves running and tennis.

A fantastic opportunity to apply for a CHE PhD Studentship 2024/2025. Please see the CHE website News Pages for further details. Closing date - 7th March 2024 bit.ly/CHEUoYPhDStude…