"DISCUSSING GLOBAL AND LOCAL APPLICATIONS OF ECONOMICS TO HEALTH TOGETHER"
Everyone is welcome!
Researchers, students, and practitioners across disciplines come together in this seminar series to discuss global and local applications of economics to health. The Global Health Economics (GHEcon) Seminar Series is part of the Wahlfachtrack Global Health, an elective specialization for medical students at the Heidelberg Institute of Global Health of the Heidelberg University Hospital and Medical Faculty of Heidelberg University. Organization: Manuela De Allegri and Stefan Kohler. Please contact manuela.deallegri and stefan.kohler (at) uni-heidelberg.de with a short introduction and motivation to attend the seminar for subscribing to the GHEcon mailing list, which contains web seminar links. For students: 5 seminars = 0.5 SWS. 1 SWS can be accumulated across semesters. For a confirmation of attendance, please contact the organizers with a pre-filled form of all attended seminars at the end of the semester.
Winter semester 2024/25 & outlook
07.11.2024 Data science and social science for in-depth evaluation of remote patient monitoring programs
(12:00‒13:00 INF 130.3 K12) Prof. Ariel D. Stern, Faculty of Digital Engineering, University of Potsdam and the Hasso Plattner Institute
21.11.2024 Investigating health and cost implications of novel diagnostic tests for tuberculosis
(12:00‒13:00 web seminar) Dr. Florian M. Marx, Division of Infectious Disease and Tropical Medicine, Centre for Infectious Diseases, Heidelberg University
19.12.2024 Multi criteria decision analysis for next generation influenza vaccines
(12:00‒13:00 web seminar) Dr. Carlo Federici, Centre for Research on Health and Social Care Management (CERGAS), SDA Bocconi School of Management, Bocconi University
16.01.2025 Valuing health and healthcare at the macroeconomic level
(12:00‒13:00 web seminar) Dr. Simiao Chen, Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, Heidelberg University
Next available dates:
20.02.2025
20.03.2025 You?
17.04.2025
15.05.2025
12.06.2025
26.06.2025
17.07.2025
21.08.2025
18.09.2025
16.10.2025
20.11.2025
18.12.2025
Working on a GHEcon topic? We are inviting future presentations on an ongoing basis. Please contact Manuela.deAllegri or Stefan.Kohler (at) uni-heidelberg.de with a short summary of the work you would like to present.
GHEcon Seminars in past semester
Summer semester 2024
18.04.2024 Using natural experiments among migrant populations to elucidate causal effects of neighbourhood and policy contexts on health
(12:00‒13:00 web seminar) Dr. Louise Biddle, German Socio-Economic Panel study Research Infrastructure, DIW Berlin
16.05.2024 Policy feedback effects of healthcare privatization in Turkey
(12:00‒13:00 web seminar) Jun. Prof. Dr. Tim Dorlach, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Bayreuth
20.06.2024 Incorporating regional multiple deprivation in global health economics: the example of Punjab, India
(12:00‒13:00 INF 130.3 K12 & web) Jun. Prof. Dr. Martin Siegel, Department of Empirical Health Economics, Faculty VII - Economics and Management, Technische Universität Berlin and Committee for International Cooperation, German Association for Health Economics (dggö)
18.07.2024 Evidence-informed oral health policymaking: why, what, and how?
(12:00‒13:00 web seminar) Prof. Stefan Listl, Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, Heidelberg University & Radboud University Medical Center
19.09.2024 ReachUHC: A randomized controlled trial of a mobile phone-based reminder and automatic renewal intervention to increase health insurance renewal rates in Kumasi, Ghana
(12:00‒13:00 web seminar) Prof. Wilm Quentin, Planetary & Public Health, University of Bayreuth
Winter semester 2023/24
06.10.2023 Real-world challenges of conducting health economic evaluations: lessons from various health systems
(12:00‒13:00 INF 130.3 K11 & web) Assoc. Prof. Shehzad Ali, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Western Centre for Public Health & Family Medicine, Western University
19.10.2023 The scale-up spiral of integrated care: what matters in which health system?
(12:00‒13:00 web seminar) Prof. Josefien van Olmen, Department of Family Medicine and Population Health, University of Antwerp
16.11.2023 Determinants and dynamics of healthcare utilization among the migrant population covered the under basic medical insurance policy in China
(12:00‒13:00 web seminar) Assoc. Prof. Minjiang Guo, Institute of Medical Information, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College
07.12.2023 Aporophobia (rejection of the poor): empirical evidence
(12:00‒13:00 INF130.2 K18 & web) Assoc. Prof. Mihály Tamás Borsi, Department of Economics and Finance, IQS School of Management, Universitat Ramon Llull
21.12.2023 Information sharing in healthcare governance network in Poland
(12:00‒13:00 web seminar) Assoc. Prof. Agata Kocia, Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw
18.01.2024 Chinese insurance integration and mixed ownership health systems in Asia
(17:00‒18:00 web seminar) Prof. Karen Eggleston, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center and Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University and NBER
21.03.2024 Trends in the availability and prices of quality-assured tuberculosis drugs: a systematic analysis of Global Drug Facility Product Catalogs from 2001 to 2023
(12:00‒13:00 web seminar) Dr. Stefan Kohler, Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, Heidelberg University
Summer semester 2023
20.04.2023 Using complexity science methods to consider health system constraints in costing and cost-effectiveness analysis
(12:00‒13:00 web seminar) Dr. Fiammetta Bozzani, Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
(Click here for related costing study)
11.05.2023 Concept and application of system dynamics for policy evaluation: analysing the health system response to payment for performance in Tanzania
(12:00‒13:00 web seminar) Dr. Rachel Cassidy, Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
(Click here and here for related studies)
25.05.2023 What do health workers want? Discrete choice analysis of the stated job preferences of health workers from different settings in Africa
(12:00‒13:00 web seminar) Dr. Nikita Arora, Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
(Click here for a related study)
15.06.2023 Cost and cost-effectiveness of four different SARS-CoV-2 active surveillance strategies: evidence from a randomised control trial in Germany
(12:00‒13:00 web seminar) Dr. Hoa Nguyen, Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, Heidelberg University
20.07.2023 Distributionally sensitive measurement and valuation of population health with an application to disease burden in Sub-Saharan Africa
(12:00‒13:00 web seminar) Prof. Owen O'Donnell, Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam
21.09.2023 Early economic evaluations of tuberculosis treatment monitoring tests (cancelled)
(12:00‒13:00 web seminar) Dr. Abdulkadir Civan, Denkinger Group Global DX, Section Clinical Tropical Medicine, Heidelberg University Hospital
Winter semester 2022/23
20.10.2022 The international political economy of patent buyouts
(12:00‒13:00 web seminar) Dr. Dominik Naeher, Department of Development Economics, Centre for Modern Indian Studies, University of Göttingen
(Click here for Discussion Paper)
24.11.2022 Epidemiology and prevention of chronic disease: a global journey
(16:00‒17:00 web seminar) Prof. Saverio Stranges, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Western University
02.12.2022 Increasing the usefulness and impact of patient-preference studies in decision making
(12:30‒13:30 hybrid) Prof. John F. P. Bridges, Departmental of Health, Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
15.12.2022 The pandemic, public policy, and behavioral adjustment
(12:00‒13:00 web seminar) Prof. Gernot Müller, School of Business and Economics, University of Tübingen
19.01.2023 Health care financing reform in the US (part 1). Landscape of LMIC health economics including 2-3 cost-effectiveness projects (part 2)
(17:00‒18:30 web seminar) Prof. James Kahn, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
16.02.2023 Cost-effectiveness of a multicomponent quality improvement care model for diabetes in South Asia: the CARRS randomized clinical trial
(12:00‒13:00 web seminar) Dr. Kavita Singh, Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, Heidelberg University
16.03.2023 The political dimension of the new old global health crisis
(12:00‒13:00 web seminar) Prof. Nadja Meisterhans, Karlshochschule International University
Summer semester 2022
21.04.2022 Impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 epidemic growth in the OECD member states
(12:00‒13:00 web seminar) Dr. Francisco Pozo Martin, Robert Koch-Institut, Berlin
19.05.2022 Preferences for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) among sexual and gender minorities at risk of HIV infection: a discrete choice experiment in Brazil (study protocol)
(12:00‒13:00 web seminar) Dr. Claudia Pereira, Departamento de Administracao e Planejamento em Saúde, Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sergio Arouca (ENSP)/Fiocruz
07.07.2022 Societal preferences for equity-efficiency trade-offs for economic evaluation
(16:00‒17:00 web seminar) Assoc. Prof. Shehzad Ali, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Western Centre for Public Health & Family Medicine, Western University
Winter semester 2021/22
16.09.2021 Alcohol and short-run mortality: evidence from a modern-day prohibition
(12:00‒13:00 web seminar) Dr. Kai Barron, WZB Social Science Center, Berlin
21.10.2021 Does social capital increase healthcare financial projection? Results from the rural household of Uttar Pradesh, India
(16:00‒17:00 web seminar) Dr. Zabir Hasan, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia
25.11.2021 Assessing the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on health systems in Guinea and Sierra Leone (ACGSL): the case of malaria
(12:00‒13:00 web seminar) Dr. Charbel El Bcheraoui, Evidence-based Public Health, Centre for International Health Protection, Robert Koch-Institut, Berlin
16.12.2021 Health policy analysis for a better world: understanding pandemic prevention, migration and health
(12:00‒13:00 web seminar) Prof. Johanna Hanefeld, Centre for International Health Protection (ZIG), Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
20.01.2022 Age at school entry and human capital development: evidence from Lesotho
(12:00‒13:00 web seminar) Dr. Jan-Walter de Neve, Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, Heidelberg University
17.02.2022 The impact of health ODA on health system strengthening in fragile states: a panel analysis.
(12:00‒13:00 web seminar) Assoc. Prof. Sun-Young Kim, Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul National University
17.03.2022 Transmission of infectious diseases in early child care facilities: policy responses and economic impacts
(12:00‒13:00 web seminar) Dr. Corinna Hartung, Department of Economics, LMU Munich
Summer semester 2021
15.04.2021 Economic Evaluation of Integrated Maternal Health Services in Low Income Settings
(12:00‒13:00 web seminar) Assoc. Prof. Aleksandra Torbica, Department of Social and Political Sciences, Bocconi University
20.05.2021 A Global Perspective on the Role of Alcohol Use in Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health
(12:00‒13:00 web seminar) Dr. Charlotte Probst, Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, Heidelberg University
17.06.2021 Does Higher Hospital Efficiency Improve Quality of Care? Evidence from Pakistan
(12:00‒13:00 web seminar) Dr. Saima Bashir, Department of Infectious Diseases, Section Clinical Tropical Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg
15.07.2021 What Can Health Financing Do and Not Do for Maternal Health?
(12:00‒13:00 web seminar) Prof. Manuela De Allegri, Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, Heidelberg University
Winter semester 2020/21
17.09.2020 Health Loans and their Effects on Utilization and Out-of-Pocket Expenditure: Evidence from an Experiment in Northern Bangladesh
(12:00‒13:00 web seminar) Assoc. Prof. Atonu Rabbani, Department of Economics, University of Dhaka
19.11.2020 Cesarean Delivery in Colombia: Trends, Geographical Variations and Determinants
(12:00‒13:00 web seminar) Eduardo Andrés Alfonso-Sierra, Centre for Medicine and Society (ZMG), University of Freiburg
26.11.2020 Using Benefit Incidence Analysis to Assess Equity in Health Spending: Evidence from a Quasi-Longitudinal Comparative Analysis in Burkina Faso, Malawi and Zambia.
(12:00‒13:00 web seminar) Dr. Martin Rudasingwa, Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, Heidelberg University
17.12.2020 Private Means for Public Ends? Healthcare Market Behaviour and Responses in India during the COVID-19 Pandemic
(12:00‒13:00 web seminar) Dr. Sumit Mazumdar, Global Health Economics Group, Centre for Health Economics, University of York. Related literature: Mazumdar, S. Now More Than Ever: Considering Health System Reforms in the Post-COVID 19 Scenario. Ind. J. Labour Econ. (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41027-020-00272-z
21.01.2021 Digital Technologies for Health Financing: What are the Benefits and the Risks?
(12:00‒13:00 web seminar) Dr. Inke Mathauer, Department of Health Systems Governance and Financing, World Health Organization
18.02.2021 Universal Health Coverage — Does it have Teeth?
(12:00‒13:00 web seminar) Prof. Stefan Listl, Quality and Safety of Oral Health Care, Radboud University & Translational Health Economics, Heidelberg University
18.03.2021 How to Evaluate Digital Health Applications?
(12:00‒13:00 web seminar) Dr. Matthias Arnold, Institute for Applied Health Services Research, Berlin
Summer semester 2020
20.05.2020 Do Lockdowns Work? A Counterfactual for Sweden.
(12:00‒13:00 web seminar) Prof. Gernot Müller, School of Business and Economics, University of Tübingen
(Click here for CEPR Covid Economics Discussion Paper)
14.05.2020 Mind the Mind! How Psychology can Support Participation in Development Interventions
(12:00‒13:00 web seminar) Dr. Lennart Kaplan, German Development Institute
18.06.2020 Using Benefit Incidence Analysis to Assess Equity in Health Spending: Evidence from a Quasi-Longitudinal Comparative Analysis in Burkina Faso, Malawi and Zambia.
(12:00‒13:00 web seminar) Dr. Martin Rudasingwa, Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, Heidelberg University
16.07.2020 Contemporary Health Workforce Migration: The Advantages and Limitations of Labour Market Analyses
(12:00‒13:00 web seminar) Dr. Remco van de Pas, Department of Health Ethics and Society, Faculty of Health Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University
Winter semester 2019/20
17.10.2019 Cost-Utility of Screening Asylum Seekers for TB: A Modelling Study in Germany
(K16) Louise Biddle & Katharina Wahedi, Department of General Practice and Health Services Research, Heidelberg University
20.11.2019 Impact of Air Pollution on Health Across the Lifespan in Mongolia
(12:00‒13:00 K11) Prof. David Warburton, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, University of Southern California
21.11.2019 Impact of Population-based Strategies to Improve Blood Pressure Control in South Africa: Evidence from Parametric g-Formula and Regression Discontinuity Designs
(K16) Dr. Nikkil Sudharsanan, Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, Heidelberg University
29.11.2019 Advancing Human Health in the Era of Climate Change and Planetary Health: Lessons and Experiences from the Philippines
(12:00‒13:00 K17) Dr. Renzo Guinto, PH Lab, Philippines & Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp
19.12.2019 How to Calculate the Landed Costs of Imported Goods in Economic Evaluation?
(K16) Dr. Stefan Kohler, Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, Heidelberg University
16.01.2020 Health Insurance Reform in Indonesia: Implications for Health Facility Usage and Health Expenditure
(K16) Lisa Rogge, Research Training Group Globalization and Development, Leibniz Universität Hannover
20.02.2020 Developments in Publicly Funded Insurance in India
(K16) Dr. Zubin Shroff, Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, World Health Organization
Summer semester 2019
18.07.2019 How Do Decision Makers Use Quantitative Data Reports in Health Policy Decision-Making? A Explorative Mixed Methods Study Using Eye Tracking
(K16) Pamela Wronski, Department of General Practice, and Health Services Research, Heidelberg University Hospital
12.07.2019 Measuring Health Care Spending, Spending Increases, and Spending Attributed to Modifiable Risk Factors in the US by Health Condition
(K15) J.-Prof. Joseph Dieleman, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), University of Washington
07.05.2019 Covid-19: What We Should Have, Could Have, but Did Not Learn from HIV'
(12:00‒13:00 web seminar) Prof. Alan Whiteside, School of International Policy and Governance, Wilfrid Laurier University & Balsillie School of International Affairs, Waterloo Ontario
18.04.2019 Monitoring Nutritional Status of Small Children: Evidence from a quasi-experiment in Burkina Faso
(K16) Dr. Diletta Parisi, Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, Heidelberg University
16.05.2018 The Social Value of Health Insurance: Results from Ghana
(K16) Dr. Christoph Strupat, German Development Institute
16./17.05.2019 Systematic Reviews and Economic Evidence in Public and Global Health
Denny John, Campbell Collaboration & Dr. Stefan Kohler, Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, Heidelberg University
27.06.2019 Inequalities in Cancer Incidence among German Districts: Role of Behavioral and Socioeconomic Factors
(K16) Dr. Karla Hernandez-Villafuerte, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) & Jana Mader, Heidelberg University Hospital
Winter semester 2018/19
18.10.2018 Political Economy Analysis as a Qualitative Approach to Studying Health Financing
(K18) Eelco Jacobs, Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) of the Netherlands
15.11.2018 The Influence of Physician Networks on the Quality of Care For Type 2 Diabetes Patients: A Social Network Approach
(K18) Dr. Jan Koetsenruijter, Department of General Practice and Health Services Research, Heidelberg University
03.12.2018 Extended Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (ECEA): Assessing Equity and Poverty Reduction Benefits of Health Policies
(K16) Dr. Stéphane Verguet, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
20.12.2018 Learning What People Want in Health — The Status Quo and What Deliberation Can Bring to the Table
(K17) Ruben Sakowsky, Health Economics Research Unit, University of Aberdeen
17.01.2019 Gender Aspects in Low-Income Health Insurance: Evidence from Pakistan
(K17) J.-Prof. Andreas Landmann, Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Göttingen
21.02.2019 The Macroeconomic Burden of Noncommunicable Diseases in the United States: Estimates and Projections
(K18) Dr. Simiao Chen, Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, Heidelberg University
Summer semester 2018
This seminar series was the Inter-Faculty Health Economics Seminar series until the summer semester 2018.
15.03.2018 Five Years On: Insights on Performance of the Reformed Community Health Funds in Tanzania
(K17) Siddharth Srivastava, Health Systems Support Unit, Swiss Centre for International Health
19.04.2018 Evaluating the Impact of the WHO’s Safe Childbirth Checklist in Indonesia — A Randomized Controlled Trial
(K17) Katharina Richert & Lennart Kaplan, Alfred-Weber-Institute for Economics, Heidelberg University & RTG Globalization and Development University of Göttingen
17.05.2018 Do it Well or Not at All? Early Life Health Shocks, Immunity, and Child Development
(K17) Prof. Günther Fink, Household Economics and Health System Research Unit, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
21.06.2018 Cascades of Care in Health Policy Analysis and Planning
(K17) Dr. Markus Haacker, Department for Global Health and Population, Harvard School for Public Health & Centre for Global Health Economics, University College London
19.07.2018 Fiscal Sustainability of Health Systems in Low- and Lower-Middle-Income Countries with Specific Focus on Sub-Saharan Africa
(K17) Collins Chansa, Institute of Public Health, Heidelberg University & Health, Nutrition & Population Global Practice, World Bank Group
Winter semester 2017/18
19.10.2017 Causal Inference in Dentistry: Two Natural Experimental Studies from Japan and England
(K17) Dr. Yusuke Matsuyama, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Department of Global Health Promotion
16.11.2017 Cost-Utility of Screening Asylum Seekers for Depression: A Modelling Study in Germany
(K17) Louise Bartelt, Department of General Practice and Health Services Research, Heidelberg University
14.12.2017 When to Treat HIV-Infected Workers?
(K17) Dr. Declan French, Queen's Management School
18.01.2018 Children’s Education and Parental Old Age Survival – Evidence on the Intergenerational Effects of Human Capital Investment
(K17) Dr. Jan-Walter de Neve, Institute of Public Health, Heidelberg University
15.02.2018 Exploring the Economics of Cancer Care
(K17) Prof. Michael Schlander, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Division of Health Economics
Summer semester 2017
18.05.2017 The Impact of Performance-Based Financing on Effective Emergency Obstetric Care Coverage
Dr. Stephan Brenner, Institute of Public Health, Heidelberg University
22.06.2017 Assessing Medicine Affordability among Persons with Chronic Diseases in LMICs: The Interplay between Drug Prices, Social Epidemiology and Unmet Need
Prof. Jürgen Maurer, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Lausanne
20.07.2017 A Delphi Study on Indicators for Cross-Sectoral Health Care Planning in Baden-Württemberg
Pamela Wronski, Department of General Practice, and Health Services Research, Heidelberg University Hospital
The GHEcon Seminars and the Heidelberg Institute of Global Health are on the Campus Im Neuenheimer Feld (INF) of Heidelberg University.
GHEcon Seminars are usually from noon to 1 pm online or in the Marsilius-Arkaden, South Tower, INF 130.2, 1st floor, rooms 203–205 (K16–K18). The Marsilius-Arkaden are a complex of three high-rise buildings on the new campus of Heidelberg University. Please enter through the West Tower (INF 130.3) which is the main building with a cafeteria, go to first floor and then use the outdoor bridge to the South Tower (INF 130.2).
The Heidelberg Institute of Global Health is located at different sites on the new campus of Heidelberg University. Most offices are in the Marsilius-Arkaden, West Tower, INF 130.3, 6th floor.
