ACERH holds a regular monthly seminar at either the ANU, UQ or UWA nodes. See the calendar below for details - click on the links for further information on each seminar.
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| Time/Date |
Campus |
Speaker |
Topic |
12:30pm–1:30pm
29 March 2010 |
ANU |
Dr Adriano Cattaneo, Unit for Health Services Research, Epidemiology and International Health, Institute for Maternal and Child Health, Trieste, Italy. |
Obesity prevention from the start: policies and practices to support breastfeeding |
11:00am–12:00noon
19 March 2010 |
UQ |
Professor Jim Butler, ACERH ANU, and
Dr Rosemary Korda, ACERH and NCEPH, ANU |
The impact of chronic hepatitis B in Australia: Projecting mortality, morbidity and economic impact |
11:30am–12:30pm
17 March 2010 |
ANU |
Mr Terrence Cheng, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne |
What factors influence the earnings of GPs and medical specialists in Australia? Evidence from the MABEL study |
11:00am–12:15pm
15 March 2010 |
UQ |
Professor Dorte Gyrd-Hansen, The Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, and ACERH (UQ) |
Socio-demographic patient profiles and hospital efficiency: Does patient mix affect hospitals’ ability to perform? |
2:00–3:00pm
1 March 2010 |
ANU |
Dr Iddo Dror, Micro Insurance Academy & University of Geneva |
Micro (Health) Insurance: Process and product innovation to protect the world’s poor (slides) |
10:15am
8 December 2009 |
UQ |
Dr Narimasa Kumagai, School of Economics, Kinki University, and Visiting Scholar, ACERH UQ |
Horizontal inequity in regional health insurance and medical levies in Japan |
11:00–12:00
23 October 2009 |
ANU |
Professor Jim Butler, ACERH (ANU), Dr R Korda, ACERH and NCEPH (ANU), and Professor Stephen Locarnini, VIDRL, Melbourne |
The impact of chronic hepatitis B in Australia: Projecting mortality, morbidity and economic impact
(slides) |
11:00–12:00
18 September 2009 |
ANU |
Professor Stephen Kunitz, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, New York USA |
State political cultures and the mortality of African Americans and American Indians |
10:05 – 11:15am
8 September 2009 |
UQ |
Professor Jim Butler, ACERH, Australian National University |
Hospital financing and the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission reports |
1100-1200
2 September 2009 |
ANU |
Dr Yijuan Chen, School of Economics, College of Business and Economics, Australian National University |
Why are health care report cards so bad (good)? |
10:05-11:15am
25 August 2009 |
UQ |
Professor Peter Zweifel, Department of Economics, University of Zurich |
Measurement of preferences for health - theoretical considerations and empirical evidence |
11:00-12:00
20 August 2009 |
ANU |
Professor Peter Zweifel, Department of Economics, University of Zurich |
Measurement of preferences for health ̶ theoretical considerations and empirical evidence |
11:00-12:00
11 August 2009 |
ANU |
Professor Peter Zweifel, Department of Economics, University of Zurich |
Ageing and health care expenditure – A new view
(slides) |
10:00-11:00am
7 July 2009 |
ANU |
Ms Monica Hogan, Lactation Consultant, and Ms Louise Duursma, Australian Breastfeeding Association Counsellor |
Breastfeeding in Australia - Baby Friendly Hospitals and community based support
(slides) |
1:15pm
13 March 2009 |
UQ |
Professor Michael Grossman, National Bureau of Economic Research, New York |
The impact of National Health Insurance on birth outcomes: A natural experiment in Taiwan |
1:00 - 2:00pm
20 November 2008 |
UQ |
Professor Stephen Birch
Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis, and McMaster Institute for Environment and Health, McMaster University |
Continuity of care in a publicly funded dental programme – do the dollars make sense? |
10:15am - 11:15am
21 October 2008 |
UQ |
Professor Stephen Duckett
Chief Executive, Centre for Healthcare Improvement, Queensland Health |
NHHRC - The first report: Beyond the Blame Game - Accountability and performance benchmarks for the next Australian Health Care Agreements (slides) |
11:00am - 12:00pm
2 July 2008 |
ANU |
Dr Nora Markova
Postdoctoral Fellow, ACERH (ANU) |
On the link between health, socioeconomic inequalities and health care financing |
11:00am - 12:00pm
21 May 2008 |
ANU |
Dr Lixin Cai
Senior Research Fellow, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne |
Be wealthy to stay healthy: an analysis of older Australians using HILDA survey data |
11:00am - 12:00pm
7 May 2008 |
ANU |
Dr Renata Hasanova
ACERH (ANU) |
Econometric Methods in Health Economics |
11:00am - 12:00pm
2 April 2008 |
ANU |
Mr Ian McRae
Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute (APHCRI), ANU, and ACERH (ANU) |
Doctors at Work: Determinants of Supply and Demand for General Practice Services in Australia |
10:00am - 11:00am
14 January 2008 |
ANU |
Dr Tom Van Ourti
Erasmus School of Economics
Erasmus University Rotterdam
|
Health and income across the life cycle in Europe: Disentangling age and
cohort effects (paper)
|
11:00am
12 December 2007 |
UQ |
Professor Andrew Bindman
Professor of Medicine, Health Policy, Epidemiology & Biostatistics,
University of California San Francisco
|
Enhancing California hospital administrative data for its use in quality
assessment
|
10:00am
26 September 2007 |
UQ |
Professor Wynand van de Ven
Professor of Health Insurance
Department of Health Policy and Management
Erasmus University, Rotterdam |
How can we make individual health insurance affordable for the high-risks in a competitive insurance market? |
10:00am
14 August 2007 |
UQ |
Professor Stephen Duckett
Head, Reform Team, Queensland Health and Adjunct Professor, ACERH (UQ) |
Federalism and Health: Negotiating the Problems of "Fiscal Squabbles", "Waiting", and "Waste" |
2:00 - 3:00pm
25 June 2007 |
ANU |
Ms Emily Lanscar
Lecturer in Economics
Newcastle University Business School and Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK |
Investigating preferences for drinking water using a best worst choice experiment |
2:00 - 3:00pm
22 March 2007 |
ANU |
Dr Yuhua Shi
Postdoctoral Fellow
ACERH (ANU) |
Public policies on high fertility rates in developing countries: birth control, birth taxes or education subsidies? |
11.45am
4 December 2006 |
UQ |
Dr Stephen Duckett, PhD, DSc, FCHSE, FASSA
Queensland Health Reform Team
Queensland Health |
Design of adjunct incentives in formula funding arrangements (slides) |
Noon - 1.00pm
8 November 2006 |
ANU |
Dr Julia Witt
Research Fellow
Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research |
Welfare effects of banning genetic information in the life insurance market: the case of BRCA 1/2 genes |
11.15am
20 October 2006 |
UQ |
Dr Magali Pirson
Department d'Economie de la Sante
Ecole de Sante Publique/Universite Libre de Bruxelles |
Using cost-accounting data in managing hospitals: examples from Belguim (slides) |
Noon - 1.00pm
11 October 2006 |
ANU |
Professor Stephen Kunitz
Dept of Community & Preventive Medicine
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, New York |
Sex, race and social role: history and the social determinants of disease |
10.15-11.15am
11 September 2006 |
UQ |
Dr Jenny Williams
Dept of Economics
University of Melbourne
|
Cannabis prices and dynamics of cannabis use |
