Australian Centre for Economic Research on Health (ACERH)

ACERH holds seminars from time to time at both the ANU and UQ nodes. See the calendar below for details and click on the links for further information on each seminar.

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Forthcoming Seminars

Time/Date	Campus	Speakers	Topic

Past Seminars

Time/Date	Campus	Speaker	Topic
12noon - 1:00pm 28 November 2012	ANU	Mr Peter Davey, Macquarie University	Constructing an index of international pharmaceutical prices: A comparison of pharmaceutical prices in 56 countries
10:00 - 11:00am 27 November 2012	ANU	Panel: Professor Jim Butler, ACERH (ANU) Emeritus Professor Peter Zweifel, Department of Economics, University of Zurich Dr Jenny Gordon, Principal Adviser Research, Productivity Commission	Taxing alcohol rationally - issues in the reform of alcohol taxation (slides)
12:00 noon - 1:00pm 14 November 2012	ANU	Emeritus Professor Peter Zweifel, Department of Economics, University of Zurich	Flat-of-the-curve medicine: a new perspective on the production of health
12:00 noon - 1:00pm 7 November 2012	ANU	Dr Brita Pekarsky, Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute	How to play the drug reimbursement game and win: A Regulator's Guide to the optimal first move and best response
12:00 noon - 1:00pm 3 April 2012	ANU	Dr Manuel García-Goñi, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain	The evolution of health in time: Do we have a health version of the Easterlin paradox?
12:00 noon - 1:00pm 28 February 2012	ANU	Dr David Rowell, ACERH (UQ) Discussant: Professor Bob Gregory, Research School of Economics, ANU	A harm minimisation programme for problem poker machine gamblers in the unlucky country
11:00am-12:00noon 15 December 2011	ANU	Professor Emeritus Peter Zweifel, University of Zurich	What do citizens expect from health insurance? A tale of two countries (slides)
12:30pm-1:30pm 19 August 2011	ANU	Professor Dr Amir Shmueli, Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Local availability of physicians' services as a tool for implicit risk selection
12:00pm–1:00pm 12 May 2011	ANU	Dr Mai Pham, Research School of Economics, ANU and Professor Jim Butler, ACERH, ANU	Comparing quality of care in public and private hospitals
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




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