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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.

If you would like to subscribe to the electronic mailing list to receive notices of forthcoming seminars and other events, please send an e-mail to this effect to acerh@anu.edu.au.

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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