Education

• Flagship Course on Health Sector Reform and Sustainable Financing: Harvard School of Public Health and World Bank Institute
  

  Location: Washington, DC, USA
  Dates: 16 October - 3 November 2006
  Application Deadline: 10 August 2006

  Course Directors:

  • Thomas Bossert, Harvard School of Public Health
  • R. Paul Shaw, World Bank Institute

  Purpose: Countries everywhere are struggling with the dual objectives of achieving widespread and equitable coverage of health services while providing health care more efficiently under tight budget constraints. The newly re-designed 2006 Flagship Course introduces a practical and comprehensive framework for understanding health systems and their performance and a structured approach to developing health system reform policies to improve that performance.

  Learning Objectives

  The course will enable participants to:

  • Speak a “common language” about dimensions of health sector reform and achieve deeper understanding of heath finance issues and sustainable financing options;
  • Situate their health systems within a taxonomy of health systems according to structural, financial, and functional characteristics;
  • Assess how well their national health systems perform according to explicit criteria including health status, financial protection, citizen satisfaction, efficiency, and sustainability.
  • Determine alternate paths their national health systems could take, and why it would be desirable to pursue some paths over others;
  • Understand how to move their national health system from its current state to a participant-defined future state; and
  • Understand how to select and apply tools and procedures to make desired changes and to assess their effects

  Flagship Core Course: The annual Flagship Course, October 16 - November 3, 2006, will be offered to about 60 participants. This year’s course has undertaken a quality enhancement and technical review which has led to revised and new learning modules, including new country case studies being prepared for the upcoming course.

• Short Courses in Health Economics: Oxford University & Chinese University of Hong Kong
  

  Location: Hong Kong
  Dates: 31 October 2006 and 2-4 November 2006
  Venue: School of Public Health, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

  University: Oxford, Health Economics Research Centre, Department of Public Health

  Language of the courses: English

  Course 1: Introduction to Health Economic Evaluation, one day, 31 October 2006

  Who this course is for: Non-economists who are interested in how economists evaluate the costs and benefits of health interventions, and how health economics is used by decision makers in the health service and in the pharmaceutical and medical technology industries. It will be useful to researchers, clinicians and managers in the healthcare sector.

  Objective: Understanding the key concepts and techniques used in economic evaluation in healthcare.

  Teaching format: Small group lecture and practical exercises. Comprehensive teaching materials to take away

  Prerequisites: none

  Course 2: Advanced Methods of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis, three days, 2-4 November 2006

  Who this course is for: Researchers and managers with some experience of health economics who want to develop their understanding and practical skills in cost-effectiveness analysis in the healthcare sector. Participants come from academic institutions, industry and government.

  Objectives: Advanced understanding of cost-effectiveness analysis methods applied to healthcare interventions, with computer-based practical exercises to aid the learning process.

  Teaching format: Small group lecture and tutor-guided exercises. Comprehensive teaching materials and one year license for decision analysis software to take away.

  Prerequisites: Familiarity with MS Excel and basic knowledge of health economic evaluation

  Teaching Faculty: Professor Alastair Gray, Director of the Health Economics Research Centre of Oxford University leads a team of senior health economists to teach both courses.

  Certificates from the University of Oxford awarded on completion of either or both courses.

  More information: Visit us online for full details of course content, fees, early booking discounts and online booking
  Visit http://www.herc.ox.ac.uk/ for information about the Health Economics Research Centre.

  Email inquiries welcome. herc@dphpc.ox.ac.uk.

• Health Economics: University of Lausanne
  

  Location: Lausanne, Switzerland
  Dates: 13-17 November 2006 (Part 1) and 08-12 January 2007 (Part 2)
  Registration Deadline: 15 October 2006

  • Prof. Pierre-Yves Geoffard (University of Lausanne)
  • Prof. Albert Ma (Boston University)

  Presentation: This course offers a comprehensive view of the economics of health systems (i.e. health care provision and its financing). The analytical framework will provide an integrated set-up to analyse regulation issues, both on the demand and the supply side.

  Objectives: Participants will be familiar with the main tools of micro-economic analysis of health systems, with an emphasis on informational issues. Models of asymmetric information will be studied in details, as well as their applicability to the study of health insurance and health care production.

  The course is part of the a series of seven modules offered as the International PhD Courses in Health Economics and Policy intended for PhD students who are wishing to enhance their specific knowledge and sharpen their capabilities in the field of health economics and policy.

  Full details are available online

• Economic Methods for Evidence-Based Health Technology Assessment: Flinders Centre for Clinical Change and Health Care Research
  

  Location: Adelaide, Australia
  Dates: 28-30 November 2006
  Application deadline: 15 September 2006

  A three day course led by Professor Andrew Willan

  Venue: Chapel Hill Gourmet Retreat

  Course Fee (including GST): $1500 (Day 1, 2 and 3). $1100 (Day 2 and 3)

  Workshop size strictly limited to 25 participants

  More information and application form (in the Events):
  http://www.flinders.edu.au/research/asri/news.html

• Advanced Health Leadership Forum: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona and University of California, Berkeley
  

  Location: San Franciso, California, USA and Barcelona, Spain
  Dates: 7-13 January, 2007 (San Francisco), July 13-20, 2007 (Barcelona)

  Application deadlines: 15 October 2006 to start the program in San Francisco this January; requests for the next round of partial scholarships,due by 30 September 2006

  Website: http://ahlf.berkeley.edu
  Email: ahlf@berkeley.edu

  Course Description: The Advanced Health Leadership Forum is a joint offering from University of California Berkeley and the Center for Research in Health and Economics (CRES), Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. The Advanced Health Leadership Forum is a unique certificate-based international health program focusing on key health policy and management issues, emphasizing the health economics and business perspective. Participants grapple in a practical manner with the health policy issues and options that have been converging internationally. They learn policies and management/leadership approaches that work, find out which approaches have been tried and have not been successful, and learn about current innovations.

• International Masters in Health Technology Assessment and Management (Ulysses Program)
  

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