Presenters

This workshop originally scheduled to be held in Thailand has been CANCELLED.

Briggs,A | Fenwick, E | Goeree, R | Sculpher, M | HITAP

Andrew Briggs

Lindsay Chair in Health Policy and Economic Evaluation,
University of Glasgow, Scotland
University of York, UK
Andrew was appointed to the Lindsay Chair in Health Policy and Economic Evaluation in June, 2005. Andrew has an interest in all aspects of economic evaluation applied to health care, in particular the use of statistical methods for assessing cost and cost-effectiveness, and the use of risk/prognostic modelling for making treatment decisions and guiding policy.
http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/publichealthhealthpolicy/ourstaff/andybriggs/

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Elisabeth Fenwick

Public Health and Health Policy,
University of Glasgow, Scotland
Elisabeth joined Glasgow University in January 2006 from the Centre for Health Economics at the University of York, UK. Her research interests include decision modelling in economic evaluation, handling uncertainty and the use of Bayesian methods for health technology in assessment. In 2002- 2003 Elisabeth was a post-doctoral visiting fellow at the Centre for Evaluation of Medicines, McMaster University, Canada. http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/publichealthhealthpolicy/ourstaff/lizfenwick/

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Ron Goeree

Program for Assessment of Technology in Health (PATH),
McMaster University
Ron is an Associate Professor in the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McMaster University and Director of PATH Research Institute. His research interests are centered around health technology assessment, decision modelling and economic evaluations. He currently heads up a large health technology assessment initiative for the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care.
http://www.fhs.mcmaster.ca/ceb/who/faculty/goeree.htm
http://www.path-hta.ca

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Mark Sculpher

Centre for Health Economics,
University of York, UK
Mark is Professor of Health Economics and leads the team for Economic Evaluation and Health Technology Assessment at the Centre for Health Economics at the University of York in the UK. His methodological interests include incorporating patient preferences into benefit measures in economic evaluation, handling uncertainty and decision analytic modelling. Mark is also interested in the use of economic evaluation in policy and is a former member of the NICE Appraisal Committee and currently sits on the NICE Public Health Interventions Advisory Committee.
http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/che/staff/sculpher.htm

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HITAP

This is a collaboration with the Health Intervention and Technology Assessment (HITAP) in Thailand http://www.hitap.net/index_en.php. HITAP will be providing tutors for the course and will lead sessions on the impact of economic evaluation on policy.
http://www.hitap.net/index_en.php

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