Dear EUPHA Public Health Economics (EUPHA-ECO) member,

The deadline for submitting abstracts or organised sessions to the EPH conference is approaching. We invite you to have a look at the EPH conference website and submit your research, intervention, policy or further options!

Also happy to share that for the first time we’ll have “Public Health Economics” as one of the tracks of the conference!

In case you are planning to attend the EPH conference and would be interested in integrating a workshop organised by our section, please send us an email! Some topics that are being covered include digital health economics, mental health economics, tax policies, cost of illness and cost-benefit analysis.

For those new to the section, besides announcing the upcoming sessions, this newsletter includes (1) subscription to the Working Group; (2) news on European health systems and policies; (3) job positions; (4) recent published papers; and (5) upcoming courses. Feel free to share with us further updates, positions and papers.

Working Groups

We recently started the Working Group on Mental Health Economics!

In case you are interested in joining the Working Group please fill this form.

News on European health systems and policies

#1 - The Global Leaders Group on Antimicrobial Resistance has launched a new report on the global economic cost of AMR and the return on investment of a comprehensive one health package to tackle AMR and support the R&D pipeline for new antibiotics. The findings of the report will feed discussion at the forthcoming High-level meeting on AMR that will take place in September during the UN General assembly. Details on the economic analysis are presented in the annex to the main report.

#2 - WHO has recently published the “Health Systems Resilience Indicators” toolkit that fosters universal health coverage and health security by integrating a package to evaluate and track health system resilience for routine operations and during public health crises or disruptions.

Job positions

Research Fellow (Health Policy) @ LSE, United Kingdom (deadline: 6th May)

Research Fellow (Model Based Decision Support) @ University of Melbourne, Australia (deadline: 9th May)

Post-Doctoral Researcher (Health Economics) @ Masaryk University, Czechia

Do not hesitate to share with us for more information on upcoming open positions.

Recent papers

Dumontet M, Henchoz Y, Santos-Eggimann B. Do financial hardships affect health? A study among older adults in Switzerland. Eur J Public Health. 2024 Feb 5;34(1):7-13. doi: 10.1093/eurpub/ckad202.

Swift B, Taneri B, Becker CM, Basarir H, Naci H, Missmer SA, Zondervan KT, Rahmioglu N. Prevalence, diagnostic delay and economic burden of endometriosis and its impact on quality of life: results from an Eastern Mediterranean population. Eur J Public Health. 2024 Apr 3;34(2):244-252. doi: 10.1093/eurpub/ckad216.

Lamot M, Kirbiš A. Multilevel analysis of COVID-19 vaccination intention: the moderating role of economic and cultural country characteristics. Eur J Public Health. 2024 Apr 3;34(2):380-386. doi: 10.1093/eurpub/ckae022. 

We are interested in knowing what you are working on! Let us know if you would like us to share your recent publications.

Upcoming courses

The European Burden of Disease Network (www.burden-eu.net) is pleased to announce three burden of disease summer schools, taking place in August in Ghent, Belgium. Each summer school offers standalone value, and is supported by experienced burden of disease researchers.

1- General concepts of burden of disease: Introduction to the calculation and use of DALYs. 31 July - 2 August, 2024

2- Burden of risk factors: Learn how to go from burden to impact. 7-9 August, 2024

3- Burden of infectious diseases: Learn how to calculate DALYs for infectious diseases. 21-23 August, 2024

More information and registration is available via https://www.burden-eu.net/activities/summer-schools.

We hope to meet you soon!

João Vasco Santos, MD MPH PhD (LinkedIn) - EUPHA-ECO President

Vanessa Gorasso, MSc PhD (LinkedIn) - EUPHA-ECO Vice-President

Filipa Sampaio, MPH PhD (LinkedIn) - EUPHA-ECO Steering Committee member

Michele Cecchini, MD DrPH, PhD - EUPHA-ECO Steering Committee member

Shehzad Ali, MSc MPH PhD (LinkedIn) - EUPHA-ECO Steering Committee member

Ricardo Rodrigues, MSc PhD (LinkedIn) - EUPHA-ECO Steering Committee member

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