»15 November 2019, First HTx Expert Forum meeting
PECUNIA coordinator Prof. Judit Simon is invited to the HTx Expert Forum. This advisory board brings together methodological and clinical experts from different European societies and projects in order to evaluate the outcomes of the project and to intensify the discussion on the new methods in this research field. Prof. Simon is happy to participate in the 1st HTx Expert Forum meeting on November 25, 2019, in Barcelona.
»21 November 2019,15:00 – 16:00
PriMHE Challenges in developing a life-course approach to assessing capability well-being for use in
Professor Joanna Coast
Joanna Coast is Professor in the Economics of Health & Care at the University of Bristol. Jo qualified with a BA (Econ) (Hons) in Economics in 1988 and an MSc in Health Economics in 1990, both from the University of York, and a PhD in Social Medicine from the University of Bristol in 2000. Jo's research interests lie in the theory underlying economic evaluation, developing capability measures of outcome for use in economic evaluation, priority setting, end-of-life care and the economics of antimicrobial resistance.
Venue: Medical University of Vienna,
Center for Public Health
Kinderspitalgasse 15
1090 Vienna, Austria (Please use the entrance Zimmermanngasse)
Bianca von Bienenfeld Room (SE3), 2nd floor
»18-19 November 2019, EU-project PReDicT the final all Investigators Meeting of the EU-project PReDicT in Paris where Judit Simon and Nataša Perić participated.
»5. November 2019, ISPOR EUROPE CONFERENCE Copenhagen, Research Poster Session 4; 15:45 – 19:00
Nataša Perić presented two posters from joint collaborations on:
» 4. - 7. November 2019, iLIVE Project meeting - 6. International Collaborative Symposium Week
Dr. Claudia Fischer participated at the iLIVE project meeting in Bergen - Norway. This took place during the 6. International Collaborative Symposium Week of the International Collaborative for Best Care for the Dying Person.
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»23-25 October 2019, 9th International Seminar of the PRC, Invited talk of Claudia Fischer at the 9th International Seminar of PRC in Krems an der Donau, Austria 23-25 October 2019. Title of her presentation was "The assessment of quality of palliative care in Austria".
» 25.September 2019, Judit Simon invited talk at the Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt about improving health economic methods for the evaluation of mental health interventions and services
» 16-18 October 2019: The DHE Short Course "Evidence-based healthcare evaluation: Introduction to evidence synthesis and health economics" is taking place. For more information and registration go to: DHE Short Course
» 2 October 2019, Info session for the - Doctoral Programme Public Health - , 12:00-13:00 at the Center for Public Health/Seminar room 3 - (2nd floor via staircase 2, entrance Zimmermanngasse 3, 1090 Vienna), Registration is not required
» PECUNIA Satellite Workshop in Basel, (17 July 2019) the 2nd milestone after 17 month - after finalising the multi-sectoral country reports an compiled sector specific master service lists in all participating countries. For more information and registration: PECUNIA Satellite Workshop the 1st satellite workshop during the iHEA Conference in Basel.
» iHEA WORLD CONGRESS in Basel, (13-17 July 2019) New Heights in Health Economics
- "Cross-Cultural and Inter-Country Transferability and Validity of the OxCAP-MH Well-Being Questionnaire" (Judit Simon)
- "Multi-Sectoral Costs and Benefits of Mental Care in Europe: European Research Project PECUNIA" (Judit Simon)
- "Valuation Methods in Costing for International, Multi-Sectoral Health Economic Evaluations: A Structured Scoping Review" at the IHEA World Congress in Basel (Susanne Mayer)
- "Health-Related Resource-Use Measurement Instruments for Intersectoral Costs and Benefits in the Education and Criminal Justice Sectors" at the IHEA World Congress in Basel
» ENMESH Conference in Lisbon, Portugal (6-8 June 2019) where researchers network and discuss research related issues - Conference on Mental Health Service Research.
- "Patterns of physical comorbidities in patients with selected mental health disorders" (Judit Simon)
- "The excess resource use and costs of physical comorbidities in patients with mental health disorders: a systematic literature review" (Dennis Wienand)
- "Resource use patterns, healthcare and lost productivitiy costs among adults with and without mental health diagnoses: cross-sectional survey in Austria" (Agata Laszewska)
» 2nd Scientific Advisory Board Meeting in PECUNIA in Vienna (17 May 2019) Vienna took place for updates and to give targeted input.
» ICMPE Conference in Venice (29-31 March 2019)- Fourteenth Workshop on Costs and Assessment in Psychiatry: The Value of Mental Health Services
- "Valuation Methods in Costing for International, Multi-Sectoral Mental Health Economic Evaluations: A Structured Scoping Review." (Claudia Fischer)
- "Inter-sectoral Costs and Benefits of Mental Care in Europe: European Research Project PECUNIA."(oral presentation) (Judit Simon)
- "The Excess Costs and Resource Use of Physical Comorbidities in Patients with Mental Health Disorders: A Systematic Review. (Dennis Wienand)
- "Ambiguity in Psychotherapy Definition: Is There an Urgent Need of an International Classification?" Giulio Castelpietra, Judit Simon, Luis Salvador-Carulla:
» 08 March 2019, TODAY: Judit Simon has been showcased in today´s EU H2020 programme News dedicated to inspirational women in science on International Women´s Day: https://twitter.com/EU_H2020/status/1103613824958164992
» March 2019: Timea Helter was awarded a software grant from Sawtooth Software to gain full access to their services. She is listed as one of the their grant recipients under: https://www.sawtoothsoftware.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2074
» 1 March 2019: 4th ATHEA-conference in Vienna
- Judit Simon: "Multi-sectoral costs and benefits in health economic evaluations across Europe: The PECUNIA project" (oral presentation)
- Susanne Mayer: "Valuation methods in costing for international, multi-sectoral health economic evaluations: a structured scoping review" (oral presentation)
» 11-12 February 2019: Judit Simon and Claudia Fischer participated in the Kick-Off meeting of the new EU-project "the iLIVE project - Living well, dying well" in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
» 20 February 2019: The Department of Health Economics, Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna is wishing to appoint a Departmental Administrator starting 1 April 2019. Closing date for applications: 12 March 2019, 4 pm. For detailed information please visit the DHE job section.
» 15 January 2019: Judit Simon, Head of the Health Economics Department at the Medical University of Vienna, Helen Stokes-Lampard, Chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), and James Thomas, Chief Technology Officer at the Wellcome Trust discuss the impact of emerging technologies on advancements in public mental health at the Royal Institution in London, UK on the 15 January 2019. For further details, please go to http://www.rigb.org/whats-on/events-2019/january/patrons-present-mental-health-in-a-digital-age
» 28 Nov-01 Dec 2018: Prof Dr Judit Simon participates at the 11th European Public Health (EPH) Conference in Ljubljana. She presents the PECUNIA project as panelist in the pre-conference "Building Public Mental Health across the life course" and discussing "future needs for mental health research at the EU level" on the 28 November.
» 09 November 2018: the first lectures of the "Public Health Basic Lecture Series 1" in winter semester 2018/19 will start at 8.30 am, (Kinderspitalgasse 15, seminar room 3). Further details and registration via MedCampus (Course No. 851.089)
» 02 November 2018: Dr Susanne Mayer receives the award "MedUni Wien RESEARCHER OF THE MONTH November 2018" for her publication "Health-Related Resource-Use Measurement Instruments for Intersectoral Costs and Benefits in the Education and Criminal Justice Sectors" in "Pharmacoeconomics".
» 22-24 October 2018: The DHE Short Course "Evidence-based healthcare evaluation" is taking place. For more information and registration: DHE Short Courses
» 17 October 2018: the first Journal Club "Health economics and evidence-based healthcare" in winter semester 2018/19 will start at 3 pm (Kinderspitalgasse 15, seminar room 4). Further details and registration via MedCampus (Course No. 851.093)
» 06-09 October 2018: Prof. Dr. Judit Simon participates at the 31st ECNP Congress Applied ad Translational Neuroscience in Barcelona, Spain. She presents "Better prediction of outcomes in depression - what kind of societal impact can we expect?" as part of the symposium on the 7 October at the ECNP conference in Barcelona.
» 02-04 October 2018: Nataša Perić is participating at the European Health Forum Gastein conference in Bad Hofgastein supported by the Young Forum Gastein scholarship. She will present "Headline Indicators for Monitoring the Performance of Health Systems" (poster)» 02-04 October 2018: Claudia Fischer is selected to participate at the first EHFG 2018 Hackathon at the European Health Forum Gastein conference in Bad Hofgastein.
» 24 September 2018: The DHE is pleased to announce that it has been awarded an EU grant for a project named LIVE concerning palliative and end-of-life care.
» 5 September 2018: Our next PriMHE (Programme in the Methods of Health Economics) lecture will take place at 12 pm at the Center for Public Health with Niek Klazinga, Professor of Social Medicine at the Amsterdam University Medical Centre who has been combining that role with coordinating the work on Health Care Quality and Outcomes at the OECD. He presently holds visiting professorship positions at the Economic Faculty of Corvinus University, Budapest and the Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. The talk will be on "Value driven health care delivery: measurement and implementation challenges in OECD countries."
» 4 September 2018: Prof. Dr. Judit Simon presents "Financial challenges in health care - the way forward from a health economic viewpoint" at the Wiener Spitalsärztekongress 2018.
» 01-04 September 2018: Noemi Kiss presents "Assessing country variability in hospital length of stay and analyzing variability in nutrition-related modifying factors based on 10 years of Nutrition Day" at the 40th ESPEN Congress on Clinical Nutrition & Metabolism.
» 14-15 July 2018: 1st PECUNIA Progress Meeting will take place in Maastricht (NL) after the EUHEA conference and the PECUNIA consortium will meet for the second time since project start.
» 11-14 July 2018: EUHEA - 12th European Conference on Health Economics, Maastricht, NL
- Prof Dr Judit Simon is presenting: "Intersectoral costs and benefits in Europe: European research project PECUNIA"
- Agata Laszewska is presenting "Psychometric properties of the German OxCAP-MH, a multi-dimensional capability instrument for outcome measurement in mental health"
- Nataša Perić is presenting "Headline indicators for monitoring the performance of health systems: Findings from the european Health Systems_Indicator (euHS_I) survey"
» 17 May 2018: The DHE announces two new projects: "ECNP-The physical comorbidity costs of mental health disorders" and "Economic evaluation of the NIHR PAX-BD study"
» 8 May 2018: The new DHE-course "Evidence based health care evaluation and decision making" (Practical Seminar) starts as part of the Doctoral Programme Public Health Curriculum
» 2 May 2018: The DHE-Team welcomes four new Researchers: Team
» 27 April 2018: The new website of the PECUNIA-Project goes live http://www.pecunia-project.eu/
» 22 March 2018: The Department of Health Economics, Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna is wishing to appoint a Departmental Administrator starting 16 April 2018. This is a permanent full-time position. Closing date for applications: 11 April 2018, 4 pm. For more detailed information please go to our Job section.
» 07 March 2018: the first Health Economics Journal Club for the summer semester 2018 will start at 3 pm. Further details and registration via MedCampus (Course No. 851.085)
» 01 March 2018: the DHE starts a new project Mental health 65+ in Austria - Burden of mental diseases in the elderly population in Austria
» 01 March 2018: the DHE starts a new project The Physical co-morbidity costs of mental disorders
» 01 February 2018: the Enlarged Supervisory Board Meeting of the ESPEN nutrionDay worldwide will take place in Vienna.
» 29 January 2018: The Department of Health Economics at the Centre for Public Health is wishing to appoint a PhD candidate in HEALTH ECONOMICS. The position is on a fixed-term contract for 3 years and can be filled immediately. Deadline for applications: Closed. Ref. code: DHE02/2018.
For more detailed information please go to our Job section.
» 26 January 2018: The Department of Health Economics at the Centre for Public Health is wishing to appoint a SENIOR RESEARCHER (POSTDOC OR SENIOR POSTDOC) IN HEALTH ECONOMICS. The position is Full-time, fixed-term until 31 December 2020 and can be filled immediately. Deadline for applications: Closed. Ref. code: DHE01/2018.
For more detailed information please go to our Job section.
» 26 January 2018: the first Semester of the Doctorate Programme Public Health (N790) with Judit Simon as the new Coordinator was successfully finished!
» 26 January 2018: have a look at our updated Publication List 2018!
» 22 January 2018: Judit Simon is presenting "Economic evaluation and HTA in health care decision making in Austria: evidence- or eminence-based decision making?" at the University of Hamburg, Germany
» 14-16 January 2018: The Kick-Off meeting of the EU project PECUNIA took place in Vienna and was a big success! Group Photo
» 16 January 2018: our next PriMHE (Programme in the Methods of Health Economics) lecture will take place at 3.00pm the Centre for Public Health with Luis Salvador-Carulla, Professor and Head of the Centre for Mental Health Research at the Research School of Population Health, College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra who will talk on "The Global/Local Mental Health Atlas Project. Use of healthcare ecosystem analysis for evidence informed policy".
» 08 January 2018: The EU project PECUNIA has started his activities on the 1 January 2018. The Kick-Off meeting will take place in Vienna 14-16 January 2018.
» 24 November 2017: Nataša Perić is presenting "Headline indicators for monitoring the performance of healthcare systems: Findings from the european Health Systems_Indicator (euHS_I) survey" at the ATHEA conference in Vienna, Austria.
» 19 October 2017: Judit Simon is presenting "Health Economics for Personalized Medicine" at the Scientific Symposium of the Austrian Platform for Personalized Medicine in Vienna, Austria
» 11 October 2017: the first Health Economics Journal Club for the winter semester 2017 will start at 3pm. Further details and registration via MedCampus (Course No. 851.075)
» 09 October 2017: our next PriMHE (Programme in the Methods of Health Economics) lecture will take place at 4.30pm (lecture starting at 5pm) the Centre for Public Health with Agnès Couffinhal, a senior economist at the OECD in Paris, specialized in the analysis of health systems and policies who will talk on "Tackling Wasteful Spending on Health: An OECD perspective".
» 07 October 2017: also this year the DHE-Team will support cancer research and therefore participate at the Cancer Research Run "Lauf für die Krebsforschung" at the Campus of the University Vienna at "altes AKH".
» 03 October 2017: A methods and results paper to the DHE Unit Cost Online Database published in PLOS ONE is now available online.
» 26 September 2017: The title of Visiting Professor of Cognitive Health Economics has been re-conferred by the University's Medical Sciences Board to Judit Simon in recognition of her continued important contributions towards the successful and fruitful collaboration between her and the University of Oxford.
» 18 September 2017: Results of the empirical study looking at the relative importance of selected barriers and facilitators of the uptake of HTA studies in Austria by surveying relevant national stakeholders has now been published in Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research. For more information please go to PubMed or request a full-text of the publication via Email.
» 09 July 2017: Maria M. Hofmarcher-Holzhacker is presenting „Improving indicators for monitoring health system performance in Europe” at the iHEA Congress 2017, Boston, USA.
» 14 June 2017: Susanne Mayer was awarded with the 'Theodor Körner Förderpreis 2017' for Unit Cost Online Database developed at the Department of Health Economics
» 31 May 2017: Vorarlberger Science Award 2017 in the category early stage researchers is awarded to Susanne Mayer. The award ceremony will take place on 13 November 2017.
» 12 May 2017: Susanne Mayer is presenting "Health-related resource-use measurement items for inter-sectoral costs and benefits in the educational and criminal justice sector: Systematic review of instruments" at the lolaHESG (lowlands Health Economists' Study Group) conference in Rotterdam, NL.
» 18 May 2017: (***PROLONGED to 24 May 2017!***).The recently established international, transdisciplinary Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Applied Diagnostics (LBI AD) in Vienna, Austria is wishing to appoint a Senior Researcher Position in Health Economics. The position is full-time, available until 30 June 2023 and can be filled immediately. Closing date: 07 April 2017, 4pm. For more detailed information please go to our Job section.
» 21 April 2017: Two DHE members presenting at the 1st ESPAnet (European Network for Social Policy Analysis) Austria meeting (20-21 April 2017, Vienna, Austria)
» 20 April 2017: Maria M. Hofmarcher-Holzhacker presenting "BRIDGE Health Achievements" at the meeting on Health Information in the European Union - The ERIC as a tool, Brussels, Belgium.
» 25 March 2017: Judit Simon presenting "Inter-country transferability of the OxCAP-MH well-being questionnaire" at the Thirteenth Workshop on Costs and Assessment in Psychiatry - Mental Health Policy and Economics, Venice, Italy.
» 16 March 2017: Maria M Hofmarcher-Holzhacker presenting "Indicators for structured monitoring of health system performance in the EU" at FACTAGE Expert Workshop on Differential Mortality, Statistik Austria, Vienna.
» 01 March 2017: The recently established international, transdisciplinary Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Applied Diagnostics (LBI AD) in Vienna, Austria is wishing to appoint a Senior Researcher Position in Health Economics. The position is full-time, available until 30 June 2023 and can be filled immediately. Closing date: 07 April 2017, 4pm. For more detailed information please go to our Job section.
» 27 February 2017: ICB questionnaires: Instruments for resource use measurement in the education and criminal justice sectors for use in trial-based economic evaluations identified in a systematic review conducted by the Medical University of Vienna and Maastricht University have now been published in the online repository ‘Database of Instruments for Resource Use Measurement’
» 10 January 2017: Judit Simon and Noemi Kiss have become founding members of Ö-SPOR: Österreichische Sektion der internationalen Gesellschaft für Pharmaökonomie und Ergebnisforschung - the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research AUSTRIA Regional Chapter. This group is under the umbrella of ISPOR (International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research). The first meeting was held on November 19th, 2016, where the founding of the group was organized, relevant paperwork signed, board members elected. Noemi has been elected Vice President, and Judit has been elected as a board member. Official activities are to commence in 2017 and all ISPOR members and other stakeholders throughout Austria who are interested in pharmacoeconomics and outcomes research in Austria are encouraged to obtain membership to this Regional Chapter and participate in our future endeavors.
» 09 January 2017: Launch of updated DHE Unit Cost Online Database, now also containing unit costs extracted from health economic studies published in 2016.
» 21 December 2016: The Department of Health Economics, Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna is wishing to appoint an Administrator for Teaching and Research position starting as early as possible. The position is half-time, fixed-term until 27 December 2018. Closing date for applications: 11 January 2017, midnight.
For more detailed information please go to our Job section.
» 11 November 2016: Judit Simon presenting "Economic aspects of prevention" at the International Symposium 'Prevention Models of Obesity and Cardiovascular Diseases' in Vienna, Austria
» 09 November 2016: The recently established international, transdisciplinary Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Applied Diagnostics (LBI AD) in Vienna, Austria is wishing to appoint a Postdoc Position in Health Economics. The position is full-time, available for 4 years with potential extension for up to 7 years and can be filled immediately. Closing date: 02 December 2016, 4pm. For more detailed information please go to our Job section.
» 09 - 12 November 2016: DHE's contribution at the 9th European Public Health Conference 'All for Health – Health for All', Vienna, Austria. As part of the BRIDGE Health project, researchers at the DHE will have multiple contributions to the upcoming 9th European Public Health Conference. Click here for more details!
» 31 October 2016: our next PriMHE (Programme in the Methods of Health Economics) lecture will take place at 7pm at the Centre for Public Health with Mark Sculpher, Professor of Health Economics at the University of York, UK who will talk on "Making Economic Evaluation Fit for Purpose to Guide Resource Allocation Decisions".
» 29 October - 2 November 2016: DHE's contribution at the ISPOR 19th Annual European Congress, Vienna, Austria. Click here for more details!
» 12 October 2016: the first Health Economics Journal Club for the winter semester will start as usual at 2.30p. Please note that the new location will be the library at the Center for Public Health, Kinderspitalgasse 15, first floor, room number 139! Please register via MedCampus (Course No. 851.075)
» 08 October 2016: also this year the DHE-Team will support cancer research and therefore participate at the 10th Cancer Research Run "Lauf für die Krebsforschung" at the Campus of the University Vienna at "altes AKH".
» 30 September 2016: european Health System_Indicators survey (euHS_I survey) is open until the 30 September 2016
Researchers at the DHE together with other members of the group working on the evaluation of health care systems initiated the european Health System_Indicators survey (euHS_I survey) to comprehensively and systematically review, assess and organize the existing health and health system indicator landscape with the aim to develop a blueprint for country fact sheets on health system performance assessment on the 20 June 2016. BRIDGE Health and other experts coming from the European Commission, Member States, OECD and WHO are asked to map selected indicators to performance domains, and to assess the importance of their information content. The euHS_I survey is open until 30 September 2016. First results will be presented at the 9th European Public Health Conference on 11 November 2016.
» 23-25 September 2016: Judit Simon is Member of the Scientific and Advisory Board of the Third Meeting on Patient Reported Outcomes and Person Centered Care in Mental Health in Washington DC, USA.
» 07 September 2016: there has been a technical problem with the registration for the Health Economics Journal Club. The issue has been resolved and registration is now possible again via MedCampus (Course No. 851.075)!
» 31 August 2016: we are happy to announce that the WHO HEN report "Public Health Aspects of Migrant Health: A Review of the Evidence on Health Status for Labour Migrants in the European Region" is now available for download on PubMed Bookshelf.
» 14 July 2016: Maria M. Hofmarcher-Holzhacker is presenting „Improving indicators for monitoring health system performance” at the EuHEA Conference 2016 in Hamburg, Germany.
» 15 July 2016: Susanne Mayer will be holding a poster presentation "Economic evaluations and unit costs within the Austrian health care system: a systematic literature review" at the EuHEA Conference 2016 in Hamburg, Germany.
» 07 July 2016: Lisa Simpson, CEO from the US AcadamyHealth and colleagues from the Jewish Healthcare Foundation visiting the DHE at the Centre for Public Health to discuss BRIDGE Health and issues of the Austrian health care system.
» 22 June 2016: next and last Health Economics Journal Club for the summer semester at 2.30pm
» 10 May 2016: The Department of Health Economics at the Centre for Public Health is wishing to appoint a SENIOR RESEARCHER (POSTDOC) IN HEALTH ECONOMICS. The position is half-time, fixed-term until 30 September 2018 and can be filled immediately. Closing date: 25 May 2016, 4pm.
For more detailed information please go to our Job section.
» 23 April 2016: Judit Simon presenting at the Annual Meeting of the Medical Pilgrims "Contrasts in Austrian and British health systems" in Vienna, Austria
» 19 April 2016: Maria M. Hofmarcher-Holzhacker is presenting at the Policy Stakeholders Conference 'EU-Eastern Partnership STI Cooperation in Addressing Health Research and Innovation' in Budapest, "BRIDGE Health project"
» 07 April 2016: Maria M. Hofmarcher-Holzhacker is presenting at the EU HSPA Expert Group meeting in Rome,"BRIDGE Health: Improving indicators for monitoring health system performance"
» 16 March 2016: → first Health Economics Journal Club for the summer semester at 2.30pm. Please register in Med.Campus (Course No. 851.065).
» 14 March 2016: official launch of the DHE Unit Cost Online Database
- MedUni Vienna has made publicly available database of Austrian unit costs
- Unit Costs across Europe, Professor Jennifer Beecham in her PSSRU blog
- myScience: "DHE Unit Cost Online Database" der Abteilung für Gesundheitsökonomie frei verfügbar
» 09 March 2016: Susanne Mayer was awarded the Walter-Doberauer scholarship 2016 for her work "Prävalenz und Prädiktoren für Polypharmakotherapie in der Bevölkerung ab 60: Analyse auf Basis der Österreichischen Gesundheitsbefragung" from the Austrian Society of Geriatrics and Gerontology at the Kongresszentrum Bad Hofgastein, Austria.
» 26 February 2016: Susanne Mayer presenting "Economic evaluations and unit costs within the Austrian health care system: a systematic literature review" at the 2nd ATHEA-Conference for Health Economics „Efficiency and equality in health systems“ in Vienna, Austria.
» 26 February 2016: Agata Łaszewska presenting "Epidemiology, economic burden and quality of life associated with mental illnesses in Austria: a systematic literature review" at the 2nd ATHEA-Conference for Health Economics „Efficiency and equality in health systems“ in Vienna, Austria.
» 26 February 2016: Nataša Perić presenting "Improving indicators for monitoring health system performance" at the 2nd ATHEA-Conference for Health Economics „Efficiency and equality in health systems“ in Vienna, Austria.
» 18 February 2016: Judit Simon will be speaking as part of a podium discussion at the Health Care Symposium 2016 in Vienna, Austria.
» 17 February 2016: our next PriMHE (Programme in the Methods of Health Economics) lecture will take place at 4pm at the Van Swieten Saal with Dr. Leona Hakkaart-van Roijen, Associate Professor Health Economics and Health Technology Assessment, institute for Medical Technology Assessment (iMTA), Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands, who will talk on "Update of the Dutch manual for costing studies in health care"
» 25 November 2015: our next PriMHE (Programme in the Methods of Health Economics) lecture will take place at the Van Swieten Saal with Johan van Bussel, Head of healthdata.be at Scientific Institute of Public Health in Brussels, Belgium who will talk on "The healthdata.be project: Minimalisation of registration burden, Maximalisation of Return On Information".
» 7-11 November 2015: Noemi Kiss will be holding two poster presentations at the ISPOR 18th Annual European Congress in Milan, Italy
- PRM256: The challenges in evaluating the cost-effectiveness of complex interventions; research poster presentations - session v research on methods: Wednesday, 11 November 2015, 08:45-13:45
- PSS8: Systematic review and mixed treatment comparison of therapies for diabetic macular edema; research poster presentations - session i sensory systems disorders Monday, 9 November 2015, 08:45-14:15
» 28 October 2015: → next Health Economics Journal Club at 2:30pm. Further details you will find in Med.Campus (Course No. 851.057)
» 21 October 2015: The DHE is part of the newly funded LBI for Applied Diagnostics consortium: Judit Simon will lead one of the four work packages. The work will focus on health economics and other broader societal questions (e.g. ethics) in relation to personalized oncology diagnostics and treatment.
» 17 October 2015: Maria M. Hofmarcher presenting "Assemble key health system performance indicators and related (meta) information" at the 8th European Public Health Conference in Milan, Italy
» 13 October 2015: Susanne Mayer presenting "Socioeconomic Determinants of Medicines Use in Central Eastern Europe: The Role of Pharmaceutical Policy in Reducing Inequalities." at the 3rd International PPRI Conference in Vienna, Austria
» 26 September 2015: the DHE-Team will participate at the 9th Cancer Research Run at "altes AKH" and will be sponsored by Alda Travel. #gotheextramile
» 15 September 2015: Judit Simon has accepted an appointment to the Editorial Board of the Journal Health Economics and Outcome Research: Open Access
» 25 August 2015: Maria M. Hofmarcher gave a talk at the 2015 European Forum Alpbach partner program where "New Challenges Smart investments for a sustainable health care system" were addressed. The talk focused "Current Status Austria: New Challenges for the Health Care System".
» 24 August 2015: Judit Simon will be a Keynote Speaker presenting "Two-tier Medicine - An Insidious Inequality?" at the Alpbach Health Symposium, Alpbach, Austria
» 02 July 2015: our next PriMHE (Programme in the Methods of Health Economics) lecture will take place at the Jugendstilhoersaal with Professor Adrian Towse who will talk on “Relative effectiveness and the impact on drug development”.
» 25-27 June 2015: Judit Simon will be a Keynote Speaker at the International Health Conference St Hugh's College, Oxford, UK
» 19 May 2015: Noemi Kiss will be holding a poster presentation "eHealth in the management of chronic diseases: a review of program effectiveness" at the ISPOR 20th Annual International Meeting in Philadelphia, USA
» 30 April 2015: The Department of Health Economics at the Centre for Public Health is wishing to appoint a postgraduate RESEARCHER IN HEALTH ECONOMICS. The position is full-time, fixed-term until 31 October 2017 and can be filled immediately. Closing date: 18 May 2015, 4pm.
For more detailed information please go to our Job section.
» 29 April 2015: Susanne Mayer will hold a lecture for the IGSL Hospizbewegung on "Patient/inn/en und Gesundheitspersonal in der Gesundheitsökonomie".
» 13 April 2015: Judit Simon presenting "The costs and outcomes of compulsory community treatment for people with severe mental health disorders" at the Corvinus Health Policy and Health Economics Conference Series 2015/2, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary.
» 23 February 2015: SSM 2 - Das optimale Screening-Programm für Brustkrebs (The optimal screening programme for breast cancer) starts at 2pm.
For more detailed information about course dates and location please go to Med.Campus (Course No. 806.096)
» 17 December 2014, 19 + 27 January 2015: "The way to health: vom Gesundheitssystem zur Gesundheitsversorgung". Registration for this interdisziplinary course can only be done via Med.Campus (Course No. 896.000)
» 22 October 2014: the Health Economics Journal Club is starting at 2.30pm and will take place each Wednesday.
» 1 October 2014: Judit Simon has been appointed as Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford.
» October 2014: Manuscript accepted for Publication in the European Journal of Public Health: Mayer S, Österle A: Socioeconomic Determinants of Prescribed and Non-Prescribed Medicine Consumption in Austria.
» Diabetes simulation models as prognostic tools (14.08.2014)
This half-day workshop will take place on 15 September 2014. - Programme
» PriMHE Programme in the Methods of Health Economics (21.07.2014)
A new lecture series jointly organised between the DHE and the LBI-HTA is starting on the 16 September 2014.
The presentation slides can be found as pdf under Downloads.
» Judit Simon is awarded a Fellowship Through Distinction of the UK Faculty of Public Health (03.07.2014)
» New Staff joins the DHE
» Judit Simon’s Inaugural lecture (09.05.2014)
» 25.10.2013 Judit Simon becomes Professor of Health Economics at the Medical University of Vienna
