News & Events Archive

»1 Oct 2021, 17th World Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care – “Exploring new dimensions”; virtual (6-8 Oct 2021)

Members of the DHE team present at the 17th EAPC World Congress.

The poster titled "Methodological aspects of economic evaluations conducted in the palliative and end-of-life-care settings: a systematic review" will be presented by Claudia Fischer.

Judit Simon is also co-author of the poster titled " iLIVE project volunteer study: delivery of a novel training programme for volunteer coordinators, to underpin development and implementation of hospital palliative care volunteer service".

»17 Sep 2021, Sechste ATHEA Konferenz - Covid-19 and Beyond; Vienna (23-24 September 2021)

Members of the DHE team present at the 6th ATHEA conference. Link to the presentations.

»13 Sep 2021, Prof Simon was invited to a panel talk to present the PECUNIA project results.

EUPHA_ECO webinar, virtual (22 September 2021, 14:00-15:30)

Prof Simon will be presenting the PECUNIA project results at the upcoming EUPHA_ECO (Public Health Economic Section) webinar on 22 September 2021, 14:00-15:30 (CET). Link to the registration.

»9 Sep 2021, Next PriMHE (Programme in the Methods of Health Economics) lecture: 09 November 2021, 12:00-13:00, virtual

"Estimating the monetary value of informal care provided to people living with dementia using a discrete-choice experiment" - Speaker: Dr Lidia Engel, Deakin Health Economics, Institute for Health Transformation (Melbourne/Australia)

For more information please click here: PriMHE 2021_11_09_Leaflet

»6 Sep 2021, Vaccinating Children and Young People: What are the issues?

ASPHER (The Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region) statement is now online.

Sesa G, McCallum A, Martin-Moreno JM, Naboulet J-P, Green M, Davidovitch N, Simon J, Czabanowska K, Middleton J: Vaccinating Children and Young People: What are the issues? ASPHER statement. 2021 Sep 6.

»18 Aug 2021, DHE Jobs: Doctoral Researcher in Health Economics

The DHE is wishing to appoint a doctoral researcher in health economics to contribute to to relevant ongoing projects of the DHE (e.g. FWF-project „Measuring outcomes of palliative care using patient reported outcomes (PROMs)”).

For more information please visit: DHE Jobs

and the website of the Doctoral Programme Public Health UN790 Public Health

»28 June 2021, iHEA - 14th World Congress on Health Economics, virtual (12-15 July 2021)

Members of the DHE team moderate, chair and present at iHEA 2021.

iHEA World Congress on Health Economics

Judit Simon: Specific Populations Poster Session (moderator)

Judit Simon: Reference Unit Cost Development in Six Countries for Multi-National, Multi-Sectoral Economic Evaluations: Experiences from the PECUNIA Project. (session chair)

Susanne Mayer: Harmonized calculation and cross-country comparison of reference unit costs of health and social care services based on the PECUNIA service costing tools. (oral presentation)

Claudia Fischer: The self-reported PECUNIA resource use measurement instrument module for the health and social care sectors: item development and questionnaire structure. (oral presentation)

Michael Berger: Devil in the details: How urgency and costs influence the effects of cost-sharing on healthcare service consumption patterns. (poster presentation)

Michael Berger: Regional medical practice variation in high-cost healthcare services: Evidence from diagnostic imaging in Austria (poster presentation)

Link to the presentations

»8 Jun 2021, Prof Simon is giving an invited talk at the Value of Treatment (VOT) 2 Synthesis Meeting, 8th June 2021, 16:15 CET, virtual

Prof Simon is giving an invited talk "Comments: towards an overarching perspective on the care pathway analysis and health economics study for mental disorders" at the Value of Treatment 2 Synthesis Meeting, on the 8th June 2021, at 16:15 CET.

Experts participating in the Value of Treatment (VOT) for brain disorders research will present a synthesis of the results so far and examine the most critical issues in brain diseases in Europe from different perspectives including policymakers, innovators, academia and industry, medical professionals and patient organisations.

Link to the event.

»25 May 2021, Corvinus University, Hungary awards honorary professorship to Judit Simon

Prof Simon has been awarded the title of Honorary University Professor by the Senate of Corvinus University, Budapest, Hungary for her ongoing collaborative work at the Department of Health Economics, Institute of Economics and Public Policy. https://www.uni-corvinus.hu/hir/tudositas-a-szenatus-majusi-ulesrol/

»10 May 2021, PECUNIA Final Workshop, virtual, 2nd June 2021 - registration open!

"Assessing the costs and outcomes of healthcare for economic evaluations in Europe"

As the PECUNIA project reaches its end, a one-day Virtual Final Workshop titled "Assessing the costs and outcomes of healthcare for economic evaluations in Europe" is organized on June 2, 2021 to present the key findings and results of the project.

Participation in this virtual event is free of charge, but registration is mandatory.

Find more information on registration and workshop programme here.

»4 May 2021, The DHE Short Course is taking place 20-22 October 2021 (online)

Evidence-based healthcare evaluation - Introduction to evidence synthesis and health economics

For more information please visit the course website:

DHE Short Course

» 26 April 2021, “The Future of Mental Health” (29th April 2021) - Online-Symposium, Uni Wien

Prof. Simon presented "Developments in outcome measurement for mental health services: the story of a fruitful collaboration in Austria"

The symposium "The Future of Mental Health" on the occasion of the 70th birthday of Univ.-Doz. Dr. Georg Spiel was organized by pro mente and took place online on the 29th April 2021.

»25 March 2021, Assessing the costs and outcomes of healthcare - EU Research Spring 2021

The new issue of EU RESEARCH features some results from the 2020 PECUNIA EU project on assessing the costs and outcomes of healthcare.

Link to the publication.

»24 March 2021, "Psyche im Corona-Stress" - an interview with Prof Simon, 2021/1 WIEN WISSEN

Prof Simon's interview "Psyche im Corona-Stress" about the study results on the impact of COVID19 on mental health and well-being in Austria was published in WIEN WISSEN 1/2021.

Link to the interview.

»17 March 2021, Agata Laszewska presented the PECUNIA work on the development of supra-national value sets for the EQ-5D at the Maastricht ISPOR Student Chapter meeting on March 18 2021.

»11 March 2021, Round Table "ZUKUNFT EUROPA- GESUNDHEIT und INNOVATIVE IDEEN" (10th March 2021) - Bundeskanzleramt, Wien

Mag.a Karoline Edtstadler (Bundesministerin für EU und Verfassung) invited Prof. Simon as an expert for Health Economics.

Prof. Simon participated the round table "ZUKUNFT EUROPA- GESUNDHEIT und INNOVATIVE IDEEN" on the 10th March 2021 as an expert for Health Economics.

»9 March 2021, „Joint Academy Day ÖAW-RSC" (18th March 2021) - webinar

Prof. Simon is a speaker on the subject Healthy Societies - 19.00-20:30

You are welcome to join the "Joint Academy Day" organized by the ÖAW together with the Canadian Academy of Sciences. The event takes place online as a webinar on the 18th March 2021.

Prof. Simon is a speaker in Panel 6: Healthy Societies - from 7 p.m.

You can find more information about the program and the Panel-Links here.

»11 February 2021, Prof. Simon was featured in the PECUNIA project #WomenInScience Twitter campaign on 11 Feb. 2021

https://twitter.com/Pecunia_EU

»27 January 2021, Prof. Simon was guest in Ars Boni 111: Effects of COVID 19 on mental health (live podcast)

Prof Simon has been talking to Prof Forgo from the Department of Innovation and Digitalisation in Law, University of Vienna in his podcast series ‘Corona and Law’ about the impact of COVID 19 on mental health and related ongoing research at the DHE in addition to the health economic aspects of decision making during the COVID 19 pandemic.

To watch the podcast go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o2n2HdtXm0

»13 January 2021, Prof Simon was invited to join the International Editorial Board of BJPsychOpen

Prof. Dr. Judit Simon has accepted the invitation to join the BJPsych Open International Editorial Board with handling editor's responsibilities. “Prof. Simon’s breadth of experience, research and publications with international collaborations addressing mental health economics, public health, psychiatric clinical trials, and health services/systems research will bring significant strength to BJPsych Open.” (Kenneth R. Kaufman, Editor-in-Chief, BJPsych Open)BJPsych Open is a high-quality, online-only open access journal for the publication of all methodologically sound research in psychiatry and disciplines related to mental health.

»4 January 2021, Agata Łaszewska co-authored a new ASPHER report on Lockdown-induced illnesses

In order to curb the spread of the pandemic, many governments introduced country-level lockdowns involving a range of social restrictions designed to limit physical-social interactions and mobility. However, these measures have also resulted in extensive unintended adverse health effects on populations worldwide.

This ASPHER Report ‘What are the COVID-19 10 Lockdown-induced illnesses and why should European public health systems be investigating their epidemiology, treatment, and prevention?’ aims to explore the anticipated long-term impacts of pandemic-induced lockdowns across Europe on different aspects of health that have been less commonly studied and explored.

»9 December 2020, The slides for the PriMHE Event (26 January 2021) are now available for download

Prof Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford) presented: "Innovative methods of evidence synthesis: a primer on network meta-analysis."

Link to PriMHE-presentations

»18 November 2020, November edition of ASPHER Newsletter features COVID-19 report in Austia by Professor Simon

The November edition of the ASPHER (the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region) Newsletter features a COVID-19 country report from Austria written by Professor Simon.

Link: https://www.aspher.org/download/527/aspher-newsletter-november-2020.pdf

»12 November 2020, Working paper on the impact of Covid-19 on mental health and wellbeing in Austria - a summary of study results, is now available

Working paper presenting a snapshot of the results of the study “Auswirkungen von COVID-19 auf die psychische Gesundheit und das Wohlbefinden in Österreich" has been prepared by the DHE team and can be viewed here.

Description of the study in German and English.

»9 November 2020, ISPOR Europe 2020 (16-19 November 2020), virtual conference

The DHE team is presenting the PECUNIA Project

ISPOR Europe 2020

Harmonized Methods for Estimating Pan- and Supra-National Utility Value Sets: The PECUNIA Project (Judit Simon; organized session)
Identification of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures Used for Generic Quality-of-Life/Wellbeing Assessment in Multi-Person, Multi-Sectoral and Multi-National Economic Evaluations: The PECUNIA Project (Agata Łaszewska; poster presentation)
Harmonized Unit Costs for Health and Social Care Services Based on the PECUNIA Tools: The Example of Austria (Susanne Mayer; poster presentation)

»30 October 2021, Case study of developing a linguistically and culturally valid Hungarian version of the OxCAP-MH well-being questionnairee presented

The poster entitled “Internal and external aspects of freedom in the application of the capability approach – the case study of developing a linguistically and culturally valid Hungarian version of the OxCAP-MH well-being questionnaire” has been electronically presented as part of the annual meeting of the Hungarian Health Economics Association on 27 October 2020.

Co-authors:

Timea Mariann Helter¹, Ildiko Kovacs², Andor Kanka², Orsolya Varga³, Janos Kalman², Judit Simon^1,4

¹Department of Health Economics, Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna, Kinderspitalgasse 15, Vienna, A-1090

² Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Szeged, Kálvária Ave 57, Szeged, Hungary, H-6725

³Department of Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Public Health, University of Debrecen, 26 Kassai Street, Debrecen, Hungary

⁴Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford OX3 7JX, UK

»12 October 2020, Differing calculation methods hinder cost comparisons between public health care sys

Medical University of Vienna press release about DHE findings

(EN) Differing calculation methods hinder cost comparisons between public health care systems across the EU

(DE) Unterschiedliche Berechnungsmethoden erschweren EU-weit Kostenvergleiche in öffentlichen Gesundheitssystemen

»29 September 2020, Lehrveranstaltungen und Prüfungen im Rahmen der COVID-19 Maßnahmen

Durchführungsbestimmungen, Sicherheits- und Hygienebestimmungen,
Studienjahr 2020/2021

Im folgenden Mitteilungsblatt finden Sie die Durchführungs-, Sicherheits- und Hygienebestimmungen bezüglich Lehrveranstaltungen und Prüfungen im Rahmen der COVID-19 Maßnahmen im Studienjahr 2020/21

Mitteilungsblatt der Medizinischen Universität Wien
26. Stück, Nr. 32

»25 September 2020, Infosession for UN790 Doctoral Programme Public Health

Monday, 5 October 2020, 12:00-13:00
Webex Meeting

Event number: 121 836 8886

Event password: phd-publichealth

Registration is not required.

Doctoral Program Public Health

»23 September 2020, 16th World Congress on Public Health 2020 (12-16. October 2020)

Poster presentations of the DHE team

16th World Congress on Public Health 2020

Nataša Perić: Is the EU ready for a generic set of indicators for health system performance? A qualitative study

Judit Simon: (Pharmaco)economic evaluations for mental health related services: the PECUNIA project

»24 August 2020, Austrian recommendations on physical activity (Österreichische Bewegungsempfehlungen) updated

Susanne Mayer was part of the national expert group contributing to the updated Austrian recommendations on physical activity.

Austrian recommendations on physical activity (Österreichische Bewegungsempfehlungen) updated

Susanne Mayer was part of the national expert group updating the Austrian recommendations on physical activity, specifically contributing to the chapter on societal consequences of physical inactivity. The document can be downloaded from the website of Fonds Gesundes Österreich.

»29 May 2020, New crowd-sourcing initiative "Reden Sie mit!" (Ludwig Bolztman Gesellschaft LBG)

Prof Judit Simon is part of the Expert Advisory Group and Dr Agata Laszewska will participate in the co-creation workshop as part of LBI initiative "mental health and work".

The goal of this great initiative is to identify subject areas for which new research in the area of mental health is urgently needed by engaging general public, experts and practitioners in the discussion.

The focus is on the mental health in connection with education and learning, work and social isolation during the Corona crisis.

For more information please visit the initiative's website:

https://corona.lbg.ac.at/

»27 May 2020, Umfrage: Auswirkungen von COVID-19 auf die psychische Gesundheit und das Wohlbefinden in Österreich

Die Abteilung für Gesundheitsökonomie, Zentrum für Public Health, Medizinische Universität Wien hat eine Online-Umfrage erstellt. Ziel dieser Studie ist, die langfristigen Auswirkungen des COVID-19-Ausbruchs auf die psychische Gesundheit und das Wohlbefinden der Menschen in Österreich zu untersuchen.

Sie können teilnehmen, wenn Sie mindestens 18 Jahre alt sind, gute Deutschkenntnisse haben und wenn Sie während der Ausgangbeschränkungen zwischen Mitte März und Mitte April 2020 Ihren Hauptwohnsitz in Österreich hatten.

Die Teilnahme an dieser Befragung erfolgt freiwillig und anonym. Das Ausfüllen des Fragebogens dauert ca. 40 Minuten, aber der Fragebogen kann jederzeit unterbrochen und später fortgesetzt werden. Alle Daten werden gemäß der EU-Datenschutzgrundverordnung (DSGVO) behandelt. Die Studie wurde von der Ethikkommission der Medizinischen Universität Wien genehmigt (EK Nr: 1529/2020).

Für weitere Information, bitte wenden Sie sich an unsere Homepage: https://healtheconomics.meduniwien.ac.at/en/wissenschaft-forschung/projekte/auswirkungen-von-covid-19-auf-die-psychische-gesundheit-und-das-wohlbefinden-in-oesterreich-eine-explorative-studie/

»20 May 2020, The DHE presents at the Online-Spring Conference of the Austrian Society of Public Health (ÖGPH)

Agata Łaszewska presented "Auswirkungen psychischer Erkrankungen auf dem Ressourcenverbrauch im Gesundheitsbereich und Produktivitätsverlusten" during the first spring conference (Frühjahrstagung) of the Austrian Society for Public Health as one of the finalists of the early career public health researchers competition.

Nicole Grössmann presented "Publicly accessible evidence of health related quality of life benefits associated with cancer drugs approved by the European Medicines Agency between 2009 and 2015".

ÖGPH Online-Spring Conference Programme

»1 April 2020, DHE office hours during SARS CoV-2 restrictions

Due to the current CoV-2 restrictions the offices of the Department of Health Economics remain closed for personal appointments.

You can reach us as usual via e-mail or phone:

dhe@meduniwien.ac.at

+43 (0) 1 40160 - 32842

»1 April 2020, SARS CoV-2 Information of the Medical University of Vienna

For updates please visit the news section of the university's website:
https://www.meduniwien.ac.at/web/ueber-uns/news/

»14 Febr 2020, 21. Jahrestagung EbM-Netzwerk 2020

Useful patient-related research,13 -15 February 2020, Basel

Nicole Grössman is presenting: “Published evidence of health-related quality of life benefits associated with cancer drugs approved by the European Medicines Agency between 2009 and 2015”

»28 January 2020, Presentations of DHE members at the 5th ATHEA Conference

Nataša Perić is presenting “Cost-effectiveness of the PreDicT test-results and lessons learned from a European multinational depression trial".

Susanne Mayer is presenting "Development of the PECUNIA unit cost calculation templates for harmonized cross-country and cross-sector valuation of services".

Timea Helter is presenting "Developing a linguistically and culturally valid Hungarian version of the OxCAP-MH questionnaire".

Agata Laszewska is presenting “Identification of cross-country differences in health state valuations to identify criteria guiding future development of supra-national value sets for EQ-5D – the PECUNIA project”.

»9 January 2020, "Methodological challenges in (pharmaco)economic evaluations“

Die Teilnahme an unseren Fortbildungsveranstaltungen von Univ.Prof. Judit Simon, Abteilung für Gesundheitsökonomie gehört zu den Dienstpflichten jeder Ärztin / jedes Arztes an der Univ. Klinik für Klinische Pharmakologie. Speziell für die in Ausbildung stehenden Kolleginnen und Kollegen ist die Teilnahme verpflichtend.

Wir bitten alle Arbeitsgruppenleiter, den Kollegen die Teilnahme an der Fortbildung zu ermöglichen.

Interessierte sind auch herzlich willkommen!

»8 January 2020, Meeting of the UK Health Economics Study Group in Newcastle

Timea Helter has attended the Winter 2020 meeting of the UK Health Economics Study Group in Newcastle, supported by a scholarship from the organisers. Her paper entitled "Empirical comparison of capability instruments in mental health research: OxCAP-MH vs. ICECAP-A in schizophrenic patients with depression" was discussed by David Mott from the Office of Health Economics on 8th January.

»19 November 2020, "Empirical comparison of capability instruments in mental health research: OxCAP-MH vs. ICECAP-A in schizophrenic patients with depression"

6th-8th January 2020

Timea Helter will present her paper entitled "Empirical comparison of capability instruments in mental health research: OxCAP-MH vs. ICECAP-A in schizophrenic patients with depression" at the next meeting of the Health Economists’ Study Group, hosted by Newcastle University from 6th-8th January 2020. The paper aims to comprehensively compare the properties of the OxCAP-MH and ICECAP-A instruments in schizophrenic patients with depression.

»19 November 2019, First HTx Expert Forum meeting

25. November 2019

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.

»24 October 2019, PriMHE Challenges in developing a life-course approach to assessing capability well-being for use in

21 November 2019,15:00 – 16:00

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

»23 October 2019, 9th International Seminar of the PRC

23-25 October 2019

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".

»18 October 2019 , iLIVE Project meeting - 6. International Collaborative Symposium Week

4. - 7. November 2019

Dr. Claudia Fischer participates at the iLIVE project meeting in Bergen - Norway. This will take place during the 6. International Collaborative Symposium Week of the International Collaborative for Best Care for the Dying Person.

Zur Newsletter Anmeldung für das Project iLIVE.

»11 October 2019, EU-project PReDicT

18-19 November 2019

Judit Simon and Nataša Perić will participate in the final All Investigators Meeting of the EU-project PReDicT in Paris, France.

»11 October 2019, ISPOR EUROPE CONFERENCE Copenhagen

5 November 2019 - Research Poster Session 4 – 15:45 – 19:00:

»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".

ICMPE Conference in Venice (29-31 March 2019)- Fourteenth Workshop on Costs and Assessment in Psychiatry: The Value of Mental Health Services

»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 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."

»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.

»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

»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 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.

»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.

»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".

»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.

»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.

»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.

»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.

»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".

»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)

»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.

»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.

»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).

»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 2^nd 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 2^nd 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 2^nd 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 18^th 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.

»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

»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”.

»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.

»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.

»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.

» 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.

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»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.

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