5th
European Conference on Health Economics (September 8th-11th
2004)
Dear
Colleagues
LSE Health and Social Care at
the London School of Economics and Political Science is hosting the 5th European
Conference on Health Economics. The conference will be held at the LSE site in
central London. It will be opened by Professor Julian Le Grand at a reception on
the evening of Wednesday September 8th, and will close with a reception at
lunchtime on Saturday September 11th 2004.
The conference will be
open to presentations from all areas of health economics, including (but not
limited to) financing and resource allocation, economic evaluation, econometrics
in health economics, incentives in health care, equity in health and health
care, outcomes evaluation, pharmaceutical economics, social care and mental
health economics.
In addition,
one of the conference
streams will be organised by the European Health Policy Group (EHPG), a forum
that encourages multidisciplinary discussion (for example, between economists
and political scientists) in comparing health sector reform in different
European countries. The specific theme for that stream will be regulation in
health care. If you are interested in presenting within the EHPG stream, please
contact the new coordinator of the EHPG, Gwyn Bevan, at [log in to unmask]
If you have any questions
regarding the 5th European Conference on Health Economics, and/or regarding that
which follows below, please write to [log in to unmask], or to me at [log in to unmask]
Conference
registration
The registration fee does not
include accommodation but does include the opening and closing receptions, the
conference dinner on the evening of September 10th, lunches on September 9th and
10th, teas/coffees throughout the conference, and all conference
materials.
The deadline for early bird
registration is Monday May 31st 2004. The early bird registration fees are as
follows:
Full time students: Euro 100 or
£70 sterling (required to show their student cards when registering at the
conference)
Academic / public sector /
charity: Euro 350 or £245 sterling
Private sector: Euro 700 or
£490 sterling
For those registering after May
31st 2004, the fees are:
Full time students: Euro 150 or
£105 sterling
Academic / public sector /
charity: Euro 450 or £315 sterling
Private sector: Euro 900 or
£625 sterling
Please note that cheques
can be made in either Euros or pounds sterling, but credit card payments
have to be specified in pounds sterling.
Cancellations
before Friday July 16th 2004 will be subject to a 25% administrative
charge. No refunds will be made after this date.
Abstracts
Each abstract will be
anonymously refereed by two reviewers, and the process will be overseen by the
chair of the abstract review committee, Jose Luis Fernandez. Abstracts should be
no longer than 300 words, and should have the following structure whenever
appropriate:
-
Title
- Author
(name and affiliation)
- Objective
- Methods
- Results
-
Conclusion
Accepted abstracts may be assigned to
either an oral or poster presentation session.
The deadline for the receipt of abstracts is
Monday February 16th 2004.
A decision will be made on
the abstracts by Wednesday March 31st 2004.
Organised
sessions
There will be up to eight
organised sessions at the conference. Each organised session should consist of
four 15 minute presentations. To be considered for an organised session, a
proposal needs to be submitted to [log in to unmask], and
should include the following: title and rationale for the
organised session, brief details of each of the presenters and
chairperson, and a 100-150 word description of each of the presentations.
Organised
session proposals will be peer reviewed in a process overseen by Franco
Sassi ([log in to unmask]), to whom queries about the suitability
of proposals may be directed. The deadline for receipt of organised session
proposals is also Monday February 16th, and an
acceptance/rejection decision will be made by Wednesday March
31st 2004.
Plenaries
There will be two plenary
sessions at the conference.
Professor Richard Layard will
be speaking on happiness. Professor Layard is Co-Director of the
Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, and since
2000 he has been a member of the House of Lords. He has written widely on
unemployment, inflation, education, inequality and post-Communist reform. He was
an early advocate of the welfare-to-work approach to unemployment, and
co-authored the influential book Unemployment: Macroeconomic Performance
and the Labour Market (OUP 1991). From 1997-2001 he helped implement
these policies as a consultant to the Labour
government.
The second plenary speaker is
yet to be confirmed.
Student Prize
There will be one prize,
worth Euro 700, sponsored by Innovus and presented to the best paper written by
a full time student. To be considered for the prize, papers should
be no longer than 7,000 words and submitted to the chair of the student
prize committee, Maria Raikou, at [log in to unmask], by Monday May 31st 2004.
Hardship
Fund
Financial support will be
offered to some of those who otherwise would not be able to attend the
conference. A condition of being offered financial support is that the delegate
must submit an abstract to present a paper. Acceptance of the abstract
for oral or poster presentation will not, however, be a condition of
receiving support. Moreover, applicants must be resident within a European
country.
Those who wish to be considered
for financial support should send a statement of no more than one side of A4,
that makes a case for why they should receive support. Statements should be sent
to the chair of the hardship fund committee, Monica Oliveira, at [log in to unmask], by Friday March
19th 2004.
Accommodation
Delegates are responsible for
booking their own accommodation. Suggestions are as follows:
1. School Residence Halls.
We have blocked LSE
residence rooms until Wednesday June 30th 2004, so if choosing this option,
please book your room by this date and please quote: European Health Economics
Conference at the LSE. There are three Halls:
Bankside House, Carr-Saunders and Rosebury
Residence.
Bankside House
24 Sumner Street
London
SE1
9JA
Tel: +44 (0) 207 107
5750
Fax: +44 (0) 207 107
5757
Standard singles at a
rate of £28.00 per night (inclusive of breakfast
and VAT)
Twins at a rate
of £54.00 per night (inclusive of breakfast and
VAT)
Triples at a rate of
£69.00 per night (inclusive of breakfast and VAT)
Dinner supplement will be
£7
Carr-Saunders
18-24 Fitzroy
Street
London
W1T
4BN
Tel: +44 (0) 207 107
5888
Fax: +44(0) 207 580
4718
Single rooms at a rate of
£25.00 per night (inclusive of breakfast and VAT).
Dinner Supplement will be
£8.50.
Rosebury
Residence
90 Rosebery
Avenue
London EC1R
4TY
Tel: +44 (0) 207 107
5850
Fax: +44(0) 207 580
5875
Standard single rooms at
£30 per night (inclusive of breakfast and VAT)
Dinner supplement
will be £10
2. Goodenough Club. Rooms here are nicer than in the
Halls, but places are very limited. Again, please quote: European Health
Economics Conference at the LSE.
Elizabeth
Rivas
Goodenough
Club
Visitors
Reservations
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7769
4727
Fax: +44 (0) 20
78379321
Single: £80.00 (inclusive of
breakfast and VAT)
Double:
£110.00 (inclusive of
breakfast and VAT)
3. The Bonnington in Bloomsbury. This is a
hotel option, situated close to the LSE.
92 Southampton Row
London WC1B 4BH
Tel 020 7242 2828
Fax 020 7831 9170
Single:
£97.00
Double: £115.00 to
£125.00
Sponsors
Additional sponsors are
welcome. If you or your institution/company would like offer sponsorship to the
5th European Conference on Health Economics, please contact me, Adam Oliver, at
[log in to unmask]
Confirmed sponsors
include:
Fourth
Hurdle
Glaxo-Smithkline
King's Fund
Merck Foundation
Trust
Innovus
Novartis
Nuffield
Trust
Pfizer
Visit London
Summary of main
dates
Monday February 16th: Deadline for abstracts and for organised session
proposals
Friday March 19th: Deadline for
submission to the hardship fund committee
Wednesday March 31st: Acceptance/rejection decision on abstracts and organised session
proposals
Monday May 31st: Deadline on early bird
registration
Monday May 31st: Deadline for
submission to student prize competition
Wednesday June 30th: Deadline for booking university
accommodation
Kind regards
Adam Oliver
LSE Health and Social Care
and the Department of Social
Policy
London School of Economics and Political
Science
on behalf of:
The local organising
committee
Alistair McGuire (Chair), Adam Oliver, Elias Mossialos, Gwyn Bevan,
Mrigesh Bhatia, Joan Costa-Font, Jose Luis Fernandez, Andrew Healey, Champa
Heidbrink, Martin Knapp, Julian Le Grand, David McDaid, Deme Nicolaou, Monica
Oliveira, Maria Raikou, Franco Sassi, John Appleby, John Brazier, Stirling
Bryan, John Cairns, David Cohen, Richard Cookson, Cam Donaldson, Maria
Goddard, Alastair Gray, John Henderson, David Hughes, Denise McAlister,
Anne Mills, Mark Sculpher and Miriam Wiley
and
The scientific advisory
committee
Vincenzo Atella, Pedro Pita Barros, Martin Buxton, Michael Drummond, Jose Ferraz-Nunes, Laszlo Gulacsi, Unto Häkkinen, Alberto Holly, Tor Iversen, Jeff Kirsch, Rosella Levaggi, Alan Maynard, Charles Normand, João Pereira, Carlos Pinto,
Gérard de
Pouvourville, Alex Preker, Lise Rochaix, Igor Sheiman, Jeffrey Sturchio, Philippe Ulmann, Wynand van de Ven
and Nicholas Wells.
