About Us
The Applied Health Econometrics group was founded in 2011, led by Dr. Brenda Gannon. It has recently been awarded development funding from the WUN FIRC (Worldwide University Network Fund for International Research Collaborations) to support collaboration with experts from York, Sheffield, Manchester, Dublin, Washington, Perth and Bergen. Internationally, there has been a recent surge of interest in using longitudinal observational or registry data to understand the casual impacts of treatments in health outcomes research. Econometric methods for casual inference are fundamental to health economics and are based on economic theoretical foundations. The group aims to further develop this research and to contribute to international developments in health econometrics. For further information, please contact b.gannon@leeds.ac.uk.
News & Events
Applied Health Econometrics Seminars
The group seminars are generally held on Tuesdays, in collaboration with the AUHE seminar series. Please see link to AUHE seminars where the upcoming WUN Applied Health Econometrics Network 2012 seminar series are marked.
Session on health econometrics at the European Health Economics Conference, 2012
Dr. Brenda Gannon has organised a session in the theme of Health Econometrics and Methodology, to be presented at the European Health Economics Conference, Zurich, July 2012. The title of the session is 'Dynamic models in health econometrics' and will include presentations and discussions from Dr. B. Gannon, Dr. S. Tubeuf (Leeds), Prof. A. Jones (York), Prof. D. Madden (Dublin), Dr. K. Monstad (Bergen) Prof. M. Harris (Perth).
1st Symposium in Applied Health Econometrics
The Applied Health Econometrics group recently hosted their 1st symposium in health econometrics, at The University of Leeds, on September 7th, 2011.
The aim of the symposium was to provide understanding of the applicability of econometrics to health policy projects, and showed, through examples of recent research, how econometric methods may be applied to health sciences. The symposium was well attended by researchers from health economics and health policy research. Professor Edward Norton, University of Michigan introduced the contribution of econometrics to health sciences and the various econometric methodologies that can be applied to health economic data. In particular he focused on regression discontinuity, instrumental variables and dynamic models. Three talks were given by AUHE members - Dr. Brenda Gannon discussed costs in chronic pain and the models used to estimate cost variation. Dr. Sandy Tubeuf explored inequalities of opportunity and use of limited dependant variables. This was followed by Dr. Jenny Willson who presented research on part time work and life satisfaction, using panel data methodology.
