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MSc Health Economics for HIS, HERU, HSRU and NMAHP-RU co-
Health Professionals sponsored 7th Annual Research Symposium

Our MSc/Postgraduate Diploma/
Our joint annual symposium focused on ‘Evidence for value in the era
Postgraduate Certificate in Health
of realistic medicine’.
Economics for Health Professionals
continues to grow. By the end of 2019 Stirling Bryan was a keynote presenter, talking about ‘The rise and
we had 61 students on our course. rise of patient-orientated research: what implications for Scotland’.

Café Scientifique
Researchers at HERU have long challenged the clinical approach to valuation,
arguing that we should be broadening the valuation space to consider what
is important to patients and the public. Dwayne Boyers, Marjon van der Pol
and Mandy Ryan led a Café Scientifique event on what benefits should be
included when the NHS makes choices about what treatments to fund.

Plenary at the 11th German Health

Economics Association Annual Conference
Marjon van der Pol gave the closing plenary at the German
Health Economics Association Annual Conference in
Augsburg in March 2019. Marjon spoke about the role of
time preferences in health behaviours and argued that health
economists should embrace both behavioural economics
and intervention design to a greater extent.

International visits
Our successful visiting scholar scheme attracted two prominent economists to
HERU. We were delighted to welcome Professor Mark Harris as a Visiting Scholar for
three weeks in March. Mark is a John Curtin Distinguished Professor in the School of
Economics and Finance at Curtin University.

L to R: Liam Delaney and
Marjon van der Pol L to R: Paul McNamee
and Mark Harris

We also welcomed Professor Liam Delaney in July. Liam is a Professor
of Behavioural Economics at University College Dublin and leads the
Behavioural Science group in the Geary Institute for Public Policy.

Marjon van der Pol was successful in receiving a
Visiting Research Scholar award from the University
of Melbourne. Her four-week visit to the Melbourne
Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research L to R: Marjon van der Pol
was hosted by Professor Anthony Scott. and Tony Scott

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