Health Economics Research Group (HERG)
HERG's strategic focus is on the economic evaluation of a broad range of clinical and health service technologies and its dual aim is to provide applied, policy-relevant research whilst developing and refining methods to increase the rigour and relevance of such studies. This strategy is highly relevant as economic evaluation begins to play more and more influential roles in international and national policies on the adoption and use of specific technologies.
External Seminar 13.00-14.30 pm Wednesday 8th February
Stavros Petrou, Professor of Health Economics at the Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick
News
"Research questions the cost-effectiveness of exercise referral schemes" click here to read more ************** A special edition of Research Evaluation 20(3) ‘State of the Art in Assessing Research Impact’ is available online soon. Guest Editor Claire Donovan has also written opinion pieces related to the special edition for the London School of Economics Impact of the Social Sciences Blog (‘Impact is a strong weapon for making an evidence-based case for enhanced research support but a state-of-the-art approach to measurement is needed’) and for Times Higher Education (‘Get off your high horse’). The special edition features articles and opinion on cutting-edge approaches to evaluating the impact of research, and draws on papers first presented at an international workshop hosted by HERG earlier this year:
· “State of the art in assessing research impact”, Claire Donovan
· “The ‘Payback Framework’ explained”, Claire Donovan and Stephen Hanney
· “An evaluation of the Mind-Body Interactions and Health Program: assessing the impact of an NIH program using the Payback Framework”, Jack E Scott, Margaret Blasinsky, Mary Dufour, Rachel J Mandal, and G Stephane Philogene
· “Evaluating health research funding in Ireland: assessing the impacts of the Health Research Board of Ireland’s funding activities”, Edward Nason, Brendan Curran, Stephen Hanney, Barbara Janta, Gillian Hastings, Mair é ad O’Driscoll and Steven Wooding
· “Assessing policy and practice impacts of social science research: the application of the Payback Framework to assess the Future of Work programme ”, Lisa Klautzer, Stephen Hanney, Edward Nason, Jennifer Rubin, Jonathan Grant and Steven Wooding
· “Introducing ‘productive interactions’ in social impact assessment”, Jack Spaapen and Leonie van Drooge
· “Tracing ‘Productive Interactions’ to identify social impacts: an example from the Social Sciences”, Jordi Molas-Gallart and Puay Tang
· “Real world approaches to assessing the impact of environmental research on policy”, Sarah Bell, Ben Shaw and Annette Boaz
· “Peer review and the ex ante assessment of societal impacts”, J. Britt Holbrook and Robert Frodeman
· “The Research Excellence Framework and the ‘impact agenda’: are we creating a Frankenstein monster?” Ben R Martin
· “The impact of impact”, John D Brewer
· “The impact of Payback research: developing and using evidence in policy”, Chris Henshall
· “The payback of ‘Payback’: challenges in assessing research impact”, Martin Buxton
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Short Course
Economic Evaluation in Health Care (Short Course), 28th - 30th March 2012 click here for more information or email Nicky Dunne if you are interested in attending.
Books authored by HERG staff
Estimating the economic benefits from medical research in the UK
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