Health Economics Research Centre (HERC), University of Oxford

07/10/2025

HERC SHORT COURSES 2025

The Health Economics Research Centre (HERC), University of Oxford, is pleased to announce their programme of Online short courses for autumn/winter 2025 and that registration is open now for bookings.

If you register for more than one Online course you will receive a 20% reduction on the overall cost. Further discounts are available to prospective participants from Lower to Middle-Income countries – please refer to our course pages on the HERC website for further information.

1. Inequality in Health and Health Care: Theoretical and Empirical Considerations 05-07 November (online)
Covering theoretical concepts on inequity and inequality in health as well as its measurement. This course will also provide an overview of selected available (longitudinal) household survey data and cohort studies that combine socio-economic and demographic variables along with various health measures – these datasets provide good sources for empirical inequality in health research.
https://www.herc.ox.ac.uk/herc-short-courses/inequality-in-health-and-health-care-theoretical-and-empirical-considerations

2. Applied Methods of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis 24-28 November (online)
This course is for health economists and health professionals with some knowledge of health economics who wish to learn about the methodology of cost-effectiveness analysis as applied in health care.
https://www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/short-courses/herc-short-courses/short-courses/applied-methods-of-cost-effectiveness-analysis-course

3. Cost-Effectiveness Analysis In Stata Using Participant-Level Data 02-04 December (online)
Designed for health economists and health professionals with a background in health economics who want to learn how to conduct cost-effectiveness analysis using the statistical software for data science Stata. Aimed at those who have participated in our Applied Methods of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis course (or similar)
https://www.herc.ox.ac.uk/herc-short-courses/cost-effectiveness-analysis-in-stata-using-participant-level-data

If you have any further queries, please contact the HERC Administration Team at: herc@ndph.ox.ac.uk

We look forward to welcoming you.

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06/10/2025

HERC NEWS

New Podcast Episode by the Centre for Personalised Medicine exploring the “Health Economics of Personalised Medicine”.

Hosted by Rachel Horton, CPM Research Fellow, this episode brings together leading experts in the field:

- Sarah Wordsworth, Professor of Health Economics, Health Economics Research Centre, University of Oxford and CPM Steering Group Member

- James Buchanan, Senior Lecturer in Health Economics, Queen Mary University of London

- Padraig Dixon, Senior Researcher in Health Economics, University of Oxford and CPM Steering Group Member

- Sally Sansom, Doctoral Researcher in Health Economics, University of Oxford and CPM Research Fellow

The episode includes:

- The challenges of conducting economic evaluations in personalised medicine

- What outcomes are important to patients and their families

- The complexity of evaluating gene therapies and genomic newborn screening

- Reimbursement strategies and policy implications

https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series-3-episode-5-health-economics

- Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/series-3-episode-5-health-economics/id1564207556?i=1000727263990

- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1Q9YIaEMBR12b3f2ijnqn8?si=SEuTAJsMSCqyM41KLCCKRA&nd=1&dlsi=f1f93d31fe084795

24/09/2025

ACAMH AWARDS 2025 NOMINATIONS

The Co-CAT Study Team (including HERC researcher prof. Mara Violato and Dr Shuye Yu), University of Oxford, was shortlisted for the Digital Innovation Awards: Research on Digital Impact.

The nomination recognizes researchers who have published the best paper on an information/data/IT/digital topic relating to child and adolescent mental health, which can include online assessment innovations.

https://www.acamh.org/blog/acamh-awards-2025-shortlist/

https://oxfordhealthbrc.nihr.ac.uk/colleagues-shortlisted-for-prestigious-child-and-adolescent-mental-health-awards/

It is our pleasure to announce the shortlist of nominees for the 2025 ACAMH Awards.

22/09/2025

BEST RESEARCH PAPER FINALIST

A paper by HERC researchers Boby Mihaylova, Junwen Zhou, Claire Williams, and Alastair Gray was amongst the 2025 finalists of the BMJ Heart Journal.

https://heart.bmj.com/pages/best-paper-award

Link to the full-text paper https://www.ndph.ox.ac.uk/news/statins-are-a-cost-effective-way-of-reducing-the-risks-of-heart-disease-and-stroke-in-older-adults

Annual award for best research paper published in Heart

19/09/2025

NEW PUBLICATION

Gabapentin for Pain Management after Major Surgery: A Placebo-controlled, Double-blinded, Randomized Clinical Trial (the GAP Study)

S Baos, M Lui, T Walker-Smith, M Pufulete, D Messenger, R Abbadi, T Batchelor, G Casali, M Edwards, N Goddard, M Abu Hilal, A Alzetani, M Vaida, P Martinovsky, P Saravanan, T Cook, R Malhotra, A Simpson, R Little, S Wordsworth, E Stokes, J Jiang, B Reeves, L Culliford, L Collett, R Maishman, N Chauhan, L McCullagh, H McKeon, S Abbs, J Lamb, A Gilbert, C Hughes, D Wynick, G Angelini, M Grocott, B Gibbison, C Rogers for the GAP Investigators

Anesthesiology 2025

ts effectiveness in major surgery. Methods: In this multicenter, double-blinded randomized controlled trial, adults undergoing major cardiac, thoracic, or abdominal surgery were randomized to receive either gabapentin (600 mg before surgery, 300 mg twice daily for 2 days after surgery) or placeb...

17/09/2025

NEW PUBLICATION

The changing role of family income in mental health from childhood to adolescence: findings from a UK longitudinal study

Murong Yang, Mara Violato & Claire Carson

Archives of Public Health 2025

A new publication shows that while children from lower-income families tend to have poorer mental health outcomes, the association varies with children’s age, being larger in adolescence than in childhood, especially for internalising symptoms. These findings suggest that the timing of policy intervention is important for reducing income-related child mental health inequalities.

Background Childhood and adolescence are critical periods of emotional and psychological development, during which socioeconomic factors such as family income may have varying effects on mental health. While previous research suggests that children from lower-income families tend to have poorer ment...

18/07/2025

NEW PUBLICATION

Effects of empagliflozin on quality of life and healthcare use and costs in chronic kidney disease: a health economic analysis of the EMPA-KIDNEY trial

Junwen Zhou, Claire Williams, Natalie Staplin, Parminder K. Judge, Kaitlin J. Mayne, Nikita Agrawal, Ryoki Arimoto, Jennifer B. Green, David Z.I. Cherney, Katherine R. Tuttle, Jose Leal, Philip Clarke, Jonathan R. Emberson, David Preiss, Christoph Wanner, Martin J. Landray, Colin Baigent, Richard Haynes, William G. Herrington, Borislava Mihaylova, on behalf of the EMPA-KIDNEY Collaborative Group

eClinicalMedicine 2025

In EMPA-KIDNEY, 2 years treatment with empagliflozin improved QALYs, and reduced use and cost of other healthcare, resulting in high likelihood of cost-effectiveness across a broad range of patients with CKD. The study's key limitation is its relatively short active treatment period and follow-up du...

14/07/2025

NEW PUBLICATION

Systematic review of health economic models for assessment and diagnosis of dementia

Joseph Kwon, Lisanne Schoutens, Mitchell Burden, Charlotte Colam, Sihao Zhao, Behrouz Nezafat Maldonado, Elizabeth Blundell, Anastasia Krywonos, Jingjing Jiang, Maria Karagiannidou, Christoph Jindra, Nemanja Vaci, Nia Roberts, Raphael Wittenberg, Martin Knapp, Amparo Yovanna Castro Sanchez, Emilse Roncancio-Diaz, Michele Potashman, Robin Thompson, Ron Handels, Jane Wolstenholme, Alastair M. Gray, Filipa Landeiro, the ROADMAP Group

Alzheimer’s Dement. 2025

INTRODUCTION Timely diagnosis of dementia is a public health priority to enable risk modification and treatment access. This study systematically identifies and critically appraises health economic ...

08/07/2025

NEW PUBLICATION

Accuracy of online surveys in predicting COVID-19 uptake and demand: A cohort study investigating vaccine sentiments and switching in 13 countries from 2020 to 2022

Zachary D.V. Abel, Laurence S.J. Roope, Mara Violato, Philip M. Clarke

Vaccine 2025

16/06/2025

HERC SHORT COURSES 2025

The Health Economics Research Centre (HERC), University of Oxford, is pleased to announce their programme of Online short courses for 2025 and that registration is open now for bookings.

This year we have simplified our discount structure in that if you register for more than one Online-only course you will receive a 20% reduction on the overall cost. Further discounts are available to prospective participants from Lower to Middle-Income countries – please refer to our course pages on the HERC website for further information.

1. Introduction to Health Economic Evaluation 23-24 September
An online course for health professionals and health researchers who want to understand the basics of health economics and its relevance to the health service. No previous knowledge of economics required.
https://www.herc.ox.ac.uk/herc-short-courses/introduction-to-health-economic-evaluation

2. Applied Methods of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis 24-28 November (online)
This course is for health economists and health professionals with some knowledge of health economics who wish to learn about the methodology of cost-effectiveness analysis as applied in health care.
https://www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/short-courses/herc-short-courses/short-courses/applied-methods-of-cost-effectiveness-analysis-course

3. Cost-Effectiveness Analysis In Stata Using Participant-Level Data 02-04 December (online)
Designed for health economists and health professionals with a background in health economics who want to learn how to conduct cost-effectiveness analysis using the statistical software for data science Stata. Aimed at those who have participated in our Applied Methods of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis course (or similar)
https://www.herc.ox.ac.uk/herc-short-courses/cost-effectiveness-analysis-in-stata-using-participant-level-data

4. Inequality in Health and Health Care: Theoretical and Empirical Considerations 05-07 November (online)
Covering theoretical concepts on inequity and inequality in health as well as its measurement. This course will also provide an overview of selected available (longitudinal) household survey data and cohort studies that combine socio-economic and demographic variables along with various health measures – these datasets provide good sources for empirical inequality in health research.
https://www.herc.ox.ac.uk/herc-short-courses/online-inequality-in-health-and-health-care-theoretical-and-empirical-considerations-1-5pm-uk-bst-15-17-november

Discounts are available upon booking more than one of our online courses.

If you have any further queries, please contact the HERC Administration Team at: herc@ndph.ox.ac.uk

We look forward to welcoming you in 2025.

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03/06/2025

NEW PUBLICATION

The Value of Hope in Cancer Care: Risk Preference and Heterogeneity in Cancer Patients and the General Public

Jihyung Hong, Eun-Young Bae, Shuye Yu

Value in Health 2025

19/05/2025

UPCOMING HERC SEMINAR

Core Outcome Set for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Dr Lisolette Fierens

Tues, 20 May, 11.00 - 12.00 UK BST, in person and online

Free event, requires registration

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