On Wednesday 21st September, Professor Philip Clarke from the University of Melbourne will lead an OHE Lunchtime Seminar on the topic of: Health Economic Evaluation throughout the Ages.

On Wednesday 21st September, Professor Philip Clarke from the University of Melbourne will lead an OHE Lunchtime Seminar on the topic of: Health Economic Evaluation throughout the Ages.

This lecture will provide a broad overview of the development of economic methods for evaluating public health and medical interventions prior to the 1970s. It will include three sections:

• Early contributions primarily from the United States, such as the work of Chapin and Sydenstricker to evaluate public health interventions prior to World War II.
• Development of economic evaluation during and after World War II, with an emphasis on the development of methods both by the military and by public health researchers such Klarman and Mushkin.  
• Proposals for the evaluation of pharmaceuticals and other aspects of the NHS in the United Kingdom that arose from the late 1950s. 

Prof Philip Clarke heads the Health Economics Unit, in the Centre for Health Policy at University of Melbourne, Australia. His broader health economic research interests include developing methods to value the benefits of improving access to health care, health inequalities, the use of simulation models in health economic evaluation and ways to improve collection of health economic data.

View the full seminar invite here.

The seminar will be held in the Sir Alexander Fleming Room, Southside, 7th Floor, 105 Victoria Street, London, SW1E 6QT. A buffet lunch will be available from 12:00 noon. The seminar will start promptly at 12.30 pm and finish promptly at 2.00 pm.

Please contact Kerry Sheppard if you wish to attend. Kerry will provide confirmation once she has received your request. Please note that this seminar was previously advertised as a seminar and webinar. The webinar is going ahead but has reached capacity.