Meet some of the OHE team at the European Health Economics Association (EuHEA) 2018 conference in Maastricht, 11-14 July.

Meet some of the OHE team at the European Health Economics Association (EuHEA) 2018 conference in Maastricht, 11-14 July.

Later this week, Graham Cookson, Paula Lorgelly, Koonal Shah, Mikel Berdud, and Margherita Neri will be travelling to Maastricht, The Netherlands, to participate in EuHEA 2018 and to present some of OHE’s research. The theme for this year’s conference is ‘Shaping the Future: The Role of Health Economics’. You can meet the team at the following sessions.

Parallel sessions 1: Economics of the Pharmaceutical Market

[Thursday, 10:30 – 12:00, 0.6 Madrid]

This session includes a presentation by OHE’s Mikel Berdud on establishing a reasonable price for an orphan drug.

Parallel sessions 2: Economic and Non-Economic Factors Affecting the Development and Access to Pharmaceutical Innovation in Europe: Learning from Direct Acting Antivirals (DAAs) for Hepatitis-C

[Thursday, 13:00 – 14:30, 0.8 Rome]

OHE’s Graham Cookson will chair this session, which includes two presentations of OHE’s research. Mikel Berdud will present on ‘R&D, competition and diffusion of innovation in EU: the case of Direct Acting Antivirals (DAAs) for hepatitis C’. Margherita Neri will be presenting on ‘The importance of non-economic factors for the access and uptake of hepatitis C treatments in Europe’.

Parallel sessions 3: Involvement of Patient and Public in Health Care Valuation

[Thursday, 14:30 – 16:00, 0.3 Copenhagen]

This session includes a presentation by OHE’s Paula Lorgelly, titled ‘The value of targeted sequencing in advanced cancer: results of a DCE to elicit the public’s preferences’.

Parallel sessions 5: Health State Validation Methodology

[Friday, 08:30 – 10:00, 0.1 London]

Paula Lorgelly will present on the subject of EQ-5D-3L and EQ-5D-5L in a cohort of cancer patients.

Parallel sessions 7: Challenges in Utility Measurement for Youth

[Friday, 14:30 – 16:00, 0.3 Copenhagen]

This session includes a presentation by OHE’s Koonal Shah on the subject of anchoring latent scale values for the EQ-5D-Y.

Following the conference, a selection of OHE’s presentations will be made available on SlideShare.