Towards an ecological health economics
First lecture in the new Anne Mills Annual Health Economics Lecture series, which will introduce the concept of ecological economics to explore its implications for health, health care, and health economics.
Modern healthcare systems and the discipline of health economics are both products of the long era of economic growth. Yet we now live in a world of ever-slower growth and relentlessly accelerating ecological crisis. What will this mean for the economics of health and healthcare, and how can health economics prepare for a challenging future of degrowth and limits?
In this talk, Martin Hensher will introduce ecological economics, and explore its implications for health, health care, and health economics. This will be followed by refreshment for in-person attendees in the Pumphandle Social where you can network with your colleagues.
This lecture, hosted by the Global Health Economics Centre, is part of the newly launched Anne Mills Annual Health Economics Lecture series. Each year, the Centre will invite a health economist to present a lecture on a key topic of the field. The series has been named in honour of Professor Dame Anne Mills, a towering figure in health economics whose four decades-plus tenure at LSHTM has had an immeasurable impact both at the School and in the field.
Speaker
Professor Martin Hensher
Martin Hensher is the Henry Baldwin Professorial Research Fellow in Health Systems Sustainability at the Menzies Institute for Medical Research of the University of Tasmania.
Martin is an LSHTM alumnus with over thirty years’ global experience in health economics, planning and financing gained as a civil servant and a researcher in the UK, Central Asia, South Africa and Australia.
Martin’s research explores how we can make our health care systems more sustainable, economically, environmentally and socially. His work integrates health economics with ecological economics to explore big systemic challenges: how health care can respond to climate change; the future of healthcare in a post-growth economy; and overconsumption and diminishing marginal returns in healthcare.
He is co-lead of the Lancet Commission on sustainable healthcare’s working group 4 on health system transformation, a member of WHO’s Technical Advisory Group on the economics of environment, climate and health, and a member of the South Australian Health Performance Council.
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