GHECO at the IHEA 2025 Congress
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The International Health Economics Association (IHEA) 2025 Congress will take place from 19-23 July 2025 in Bali, Indonesia. Occurring every second year, the Congress brings together experts and professionals from a range of government and non-government organisations (NGOs), international agencies, and universities including many researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).
Over 30 members of the Global Health Economics Centre (GHECO) at LSHTM will be presenting and moderating sessions at the IHEA 2025 Congress where they will share some of their latest work in methodological developments, present cutting-edge research from a range of health economics topic to discuss their implications for health policy and practice.
IHEA 2025 will begin with a two-day Pre-Congress from 19-20 July before the main Congress which will begin on 21 July. LSHTM Alumni will also be hosting a social event for alumni & friends attending the Congress to join for an evening of catch-ups and networking.
IHEA are a not-for-profit organisation that promotes health economics by supporting researchers and professionals, promoting inclusive collaboration within the health economics field and its important to other stakeholders. The organisation are led by its President Kara Hanson, Professor of Health System Economics at LSHTM, and President-Elect Virginia Wiseman, Professor of Health Economics at LSHTM and the University of New South Wales. IHEA is also guided by a Board of Directors that includes Josephine Borghi, Professor of Health Economics at LSHTM. Its bi-annual Congress serves as opportunities to discuss the latest research and topics of health economics.
Below you can find a list of presentations being given, and sessions being moderated, by GHECO members. More details about the conference, include a full programme, are available on the iHEA 2025 Congress website.
Sessions and presentations from members of GHECO
- Demand & utilization of health services
Josephine Borghi
On Monday 21 July (10:30-12:00): moderating an organised session entitled: Unpacking the Effects of Floods and Heatwaves on Maternal Health Care Coverage and Vulnerability Drivers.
- Economic evaluation of health and related care interventions
Haode Wang
On Monday 21 July (08:30-10:00): presenting an abstract in the session Cancer Policy: National and Global Perspectives entitled: Adapting HPV screening models for populations vulnerable to cervical cancer: using multiple data sources for prediction.
Kathleen McGee
On Monday 21 July (13:30-15:00): presenting an abstract in the organised session Costing the Community-Led Response: Methods, Evidence and Lessons Learned entitled: Costing the breadth of community-led HIV services: a participatory study in Sierra Leone.
Andrew Briggs
On Monday 21 July (13:30-15:00): presenting an abstract in the organised session Supporting Environmentally Sustainable Decisions with Health Economics Methods entitled: How Should Health Economic Evaluations Support Sustainability Considerations?
On Wednesday 23 July (13:30-15:00): presenting an abstract in the organised session Theory Driven Economic Evaluation in Health and Social Care - a Disciplinary Turn or Bend in the Road? entitled: Is it Time to Rethink our Approach to Economic Evaluation Alongside Clinical Trials?
Maninder Pal Singh
On Tuesday 22 July (08:30-10:00): presenting an abstract in the organised session Economic Evaluation of Communicable Disease Interventions entitled: Cost of Active Case Finding for Tuberculosis in Africa: A Multicountry Analysis.
Peixuan Zhang
On Tuesday 22 July (10:30-12:00): presenting an abstract in the organised session Evidence to Inform Vaccine and Medicine Adoption Policies entitled: Health and Economic Impact of Locally Developed Bivalent HPV Vaccination in China.
Iris Mosweu
On Wednesday 23 July (09:00-10:30): presenting an abstract in the organised session Improving the Evidence Base on the Cost-Effectiveness of Interventions to Address Neglected Tropical Diseases entitled: A Systematic Review of Economic Evaluations for Neglected Tropical Diseases of the Skin.
Olimpia Lamberti
On Wednesday 23 July (09:00-10:30): presenting an abstract in the organised session Improving the Evidence Base on the Cost-Effectiveness of Interventions to Address Neglected Tropical Diseases entitled: Cost and Cost-Effectiveness of Home-Based Self-Sampling and Clinic-Based Sampling for Screening of Female Genital Schistosomiasis in Zambia.
Peach Indravudh
On Wednesday 23 July (13:30-15:00): presenting an abstract in the organised session Costing the Community-Led Response: Methods, Evidence and Lessons Learned entitled: Guideline for Costing and Budgeting the Community-led Response.
- Evaluation of policy, programs and health system performance
Maninder Pal Singh
On Monday 21 July (08:30-10:00): moderating an organised session entitled: Decolonising Health Economics Research.
Catherine Goodman
On Monday 21 July (08:30-10:00): presenting an abstract in the organised session Decolonising Health Economics Research entitled: Rebalancing Power: Using the Equipar Tool to Build Equitable Partnerships in Health Economics Research.
Kara Hanson
On Monday 21 July (08:30-10:00): presenting an abstract in the organised session Decolonising Health Economics Research entitled: Empowering LMIC Researchers: NIHR's Approach to Decolonising Funding and Collaboration.
Stephen O'Neill
On Tuesday 22 July (13:30-15:00): presenting an abstract in the organised session New Methods in Program Evaluations entitled: Getting the best of both worlds: a new approach to evaluation using observational data that combines instrumental variable and machine learning regression models.
- Health beyond the health system
Kenneth Katumba
On Monday 21 July (08:30-10:00): moderating the organised session HIV Prevention through Behavioural Change where they will present an abstract entitled: Exploring the Links Between Sexual Risk Behaviour and Cognitive Biases Among Female Sex Workers in Kampala and Nairobi.
Andrew Briggs
On Monday 21 July (08:30-10:00): moderating an organised session in the field of Health beyond the health system entitled: Mental Health: Causes and Consequences.
On Wednesday 23 July (09:00-10:30): moderating an organised session entitled: Can we Define a Reference Case of Methods to Cover Both Environmental and Health Economic Evaluations?
Giulia Greco
On Wednesday 23 July (13:30-15:00): presenting an abstract in the organised session Harmful Social Practices and Violence Against Women and Children: Intervention Effectiveness, Value for Money and Methodological Considerations entitled: (Digital) Cash Transfers and Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from Uganda
- Health care financing & expenditures
Lorna Guinness
On Monday 21 July (13:30-15:00): discussant an abstract in the organised session entitled: Deliver Quality, Efficient, and Equitable Healthcare by Harnessing Costing Systems.
Josephine Borghi
On Monday 21 July (15:30-17:00): presenting an abstract in the organised session Financing Health Care in the Context of Climate Change Opportunities for Low Carbon and Resilient Health Systems entitled: Climate Finance Opportunities for Health Systems Financing.
Timothy Powell-Jackson
On Tuesday 22 July (13:30-15:00): moderating an organised session entitled: Provider Payment Mechanisms and Their Impact on Quality of Care and Clinical Practices: Comparative Insights from Low- and Middle-Income Countries.
- Health, its valuation, distribution and economic consequences
Peach Indravudh
On Monday 21 July (10:30-12:00): presenting an abstract in the session Discrete Choice Experiments entitled: Dynamic Preferences for HIV Prevention Among Women and Girls at High-Risk in Nairobi and Kampala: A Longitudinal Discrete Choice Experiment.
Giulia Greco
On Tuesday 22 July (11:00-12:30): moderating an organised session entitled: Climate Change and Health Outcomes: Economic Evidence.
On Wednesday 23 July (11:00-12:30): moderating an organised session entitled: Health and Wellbeing Outcome Measure Valuation Methods for Children and Young People: Applications From Australia, New Zealand, Uganda and the UK.
Olimpia Lamberti
On Tuesday 22 July (15:30-17:00): presenting an abstract in the organised session Climate Change and Health Outcomes: Economic Evidence entitled: The Economic Burden of Extreme Heat on Pregnant and Postnatal Women in Zimbabwe and South Africa.
Ziyi Lin
On Tuesday 22 July (15:30-17:00): presenting an abstract in the organised session Climate Change and Health Outcomes: Economic Evidence entitled: The Burden of Climate-Related Disease in Children Under Five: Disability-Adjusted Life Years in Kenya and South Africa Across Climate Scenarios.
Huiqi Chen
On Tuesday 22 July (15:30-17:00): presenting an abstract in the organised session Climate Change and Health Outcomes: Economic Evidence entitled: Economic Burden of High Temperature on Health Systems in Brazil.
Rebecca Prah
On Wednesday 23 July (09:00-10:30): moderating an organised session entitled: Measuring Complexity: Multimorbidity, Loneliness, and Cross-Cultural Challenges in Health Outcomes Research.
On Wednesday 23 July (11:00-12:30): presenting an abstract in the organised session Cost and Cost-Effectiveness of Home-Based Self-Sampling and Clinic-Based Sampling for Screening of Female Genital Schistosomiasis in Zambia entitled: Adolescents' Utility Values for the CHU9D tool in Uganda: Application of the Profile Case Best-Worst Scaling and Composite Time-Trade-off Methods.
Haode Wang
On Wednesday 23 July (11:00-12:30): presenting an abstract in the organised session Advancing Health Preference Elicitation: Methods and Applications entitled: Valuing Preference with DCE By Explicit or Implicit Comparison with ""Immediate Dead"": Feasibility, Utility Distribution and Preference Equivalence
Catherine Pitt
On Wednesday 23 July (13:30-15:00): presenting an abstract in the organised session Integrating Equity into Decision-Making: Methods and Applications for Equity Informative Economic Evaluations entitled: Equity-Informed Economic Evaluation of Next-Generation Nets for Malaria Prevention in Uganda: A Comprehensive Application of Multiple Equity Methods
- Supply and regulation of health services and products
Nasser Fardousi
On Monday 21 July (08:30-10:00) presenting an abstract in the session Health and Care Workforce entitled: How does heat impact healthcare workers’ performance and quality of care in labour and delivery units? A cross-country study using time-motion.
Catherine Goodman
On Tuesday 22 July (13:30-15:00): presenting an abstract in the organised session Quality of Care: Measurement and Impacts entitled: Quality of Services Provided by Online Pharmacies in Kenya and India Findings From a Field Experiment Using Standardized Patients.
Pre-Congress Meetings
- 16:00-17:00, Sunday 20 July
Kaja Abbas
Presenting an abstract in the Immunization Economics IHEA Pre-Congress meeting session Efficiency, prioritization, and vaccine portfolio optimization: tools & way forward entitled: Leveraging the Vaccine Impact Modelling Consortium for estimating health economic outcomes in low- and middle-income countries.
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