Healthcare transitions: Understanding the drivers of innovation in healthcare. This in-person event brings together researchers, policymakers, and health professionals to explore the drivers and consequences of innovation adoption in healthcare. Please head to the workshop website to view the full program and invited speakers. Monday 16 February 2026 9.00 am – 5.00 pm Aerial Function Centre, [...]
This Public Economics Forum, hosted by the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, will showcase the latest Policy Issue of The Australian Economic Review on the topic of affordable specialist care, fee setting, and health equity. This forum is dedicated to non-GP medical specialists and the discussion aims to inform federal health reforms to ensure [...]
The Macquarie University Centre for the Health Economy (MUCHE) and the Australian Health Economics Society (AHES) Health Preference Research SIG are delighted to host a joint workshop on Integrating Patient Outcomes and Preferences in Health Technology Assessments (HTA) and Policy Decisions. If you work in HTA, outcomes research, value-based healthcare, or policy evaluation or you supervise [...]
This workshop discusses the continuing evolution of health technology assessment (HTA) in Australia. It reflects on the motivations behind HTA‑informed decision‑making, how current systems operate in theory and in practice, and what we have learned from work on fairness, bargaining, and real‑world decision processes. It then looks to the future, considering the challenges of the [...]
Join Macquarie University’s Centre for the Health Economy (MUCHE) and Associate Professor Mike Paulden from University of Alberta this April for an exclusive three-day short course series covering the fundamentals of health economic evaluation and modelling techniques. Designed for professionals in the health, industry, government, academic and not-for-profit sectors, this program is ideal for non-economists [...]
The Melbourne Health Economics at the University of Melbourne is excited to invite you to join us for a seminar with Dr Andrew Lloyd on "Some ideas for the better use of PRO data in HTA decision making". When: Tue July 21, 2026 Where (hybrid) in-person: Room 515, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street, The University of Melbourne, Victoria [...]
Young people are facing a convergence of economic pressures, including underemployment and insecure work, rising rent and housing costs, growing out‑of‑pocket expenses for care, minimum wages that have not kept pace with the cost of living, and the increasing cost of education. These pressures are not just financial - they are profoundly shaping mental health [...]
AHES Group Mentoring Session for PhD candidates and early-career researchers: Health Technology Assessment (HTA) for Digital Health Technologies Speaker: Dr Amy Von Huben Dr Amy Von Huben is a Research Fellow at the Leeder Centre for Health Policy, Economics and Data (TLC), University of Sydney. She has completed three economic evaluations of digital health interventions [...]
Centre for Health Economics Policy Symposium 2026 1st September, Canberra https://www.monash.edu/business/events/centre-for-health-economics-policy-symposium-2026 Sustainable Care: The next decade of policy reform This symposium brings together researchers, policymakers, practitioners and consumers to examine how Australia’s health, aged care and disability systems need to evolve over the coming decade. The full-day conference will focus on the future of the [...]
The Australian Health Economics Society (AHES) is pleased to invite you to the launch of the Economics and Implementation Research Special Interest Group (SIG). This new SIG aims to bring together researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and students interested in strengthening the integration of implementation science and health economics to improve research, healthcare decision-making, and research translation into practice. This inaugural [...]