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Guest: Callum Brindley

Hosts: Fanny Tallgren and Karen Trujillo Jara

Short description:  In this episode Callum discusses with us about his paper on the effect of hospital spending on waiting times and findings from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study.

Timestamps:

(2:09) - Paper on waiting times. How changes in hospital spending might affect hospital activity (i.e. admission of patients).

(7:07) - Thoughts on the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2021

(11:08) - Explanation and findings of mortality concentration in the GBD Study

(13:31) - Life expectancy

 (23:54) - Tips for PhD candidates

(30:30) - Podcasts recommended

Sources:

• Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). Global Burden of Disease 2021: Findings from the GBD 2021 Study. Seattle, WA: IHME, 2024.

List of podcasts:

• Race & Health Podcast

Guest: Padmaja Ayyagari (Associate Professor at University of South Florida)  

Hosts: Prithviraj Basu Mallik and Fanny Tallgren 

Short description:  In this episode Professor Padmaja Ayyagari discusses with us her paper about the Medicaid program applied in the United States. 

Timestamps:

(01:38)- Medicaid (public insurance program in the United States) and paper scope (understand how Medicaid affect household's savings)   

(07:35)- Paper's contribution  

(14:08)- Conclusions and future work to identify the implications of such a program  

(20:36)- Personal experiences across different research contexts (e.g. theoretical and applied research)  

(32:00)- Health economics framework. What could fall in it? "Thinking through"  

(35:24)- What makes a paper good?  

Link: https://sites.google.com/view/padmajaayyagari 

In this episode, Professor Ana Balsa is chatting to us about her latest working paper titled "Mental Health Spillovers in Primary Schools". The paper studies the peer effects of students with mental health problems using longitudinal Danish register data.  We also touch upon her work on the parenting behavioural change communication intervention "Crianza Positiva" in Uruguay. On top of discussing her papers, we also talk about what it is like to conduct research in different continents and how to publish in top journals.  

• Guests: Ana Balsa (Professor at Universidad de Montevideo) 

Timestamps: 

(01:08) - Introduction to the working paper "Mental Health Spillovers in Primary Schools" 

(10:00) - Discussion of the parenting behavioural change communication intervention "Crianza Positiva" in Uruguay 

(16:50) - How to publish in top journals?  

In today's episode Emeritus Professor Michael Drummond  converses with us about the origins of HE; its relevance; perspectives commonly used in economic evaluation; aspects such as equity in health care and tips for the PhD path.

• Guests:  M. Drummond (Emeritus professor at University of York) , Pieter van Baal & Vivian Reckers-Droog (Professors at ESHPM)

Timestamps:

(08:06) - Health economics in the mid 60s 

(19:52) - First health economic evaluations and motivations to expand its scope

(50:18) - Equity in health care and HEEs in LMICs 

(58:49) - Recommendations for PhD students (writing tips, set of skills, labour market opportunities)

Additional resources:

• "Building a career in Health Economics" by Michael Drummond

Today's guest is our colleague and PhD candidate Jawa Issa. We discuss the main findings in her recent publication about income inequality in COVID-19 mortality in the Netherlands and, more broadly, her research about income inequality in mortality using data from other high-income countries like the US.  We also share some of our experiences at different health econ conferences!

• Guest: Jawa Issa

Timestamps:

(01:02) - Income-related inequality in health in the NL and other higher-income settings

(12:03) - Paper's findings (NL) 

(19:00) - Seminars/Conferences/networking tips 

Additional resources 

• [Link to publication]

In this episode, Sander discusses his recent publication about a preference elicitation method called ‘Participatory Value Evaluation - PVE’ and his ongoing applied research.

Guest: Sander Boxebeld (PhD candidate, ESHPM)

Hosts:  Fanny Tallgren & Karen Trujillo

Timestamps: 

(01:37) - PVE as a tool for researchers and policy makers and characteristics of the method 

(17:44) - Research ongoing using PVE to identify people’s preferences towards elderly health care system

(22:34) - Main findings of the study: clusters preferences for health expenditure allocation

(23:20) - Further research suggested: Study on how respondents process the choice task (e.g. effect of different designs and layouts in the choice task

Additional resources: 

• PVE method [link]

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