HERC Online and Classroom Courses 2024/2025
Excerpt from Module 1 of the Online course: Introduction to Health Economic Evaluation
HERC offers several courses in health economics for external participants.
SPECIAL RATES FOR COMBINED ONLINE COURSE BOOKINGS (Introduction to Health Economic Evaluation, Integrating Economic Evaluation into Clinical Trials and online Applied Methods of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis only). See our current course offers.
| Oxford University or the OUH NHS Foundation Trust employees may be eligible for a bursary: Closing date 01 May 2024: Research Training Bursaries | NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre |
2024
ONLINE INTRODUCTION TO HEALTH ECONOMIC EVALUATION
Tuesday 24 and Wednesday 25 September 2024
This course is for health professionals and health researchers who want to understand the basics of health economics and its relevance to the health service.
See the main Introduction to Health Economic Evaluation course page for full course details, including registration and pricing.
ONLINE INEQUALITY IN HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE: THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL CONSIDERATIONS
Wednesday 06 - Friday 08 November 2024
This course will cover theoretical concepts on inequity and inequality in health as well as its measurement. It will also provide an overview of selected available (longitudinal) household survey data and cohort studies that combine socio-economic and demographic variables along with various health measures – these datasets provide good sources for empirical inequality in health research.
See the main Inequality in Health and Health Care: Theoretical and Empirical Considerations course page for full details, including registration and pricing.
ONLINE APPLIED METHODS OF COST-EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS
Monday 25 - Friday 29 November 2024 (each afternoon)
For health economists and health professionals with some knowledge of health economics who wish to learn about the methodology of cost-effectiveness analysis as applied in health care.
See the main Applied Methods of Cost-effectiveness Analysis course page for full details, including registration and pricing.
Online Cost-Effectiveness Analysis In Stata Using Participant-Level Data
Tuesday 03 - Wednesday 05 December 2024 (each afternoon)
This course, aimed at those who have participated in the Applied Methods of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis course (although open to all) will provide an overview for data preparation and analyses using the statistical software Stata.
See the main Cost-effectiveness Analysis in Stata using Participant-level Data course page for full details, including registration and pricing.
2025
Online Course: Integrating Economic Evaluation into Clinical Trials
This newly developed course is designed for clinical investigators, managers, researchers and others working in clinical trials. It will give participants an understanding of what is required to enable an economic evaluation to be integrated into a clinical trial at the design stage. No previous knowledge or background in economics is required.
See the main Integrating Economic Evaluation into Clincal Trials course page for full details, including registration and pricing.
CLASSROOM OR ONLINE BASED UNDERSTANDING AND PREDICTING CHOICE BEHAVIOUR IN HEALTH: PREFERENCE ELICITATION AND ANALYSIS
Methods for understanding choices are applied in health care to assess preferences, analyse policies, conduct non-market valuation, and forecast behaviour. This course teaches introductory methods for devising experiments and modelling choice data in health care.
See the main Understanding and Predicting Choice Behaviour in Health Preference Elicitation course page for full details, including registration and pricing.
If you would like to make a group booking, please contact us at herc@ndph.ox.ac.uk for more details