The University of Arizona

Center for Health Outcomes and PharmacoEconomic Research

Training programs in health outcomes and pharmacoeconomic research

Topic: Advanced Course on Pharmacoeconomic Modeling
Dates: August 11-13, 2008 (Tucson, Arizona)

Description: The program will consist of lecture-based learning combined with hands-on workshops. The program will focus on the use of widely accepted software programs such as Microsoft Excel. Topics include: decision analysis and Markov modeling; probabilistic models; interpretation of cost-effectiveness graphs and acceptability curves; mixed treatment comparisons for indirect evidence synthesis, meta-analysis and Bayesian approaches; and expected value of perfect information.

Topic: Training Program in Health Outcomes and Pharmacoeconomic Research
Dates: September 22-25, 2008 (Tucson, Arizona)

Description: The program is aimed at professionals with an entry to intermediate knowledge level. Instruction combines lecture and hands-on workshops throughout the course. Topics include: overview of basic principles; pharmacoeconomic methodologies; patient reported outcomes assessment; decision analysis; Markov models; pharmacoeconomic literature evaluation; application of pharmacoeconomics to managed care; designing and conductingpharmacoeconomic studies; and interpretation of cost-effectiveness data.

The Center also works with individual companies to design tailored programs.

CANADA

McMaster University and University of York

ADVANCED MODELING METHODS FOR HEALTH ECONOMIC EVALUATION
3-day ‘hands-on’ computer based course Programs for Assessment of Technology in Health (PATH) Research Institute (McMaster University), University of York & University of Glasgow July 23-25, 2008

Simon Fraser University, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC

This is an advanced course focusing specifically on decision modeling and intended for people currently undertaking modeling for health economic evaluation within the pharmaceutical and medical device industries, consultancy, academia or the health service. Participants would be expected to have attended an advanced course in economic evaluation such as the Advanced Methods for the Economic Evaluation of Medicines Workshop run by McMaster University, Advanced Methods of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis run by the University of Oxford or the Expert Workshops in the Socio Economic Evaluation of Medicines run by the University of York.

Christine Henderson
(905) 523-7284, ext. 5268;
email: hendersc@mcmaster.ca 
Jan Watson
(905) 523-7284, ext.6188;
email: watsonj@mcmaster.ca

Website: www.path-hta.ca

http://www.path-hta.ca/workshop5.htm