The ECOnomiC Valuation of the Health Impacts of Climate Action (or Inaction): The ECO-CHICA Guidelines
Moderator
Andrew Briggs, DPhil, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
Speakers
Mireia Jofre-Bonet, PhD, Office of Health Economics, London, United Kingdom; Francis Ruiz, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), London, United Kingdom; Anke-Peggy Holtorf, MBA, PhD, Health Outcomes Strategies, GmbH, Basel, Switzerland
PURPOSE. To report on a major guideline initiative to harmonize methods across economic evaluation subdisciplines of environmental and health economics.
DESCRIPTION. The ECO-CHICA project team is a multi-institutional and trans-disciplinary research consortium that set out to develop guidelines for the valuation of health co-benefits of climate actions(/inactions) and associated economic evaluation methods that would be consistent across health and environmental economics sub-disciplines. Nearly 100 economists contributed to the Delphi Panel mediated guideline development process that concludes in October 2025.
This break-out session would be the first major international conference where the results would be reported. The session would cover the methods of guideline development, the agreed guidelines and a discussion of the remaining contentious issues.
Code
073
Topic
Economic Evaluation, Methodological & Statistical Research