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Health Economics Research Centre (HERC) @herc-oxford.bsky.social · Oct 7
HERC SHORT COURSES 2025

HERC Online short courses for 2025 autumn/winter.
Registration is open now for bookings.

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Study with us: HERC Short Courses - 2025
Discover the courses and workshops, online and in-person, available for researchers, students and other professionals at the Health Economics Research Centre
www.herc.ox.ac.uk
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UPCOMING HERC SEMINAR

Financing Long-term Care

by Assoc. prof. Raphael Wittenberg

Wednesday 12 November, 15:00 hours UK BST

Location: Online via Teams/Zoom

Free event, requires registration ->

app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/oxford/her...

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HERC Webinar: Raphael Wittenberg - Financing Long-term Care
Online surveys is a powerful, easy to use tool for creating online surveys. Run by Jisc, online surveys is used by over 300 different organisations in the UK...
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk
November 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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🎉 Congrats to Prof Mara Violato and Dr Shuye Yu, part of the Co-CAT study team nominated for an @acamh.bsky.social Award for their research into an online, parent-led programme with therapist support to help children with anxiety ➡️ buff.ly/00cMB1H

@herc-oxford.bsky.social #WorldMentalHealthDay
Quote tile with a photo of Mara Violato and the quote: ‘As a health economist, I feel truly honoured to be recognised for this award as part of the Co-CAT study team. This nomination celebrates what can be achieved when people from different disciplines come together with a shared purpose. Clinicians, health economists, statisticians, qualitative researchers, and people with lived experience have all worked side by side to improve mental health care for children.’
October 10, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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HERC DATABASE UPDATE

A new version of #HERC Database of Mapping Studies with 43 new algorithms mapping to #EQ5D is now available at

www.herc.ox.ac.uk/downloads/he...

#HERCMappingDatabase
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HERC database of mapping studies
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November 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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NEW PUBLICATION

WHO model for costing of blood products

WHO working group (including Elizabeth Stokes)

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WHO model for costing of blood products
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November 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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HERC ARE RECRUITING

Vacancy for a researcher in health economics working on a range of projects applying health economics methods to patient-level data from clinical trials and observational studies.

Applications by noon on 13 Nov 2025.

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www.herc.ox.ac.uk/about/work-w...
Researcher in health economics (Grade 7)
Oxford Population Health (Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford), Old Road Campus, Headington, Oxford
www.herc.ox.ac.uk
October 28, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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NEW PUBLICATION

Underweight children cost the NHS as much per child as children with obesity. A study by researchers from the Nuffield Department for Primary Health Care Sciences and HERC provides evidence of healthcare costs linked to children’s weight www.ndph.ox.ac.uk/news/underwe...
Underweight children cost the NHS as much per child as children with obesity
Oxford Population Health study shows underweight children drive NHS costs like obesity—£340m annually—highlighting need for preventive care.
www.ndph.ox.ac.uk
October 23, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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HERC NEWS

Team from the University of Oxford, Jake Hitch (Team lead), Nicolás Armijo Escalona, Augustine Luk, Ashley Murray, and Natasha Salant (HERC) wins Student Innovation Award in the 2025 Vivli AMR Surveillance Data Challenge.

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2025 Finalist and Award-Winning Solutions - Vivli AMR
Congratulations to the awardees and finalists! Vivli is pleased to announce the awardees of the 2025 AMR (Antimicrobial Resistance) Surveillance Data Challenge. The aim of ...
amr.vivli.org
October 22, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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HERC NEWS

Article by HERC researchers prof. Philip Clarke and Dr Rhys Thomas in the @ConversationUK

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theconversation.com/should-we-de...
Should we decide by lottery who gets a medical treatment first?
Lotteries may be fair in theory, but new research shows people prefer expert committees to decide who gets scarce medical treatment.
theconversation.com
October 21, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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UPCOMING WEBINAR

From Crib to Clinic: The Economic and Ethical Trade-offs of Genomic Sequencing in Newborn Screening and Diagnosis

Dr @hadleyssmith.bsky.social

Tues 21 Oct 10:30 h UK BST onsite/online

Free event registration app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/oxford/her...

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HERC Webinar: Hadley Stevens Smith - From Crib to Clinic: The Economic and Ethical Trade-offs of Genomic Sequencing in Newborn Screening and Diagnosis
Online surveys is a powerful, easy to use tool for creating online surveys. Run by Jisc, online surveys is used by over 300 different organisations in the UK...
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk
October 20, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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HERC Virtual Visitors Scheme

The fourth round of HERC Virtual Visitors Scheme (this time aimed at early career health economist from LMIC in Africa) is now taking applications.

Applications close on 2nd Nov 2025.

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Details on how to apply: www.herc.ox.ac.uk/news/health-...
Health Economics Research Centre (HERC) Virtual Visitor Scheme (Round 4: Africa)
www.herc.ox.ac.uk
October 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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HERC ARE RECRUITING

Vacancy for a researcher in health economics working on projects applying health economics methods to patient-level data from clinical trials and observational cohort studies.

Applications by noon on 6 Nov 2025.

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www.herc.ox.ac.uk/news/now-rec...
Applications invited for new Grade 7 Health Economist role
www.herc.ox.ac.uk
October 17, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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HERC SHORT COURSES 2025

HERC Online short courses for 2025 autumn/winter.
Registration is open now for bookings.

#healtheconomics

@oxpop.bsky.social

www.herc.ox.ac.uk/herc-short-c...

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Study with us: HERC Short Courses - 2025
Discover the courses and workshops, online and in-person, available for researchers, students and other professionals at the Health Economics Research Centre
www.herc.ox.ac.uk
October 7, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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HERC NEWS

New Podcast Episode by the Centre for Personalised Medicine exploring the “Health Economics of Personalised Medicine”.

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Series 3 Episode 5: Health economics
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October 6, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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ACAMH AWARDS 2025 NOMINATIONS

The Co-CAT Study Team (including HERC researchers prof. Mara Violato and Dr Shuye Yu) @ox.ac.uk was shortlisted for the Digital Innovation Awards: Research on Digital Impact.

www.acamh.org/blog/acamh-a...

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ACAMH Awards 2025 Shortlist - Recognising Advancements in CAMH Research and Practice
It is our pleasure to announce the shortlist of nominees for the 2025 ACAMH Awards.
www.acamh.org
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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ACAMH AWARDS 2025 NOMINATIONS

The Co-CAT Study Team (including HERC researcher prof. Mara Violato) @ox.ac.uk was shortlisted for the Digital Innovation Awards: Research on Digital Impact.

www.acamh.org/blog/acamh-a...

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ACAMH Awards 2025 Shortlist - Recognising Advancements in CAMH Research and Practice
It is our pleasure to announce the shortlist of nominees for the 2025 ACAMH Awards.
www.acamh.org
September 24, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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BEST RESEARCH PAPER FINALIST

A paper by HERC researchers Borislava Mihaylova, Junwen Zhou, Claire Williams, and Alastair Gray was amongst the 2025 finalists of the BMJ Heart Journal.

Link to the full-text paper www.ndph.ox.ac.uk/news/statins...

heart.bmj.com/pages/best-p...

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Best Research Paper Award | Heart
Annual award for best research paper published in Heart
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September 22, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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NEW PUBLICATION

Gabapentin for Pain Management after Major Surgery: A Placebo-controlled, Double-blinded, Randomized Clinical Trial (the GAP Study)

including Elizabeth Stokes, Sarah Wordsworth

journals.lww.com/anesthesiolo...

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Gabapentin for Pain Management after Major Surgery: A... : Anesthesiology
ts effectiveness in major surgery. Methods: In this multicenter, double-blinded randomized controlled trial, adults undergoing major cardiac, thoracic, or abdominal surgery were randomized to recei...
journals.lww.com
September 18, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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NEW PUBLICATION

A new publication shows that while children from lower-income families tend to have poorer mental health outcomes.

archpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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The changing role of family income in mental health from childhood to adolescence: findings from a UK longitudinal study - Archives of Public Health
Background Childhood and adolescence are critical periods of emotional and psychological development, during which socioeconomic factors such as family income may have varying effects on mental health...
archpublichealth.biomedcentral.com
September 17, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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🔔 FINAL EXTENSION: The #IHEA Econ-Omics SIG global survey on integrating #healtheconomics into #genomicmedicine is still open and the deadline has been extended to Friday 15 August!

We’d love your input! No economics background needed.

🕒 ~15 mins
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August 4, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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NEW PUBLICATION

Effects of empagliflozin on quality of life and healthcare use and costs in chronic kidney disease: a health economic analysis of the EMPA-KIDNEY trial

HERC authors Junwen Zhou, Claire Williams, Philip Clarke, Borislava Mihaylova
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www.thelancet.com/journals/ecl...
Effects of empagliflozin on quality of life and healthcare use and costs in chronic kidney disease: a health economic analysis of the EMPA-KIDNEY trial
In EMPA-KIDNEY, 2 years treatment with empagliflozin improved QALYs, and reduced use and cost of other healthcare, resulting in high likelihood of cost-effectiveness across a broad range of patients w...
www.thelancet.com
July 18, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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NEW PUBLICATION

Systematic review of health economic models for assessment and diagnosis of dementia

HERC authors: Jane Wolstenholme, Alastair M. Gray, Filipa Landeiro

Alzheimer’s Dement. 2025

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alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Systematic review of health economic models for assessment and diagnosis of dementia
INTRODUCTION Timely diagnosis of dementia is a public health priority to enable risk modification and treatment access. This study systematically identifies and critically appraises health economic ...
alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 14, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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NEW PUBLICATION

Accuracy of online surveys in predicting COVID-19 uptake and demand: A cohort study investigating vaccine sentiments and switching in 13 countries from 2020 to 2022

Z. Abel, L. Roope, M. Violato, P. Clarke

Vaccine 2025

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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Accuracy of online surveys in predicting COVID-19 uptake and demand: A cohort study investigating vaccine sentiments and switching in 13 countries from 2020 to 2022
During pandemic conditions, efficient use of resources is essential, but vaccine hesitancy threatens to render vaccine deployment ineffective and inef…
www.sciencedirect.com
July 8, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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HERC SHORT COURSES 2025

HERC is pleased to announce their programme of Online short courses for 2025 and that registration is open now for bookings.

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Study with us: HERC Short Courses - 2025
Discover the courses and workshops, online and in-person, available for researchers, students and other professionals at the Health Economics Research Centre
www.herc.ox.ac.uk
June 16, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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NEW PUBLICATION

The Value of Hope in Cancer Care: Risk Preference and Heterogeneity in Cancer Patients and the General Public

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The Value of Hope in Cancer Care: Risk Preference and Heterogeneity in Cancer Patients and the General Public
To quantify the value of hope in cancer care and examine age as a potential modifier, comparing patients and the general public.A discrete choice expe…
www.sciencedirect.com
June 3, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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NEW PUBLICATION

Roux-en-Y #gastric #bypass, adjustable gastric #banding, or sleeve #gastrectomy for severe #obesity: a multicentre, open label, three-group, RCT

By-Band-Sleeve Collaborative Group (including Koen Pouwels, Rositsa Koleva-Kolarova, Sarah Wordsworth)

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, adjustable gastric banding, or sleeve gastrectomy for severe obesity (By-Band-Sleeve): a multicentre, open label, three-group, randomised controlled trial
Roux-en-Y gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy are more effective than adjustable gastric banding. Sleeve gastrectomy has inferior weight loss and lower mean quality of life score compared with Roux-...
www.thelancet.com
May 23, 2025 at 2:14 PM