Economics of Population Health: American Society of Health Economics Conf. - NIDA

描述（由申请人提供）：新成立的美国卫生经济学家协会（ASHE），一个致力于促进卫生经济学研究卓越的专业组织，正在计划其成立大会。会议的广泛目标是通过举办一个交流思想和介绍卫生经济学研究经验成果的论坛，帮助满足日益增长的卫生经济学家职业的需求。一个更具体的目标是举办一次向广泛受众开放的会议，但有选择地接受论文和海报，以确保高质量的研究和演示。 会议计划将以各种卫生经济学问题为主题，包括药物滥用领域的主题（例如成瘾理论，治疗的成本效益和烟草控制政策），差异以及NIDA特别感兴趣的其他主题和NIH一般。NIDA特别感兴趣的是，我们有一个关于药物滥用经济学的邀请会议（3篇论文和3位讨论者），并且可能会通过竞争性提交过程获得更多。我们邀请的全体演讲者之一，斯坦福大学教授道格·伯恩海姆博士将就他的成瘾理论的进一步发展发表演讲。 可能的与会者包括：来自学术界（其中许多是NIDA获奖者），智库和政府的研究人员;博士课程的学生;包括NIH和私人基金会在内的资助者;以及卫生经济学研究的其他用户。我们将提供折扣，以吸引博士生，谁将从接触到广泛的研究课题，能够满足他们的研究领域的高级研究人员，并从信息丰富的会前机会学习。 Jody Sindelar，ASHE副总裁兼当选总裁（NIDA资助的接受者），负责会议的科学内容，并直接参与会议规划的后勤工作。ASHE拥有一批杰出的教师和研究人员，他们组成了其官员（包括哈佛教授Joe纽豪斯博士），顾问委员会，顾问委员会和科学委员会，以及来自威斯康星州大学的规划委员会（John Mullahy，ASHE董事会成员和麦迪逊会议联合主席，Barbara Wolfe联合主席和大卫范尼斯）。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The newly formed American Society of Health Economists (ASHE), a professional organization dedicated to promoting excellence in health economics research, is planning its inaugural conference. The broad goal of the conference is to help meet the needs of the growing profession of health economists by hosting a forum for the exchange of ideas and presentation of empirical results of health economics research. A more specific goal is to host a conference that is open to a wide audience but that has selective acceptance of papers and posters to ensure high quality research and presentations. The conference program will feature papers on a wide variety of health economics issues, including topics in the areas of substance abuse (e.g. theories of addiction, cost-effectiveness of treatments, and tobacco control policies), disparities, and other topics of interest to NIDA specifically and to NIH in general. Of particular interest to NIDA, we have one invited session (3 papers and 3 discussants) on the economics of substance abuse and will likely have more that come through the competitive submission process. One of our invited plenary speakers, Dr. Doug Bernheim, a professor at Stanford University, will be speaking on the further development of his theories of addiction. Likely attendees include: researchers from academics (many of whom are NIDA awardees), think tanks, and Government; students in PhD programs; funders including NIH and private foundations; and other users of health economics research. We will offer discounts to attract PhD students, who will gain from exposure to the wide range of research topics by being able to meet senior researchers in their study area and by learning from the informative pre-conference opportunities. Jody Sindelar, Vice President and President-elect of ASHE (and recipient of NIDA funding), is in charge of the scientific content of the conference and is directly involved with the logistics of the conference planning. ASHE has a prominent set of faculty and researchers who compose its Officers (including Dr. Joe Newhouse, Harvard Professor), Board of Advisors, Advisory Board and Scientific Committee, and planning committee from the University of Wisconsin (John Mullahy, ASHE Board Member and Co-Chair of the Madison Conference, Barbara Wolfe Co-Chair, and David Vanness).