Our HOPE contingent have a busy few days coming up at #IHEA2025 with several presentations and special interest group meetings. We wish everyone attending a great conference!

Big congratulations to Eliana Chavarria Pino and Yuqi Zhang who graduated yesterday with their doctorates - an outstanding achievement! It was lovely to see you in your gowns 🥳🥂

The NIHR Economics Group will be launched at a one-day in-person event taking place in Manchester, UK, on Monday 13 October 2025. https://t.co/9oQZWahJb5 #healtheconomics

📢Job vacancy - Research Associate in Health Economics! Come and work with us on an NIHR-funded grant looking at the impact of different models of integrating new or extended roles into primary care! Managed by @economicsanna Find out more here 👇

Finally from the HOPE contingent at #BJGPRC we have Dr Anna Wilding presenting her work looking at whether social prescribing referrals have reduced appointment pressures in primary care.

Delighted to join this amazing group of researchers. Huge thanks to all my colleagues at @HOPE_UoM and @PrimaryCareMcr whose expertise and support underpins everything I do. Also colleagues @NIHRSPCR with whom it's a pleasure to work

Funding cuts impact access to TB services endangering millions of lives

Today was the Division of Population Health, Health Services Research and Primary Care PGR student showcase with several PhD students from HOPE presenting. Congratulations to James Coughlan & @TZhao808 who won prizes for their presentations! 🎉

Today is a busy day for HOPE members! @SaimaAr40566900 and Akbar Ullah are presenting their work at the Economic Evaluations Alongside Trials Conference @UCL_HEPL.

❄️The wait is finally over, HESG begins tomorrow!❄️ Here's the schedule- what an incredible week: https://t.co/6KxPQMsK5f Safe travels everyone, we look forward to welcoming you to Bristol! @UK_HESG #BristolHESG #HESG #healtheconomics #healthpolicy

📢Come and work with us! We have a job vacancy for a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Health Economics. Closing date: 10th Jan For more information visit:

My latest paper: Employees living with arthritis have higher rates of sickness absence and greater rates of transitions to long-term sick and early retirement. Future work could look at quantifying the implications for individuals, employers and the state https://t.co/D4siCDndgS

@SaimaAr40566900 The study found that bringing diagnostic services closer to patients can significantly reduce the economic burden on TB-affected households in Mozambique & Tanzania. This work was produced by the TB-CAPT consortium, part of the EDCTP2 programme supported by the European Union.

This afternoon, Saima Arif @SaimaAr40566900 will be presenting at the MEED Research Forum 2024, "Decentralized vs. Hub-and-Spoke TB Diagnostics: An Extended Cost-Effectiveness Analysis" #MEED2024

A nice discussion is going on at Method for the Economic Evaluation of Diagnostic (MEED) Research Forum 2024 on Early economic evaluation models around different areas @athomp_HE @sean_gavan

💡 Just published! Our latest research explores how OOP healthcare payments in Pakistan disproportionately burden low-income households. 📊 We highlight the severe impact of CHEs on larger, poorer families. Read full paper: https://t.co/2gF8AuAxDk

Launching soon! The @unibirmingham MSc in Health Economics & Health Policy is coming to Dubai campus Nov 18-20, 2024! Prof @HajBrum and Prof @LJJackson_1 will be there for the launch. Interested in the course or collaboration? Connect with us on Linkedin: https://t.co/JX9ZFLCwdw

A recent BMC Proceedings blog introduces a risk-based breast cancer screening approach to improve early detection and optimize resource use @ Stuart Wright @kp170768 @gbrlrgrs Full read 👉 https://t.co/mFneyp3apS

I usually don’t comment on Pakistani politics. I disagree with IK on many political issues. But this is not about politics- it’s about my children’s father, his human rights & international law. For the past few years, I’ve been bullied & harassed into silence by PML-N goons,

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.”