Health Economics

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

We are pleased to invite you to join us at the upcoming Monash Health Economics Workshop 2017 at Monash University Malaysia campus, Bandar Sunway on November 14-15, 2017. Given current changes in the Malaysian health care landscape, this year’s theme is timely, ‘The Role of Health Economics and Health Technology Assessment (HTA) in Establishing Value and Gaining Market Access for New Pharmaceuticals’.

Decision-makers' demands for information on the cost-effectiveness of health technologies have become more extensive and more sophisticated. As a result, formal submissions of economic data in Malaysia have become a requirement as part of the submission of dossier for listing into the Ministry of Health Medicines Formulary.

The workshop is designed for those involved in initiating, undertaking, managing or interpreting economic evaluations within pharmaceutical and medical device organisations, clinical and health services research, and health care decision-making. The workshop covers detailed discussion of the analytical approaches required to support decisions by using a mixture of presentations, tutored sessions and practical exercises.

We are honoured to have Professor Michael Drummond, from the Centre for Health Economics, The University of York to lead the workshop. Professor Drummond is the most prominent figure in the field of Health Economics and he is globally recognized as the most authoritative person in the area of health technology assessment. He is also a past president of ISPOR and is currently Co-Editor-in-Chief of Value in Health. Everyone who is conversant in Health Economics is very familiar with Professor Drummond’s work, with many owning the must-have copy of his textbook, “Methods for the Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programmes”.

With the exciting and relevant line up of topics, we hope you will find it extremely difficult to find the reason for not attending the workshop. Get a feel of the Monash University Malaysia campus, opened in 1998 and is located within the Bandar Sunway township in Malaysia. It was the first foreign university in Malaysia and is one of several Monash University campuses and centres outside the State of Victoria in Australia.

We look forward to seeing you at our workshop in November. 

Professor Kenneth Lee

Dr. June Choon

School of Pharmacy 
Monash University Malaysia