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We are delighted to announce that the International Academy of Health Preference Research (IAHPR) will host our next yearly in-person meeting from September 29th to October 1st 2024, at the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada. We would love to see you there and to celebrate together with you this special edition of the 10th IAHPR Anniversary! Mark your calendars! More …

Join us for IAHPR’s 14th meeting to be celebrated on June 21-22, 2023 at the Macquarie University City Campus in Sydney Australia. To register, please visit our registration website at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/14th-meeting-of-international-academy-of-health-preference-research-tickets-603988083617. See you in beautiful Sydney!

We are delighted to announce that the International Academy of Health Preference Research (IAHPR) will host our next yearly in-person meeting on Wednesday and Thursday, 21-22 June 2023, in Sydney, Australia. We would love to see you there! Chaired by Julie Ratcliffe and Gang Chen, the 14th IAHPR ANNUAL MEETING will feature two days of workshops and presentations. On 20th …

After almost two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the International Academy of Health Preference Research (IAHPR) will host an in-person meeting on Monday and Tuesday, 5-6 September 2022, in Berlin, Germany. Chaired by Michał Jakubczyk and Jorien Veldwijk, the 13th IAHPR ANNUAL MEETING will feature two days of workshops and presentations. On 4 September 2022, we organize a dinner for …

The submission system for the 12th IAHPR Meeting is now open and will close on 22 April (four weeks). To submit an abstract or elevator talk: CLICK HERE Researchers may submit abstracts for podium presentations and/or apply for an elevator talk. Each podium abstract should follow the guidelines and have four sections (Background, Methods, Results, Conclusions; each up to 500 …

The International Academy of Health Preference Research successfully launched its online seminar series in May 2020. Created by Axel C. Mühlbacher, Chair of the IAHPR Foundation Board, these free one-hour seminars were designed: (1) To further build a research community around IAHPR by encouraging discussion of newly published HPR studies at both a theoretical and practical level. (2) To introduce …

The International Academy of Health Preference Research is taking all necessary precautions to ensure the health and safety of IAHPR members in light of concerns about COVID-19, commonly known as the coronavirus. We are closely monitoring developments and staying abreast of updates from health organizations responsible for tracking and responding to the virus, including the Centers for Disease Control and …

The 11th Meeting had 36 attendees from 3 countries: Australia(24), New Zealand(7), and United States (5). In terms of faculty-to-student ratio, the Academy had 8 tenured members and 14 students in attendance (i.e., 1 to 2 ratio). Many thanks to all who made this possible, particularly Elisabeth Huynh and Richard De Abreu Lourenço, who chaired the meeting, as well as …

Christopher Carswell is an IAHPR member and the editor in chief of The Patient, our official journal. He is also co-editor in chief of PharmacoEconomics  (with Timothy Wrightson) and consulting editor of Applied Health Economics and Health Policy. These three Springer Nature journals are among the top six within HPR (alongside Value in Health, Health Economics, and Medical Decision Making). When considering where to submit their next …

The Academy welcomes the following thirteen new members starting January 2020: Irina Cleemput, Nigel Cook, Gillian R Currie, Michael Frank Drummond, Alan Reid Ellis, Rocco Falchetto, Sebastian Heidenreich, Hans Hillege, Samare P. I. Huls, Ruixuan Jiang, Suzana Karim, Carol Anne Mansfield, and Chiara Whichello

The Academy congratulates Fern Terris-Prestholt, Bennett Levitan, and Rachael L. DiSantostefano who were awarded tenure membership for their podium presentations in Basel. Welcome!

The 10th Meeting had 64 attendees from 14 countries: United States (19), Netherlands (12), Australia (8), Switzerland (5), United Kingdom (5), Canada (4), Germany (3), Spain (2), Belgium (1), France (1), New Zealand (1), Poland (1), Singapore (1), and Sweden (1). In terms of faculty-to-student ratio, the Academy had 17 tenured members and 15 students in attendance (i.e., 1 to …

The 9th Meeting had 34 attendees from 6 countries: United States (23), Canada (4), United Kingdom (2), Australia (2), Germany (1) and the Netherlands (1). In terms of faculty-to-student ratio, the Academy had 16 tenured members and 5 students in attendance (i.e., 3 to 1 ratio). Many thanks to all who made this possible, particularly Meenakshi Bewtra and Jan Ostermann, …

The 8th Meeting had 36 attendees from 3 countries: Australia (29), New Zealand (4), and United States (3). In terms of faculty-to-student ratio, the Academy had 6 tenured members and 15 students in attendance (i.e., 1 to 3 ratio). Many thanks to all who made this possible, particularly Brendan Mulhern and Richard Norman, who chaired the meeting.

On 4 September 2018, the Board of the IAHPR Foundation decided to make two major changes to IAHPR. Starting in 2019, the annual webinar will be free for regular members. Instead of registering for the annual webinar, regular members will register and pay only for the events that they attend.  Basically, regular memberships will be renewed for three years after …

Medical Care just published the first US value set for EQ-5D-5L. Using this value set, decision analysts can summarize EQ-5D-5L responses into QALYs from the perspective of US adults. The paper further demonstrates that US EQ-5D-5L values discriminate better than their EQ-5D-3L predecessor. The value set was based on the largest national valuation study ever conducted (8,222 U.S. respondents from …

The Academy has starting to accumulate and post a list of videos in health preference research.  If you know of other HPR videos that we may add to this list, please send a note to contact@iahpr.org  

The 7th Meeting had 49 attendees from 9 countries: United Kingdom (16), United States (9), Netherlands (7), Germany (6), Ireland (3), Spain (2), Belgium (2), Sweden (1) and Poland (1). In terms of faculty-to-student ratio, the Academy had 10 tenured members and 19 students in attendance (i.e., 1 to 2 ratio). Many thanks to all who made this possible, particularly …

The 6th Meeting had 49 attendees from 8 countries: United States (30), Australia (6), United Kingdom (5), Canada (3), Netherlands (2), Germany (1), Poland (1), and China (1). In terms of faculty-to-student ratio, the Academy had 18 tenured members and 8 students in attendance (i.e., 2 to 1 ratio). Many thanks to all who made this possible, particularly Juan Marcos …

The Health Preference Study and Technology Registry has been launched. Registering on HPSTR.org can take as little as five minutes.  Without a doubt, this has been the largest collaborative endeavor that our Academy has yet undertaken. Along with the IAHPR members, the Academy thanks Chris Carswell, Bennett Levitan, Ernest H. Law, Winter Maxwell Thayer, and Max Masnick for their assistance …

Photo taken by A. Simon Pickard On Friday, 16 September 2016 at the 33rd EuroQol Plenary Meeting in Berlin, Germany, Kim Rand-Hendriksen (left) and Benjamin Craig (center) announced that “Discreetly Charming Econometricians” led by Michał Jakubczyk (right) won the 2016 EQ DCE Predictive Modeling Competition. In this competition, 18 teams registered and received the exploratory data in April 2016. After the …

The 5th Meeting had 21 attendees from 9 countries: Singapore (6), Australia (6), United States (3), Brazil (2), Netherlands (1), Norway (1), Finland (1), and Spain (1). In terms of faculty-to-student ratio, the Academy had 6 faculty members and 6 students in attendance (i.e., 1 to 1 ratio). Many thanks to all who made this possible, particularly Kirsten Howard and …

The 4th Meeting had 34 attendees from 9 countries: United Kingdom (8 England, 4 Scotland), The Netherlands (8), Germany(6), USA (3), Sweden (2), Canada (1), Poland(1), and Singapore(1).  In terms of faculty-to-student ratio, the Academy had 10 faculty members and 9 students in attendance (i.e., 1 to 1 ratio). Many thanks to all who made this possible, particularly Mandy Ryan …

This year, IAHPR is expanding its sponsorship program. Any institution that registers 4 or more persons for the 4th Meeting (Hamburg) by 9 June or makes a $2500 donation by 9 June will be an official meeting sponsor. Sponsors are listed in the Meeting Program, thanked at the beginning of the Meeting, and announced during its business session.  Anonymous sponsorship …

On Tuesday, 12 July 2016 from 13:00-17:00, IAHPR will be hosting: Lessons learned from recent studies in health valuation Elly Stolk, PhD, Mark Oppe, PhD In health preference research, some studies attempt to mimic a specific clinical decision (e.g., choosing between surgery and radiation), while others focus on understanding preferences for health by exploring the tradeoffs between lifespan and health-related …

Today, 18 teams for all over the world were selected to participate in the EQ DCE Predictive Modeling Competition. Each team will have until 4 July 2016 to examine the exploratory data and submit their prediction for the 1600 pairs in the confirmatory survey. After these predictions are received and posted, the confirmatory survey will be fielded. The team with the …

“What Do We Really Know About Stated-Preference Methods?” F. Reed Johnson (IAHPR member), Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, North Carolina, USA Tuesday, 12 April 2016 at 17:00-18:30 Duke Sports Center Conference room The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University Durham, North Carolina, USA Contact Carolyn Hutyra to attend in person or remotely via WebEX The Patient Voice Seminar Series is …

Through the support of a grant from the EuroQol Foundation, IAHPR is hosting its first DCE Modeling Competition. Anyone can register. Team registration is due by 13 April. Each team (up to 22) that fully participates will be paid $2500 USD. The winner gets first authorship (and bragging rights). For more info: http://iahpr.org/eq-dce-competition/

The 3rd Meeting had 46 attendees from 9 countries: United States (35), The Netherlands (4), Brazil (1), Canada (1), Germany(1), Norway(1), Poland(1), South Africa(1) and United Kingdom (1). In terms of faculty-to-student ratio, the Academy had 20 faculty members and 10 students in attendance (i.e., 2 to 1 ratio). Many thanks to all who made this possible, particularly Derek Brown, …

The 2nd Meeting had 24 attendees from 3 countries: Australia (19), United States (4) and United Kingdom (1). In terms of faculty-to-student ratio, the Academy had 6 faculty members and 6 students in attendance (i.e., 1 to 1 ratio). Many thanks to all who made this possible, particularly Emily Lancsar, who chaired the meeting.

The call for abstracts has been announced for the 4th Meeting (Hamburg; Read more) and the 5th Meeting (Singapore; Read more). Abstracts are due by 15 April 2016 (Hamburg) and 1 June 2016 (Singapore). After all members review each abstract, notifications will be sent via email (mid-May and early July, respectively).

Early registration for the 2nd Meeting (Brisbane; Read more) and for the 3rd Meeting (St. Louis; Read more) is open to the general public until 13 August 2015. Registration for these meetings includes presentations, a business meeting, coffee, lunch, and multi-course dinner with open bar. Attendance is limited.

As of 5:00 p.m. EDT, the call for abstracts closed. IAHPR members will have 3 weeks for their double-blinded review of the 39 abstracts. Approximately 12 to 14 abstracts will be selected for each meeting (Brisbane, Queensland, Australia and St. Louis, Missouri, USA) as well as 4-6 student posters (US only) . Notifications will be sent in June.

The call for abstracts has been announced for the 2nd IAHPR Meeting (Brisbane) and 3rd IAHPR Meeting (St. Louis). Abstracts are due by 1 May 2015. After all 35 members have reviewed each abstract, notifications will be sent via email (end of June). Read more.

Time, date, and location details are now available for our two meetings in 2015: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia and St. Louis, Missouri, USA. The meeting in St. Louis will also include our first student-only poster session, which was created as a way to showcase the achievements of students.

The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) determined that IAHPR Foundation Inc is exempt from federal income tax. Donors can deduct contributions they make to IAHPR under Internal Revenue Code 170.

The 1st Meeting had 46 attendees from 8 countries: The Netherlands (14), United States (12), Germany (10), United Kingdom (6), Australia (1), Brazil (1), Poland (1), and Sweden (1).  In terms of faculty-to-student ratio, the Academy had 14 faculty members and 20 students in attendance (i.e., 2 to 3 ratio). Many thanks to all who made this possible, particularly Axel …

Early registration is open to the general public until 16 September 2014. Registration for this 1-day meeting includes 14 presentations, a business meeting, coffee, lunch, and an off-site dinner. Attendance is limited.

As of 5:00 p.m. EDT, the call for abstracts closed. IAHPR members will have 3 weeks for their double-blinded review of the 36 abstracts. Approximately 12 to 14 abstracts will be selected. Notifications will be sent in mid-August.

Based on 47 invitations, 35 founding members completed their registration. In addition to a brief biography, each member reported his/her conference attendance to aid in the nomination of future meeting locations.

The call for abstracts was created and posted on the website. The website and call information were distributed to those who were invited to become a founding member. A more general call will be prepared for distribution by 15 April 2014.

Since the founding, every person who presented at one of the five Conjoint Analysis in Healthcare Conferences (CAHC) was sent an email request to discuss their interest in receiving a founding membership invitation to IAHPR. Among those who expressed interest, 47 invitations were sent on 21 March 2014. Membership applications will be accepted and processed until 15 April 2014, after …

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