This is now the splash story on our homepage: Timely new book examines the “shocking consequences” of Trump’s sweeping powers, including for our health croakey.org/timely-new-boo…

For the moment, unlike so much other important CDC information, this is still up. It states very clearly how safe and effective the HPV vaccine is. But it’s likely to be modified “to comply with President Trump’s Executive Orders” - and we all know what RFK Jr thinks about this!

.Tom Crowley's long article on the Australian housing debate is very good journalism. * Clearly explains some difficult issues, * Emphasis on the evidence. * Thoroughly researched. (Huge number of links to top references). Recommended. abc.net.au/news/2025-02-1…

#WomenInScience On #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience, we celebrate the inestimable contribution women make to #cancer prevention & encourage women and girls to pursue careers in cancer research & other scientific fields.👩‍🔬🧪🦠🔬 iarc.who.int/news-events/ia…

Trump and the WHO. A thougtful explainer by Jess Craig vox.com/future-perfect…

Agree 100%. See #2 on this list lowninstitute.org/projects/2024-…

📜 I am honored to share our work, "Cancer incidence and mortality estimates in 2022 in southeast Asia: a comparative analysis," published in The Lancet Oncology. 🇹🇭🇵🇭🇮🇩🇻🇳🇰🇭🇲🇲🇲🇾🇹🇱🇧🇳🇱🇦🇸🇬 Thank you Dr Freddie Bray, IARC, and our truly #global team. 🔗 thelancet.com/journals/lanon…

Australia has relatively high state capacity. That is, our administrative state is unusually effective. This deserves study, but I was surprised to find that very little had been directly written on the topic. So the economist Peter Bowers and I produced a literature review.🧵

Job opportunity! The M-VAC team is hiring a Health Technology Assessment Evaluator to work on a variety of projects, particularly focusing on preparing high-quality health technology assessments (HTA) evaluation reports. Applications close 16th March 2025. jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/918936/…

Trump Picked a Health Economist to Lead the N.I.H. It’s Not a Bad Idea. nytimes.com/2025/03/05/opi…

This remains as, if not more, relevant than when we published it in 2013... Commonwealth Fund healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10.137…

We're hosting a one-day, in-person conference with researchers, organizers, state and federal policymakers, and other experts to discuss emerging challenges and opportunities to address medical debt. Here's why you won't want to miss it. lowninstitute.org/3-reasons-to-a…

🎉Join us LIVE to celebrate6⃣0⃣years of #cancer prevention as we launch our IARC@60 campaign🥳 Get ready for 12 months of celebrations, activities, & special events, culminating in an international scientific conference in May 2026. 📺Live from 15:20 CET youtube.com/live/8khzHkvTa…

Link for the whole series here- start form the bottom. medscape.com/index/list_162…

NEW PUBLICATION Distributional cost-effectiveness analysis in genomic medicine: Considerations for addressing health equity With Hadley Stevens Smith, Ilias Goranitis, Dr. Deborah A Marshall Research Team, Kathryn A Phillips PhD, Dean Regier, Deirdre Weymann and more. valueinhealthjournal.com/article/S1098-… #healtheconomics

New job posting on the AHES website: Research Fellow/ Senior Research Fellow, Duke-NUS, Singapore. See ahes.org.au/job/duke-nus-s…

New event listed on the AHES website: Melbourne Health Economics seminar with Professor Mark Jit. For more details sees: ahes.org.au/event/melbourn…

Our new report from Alliance for Fair Health Pricing Coalition explores the unfair billing practices used by powerful hospitals and health systems to generate revenue at the expense of American families and employers - and outlines policy solutions for addressing them.

Open access: Do the paradigms of #VBHC and traditional applied #healtheconomics overlap, compete or complement? Has VBHC tested/divided conceptions of #value? ICHOM HTAi ISPOR publish.csiro.au/ah/Fulltext/AH…

Genomic Testing in Australia: A Budget Impact Analysis Using Diffusion Modeling From a Healthcare System Perspective - Value in Health valueinhealthjournal.com/article/S1098-… Prof Zornitza Stark Prof Adam Elshaug Centre for Health Policy (CHP) Economics of Genomics and Precision Medicine Unit