Unlike sociologist there is evidence that Cardiology meetings have a positive effect: "High-risk patients with ... cardiac arrest hospitalized in teaching hospitals had lower 30-day mortality when admitted during dates of national cardiology meetings." ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

Australian doctors often prescribe less of a drug after its price declines. As Gough Whitlam noted 55 years ago "In Australia there is insufficient price competition in the drug field... Almost all competition is in the promotion field and is directed at the doctor"

Australian Parliament website contains a very good search able database - one of the first uses of the term "Medical Research" from 1922 (see below) is quite prophetic. parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/searc…

Some interesting historical examples of random allocation. Drawing lots was used by Moravian Church until mid-19thC to match couples for marriage (getdowntownbethlehem.com/the-early-mora…) and in Sweden around the same time a dice was used to allocate the death penalty thefreelibrary.com/Games+of+life+…

.@aidybarnett suggestion of finding research themed songs has inspired me. Surprising amount is online: Endogeneity: youtu.be/1rb4E5uR-K4 Backwards causation: youtube.com/watch?v=bCiEhD… Natural experiment:youtu.be/lbmAsvElprk Controlled Randomization: youtu.be/knk1LaPZcZU

HERC Applied Methods Course to be run in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | 3-4 October 2022 | Face-to-face course with access to a subsequent online session in Decision Analysis and Modelling on 1 December 2022 | bit.ly/3KLbQKx #healtheconomics

New in print @HSR_HRET: our paper w/ Bingxiao Wu James Flory JeahJung conducts the first evaluation of the #ACA's Physician Payments Sunshine Act mandating public reporting of industry payments to physicians on branded drug #prescribing. 1/n onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… UW School of Pharmacy

The "No" is little like the man in the crowd from "Life of Brian" You're all individuals! Crowd: Yes! We're all individuals! Brian: You're all different! Crowd: Yes, we are all different! Man in crowd: I'm not... Crowd: Shhh!

Our study with An Tran-Duy Larry Roope @aidybarnett showing longer life-expectancy of politicians has been covered by Serbian TV link.springer.com/article/10.100… It would be great to build on this study by adding more countries. Health Economics Research Centre (HERC) Oxford Population Health (OxPop) prva.rs/web-tv/info/ex…

A great initative by Australian Bureau of Statistics, not only does it save researchers time, but it creates a standard citation so that statistics can be correctly attributed to the source data. Hopefully other statistical agencies will follow. Office for National Statistics (ONS)

Preserved architecture

At this year Mt Hood diabetes challenge conference we finally got the chance to award Pierre Johansen, Senior Health Economist at Novo Nordisk with a prize for this paper link.springer.com/article/10.100… We plan to award a 2nd Transparency Prize at our next meeting:mthooddiabeteschallenge.com/transparency-p…

Interesting interlectual "genealogy" website mapping a family tree of knowledge via PhD students & their supervisors . It includes quite a few health economists. Academia is such a tangled web. mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=2422…

FT article highlighting the benefits of using a modified lottery to allocate research funding. Lotteries also provide the opportunity to track the impact of research funding- see our protocol: eprints.qut.edu.au/83127/1/NZ.fun… ft.com/content/421705…

Ahead of its time? Office of Health Economics 1964 report highlights that "effect of sound nutrition upon physical and mental health is seldom considered. If it were, the health authorities would have to launch an allout attack on the food industry and on methods of production and processing..."

British Newspaper Archive is a wonderful resource. This 1954 article show how doctors were mainly using economic arguements to convince people to quit smoking. britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000…

Great to see a health economics article by Paul Frijters and co-authors being published in the first volume of the new open access journal Oxford Open Economics @OUPEconomics 𝙐𝙜𝙤 𝙋𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙯𝙯𝙖 on obesity & self-esteme using #HILDASurvey data. academic.oup.com/ooec/article/d…

The second round of HERC Virtual Visitors Scheme (this time aimed at early career health economist from LMIC in Latin America) is now taking applications. Health Economics Research Centre (HERC) Applications close on 10th Nov 2022. Details on how to apply via link: herc.ox.ac.uk/news/health-ec…

Worth watching 1964 Documentary on Surgeon General's Smoking Report that paved the way for anti-smoking initatives of the past few decades. Sen Thurston Morton questioning the stats at about 50 minute mark has not aged well... youtu.be/LxMxHQOSN_Q via YouTube