The Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis March 2019 meeting in Washington, D.C. will highlight the results of the benefit-cost analysis reference case guidance project. This guidance is applicable to immunization and other policies in low- and middle-income countries. Dean Jamison, a member of the project Leadership team, will give a plenary address, which will be followed by a reception sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Center for Health Decision Science, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The conference will also feature a two part session in which key project contributors will illustrate the application of the guidance to a series of case studies and discuss future research needs.
More information on the project is available here: https://sites.sph.harvard.edu/bcaguidelines/. To learn more about the conference and to register, please visit the Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis website: https://benefitcostanalysis.org/2019-annual-conference.
Learn more about the theory and practice of benefit-cost analysis by reading the new Reference Case Guidelines for Benefit-Cost Analysis in Global Health and Development.
Join us for our iHEA pre-Congress workshop: The Benefit-Cost Analysis Reference Case: What It Is and How to Use It. This workshop provides an opportunity to learn more about new methodological guidance, including examples.
The Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis will be holding its first European conference at the Toulouse School of Economics on November 26-27, 2019. The organizers welcome submissions on immunization economics and other work.
Read the Journal for Benefit-Cost Analysis open-access special issue “Benefit Cost Analysis in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Methods and Case Studies” and draft BCA reference case guidance. Draft comments are due by March 29, 2019
Draft guidelines for conducting benefit-cost analysis in low- and middle-income countries are now available for review. Comments are due March 29, 2019.
Join us on March 15th to hear Dean Jamison speak on “Valuing Investments in Health for Development: Reflections on Three Dynamic Decades” at the Society for the Benefit Cost-Analysis annual meeting in Washington, D.C.
Upcoming March meeting in Washington D.C. will highlight the results of the benefit-cost analysis reference case guidance project, applicable to immunization and other policies in low- and middle-income countries. Dean Jamison plenary speaker.
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