Estimating the costs of COVID-19: health systems, households, and opportunity costs
Speaker: Anna Vassall, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Wednesday, June 10, 2020 12pm-GMT; 1pm-WAT; 2pm-CAT; 3pm-EAT
Covid-19 and its response are substantially impacting both the magnitude and distribution of health related costs. Shifts in expenditure and resource use incur opportunity costs within both health providers and households. Estimating and forecasting these rapidly changing patterns is challenging, yet essential for governments trying to plan an effective response. This webinar will present preliminary costs from a range of low- and middle-income settings, as a springboard to encourage discussion on the key challenges ahead.
How should we address perspective? How can we best link to and reflect epidemiological forecasts and uncertainty? How can economists characterize the real world response, taking into account capacity constraints? How can we use existing data to inform our estimates? How can we capture the complexity of household spending during a pandemic?
Register for the webinar here.