Health Economist at the University of Calgary
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Latest publication from the FoodRx team, led by Dr. Steer: The Impact of Providing Material Benefits to Improve Access to Food in People with Diabetes. Read it here: shorturl.at/djDJ3
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Thrilled to share that our team lead, Deborah Marshall, is local co-chair with @aidanhollis for the 16th iHEA World Congress (@healtheconomics). Join us in Calgary July 2025!
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👉 New piece in @TheLancetEndo - We found the experience of homelessness is associated with mortality among people with diabetes who use hospital services ➡️ 1.45x higher hazard of all-cause mortality and 1.25x higher hazard of cardiovascular specific mortality – at Calgary, Alberta
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The International Health Economics Association (IHEA) is pleased to announce that Calgary, Alberta, has been selected as the location for the IHEA Congress 2025 to be hosted by the University of Calgary and the Institute of Health Economics (IHE).
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Everyone is kind of freaking out right now, so I think I will start a thread of quotes from Republicans saying that the election will be fair, votes will be counted, and the person with the most votes will be the next president (a thread)
This is a small proportion of the US population, never mind the world. Is there any discussion about how this will be allocated? Price, risk, first come first serve,...?
Pfizer would be prepared to distribute "hundreds of thousands of doses" of their coronavirus vaccine to Americans before the end of the year if the FDA approves the vaccine, CEO Albert Bourla said Sunday.
nbc4dc.com/hvupWSY
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Join @OBrien_IPH on Sept. 11 for their webinar: Assessing the effectiveness of the community-based naloxone program in Alberta. This presentation will be led by @eldon_spackman.
Click here to register: ucalgary.zoom.us/webinar/reg…
ALT Eldon Spackman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary.
This is an amazing thread. I am not a physician so I don’t know what any of these are used for. I just think it is really interesting.
Angry that media and Democrats use evidence.
The decrease in year-over-year @OpenTable reservations in Canada doesn't seem to be affected by the risk of COVID. March 12 all provinces restricted gatherings to less than 250, dine in services were prohibited March 21 or after.
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A congratulations and sad goodbye to one of our executive members and one of the Institute’s biggest champions—Dr. Brenda Hemmelgarn. Much of the Institute’s success stems from her leadership and support.
blog.ualberta.ca/announcemen…
Pay more than the value of the drugs for the chance to be part of trials? @FraserInstitute @johnadams51677
business.financialpost.com/o…
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Ill-informed bashing of economics can change how policy is made. It gives politicians freedom to make policy without being accountable to the facts. We are heading dangerously close to surrender to special interest groups, gut feelings & superstitions prospectmagazine.co.uk/econo…
Great post about ensuring health economic standards for clinical value frameworks, the opportunity costs of accelerated approval and sticking to our principles.
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I think of it as treatments that leave patients at lower quality of life are worth less.
ICER starts from the premise that a patient living with cancer is worth less than a healthy patient. #ICERWatch
icerwatch.org/icer-insurance…
A reminder to use this paper more often.
jme.bmj.com/content/medethic…
Probably worth a re-read of Alan Williams’ seminal piece, jme.bmj.com/content/medeth…, after which I look forward to an outline of your preferred process and methods for resource allocation in health care.
@benconomics I am wondering if you could suggest some good papers that use drug seizures as controls in a model.
I have data on the number of fentanyl seizures, the number of pills and grams, each month and by city. 1/2
If you are not in Calgary you can join online. I am talking about how we are trying to estimate a cost-effectiveness threshold using the marginal productivity of cancer care in Alberta.
Join us May 22, 2019 at 2:00pm MT for the next #NOAHE Rounds, as Dr. Eldon Spackman presents "Methods for Estimating the Cost-Effectiveness Threshold". Register here: ow.ly/XBpW50ruhTF #NOAHERounds2
