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The longest-lasting, most popular, and yet most thoroughly discredited idea in the history of modern public policy: cost-effectiveness analysis

Thursday 10 May 2018, 2.00PM to 3.15pm

Speaker(s): Jeremy Addison Lauer, World Health Organization

Abstract: Jeremy will offer an account of cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) that will be of interest to non-specialists as well as to experts. He identifies CEA’s connections to the broader sphere of social choice and enumerates the principal reasons explaining its appeal and durability in priority setting in health. Jeremy will review the foundations of CEA and clarify several points of confusion. He articulates an account of generalized CEA (e.g. WHO-CHOICE) that differs from, and is more liberal than, the standard version. Along the way, Jeremy will reconcile some long-standing disputes between generalized CEA and traditional CEA, and explain the source of perennial controversies surrounding threshold-based rules in decision-making. Finally, he links in a novel way the theory of CEA to real-world decision making.

Location: Alcuin A Block A019/20

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Who to contact

For more information on these seminars, contact:

Adrian Villasenor
Adrian Villasenor-Lopez
Dacheng Huo
Dacheng Huo

If you are not a member of University of York staff and are interested in attending the seminar, please contact Adrian Villasenor-Lopez or Dacheng Huo so that we can ensure we have sufficient space

CHE Seminar Programme

  • Monday 21 January
    Professor Rachel Baker, Yunus Centre for Social Business and Health
  • Thursday 7 February
    Professor Philip Clarke, The Universities of Melbourne and Oxford
  • Thursday 7 March
    Professor Sonia Bhalhotra, University of Essex 
  • Thursday 4 April 
    Eugenio Zucchelli, Lancaster University
  • Monday 13 May
    Davide Rasella, Fiocruz Brazil
  • Thursday 4 July
    Stephanie von Hinke Kessler Scholder, Bristol University
  • Thursday 5 September
    Jose-Luis Fernandez, LSE 
  • Thursday 3 October
    Soren Rud Kristensen, Imperial
  • Thursday 7 November
    Linda Davies, Manchester University
  • Wednesday 5 December
    Mandy Ryan, HERU, University of Aberdeen