The 15th IHEA World Congress on Health Economics will be held in Cape Town, South Africa from July 8-12, 2023. The IHEA Congress, held every second year, is the only global forum for health economists to engage around the latest research developments and explore the implications of this research for health policy and practice. This year’s event theme is ‘Diversity in Health Economics’.
For those who have registered for the IHEA Congress, the WHO Health Financing and Economic Evaluation and Analysis teams in Geneva jointly with regional colleagues will be organizing, co-organizing or contributing to several sessions throughout the event. Please find more details regarding each of these sessions below.
For those unable to join us in Cape Town, the Congress sessions will be available online. Please register here: International Health Economics Association (IHEA).
Pre-event
sessions
July 8
| Time | Title of session | Contact |
| 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM | Institutionalization of health accounts (Part 1)
| Ke Xu |
| 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM | Addressing deteriorating financial protection in health: measurement issues and policy responses | Gabriela Flores Matthew Jowett |
July 9
| Time | Title of session | Contact |
| 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM | Institutionalization of health accounts (Part 2)
| Ke Xu |
| 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM | Exploring the “Means” to Achieve Universal Health Coverage in Africa: Research and Insights on Contributory and Non-Contributory Means of Financing Health Care from Low- and Middle-Income Countries | Hélène Barroy Susan Sparkes |
| 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM | Gender and Health Economics (incl. a health financing dimension) | Hélène Barroy Michelle McIsaac
Veloshnee Govender |
Main
event sessions
July 10
| Time | Title of session | Contact |
| 8:30 AM - 10:00 PM | Social Health Protection and Non-Communicable Disease Care in Low- and Middle- Income Countries | Bruno Meessen |
| 10:30 AM -12.00 PM | Digital Technologies for Health Financing: How Can We Assess Their Benefits and Risks for UHC? Conceptual Guidance and Country Examples. | Inke Mathauer |
| 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM | Advances in Economic Evaluation of Non-Communicable Disease | Filip Meheus |
| 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM | Financial Protection: Getting through the storm | Gabriela Flores |
| 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Health System Efficiency – Measurement, Drivers, Policy | Susan Sparkes |
| 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Gender Pays Gaps in the Health Workforce | Michelle McIsaac |
| 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM | The Impact of Public Financial Management on Health Outcomes: What Does the Evidence Say? | Hélène Barroy |
July 11
| Time | Title of session | Contact |
| 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM | Addressing fragmentation to improve efficiency using a System-Wide Approach | Susan Sparkes |
| 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM | Public Financial Management and Budget Space for Health: Framework and Applications | Hélène Barroy Juana Paola Bustamente Izquierdo |
July 12
| Time | Title of session | Contact |
| 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Integrated epidemiologic-economic modelling: moving beyond the COVID-19 response | Edith Patouillard |
| 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | How Should Health Benefits be Designed to Accelerate Progress Towards Universal Health Coverage? the Case of South Africa | Veloshnee Govender |
| 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | Integrated epidemiologic-economic models: optimizing “lockdowns” for the mitigation of pandemics | Edith Patouillard |
| 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | Workforce participation, wages, health and wellbeing | Michelle McIsaac |
| 1:30 PM - 3.00 PM | Payment, financing and value | Inke Mathauer |