Assessing the case for investing in health systems: reflections from Australia and beyond

Professor Virginia Wiseman

Surveillance Evaluation and Research Program

The Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney

June 10 (Thursday), 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm AEST

Seminar via Zoom

Please click on this link just before the event starts to join

The ISPOR Sydney Student and ECR Chapter invites you to participate in its inaugural seminar, where Professor Virginia Wiseman will deliver the presentation titled, “Assessing the case for investing in health systems: reflections from Australia and beyond”. In this seminar, Virginia will discuss the economic benefits from investing in health systems.

About the speaker

Virginia Wiseman is Professor of Health Economics & Health Systems at the Kirby Institute at the University of New South Wales and at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. She has 22 years’ experience working as a health economist, mainly in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). She currently leads impact evaluations in the areas of antimicrobial resistance, sexually transmitted infections, malaria, and COVID-19; funded by the MRC, Wellcome Trust, DFAT and the ARC. She has also researched and published widely in the field of health financing, using tools such as financing and benefit incidence analysis to measure progress towards universal health coverage in the Asia-Pacific. She continues to be involved in supporting capacity development in health economics especially in universities and research institutions in LMIC where she works. Virginia is co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Health Policy and Planning, and in 2018 was voted by her peers onto the Board of the International Health Economics Association (iHEA).

Seminar schedule and Zoom link

• June 10 (Thursday), 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm, AEST

• Link: https://unsw.zoom.us/j/87145893122

• Meeting ID: 871 4589 3122

Contact person

For inquiries regarding the seminar or the ISPOR Sydney Student and ECR Chapter, please contact John Paul Caesar delos Trinos, President, ISPOR Sydney Student/ECR Chapter at jrdelostrinos@kirby.unsw.edu.au

Thursday, 10 June, 10-11am (AEST)

Please join us for the next event of the ISPOR Sydney Student & ECR Chapter, where Professor Virginia Wiseman of the Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney, will deliver the presentation titled, "Assessing the case for investing in health systems: reflections from Australia and beyond". The seminar will be heldonline via zoom on Thursday, 10 June, 10 – 11am. We will release more information regarding the event soon.

You are welcome to share this invitation with others who might be interested in the Chapter. We look forward to seeing you there!

Paul, Sopany, Allen and Elena

On behalf of the ISPOR Sydney Student & ECR Chapter