Fifth Biennial ASHEcon Conference

University Of Southern California, Los Angeles CA

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Abstract

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Leonard D. Schaeffer Center of Health Policy and Economics at the University of Southern California seeks funding to help support the fifth biennial conference of the American Society of Health Economists (ASHEcon). ASHEcon is a professional organization dedicated to promoting excellence in health economics research in the United States. Health economics has emerged as a distinct and successful field in economics, bringing theoretical insights to many issues of practical and policy significance and a large community of researchers are tackling policy-relevant issues in health behavior in health care delivery. This includes scholars in economics departments, schools of public health, public policy departments, and business schools, as well as researchers outside academia in government, industry and nonprofit organizations. Beginning with its first conference at the University of Wisconsin in 2006, ASHEcon's biennial conference has quickly become established as the premier health economics conference in the U.S., providing a forum for presenting emerging ideas, empirical results and methodological advances in health economics research, and for facilitating the development of the next generation of health economics scholars. The fifth biennial ASHEcon conference will be held June 22-25, 2014, at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA with pre-conference activities at the same location on June 21. The conference will be hosted by the staff of the Schaeffer Center with support from the USC Schools of Pharmacy and Public Policy. As the institution hosting this conference, the University of Southern California is requesting partial support for the conference from AHRQ. The remainder of the conference costs will be funded from other sources, including conference registration fees, sponsorships, and other grants.