Professor Lazaros Andronis visits Melbourne Health Economics

We were delighted to host Professor Lazaros Andronis at Melbourne Health Economics last week for a seminar titled “Measuring, valuing and including children and young people’s time in economic evaluation: Insights from recent research.”

Professor Andronis is based at the University of Warwick in the UK, where his research draws on methods from the social sciences and healthcare to explore how we define and measure value in health care. Alongside his research, he teaches health economics to students at Warwick and beyond, and has led work on improving how resource use and preferences are captured in health economic models.

In this seminar, Professor Andronis explored how economic evaluations can better capture the time of children and young people (CYP), a resource that is often overlooked in current methods. He shared findings from a program of work combining discrete choice experiments and valuation techniques to estimate the opportunity cost of CYP’s time.

During his visit, Professor Andronis met with the Economics of Genomics and Precision Medicine Unit, where each team member shared their current research projects, and he provided advice drawing on similar methodological work he has led, particularly in discrete choice experiments and contingent valuation, where there was strong overlap in focus. He also spent time with researchers from the Child Health Unit and the Economics of Global Health and Infectious Diseases team, engaging in lively discussions and exchanging ideas across a range of projects.

We appreciated the opportunity to learn from Professor Andronis’ methodological expertise and to exchange ideas across teams. His visit offered valuable insight into emerging approaches for capturing patient and caregiver experiences in economic evaluation, particularly for younger populations.