Short Courses

What We Offer

We offer a range of short courses in health economics, from one-day introductory level courses to three-day practical courses in economic evaluation.

Introduction to Cost Effectiveness Analysis in Health
In a climate of increasing budgetary pressures, organisations are required to take into account economic considerations when making decisions. Economic analysis provides information that can strengthen a case for funding and is designed to be directly relevant to policy makers. This is a 1-day course that provides an introduction to the application of cost effectiveness analysis in health. (1-day) More information

Designing Economic Evaluation Alongside Clinical Studies
This 1-day course provides an overview of cost-effectiveness analysis and examples of economic evaluations that have been conducted of trials.  Practical information on methods for prospectively collecting costs and outcomes data through administrative data linkage and patient surveys will be provided.  It will also explain the techniques used to analyse economic data and illustrate this through examples. (1-day) More information

Evaluating Public Health Interventions using Economic and Epidemiologic Methods
This 1-day course provides an overview of how modelling, in both epidemiology and economics, can be used to inform policy decisions for public health, using COVID-19 and other examples as a case-studies. (1-day) More information

Practical Methods for Health Economic Evaluation
Economic evaluation is widely used to assess many new health care interventions and technologies and is routinely used to allocate scarce health care resources. This 3-day course aims to familiarise participants with the methods and techniques that are currently routinely used in evaluations with an emphasis on cost-effectiveness analysis. The course will cover the common steps in an evaluation, from methods for collecting cost and outcome data to analysing, reporting and interpreting the final results. (3-day) More information

Introduction to Data Linkage for Research
This 1-day course discusses the application of linked administrative data to real world problems, and outlines how data linkage can be used to provide valuable, policy-relevant evidence. (2.5 days) More Information

For more information about short courses offered by the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, visit the short course website.