Hi colleagues.  This is a final reminder that the deadline for submission of abstracts for the 2014 conference of the International Health Economics Association, to be held in Ireland July 13-16, is this Friday, January 24^th.  If you are planning to submit an abstract for a panel or an individual presentation, please let me know so we can track Abt’s participation in the event.  Conference and submission information can be found at https://www.healtheconomics.org/congress/2014/.

Thanks.

Thierry

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As you may have heard at yesterday’s Global IHD meeting, Abt had a visible and successful presence at the 2013 Congress of the International Health Economics Association in Sydney in July.  Next year’s meeting—in Dublin, Ireland—is already around the corner, and abstracts for both panels and individual submissions are due by January 15^th.  The thematic focus of the 2014 Congress is Health Economics in the Age of Longevity, which suggests to us that NCDs may get particular coverage.  In any event, as we discovered in Sydney, many sessions have a tenuous link with the overall topic of the conference, so we would encourage all of you to submit abstracts or panels that contribute to Abt’s reputation for rigorous research and learning in health economics—regardless of their specific link with longevity.

Please see below for details about the submissions. Please note that there is a $150 submission fee for abstracts from all interested individual presenters who are not current members of IHEA.

We expect that projects will be funding all costs related to the participation of colleagues whose abstracts have been approved (including the submission fee if appropriate), but the HFE TWG is happy to provide feedback on submissions sufficiently ahead of the deadline—please send your abstracts for review to Julie Doherty by January 10^th if you are interested in a review by a technical expert.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks and happy holidays.

Thierry 

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IHEA doesn’t require a particular structure for the abstract, you can format in whichever form best suits your submission, so long as it communicates the nature of the submission to the reviewers.

If you hold a current premium membership with iHEA, the submission is waived and you can submit as many of your own abstracts as you’d like (though not on behalf of other people). Anyone interested in submitting an abstract without holding an iHEA membership needs to pay a $150 submission fee.

For session proposals however ONLY the session organizer is required to hold a current iHEA  premium membership (or alternatively pay the submission fee). The participants might want to be premium members to get access to the reduced registration rates, but it’s not required for participants to be iHEA premium members or pay a submission for their part in a session.

Deadline: 24 January 2014 at 23:59 US Pacific timezone

For each abstract that you include in the session, you should include:

                • Title - max 256 characters

                • Abstract - 500 words, no tables, no graphics

                • At least 3 key terms

                • Past publication history (if previously published, if so a quick citation)

                • Past presentation history (if previously presented, if so a quick citation)

                • Funding sources

                • Conflict disclosure

                • Presenter - Name, email address, institution/department, city, country and nationality

                • Authors - Name, email address and institution/department

There’s a terms of service you need to agree to that says you understand that: (1) The presenter must register and pay applicable registration fees by the deadlines listed on the main conference website, (2) Failure to meet the registration requirements may result in your abstract being removed from the programme.

For the overall session, you need to include:

• Session Title - max 256 characters

• Session Description - 500 words, no tables, no graphics

• At least 3 key terms

• Conflict disclosure

• Organizer - Name, email address, institution/department, city and country

• Chair - Name, email address, institution/department, city and country

• additionally 3-4 Presentation abstracts (can be formatted like the individual abstracts above).

If you are submitting a panel session, you can include biographical information in the Bio field, with a  short description of the topic or focus that the person will be speaking on in the abstract section.

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