PRESENTS
The 11th Annual CHESG Meeting
at the University of Alberta
June 6-7th, 2012
The Canadian Health Economist's Study Group is an annual conference of economists with an interest in theoretical or empirical economic analysis of issues related to health or health care. The conference typically covers a day and a half.
Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Full-Paper submission deadline: February 27, 2012
Local Organizers
Logan McLeod
School of Public Health
Jane Ruseski
Department of Economics
Series Organizing Committee
Audrey Laporte, Chair, University of Toronto
Chair Emma Pierard, co-Chair, University of Waterloo
Chris Auld, University of Victoria
Paul Grootendorst, University of Toronto
Pierre-Thomas Leger, HEC Montreal
Logan McLeod, University of Alberta
Keynote Speaker
We are pleased to announce that the keynote speakers this year will be Dr. Donald Kenkel, Cornell University and Dr. Joseph Terza.
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Dr. Donald Kenkel
Professor
Department of Policy Analysis and Management
Cornell University
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Dr. Kenkel is an internationally renowned health economist whose research focuses on the economics of disease prevention and health promotion. In particular, his research on the economics of public health policies has looked at the use of alcohol taxes and other policies to prevent alcohol problems, the use of cigarette taxes to prevent youth smoking, and the effect of advertising to promote smoking cessation. |
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Dr. Joseph Terza
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Dr. Terza's research focuses on applied health econometrics, specializing in the development and application of nonlinear econometric methods for the analysis of health policy using survey (non-experimental) data. In particular, his recent health policy research has looked at labor market outcomes of individuals with spinal cord injury, the use and finance of prescription drugs for the elderly, and the economic causes and consequences of substance abuse.
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