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  • Thursday, January 11, 2018; 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM

    Introduction to Cost-Effectiveness Evaluations and Course Overview

    In this introductory session, we'll explore the following:

    Why perform a cost-effectiveness evaluation in clinical medicine, public health, or social policy?

    What are examples of influential CEAs?

    What is a good research question for a CEA? (Spoiler alert: there are similarities to and differences from what makes a good question in clinical research).

    How do CEAs examine uncertainty in input parameters? For instance, how does one consider the cost-effectiveness of screening for hypertension in Sub-Saharan Africa when long-term rates of blood pressure control are unknown?

    We'll also consider an overview of the course: the goals, organization, student projects, and grading.

    Faculty:  Dhruv Kazi

    Location:  Mission Hall 1407

    • Session Slides:

    • Lecture 1 notes File

    • Session Audio/Video Recording (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Watch URL
      Not available unless: You belong to a group in Registered Students Only

    • Required Viewing:

      “The ICER Man Cometh” Videos 1 and 2

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9PHwhyxIQI&list=PLPdSQGGMt89e4_ObAbU8F8ZASfgAoNVH9

    • Assignment: 


      This is a quick, and, hopefully, a thought-provoking exercise. Should take you less than an hour. Enjoy! 

    • Assignment1 Epi213 v2018 File

    • Assignment Due Date:  5pm PST on Jan 17, 2017

  • Thursday, January 18, 2018; 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM

    Decision Trees

    Faculty:  Dhruv Kazi

    Location:      Mission Hall 1407

  • Thursday, January 25, 2018; 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM

    Lecture: Additional Concepts in Decision Analysis

    Discounting, expected value, dominance (strict and extended), and international currency converstions

    Faculty: Dhruv Kazi

    Location:  Mission Hall 1407

    • Session Slides:

    • Lecture 3 Notes File

    • Session Audio/Video Recording (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Watch URL
      Not available unless: You belong to a group in Registered Students Only

    • Required Reading:

    • The ICER Man Cometh (Sensitivity Analyses) URL
    • Annals 2015 Owens Use of Decision Analysis File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02

    • Optional Reading:

    • Sox HC et al Expected Value Decision Making Ch 6 in Sox HC et al--Medical Decision Making 1988 File

    • Assignment: Optional narrative description

    • Epi 213 Assignment 3 File

    • Assignment Answer Key (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Epi 213 Assignment 3 solution File
    • Workbook for Rates and Probabilities File

  • Thursday, February 1, 2018; 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM

    Lecture: Key Concepts and TreeAge 201

    - Review of Discounting, Purchasing Power

    - Review of Rates and Probabilities

    - Introduction to Markov Modeling

    Faculty: Dhruv Kazi

    Location:  Mission Hall 1407

    • Session Slides:

    • Lecture 4 notes File

    • Session Audio/Video Recording (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Watch (Excel) URL
      Not available unless: You belong to a group in Registered Students Only

    • Required Viewing:

      ICER Man Cometh: Timing

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SbxR7r-Rb0&list=PLPdSQGGMt89e4_ObAbU8F8ZASfgAoNVH9&index=7

    • Optional Reading:

      Chapter 5. Cost-Effectiveness Analysis. In Eds. Drummond, Sculpher, et al. Methods for the Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programmes. Oxford University Press.

    • Kahn File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02
    • Russell File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02
    • Epi213 HW4 File

  • Thursday, February 8, 2018; 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM

    Core Lecture 6: Markov Disease State Modeling
    Uses and design of portrayal of disease states in decision trees.

    Faculty:  Dhruv Kazi

    Location:     Mission Hall 1407

    • Session Slides:

    • Session Audio/Video Recording (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Watch URL
      Not available unless: You belong to a group in Registered Students Only

    • Required Reading:

    • MDM 1993 Sonnernerg Markov Models File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02
    • Naimark D et al Primer on Medical DA--Part 5--Working with Markov Processes In Med Decis Making Apr-Jun 1997 File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02

  • Friday, February 9, 2018; 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

    UCSF-Stanford-UC Berkeley-UW Global Health Economics Colloquium

    Faculty:  Dhruv Kazi, James G. Kahn, invited speakers

    Location:      Genentech Hall

    Topic: The Economics of Health in Vulnerable Populations, at Home and Abroad

    • Session Slides:

    • Session Audio/Video Recording (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Watch URL
      Not available unless: You belong to a group in Registered Students Only

    • Required Reading:

    • GHECon2018 Final Program File

  • Thursday, February 15, 2018; 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM

    Health Outcomes (QALYs, DALYs) and Costs
    Specification, measurement, calculation, and incorporation of health status indicators and costs.

    Faculty:  Jim Kahn

    Location:      Mission Hall 1407

    • Session Slides:

    • Session Audio/Video Recording (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Watch URL
      Not available unless: You belong to a group in Registered Students Only

    • Required Reading:

    • Optional Reading:

    • Shlipak MG Decision Analysis Ch 2 in Friedland DJ et al--Evidence-Based Medicine 1998 File
    • Murray Lancet2012 DALYs 219 countries GBD 2010 File
    • Kahn_2011_ART-as-prevention-econ-rvw File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02

    • Resources:

    • Tool Files:

  • Thursday, February 22, 2018; 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM

    Core Lecture 7: Review of Material and Discussion re Class Projects

    Faculty:  Dhruv Kazi

    Location:      Mission Hall 1407

  • Thursday, March 1, 2018; 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM

    Ethics and Equity in Cost-Effectiveness Analyses

    1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

    Health Disparities and Extended Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

    Faculty: James G Kahn

    Location: MH 1407

    2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

    The Ethics of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

    Faculty: Elliot Marseille

    Location: MH 1407

  • Thursday, March 8, 2017; 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM

    Lecture 1:  Extended Cost-Effectievness Analysis 

    Faculty:  Jim Kahn

    Location:      MH 1407


    Lecture 2: Review of Key Concepts, Introduction to Impact Inventory and CHEERS check list


    Faculty: Dhruv Kazi 

    Location:      MH 1407


  • Thursday, March 15, 2018; 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

    Lecture: Student Presentations

    Faculty: Dhruv Kazi/Jim Kahn/Elliot Marseille

    Location:   Mission Hall 1407


    Each group to present for 10 minutes, followed by 5 minutes for Q&A. Every member of the team must present on this day - so if you cant make it in person please let us know in advance so we can make alternative arrangements. 


    Presentation format - Background, Question (PICO-HP in one sentence), Methods (incl tree structure and sources of key parameters), Results - Base Case, Results - Sensitivity Analysis, Discussion including limitations, Conclusion. 


    • Session Slides:

    • Session Audio/Video Recording (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Watch URL
      Not available unless: You belong to a group in Registered Students Only

  • Thursday, March 22, 2018; 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM

    Lecture:  No Class on This Day - Protected Time to Complete Long Abstracts for Submission 

    Faculty:  Dhruv Kazi

    Location:  - 

    • Session Audio/Video Recording (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Watch URL
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