Introduction to health economic evaluation alongside clinical studies

A two day course run by Melbourne Health Economics within the Centre for Health Policy providing an overview of economic evaluation alongside randomised controlled trials and other studies, with a particular focus on the design and practical aspects.

Who is this course designed for?

Researchers undertaking trials, investigators, managers, and others involved in clinical trials.

Pre-requisites

There are no formal prerequisites, although we recommend that participants have previously attended our Introduction to Cost Effectiveness Analysis in Health course.

Course dates

• Dates: 11-12^th August 2026
• Fees: Early Bird $500 / Normal rates $610
• Location: Online
• Registration is at 8:50am for a 9:00am start with the formal program finishing around 12:30pm each day.
• Please contact us if you have any questions at health-economics@unimelb.edu.au

Course outline

This one day course will provide 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.  Issues covered in this course include:

• Economic evaluation alongside trials
• Analysing health economic data
• Methods to assess quality of life and input of clinical outcomes in cost-effectiveness analysis
• Extrapolation, modelling and capturing uncertainty
• Collecting relevant cost data
• Economic evaluation reporting standards

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