Economic Evaluation – SPHA 531

Economic Evaluation – SPHA 531

Across the health care system, administrators, clinicians and researchers all face the challenge of justifying their decisions with particular emphasis on cost effectiveness. Economic evaluation of health interventions provides a powerful tool to address these questions.

SPHA 531 Economic Evaluation (MHA Year Two) teaches students to apply a specific cost-effectiveness analysis to approach resource allocation problems specific to health interventions, ie. Do they represent good choices from a value for money perspective? The course teaches the concept of maximizing the health benefits accruing from finite health care budgets. Economic evaluation is one specialty area within the larger domain of health economics.

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Instructor Profile

Kevin Kennedy is instructing the Economic Evaluation course at UBC for the second time. He completed his PhD at McMaster, where he specialized in health utility measurement and preference elicitation. Kevin Kennedy has a strong background in economic theories and experimental methods that support cost-utility analyses. He has applied these skills in a variety of contexts, supporting analyses for cost-effectiveness studies, clinical trials, and observational studies. His primary research interests include choice modeling, prediction, and experimental design methods.