CCHE News: Job Posting

from CCHE General Updates Archive Feed at https://bit.ly/3p5eXls on May 31, 2021 at 07:05PM Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (Sick Kids) Canadian Centre for Health Economics View this email in your browser Dear all, The Child Health Evaluative Sciences (CHES) program is recruiting for a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow  Education: PhD degree in health economics, econometrics, causal inference, statistics, economics, […]

Communication in pandemic times

from Econsalut at https://bit.ly/2R63RQD on May 31, 2021 at 09:21AM  Communicating Science in Times of Crisis. The COVID-19 Pandemic TABLE OF CONTENTS Part 1 Conceptualizing Communication Science and COVID-19 1 1. Managing Science Communication in a Pandemic 3 H. Dan O’Hair and Mary John O’Hair 2. Comprehending Covidiocy Communication: Dismisinformation, Conspiracy Theory, and Fake News […]

Ranked choice and most-least voting

from Terry Flynn PhD at https://bit.ly/3fRuKjS on May 29, 2021 at 11:17PM I recently realised that two systems proposed as “PR-lite” or “a step towards full PR” can produce radically different outcomes IN REALITY and not just as a THEORETICAL CURIOSITY. The two are “single candidate ranked choice” and “most-least voting – MLV”, most notably […]

Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization (EAAMO ’21), Oct. 5-9 2021

from Market Design at https://bit.ly/34wFVcp on May 29, 2021 at 12:12PM  "The inaugural ACM conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization (EAAMO ’21) aims to highlight work where techniques from algorithms, optimization, and mechanism design, along with insights from the social sciences and humanistic studies, can help improve equity and access to […]

UNC Economics on Twitter: “The Triangle Health Economics Workshop (THEW) will host Jevay …

from Google Alert at https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://mobile.twitter.com/unc_econ/status/1379547196249477122&ct=ga&cd=CAIyHjNjYTgyMDdhZjIwYWZhOWM6Y28udWs6ZW46R0I6TA&usg=AFQjCNFEDi4oHj6kc80MLuf0RDxiDxrgaA on May 29, 2021 at 06:39AM The Triangle Health Economics Workshop (THEW) will host Jevay Grooms (Howard University) as she talks about “Racial and ethnic disparities: …

AcademyHealth Applauds President’s Budget for AHRQ, A Step In The Right Direction

from AcademyHealth Blog at https://bit.ly/3uvdgyT on May 29, 2021 at 06:11AM AcademyHealth Applauds President’s Budget for AHRQ, A Step In The Right Direction AcademyHealth is pleased to see that the President’s FY22 budget proposal includes a $42 million increase in discretionary funding for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). The COVID-19 pandemic has […]