How can we be sure new investments in health are worth the money?

Professor Karl Claxton from the Centre for Health Economics at the University of York hosts special IGHI guest lecture.

The Institute of Global Health Innovation and their Global Health and Development Group were pleased to welcome Professor Claxton to Imperial last week for a talk about health economics. 

Karl Claxton is a Professor at the University of York in the Department of Economics and the Centre for Health Economics and leads the economic evaluation component of their Health Economics MSc. 

In this lecture, Prof Claxton presented specific estimates of health opportunity costs for 123 counties, and discussed how they might be improved and updated. He also discussed how a range of global and national decisions can be better informed using measures of value based on estimates of health opportunity costs. 

Prof Claxton with Prof Culyer, the Chair of the event.

This event was arranged by IGHI and the International Decision Support Initiative (iDSI), a global network of health and economics expertise that supports countries to make better decisions to get the most from every dollar they spend on health care. The initiative is led by the Global Health and Development Group within IGHI at Imperial College London. 

Find out more about their work here.

View the photos from the event here.

Watch the full recording of the event here.