Public Health Brown Bag Seminars

May 16 2024
Huib Cense (University of Groningen, UMCG ) - A surgeon’s view on measuring performance

May 2 2024
Irene Mammi (Ca' Foscari University) - The same old medicine but cheaper: The impact of patent expiry on physicians’ prescribing behaviour

February 27 2024
Andrea Ciaccio (Ca' Foscari University) - The Impact of a Cost containment Measure on the Quality of Regional Health Services in Italy: a Parametric and a Non-parametric Approach

January 23 2024
Anna Vera Jørring Pallesen (University of Copenhagen) - Exploring Inequalities in Population Health: Phenome-Wide Studies of the Association between Education and 833 diseases and subsequent mortality in Denmark

January 18 2024
Jana Holthöwer (University of Groningen) - Robots in health care

November 23 2023
Anna Tort (University of Groningen / NIDI) - Determinants of children's mental health: relative contributions when accounting for endogeneity, self-selection and unobserved heterogeneity

October 19 2023
Mariko Klasing (University of Groningen) - Reproductive Health Access and the Reversal of the Education Gender Gap

September 26, 2023
Erik Groenqvist (Uppsala University) - Gender wage gaps and household decisions

September 21 2023
Bart Noort (University of Groningen) - Sustainability in health care

May 25 2023
Josephat Itika (Mzumbe University - Tanzania) - Socio Economic Transformation for Competitiveness in Tanzania. The Role of the Health Sector

May 25 2023
Matthias Rieger (Erasmus University Rotterdam) - Child Growth Faltering, Compensatory Investments and Catch Up: Global Evidence from Natural Disasters

April 13 2023
Elena Agachi (University of Groningen) - Measuring the ability of a lifestyle behavior change mHealth app to lead to reductions in healthcare costs

March 23 2023
Günther Fink (Swiss Tropical Institute of Public Health and University of Basel) - Do incentivized routine assessments of clinical protocol compliance improve quality of clinical care? Evidence from the Democratic Republic of the Congo

February 16 2023
Jacob Reilley (University of Groningen) - The limits of risk in decision making: the role of "benefit" in governing health services

January 18 2023
Eric Bonsang (University Paris-Dauphine) - Inherited Gender Norms and Cognitive Functioning in Later Life: An Analysis of Second-Generation Immigrants

December 15 2022
Rachel Gifford (University of Maastricht) - The reality of essentiality: What turbulent times reveal about the necessity and value of essential work.

December 15 2022
Nicolas Ziebarth (Cornell University/University of Mannheim) - Fundamentally Reforming the DI System: Evidence from German Notch Cohorts

November 17 2022
Laust Mortensen (University of Copenhagen/Statistics Denmark) - Register-based Research in Denmark: A view from within

October 18 2022
Martin Salm (Tilburg University) - Population sorting and regional disparaties in healthcare costs and needs.

September 29 2022
Tinna Laufey Asgeirsdottir (University of Iceland) - The Causal Effect of Depression and Anxiety on Life Satisfaction: An Instrumental Variable Approach

September 15 2022
Ahmed Skali - Social Distancing Restrictions and Interest in the QAnon Conspiracy Theory

June 16 2022
Stefan Sliwa - Sick of Politics? The effects of the Cuban exit from Brazil’s “More Doctors” program on primary health care uptake

April 21 2022
Jana Holthöwer & Jenny van Doorn - Caring or creepy? Social robots in health care

March 17 2022
Martijn van der Steen - Accounting for life: the commodification of the declining body and mind

February 17 2022
Catherine Moughalian (Global Health Unit, UMCG) - I ndividual and Contextual Level Impact of Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) on Modern Contraceptive Use in India: A Multilevel Analysis

January 20 2022
Saif Elayan - The economic value of informal care and its determinants in the Netherlands.

December 16 2021
Stefan Pichler - Measuring Inequality using Geospatial Data

December 2 2021
Annette Bergemann - Intergenerational Influences on Cognitive Functioning: The Effect of Grandchildren on Mental Performance in Old Age

June 10 2021
Robin Konietzny - Trade and Job (In)Security: The Two Sides of Import Exposure

March 25 2021
Daan Westra - Lessons in healthcare management and staff well-being from the COVID-19 pandemic

18 February 2021
Rasmus Wiese and Steffen Eriksen - Willingness to pay for improved public education and public health systems: The role of income mobility prospects

21 Januari 2021
Cecilia Lindholm - Governing and controlling a digitalized health care market – an empirical study on the triadic relationship between structure, technology and agency

24 September 2020
Esther Metting about her ongoing research on the Corona app

29 October 2020
Meeting focused on taking first steps towards realizing joint grant applications

19 November 2020
Joost van de Brake - The psychosocial and emotional well-being of healthcare workers during the corona crisis
Manuela Fritz - Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases in Southeast Asia: A Meta-Analysis

17 December 2020
Elena Agachi - Preventive health program adoption, engagement and effectiveness
David Olk - Preventing consumption-related health risks with the front-of-package label Nutri-Score

16 January 2020
Paul Anand - An overview of capability measurement

19 December 2019
Esther Metting - The importance of stakeholder involvement in eHealth development and implementation: an overview of several studies in patients and health care providers

21 November 2019
Hermien Dijk - Do mental health problems cause problematic debt?

17 October 2019
Xander Koolman - Improving risk equalization through machine learning: a comparative evaluation of Random Forests and Gradient Boosted Machines to OLS regression

19 September 2019
Jenny van Doorn - The use of special robots in health care

7 March 2019
Susanne Täuber - Self-reliance, trust, and health literacy among citizens with low and high socio-economic status

7 Februay 2019
Roel Freriks - Special Needs Students in Regular Classrooms?

5 June 2018
Gijsbert Zwart - Risk Adjustment and Community Rating in Health Insurance Markets

8 May 2018
Susanne Täuber - Health in the participation society: Expectations from the government diverge as a function of socioeconomic status and ethnic background

6 March 2018
Bob Fennis - Health and consumer self control
Gianmaria Niccodemi - The causal effect of education on health outcomes in old age

6 February 2018
Robert Lensink - Women’s Empowerment and Domestic Abuse: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Vietnam

9 January 2018
Joëlle van Essen - Mental health and work outcomes: untangling the endogeneity
Raun van Ooijen - In-home care insurance: the availability of informal care, bequests, and health expectations