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Henrik Andersson, PhD. is a researcher in the Department of Transport Economics at the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute. He received his doctoral degree in economics from Lund University in 2005 and his research interests include health and environmental economics. His work is focused on perception and evaluation of health risks, mainly related to transport, but also to other areas such as food safety and smoking. He also has a methodological interest in preference elicitation in general and in the pricing of externalities in the transport sector. |
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Jin-Tan
Liu, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Economics at National Taiwan
University and a research
associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He received his doctoral degree in economics
from Vanderbilt University in 1987, and his research
interests include health economics, environmental economics, and applied
econometrics. His recent work has
focused on such topics as the impact of national health insurance on technology
adoption and precautionary saving in Taiwan and empirical studies of
education level and health.
Dan Siskind M.B.B.S., M.P.H., FRANZCP. Dan completed his medical training at the University of Queensland in Australia, and, since graduating in 1998, he has completed psychiatry training programs in Australia and in the United States and is qualified as a psychiatrist in both countries. His interests in mental health systems in the developing world include the generation of economic arguments for the cost effectiveness of mental illness treatments in various settings. Dr. Siskind has worked with Doctors without Borders in the Republic of Georgia to treat Chechen Refugees with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder,and performed mental health outreach work in remote Australian indigenous communities. He completed a Master of Public Health in International Health at HSPH in 2005.
Djøra Soeteman
Djøra Soeteman, M.S. in psychology, is a visiting researcher from the Viersprong Institute for Studies on Personality Disorders (VISPD) in Halsteren, the Netherlands. She is also a PhD student connected to the Department of Medical Psychology and Psychotherapy of the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Her main research interest is economic evaluation applied to mental health care, in particular (decision) modelling the cost-effectiveness of psychotherapy for personality disorders.
B. Els van der Ham
Els van der Ham is a fourth year medical student at Erasmus University (EUR) and a second year Msc student in Clinical Epidemiology at the Netherlands Institute for Health Sciences (NIHES), both in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Her main interests are in gynecology, oncology, diagnostic research, prevention, decision science and research methods, both in developed and developing countries. She is currently conducting a meta-analysis on staging cervical cancer comparing MRI with examination under anesthesia in cooperation with the Depts. of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Gynecological Oncology and Radiology at Erasmus MC, Rotterdam.
Jacob Visser
Jacob started studying Economics & Business at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam in 1999, Medicine at the same institution in 2001, and Clinical Epidemiology at the Netherlands Institute of Health Sciences in 2003, culminating with a BS degree in Economics & Business and M.S. Degrees in Health Economics, Clinical Epidemiology, and Medicine in 2005. In September 2005, he began working as a Ph.D.-student at the departments of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Radiology, and Surgery of the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam. His doctoral research focuses on endovascular repair and open surgery in patients with a ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm, and he is currently working on a prediction rule for these patients. This rule will enable physicians to predict 30-day mortality after endovascular repair and open surgery upon patients' presentation to the hospital. He is also working on a cost-effectiveness analysis of endovascular repair versus open surgery in treating a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm, and investigating the worth of performing future research in for this topic using "value of information" analysis techniques. Mr. Visser's other topics of interest include medical decision analysis and the organization of national health care systems.