
Public lectures in honour of the late Professor Fred Gruen
Professor Fred Gruen was Head of the Economics Program, Research School of Social Sciences, the Australian National University from 1972-1986, and inaugural Director of the Centre for Economic Policy Research over 1980-1986. Fred made a significant contribution to Australian economic and public policy debate. His endowment to ANU has led to the establishment of the FH Gruen Distinguished Fellowships for researchers in the fields of economic and welfare policy.
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Professor Emily Lancsar
Valuing Health and Human Life: past present and future
Thu, 17 Aug 2023 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM AEST I Birch Building #35 - level 1 Innovation Space 35 Science Road Acton, ACT 2601
Monetary values of health and human life are central to many public policy evaluations, such as new roads to reduce the death toll, improving health by reducing air pollution, and investment in healthcare to improve health and longevity. The value of a statistical life (VSL) was developed to value mortality-risk reduction and is broadly used in such evaluations. The quality-adjusted life year (QALY) was simultaneously developed for economic evaluation within the health sector.
In this lecture, Professor Emily Lancsar will reflect on both approaches to valuing life and health, outlining a number of implications of the departure of health economics from the economics mainstream in its approach. Emily will also present a program of work on valuing life and health that addresses these implications, including distributional considerations. She will conclude with an overview of new work to reconcile the two approaches and the implications arising from the potential for broader cross-sectoral comparisons across the public policy sphere.
Emily is Head of the Department of Health Services Research and Policy at the ANU College of Health and Medicine. She is an economist with particular interests in: valuing life and health; modelling choice, preferences and behaviour; economic evaluation; and policy analysis.
Emily has received a number of prestigious grants and fellowships. She is a member of several government advisory committees, including the Medical Services Advisory Committee, and a past member of the Evaluation Sub-Committee of MSAC and the Economic Sub-Committee of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee. She is an Associate Editor of Health Economics and a past Vice President of the Australian Health Economics Society.
View Emily's full bio here.
Past lectures
Date & time | Presenter | Location |
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Thursday 17 August 5:30pm - 7:00pm |
Professor Emily Lancsar | Birch Building #35 - level 1 Innovation Space | |
Friday 30 June 2:30pm - 3:30pm |
Dr. Stephanie Hurder | Copland Lecture Theatre, 25 Kingsley Pl. | Smart Contracting in Practice |
Thursday 22 June 5.30 pm–7.30 pm |
Professor Frank Lichtenberg | Manning Clark Hall, Cultural Centre Kambri 153 |
The longevity and budgetary impact of the Australian Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme |
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Topic |
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Thu 25th August 5.30 pm–6.30 pm |
Hon Dr Andrew Leigh MP | Manning Clark Hall, Cultural Centre Kambri 153 | |
Wed 29th June 5.30 pm - 7.00 pm |
Professor Ross Garnaut | T2 Theatre, Cultural Centre (ANU Building 153), Kambri, University Avenue |
Economic Ideas and Competition Between Autocracy and Democracy |
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Thu 20th May 10.00am-11.00am | Professor Christopher Snyder | Online |
The Economics of COVID-19 Vaccine Supply |
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Tue 17th November 5.30pm-7.30pm |
Dr. Stephen King | Online | |
Mon 20th July 5.30pm-7.30pm |
Assaf Razin | Online |
De-globalization and Social Safety Nets: Post-Pandemic World Economy? |
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Thurs 6th June 5.30pm-7pm | Kathryn Spier, Harvard Law School | Haydon Allen Tank |
Recent Developments in the EConomics of Litigation |
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Topic |
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Wed 20 June 5:30-7:00pm |
Professor Ngo Van Long | Innovations Theatre |
Ethical motivation and economic behavious: theory, evidence and policy implications. |
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Topic |
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Wed 8 March 5:30-7:00pm |
Professor L. Alan Winters | Allan Barton Forum |
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Topic |
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Tues 4 October 5:30-7:00pm |
Professor John Quiggin | CIW auditorium |
After reform: the economic policy agenda in the 21st century |
Tues 19 July 5:30-7:00pm |
Professor Catherine Eckel | Innovations Lecture Theatre | |
Thurs 21 April 5.30-7.00pm |
Professor Jeff Williamson | Law Lecture Theatre |
From Colony to Superpower: American Growth and Inequality since 1774 |
Date & time | Presenter | Location |
Topic |
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Mon 19 Oct 5.30-7.00pm |
Professor Frank Staehler | Haydon-Allen Tank |
Attracting foreign direct investment – curse or blessing? |
Tues 28/7/2015 |
Professor Richard B. Freeman | Manning Clark Centre Theatre 2 |
How to solve the inequality problem that is plaguing capitalism |
Thurs 5/3/2015 5.30–7.00pm |
Professor Richard H Steckel | Arndt Lecture Theatre 1 |
New Approaches to the Standard of Living |
Date & time | Presenter | Location |
Topic |
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21/10/2014 5.30–7.30pm |
Professor Dean Hyslop | Hedley Bull Centre Lecture Theatre 1 |
Welfare Reform: Lessons from Large Scale Experiments |
12/06/2014 |
Professor Loren Brandt | Arndt Lecture Theatre 1, HW Arndt Building #25A |
The Chinese renewables sectors: A case of wilting greens? |
06/02/2014 5.30–7pm |
Professor Paul Seabright | Haydon-Allen Lecture Theatre (the Tank), Building #23 | Can and should anything be done to change the unequal representation of women in positions of economic power in advanced societies? |
Date & time | Presenter | Location |
Topic |
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12/02/2013 5.30–7pm |
Professor Bob Haveman | Law Link Lecture Theatre, Building #7, Fellows Road | The US Labour Market is a mess: Is there a way out? |
30/05/2013 5.30–7pm |
Professor Richard V. Burkhauser | Sparke Helmore Law Theatre 2, Building #6A | Top Incomes and Inequality in Australia: What Happened and Why? |
03/06/2013 5–6.30pm |
Professor M Utku Unver | CBE Lecture Theatre 1, CBE Building #26C | Welfare and equity consequences of transplant organ allocation policies |
Date & time | Presenter | Location |
Topic |
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20/02/2012 5.30–7pm |
Professor Andrew Oswald | Hedley Bull Centre (Bld 130, Theatre 1) | Herd behavior and keeping up with the Joneses |
01/08/2012 6–7.30pm |
Rob Heferen | Manning Clark, Lecture theatre 6 | Australian Tax Policy challenges in a changing world |
13/08/2012 5.30–7 pm |
Prof Klaus F Zimmermann | Weston Theatre, JG Crawford Building | Challenges to the Euro Crisis and Beyond |
29/11/2012 5–6.30pm |
Professor Jeffrey G Williamson | Molonglo Theatre, Level 2, JG Crawford Building 132, Lennox Crossing, ANU | Commodity prices over two centuries: Trends, volatility and impact |