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The 68th regular seminar

Date and time December 8 (Fri), 2023 13:00-14:30
Venue Hybrid (HIAS Seminar Room (Faculty Building 2, Room 517), Kunitachi West Campus, Hitotsubashi University / Online via Zoom)
Speaker Tao TAO (Associate Professor and Research Fellow, School of Sociology and Population Studies, Renmin University of China)
Title Birth Order and Gender Differences in the Division of Elderly Support within Chinese Family in the Process of Individualization
Language English

The 67th regular seminar

Date and time November 9 (Thu), 2023 16:00-17:30
Venue Hybrid (HIAS Seminar Room (Faculty Building Ⅱ, Room 517), Kunitachi West Campus, Hitotsubashi University / Online via Zoom)
Speaker Dr. Stéphane Verguet (Associate Professor、Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health、Harvard University)
Title Global health priority setting: new quantitative methods to define efficient and equitable pathways toward universal health coverage
Language English

The 66th regular seminar

Date and time October 19 (Thu), 2023 16:00-17:30
Venue Hybrid (HIAS Seminar Room (Faculty Building Ⅱ, Room 517), Kunitachi West Campus, Hitotsubashi University / Online via Zoom)
Speaker Dr. Gabriela Flores, WHO, Department of Health System and Financing

Title Financial Risk Protection in UHC
Language English

The 65th regular seminar

Date and time September 13 (Wed), 2023 16:00~17:30
Venue Hybrid (HIAS Seminar Room (Faculty Building Ⅱ, Room 517), Kunitachi West Campus, Hitotsubashi University / Online via Zoom)
Speaker Matthew Robson (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Title Estimating Health Equity Weights Across Multiple Domains
Language English

The 64th regular seminar

Date and time July 26 (Wed), 2023 17:00~18:30
Venue Hybrid (HIAS Seminar Room (Faculty Building Ⅱ, Room 517), Kunitachi West Campus, Hitotsubashi University / Online via Zoom)
Speaker Kazumitsu Nawata (Specially Appointed Professor, HIAS, Hitotsubashi University)
Title An Analysis of Health Factors Affecting Employees’ Absenteeism; and Risk factors for heart, cerebrovascular, and kidney diseases
Language English

The 63rd regular seminar

Date and time June 8 (Thu), 2023 13:00~14:30
Venue Hybrid (HIAS Seminar Room (Faculty Building Ⅱ, Room 517), Kunitachi West Campus, Hitotsubashi University / Online via Zoom)
Speaker Alex Cook (Associate Professor, NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health)
Title Academic-government collaboration in public health: with case studies in modelling and responding to COVID-19 in Singapore
Language English

The 62nd regular seminar

Date and time June 28 (Wed), 2023 16:00-17:30
Venue Hybrid (HIAS Seminar Room (Faculty Building Ⅱ, Room 517), Kunitachi West Campus, Hitotsubashi University / Online via Zoom)
Speaker Hiroki Kato (Postdoctoral Researcher, HIAS, Hitotsubashi University)
Title Mailing Vaccination Ticket: A Regression Discontinuity Analysis On Rubella Antibody Testing and Vaccination
Language English

The 61st regular seminar

Date and time March 23 (Thu), 2023 13:30-15:00
Venue Hybrid (HIAS Seminar Room (Faculty Building Ⅱ, Room 517), Kunitachi West Campus, Hitotsubashi University / Online via Zoom)
Speaker Dr. Wanrudee Isaranuwatchai(Program Leader and Senior Researcher, Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program (HITAP), Ministry of Public Health of Thailand)
Title Health technology assessment and health system research in Thailand : the case of Evusheld and high-cost users
Language English

The 60th regular seminar

Date and time January 12 (Thu), 2023 16:30-18:00
Venue Hybrid (HIAS Seminar Room (Faculty Building Ⅱ, Room 517), Kunitachi West Campus, Hitotsubashi University / Online via Zoom)
Speaker Ray Duch (Director,Centre for Experimental Social Sciences,Nuffield College,University of Oxford)
Title Cash for COVID-19 Vaccines? The Ghana Financial Incentives Trial
Language English

The 59th regular seminar

Date and time November 16 (Wed), 2022 17:00-18:30
Venue Hybrid (HIAS Seminar Room (Faculty Building Ⅱ, Room 517), Kunitachi West Campus, Hitotsubashi University / Online via Zoom)
Speaker Kazumitsu Nawata (Professor (Specially Appointed), HIAS, Hitotsubashi University)
Title Heart Diseases, Hypertension and Effects of Antihypertensive Medications: Is Hypertension a True Risk Factor of Heart Diseases?
Language English

The 58th regular seminar

Date and time October 5 (Wed), 2022 16:00-17:30
Venue Online
Speaker Rashedul Islam (HIAS Postdoctoral Researcher, HIAS, Hitotsubashi University
Title A comprehensive assessment of age-appropriate vaccination coverage in 41 low- and middle-income countries, 2000-2030
Language English

The 57th regular seminar

Date and time June 29 (Wed), 2022 17:00-18:30
Venue Online
Speaker Josselin Thuiliez, Research Director, Centre d’Économie de la Sorbonne
Title An economic-epidemiological model with endogenous behavior and learning: theory and tests
Language English

The 56th regular seminar

Date and time May 11 (Wed), 2022 17:00-18:30
Venue Online
Speaker Stefan Lipman, Assistant Professor, Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management (ESHPM), Erasmus University Rotterdam
Title Tailored financial incentives for health behaviour
Language English

The 55th regular seminar

Date and time March 16 (Wed), 2022 17:00-18:30
Venue Online
Speaker Mizanur Rahman (Assistant Professor (Specially Appointed), HIAS, Hitotsubashi University
Title Global, regional, and national progress in financial risk protection towards universal health coverage, 2000-2030: a Bayesian Hierarchical Analysis
Language English

The 54th regular seminar

Date and time December 1 (Wed), 2021 16:00-17:30
Venue Online
Speaker Kazumitsu Nawata (Professor (Specially Appointed), HIAS, Hitotsubashi University)
Title Analyses of hypertension and diabetes using the large scale health checkup dataset and relations of mental health and working conditions
Language English

The 53rd regular seminar

Date and time October 20 (Wed), 2021 17:00-18:30
Venue Online
Speaker Shamima Akter (Assistant Professor (Specially Appointed), HIAS, Hitotsubashi University)
Title Effectiveness of population level tobacco control policies to manage noncommunicable diseases: a systematic review and network meta-analysis
Language English

The 52nd regular seminar

Date and time June 23 (Wed), 2021 16:00-17:30
Venue Online
Speaker Ayako Honda (Professor, HIAS, Hitotsubashi University)
Title Responses to the COVID-19 pandemic under different healthcare financing models – a comparative study of Brazil, Canada, France, and Japan
Language English

The 51st regular seminar

Date and time April 28 (Wed), 2021 17:00-18:30
Venue Online
Speaker Mizanur Rahman (HIAS Assistant Professor (Specially Appointed), Hitotsubashi University)
Title Forgone healthcare resulting from different barrier dimensions: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Language English

The 50th regular seminar

Date and time March 24 (Wed), 2021 16:00-17:30
Venue Online
Speaker Hongming Wang (HIAS Postdoctoral Fellow, Hitotsubashi University)
Title Covid-19 vaccine prioritization in Japan
Language English

The 49th regular seminar

Date and time February 24 (Wed), 2021 17:00-18:30
Venue Online
Speaker Daisuke Moriwaki, AI Lab (CyberAgent)
Title Nudging Preventive Behaviors in COVID-19 Crisis: A Large Scale RCT using Smartphone Advertising
Language English

The 48th regular seminar

Date and time February 3 (Wed), 2021 16:00-17:30
Venue Online
Speaker Dr. Peter Eibich (Deputy Head, Research Group on Labor Demography, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research)
Title Care or self-care? The impact of informal care provision on health behaviour
Language English

The 47th regular seminar

Date and time November 4 (Wed), 2020 16:00-17:30
Venue Online
Speaker Eiji Mangyo, Professor, Economic Research Center, Graduate School of Economics, Nagoya University
Title Relative Deprivation and Health: Re-examination and its Mechanisms
Language English

The 46th Regular Seminar

Date and time September 23 (Wed), 2020 16:00-17:30
Venue Online
Speaker Khin Thet Swe
Title "Impact of poverty reduction on access to water and sanitation in low- and lower-middle income countries: country specific projection to 2030"
Language English

The 44th Regular Seminar

Date and time February 12 (Wed), 2020 18:00-19:30
Venue HIAS Seminar Room (Faculty Building II, Room 517), Kunitachi West Campus, Hitotsubashi University
Speaker Dr. Arthur Attema, Department of Health Economics, Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management (ESHPM), Erasmus University Rotterdam
Title ”Measuring risk and time preferences for health and money” and "Multivariate risk preferences in the QALY model"
Language English

The 43rd Regular Seminar

Date and time October 23 (Wed), 2019 16:30-18:00
Venue HIAS Seminar Room (Faculty Building II, Room 517), Kunitachi West Campus, Hitotsubashi University
Speaker Hongming Wang (HIAS Postdoctoral Fellow, Hitotsubashi University)
Title “Expanding health insurance with mandate and subsidy: theory and evidence from Massachusetts”
Language English

The 42nd Regular Seminar

Date and time November 6 (Wed), 2019 16:30-18:00
Venue HIAS Seminar Room (Faculty Building II, Room 517), Kunitachi West Campus, Hitotsubashi University
Speaker Yasushi Hara, Adjunct Associate Professor, TDB Center for Advanced Empirical Research on Enterprise and Economy (TDB-CAREE), Faculty of Economics, Hitotsubashi University
Title “Drug Discovery in Japan - Investigating the Sources of Innovation.”
Language English

The 40th Regular Seminar

Date and time September 25 (Wed), 2019 16:30-18:00
Venue HIAS Seminar Room (Faculty Building II, Room 517), Kunitachi West Campus, Hitotsubashi University
Speaker Masaki Takahashi, HIAS Postdoctoral Researcher, Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study, Hitotsubashi University
Title “The Behavioral Effect of Insurance Coverage and Its Health Consequences: Evidence from Long-Term Care.”
Language English

The 39th Regular Seminar

Date and time June 26 (Wed), 2019 16:30-18:00
Venue HIAS Seminar Room (Faculty Building II, Room 517), Kunitachi West Campus, Hitotsubashi University
Speaker Dr. Thomas Rouyard, HIAS Postdoctoral Researcher, Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study, Hitotsubashi University
Title "A behavioural economics approach to personalised risk communication: nudging people with Type 2 diabetes towards a healthier lifestyle."
Language English

The 37th Regular Seminar/International Seminar

Date and time March 27 (Wed), 2019 16:30-18:00
Venue HIAS Seminar Room (Faculty Building II, Room 517), Kunitachi West Campus, Hitotsubashi University
Speaker Jongsay Yong, Principal Research Fellow (Associate Professor) Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic & Social Research, University of Melbourne.
Title The effects of socioeconomic status on hospital utilization and adverse events
Language English

The 36th Regular Seminar/International Seminar

Date and time March 1 (Fri) 2019, 16:00-17:30
Venue HIAS Seminar Room (Faculty Building II, Room 517), Kunitachi West Campus, Hitotsubashi University
Speaker Prof. Soonman Kwon, Professor of Health Economics and Policy, School of Public Health, Seoul National University (SNU), South Korea
Title Health Financing for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in Low-Income Countries
Language English

The 34th Regular Seminar/International Seminar

Date and time November 28 (Wed), 2018  13:30-15:00
Venue Hitotsubashi University, Mercury Tower 3F #3302
Speaker Prof. Guanghua Wan, Institute of World Economy, Fudan University, the People's Republic of China
Title The impacts of income polarization on health and crimes in China
Language English

The 33rd Regular Seminar/International Seminar

Date and time October 10 (Wed), 2018 18:00-19:30
Venue HIAS Seminar Room (Faculty Building II, Room 517), Kunitachi West Campus, Hitotsubashi University
Speaker Prof. Han Bleichrodt, Professor of Behavioral Economics, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Title Ambiguity preferences for health
Language English

The 31st Regular Seminar

Date and time Augusut 2 (Thu), 2018 16:30-18:00
Venue HIAS Seminar Room (Faculty Building II, Room 517), Kunitachi West Campus, Hitotsubashi University
Speaker Dr. Ying YAO, HIAS Postdoctoral Researcher, Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study, Hitotsubashi University
Title Tobacco Purchasing Behavior : An Analysis of Japanese Consumer Panel Data
Language English

The 30th Regular Seminar

Date and time July 18 (Wed), 2018 13:30–15:00
Venue Hitotsubashi University, Mercury Tower 3F #3302
Speaker Dr. Makoto TOBE, Senior Advisor (health financing/health systems) of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) (an adjunct member of HIAS Health)
Title Enabling pregnant women in rural mountainous areas of the Philippines to deliver babies at health facilities without suffering financial hardship — Cooperation for attaining Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
Language English

The 29th regular seminar/Public Economics Workshop

Date and time June 27 (Wed), 2018 13:15~14:45
Venue Hitotsubashi University, Mercury Tower 3F #3302
Speaker Dr. Reo TAKAKU, Senior Researcher, Institute for Health Economics and Policy
Title Detecting Waste in Health Care *via* Hospital Sorting
Language English

The 28th Regular Seminar/Public Economics Work Shop

Date and time June 25 (Mon), 2018 13:30-15:00
Venue Hitotsubashi University, Mercury Tower 3F #3302
Speaker Dr. Shinya SUGAWARA, Junior Associate Professor, Department of Business Economics, Tokyo University of Science
Title Pay-for-Performance and Selective Referral in Long-Term Care (joint with Toshiaki Iizuka and Haruko Noguchi)
Language English

The 27th Regular Seminar

Date and time May 30 (Wed), 2018 16:30-18:00
Venue HIAS Seminar Room (Faculty Building II, Room 517), Kunitachi West Campus, Hitotsubashi University
Speaker Dr. Tamahi KATO (YAMAUCHI), Adjunct Research Associate, Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study, Hitotsubashi University (HIAS Health member)
Title Monitoring governance, management and operational capacity of mutual health organizations in three regions of Senegal: Findings from the 2017 Survey
Language English

The 26th Regular Seminar/International Seminar

Date and time April 13 (Fri), 2018 16:00-17:30
Venue HIAS Seminar Room (Faculty Building II, Room 517), Kunitachi West Campus, Hitotsubashi University
Speaker Dr. Niels-Hugo Blunch, Associate Professor of Economics, Williams School of Commerce, Economics, and Politics, Washington and Lee University, USA
Title Unintended Consequences: Program Evaluation and The World Bank Vs. Adult Literacy Programs and Child Mortality
Language English

The 25th Regular Seminar/International Seminar

Date and time April 6 (Fri), 2018 16:00-17:30
Venue HIAS Seminar Room (Faculty Building II, Room 517), Kunitachi West Campus, Hitotsubashi University
Speaker Professor. Aki Tsuchiya, School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) and Department of Economics, The University of Sheffield, UK
Title Comparing inequality and risk aversion in social welfare for health and income: an empirical analysis using hypothetical scenarios with losses
Language English

The 24th Regular Seminar

Date and time March 15 (Thu), 2018 15:00-16:30
Venue HIAS Seminar Room (Faculty Building II, Room 517), Kunitachi West Campus, Hitotsubashi University
Speaker Dr. KATO (YAMAUCHI), Tamahi, Adjunct Research Associate, Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study, Hitotsubashi University (a member of HIAS Health)
Title Agricultural input subsidies in sub-Saharan Africa - the case of Tanzania
Language English

The 23rd Regular Seminar/Public Economics Work Shop/International Seminar

Date and time February 6 (Tue), 2018 17:30-19:00
Venue HIAS Seminar Room (Faculty Building II, Room 517), Kunitachi West Campus, Hitotsubashi University
Speaker Prof. Josselin Thuilliez, Research Professor, CNRS at Sorbonne Economic Center (CES, University of Paris 1, Pantheon Sorbonne)
Title Information quantity, disease risk, and technology adoption: experimental evidence from Burkina Faso.
Language English

The 20th Regular Seminar

Date and time December, 20 (Wed), 2017, 18:00-19:30
Venue HIAS Seminar Room (Faculty Building II, Room 517), Kunitachi West Campus, Hitotsubashi University
Speaker Dr. Andrew Mirelman, Research Fellow, Center for Health Economics, University of York, UK
Title Accounting for equity in the assessment of fiscal policies for health
Language English

The 18th Regular Seminar/Hitotsubashi University Health Economics International Workshop

Date and time November 13 (Mon), 2017 16:30-19:00
Venue Hitotsubashi Hall 2F, Meeting Room 1 and 2 (National Center of Sciences Building 2F, 2-1-2 Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda, Tokyo 101-8439)
Speaker Dr. Yot Teerawattananon, Founding Manager, Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program (HITAP), Department of Health, Thailand
Title “No Health without HTA: a short story of HITAP in Thailand and beyond”
Language English

【Cancelled】The 16th Regular Seminar

Date and time October 16 (Mon) 2017, 16:30-18:00
Venue Hitotsubashi University, Mercury Tower 3F #3302
Speaker Dr. Guanghua Wan, Principal Economist, Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Title Income Distribution and NCDs: Empirical Evidence from China.
Language English

The 13th Regular Seminar

Date and time August 31 (Thu) , 2017 14:00-15:30
Venue HIAS Seminar Room (Faculty Building II, Room 517), Kunitachi West Campus, Hitotsubashi University
Speaker Dr. Alisa Dicaprio, Research Fellow, Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)
Title “Will blockchain change healthcare? Use cases, time horizon, and current state of the technology”
Language English

The 11th Regular Seminar

Date and time June 28 (Wed.), 2017; 17:10-19:00
Venue HIAS Seminar Room (Faculty Building II, Room 517), Kunitachi West Campus, Hitotsubashi University
Speaker Dr. Ying YAO, HIAS Postdoctoral Researcher, Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study, Hitotsubashi University
Title Price Offers of Pharmaceutical Procurement in China: Evidence from Guangdong Province
Language English

The 10th Regular Seminar

Date and time May 24 (Wed.) 17, 2016; 10-18:55
Venue HIAS Seminar Room (Faculty Building II, Room 517), Kunitachi West Campus, Hitotsubashi University
Speaker Prof. Roy Thurik (Erasmus University, the Netherlands/Institute of Economic and Political Studies, Kansai University, Japan)
Title Genes and entrepreneurship: a discovery in the world of behavior and biology
Language English

The 9th Regular Seminar

Date and time March 6 (Mon.) , 2016; 16:30-18:00
Venue HIAS Seminar Room (Faculty Building II, Room 517), Kunitachi West Campus, Hitotsubashi University
Speaker Dr. Kyunghee Lee, Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Michigan State University
Title Impact of Head Start Quality on Low Income Children in US
Language English

The 6th Regular Seminar

Date and time February 14 (Tue) , 2016; 16:30-18:00
Venue HIAS Seminar Room (Faculty Building II, Room 517), Kunitachi West Campus, Hitotsubashi University
Speaker Prof. Nazmi Sari (Department of Economics, University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
Title Physical activity and health outcomes: Evidence from Canadian population surveys
Language English

The 4th Regular Seminar

Date and time September 30th (Fri), 2016; 16:30-18:00
Venue Hitotsubashi University, Mercury Tower 3F #3302
Speaker Ryota NAKAMURA Research Fellow, Center for Health Economics, University of York, UK (From Oct. 1, 2016, Associate Professor, Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study, Hitotsubashi University)
(a member of the Research Center for Health Policy and Economics, Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study)
Title Impact of a `choice architecture’ on medical prescription in Japanese national health insurance system
Language English