Activities

2018.04.06

The 25th regular seminar/Hitotsubashi University International Seminar: Aki Tsuchiya, The University of Sheffield, “Comparing inequality and risk aversion in social welfare for health and income: an empirical analysis using hypothetical scenarios with losses”

2018.04.02

“The Impact Evaluation of the Universal Health Coverage Project” in the Republic of Senegal is selected for the Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI) for fiscal 2018.

2018.04.01

Prof. Ko ARAI is appointed as the Chairperson of Subcommittee on Consumption Tax of Medical Institutions, Central Social Insurance Medical Council of the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare.

2018.03.15

The 24th regular seminar : Tamahi KATO (YAMAUCHI), Hitotsubashi University, “Agricultural input subsidies in sub-Saharan Africa – the case of Tanzania”

2018.02.06

The 23rd regular seminar/Public Economics Workshop/International Seminar : Josselin Thuilliez, National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), France, “Information, learning and health technology adoption in the short and long run: Evidence from a field experiment in Burkina Faso.”

2018.02.06

Hitotsubashi University and Singapore Management University (SMU) held their 2nd Webinar

2018.02.05

Prof. Josselin Thuilliez, the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) , France, visited Hitotsubashi University

2018.01.01

Dr. Tamahi KATO (YAMAUCHI), an Adjunct Research Associate of Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study (HIAS), has newly joined the center.

2017.12.20

The 20th regular seminar/International Seminar : Andrew Mirelman, University of York, UK, “Accounting for equity in the assessment of fiscal policies for health”

2017.12.12

Hosted an official side event of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Forum 2017

2017.12.12

Project to evaluate the impact of Japan’s assistance activities to promote Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in the Republic of Senegal: Baseline survey took place in three regions

2017.11.13

Hitotsubashi University Health Economics International Workshop/the 18th regular seminar/Hitotsubashi University International Seminar

2017.08.31

HIAS Seminar/The 13th regular seminar : Alisa Dicaprio, Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), “Will blockchain change healthcare? Use cases, time horizon, and current state of the technology”

2017.08.24

A memorandum of joint research with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has been signed.

2017.08.21

HTAsiaLink’s Newsletter features the presentation of Dr. Nakamura at its 6th annual meeting.

2017.07.24

HIDAMARI Citizen’s Evaluation Committee of Palsystem Tokyo, Consumers’ Co-operative Union, where Prof. Hiroki Hayashi is one of expert committee members, held a seminar “Let’s Learn about Dance Therapy!”

2017.06.28

The 11th regular seminar : Ying YAO, Hitotsubashi University, “Price Offers of Pharmaceutical Procurement in China: Evidence from Guangdong Province”

2017.06.24

The project to evaluate the impact of Japan’s assistance on promoting Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in the Republic of Senegal: On-site preliminary survey

2017.06.01

Dr. Ying YAO, a Postdoctoral Researcher of Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study (HIAS), has newly joined the center.

2017.05.24

The 10th regular seminar : Roy Thurik, Erasmus University, the Netherlands/Kansai University, Japan, “Genes and entrepreneurship: a discovery in the world of behavior and biology”

2017.05.19

Hitotsubashi University and Singapore Management University (SMU) held a Webinar

2017.04.27

Hitotsubashi University Health Economics Short Course “Economic Evaluation of Healthcare Technology: Using Cost-Effectiveness Analysis”

2017.04.26

Hitotsubashi University Health Economics Symposium “Health Economics and Health Policy”

2017.04.17

Participated in 6th HTAsiaLink Annual Conference

2017.04.01

Eight researchers are newly appointed as the adjunct researchers of the center.

2017.03.06

The 9th regular seminar : Kyunghee Lee, Michigan State University, USA, “Impact of Head Start Quality on Low Income Children in US”

2016.02.05

Research Center for Health Policy and Economics is established