Activities

2018.06.27

The 29th regular seminar/Public Economics Workshop：Reo TAKAKU, Institute for Health Economics and Policy, “Detecting Waste in Health Care *via* Hospital Sorting”

2018.06.25

The 28th regular seminar/Public Economics Workshop：Shinya SUGAWARA, Tokyo University of Science, ”Pay-for-Performance and Selective Referral in Long-Term Care (joint with Toshiaki Iizuka and Haruko Noguchi）”

2018.05.30

The 27th regular seminar : Tamahi KATO (YAMAUCHI), Hitotsubashi University, “Monitoring governance, management and operational capacity of mutual health organizations in three regions of Senegal: Findings from the 2017 Survey”

2018.05.24

Prof. Yoshihiro KANEKO is newly appointed as an adjunct researcher of HIAS Health.

2018.05.24

Dr. Makoto TOBE is newly appointed as an adjunct researcher of HIAS Health.

2018.05.08

Participated in 7th HTAsiaLink Annual Conference

2018.04.13

The 26th regular seminar/Hitotsubashi University International Seminar: Niels-Hugo Blunch, Washington and Lee University, USA, “Unintended Consequences: Program Evaluation and The World Bank Vs. Adult Literacy Programs and Child Mortality”

2018.04.09

HIAS Health was approved as an Organizational membership of HTAsiaLink, a network to support collaboration between Asian health technology assessment (HTA) agencies.

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”