University of Kansas: New Conference Strives to Unite State’s Health Economics Community
The field of health economics analyzes both the health care industry and the well-being of the population.
While the theoretical side is one approach, according to
That's the strategy for his inaugural
"We have the necessary elements across the state and the
The one-day conference will address this by gathering researchers, graduate students, undergrads and members of the wider health economics community.
Slusky said, "The idea here is to have some of the narrow academic conversations. But we also want part of the meeting to be about what else can we do? How can we coordinate better? And how can we pull our expertise and resources to better be part of the broader community?"
The conference consists of four types of events: a keynote speech, short pitch presentations for early-stage work, longer presentations for late-stage work and a brainstorming session with economists and non-economists discussing avenues for outreach.
The grant is to be used for expenses of a keynote speaker, meals, room rentals and materials. Slusky plans to work with staff from the
The state is also affected by many of the health-related issues that plague the nation, including numerous rural areas (with a dwindling number of providers) and extremely poor and segregated urban areas, both of which contrast with nearby wealthy suburban areas.
Part of this grant will also go to hosting the 2021
"I wanted to have funds available for graduate students to come -- since they don't often have a lot of their own travel funding -- and also for speakers from schools that don't have large endowments or other kinds of travel funds. It's kind of a need-based model, which I've not seen so much in my profession," said Slusky, who previously received a grant from the
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He considers himself "a pretty broad health economist."
"I mostly work on health outcomes: fertility rates, procedure uses and such. But I look at different kinds of variations that affect those, such as infrastructure and environment, health insurance and also providers," he said.
Ultimately, Slusky anticipates the
"There are not a lot of health people in
"But there are health economists all over the country who are really lovely, brilliant people. It's great to present work to them and get feedback on work. It's also great to get to see what new stuff is out there. But most importantly, it's great to see my students present their work -- there's a huge amount of pride in that."
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