SCHEDULE: MONDAY

Monday Sessions

Monday Morning
Room	8:30 am	10:00 am	11:15 am
No.2 Hall A	Assessing Fiscal Space for Health: A Simple Analytical Framework and Applications to Lower and Middle-Income Countries Chair: Claudia Rokx Starts at 8:30 a.m.	Researching interventions to address the human resources for health crisis - an application of discrete choice experiments in Kenya, Thailand and South Africa. Chair: Anne Mills Starts at 10 a.m.	Providing Best Evidence for Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Chair: Jieling Chen Starts at 11:15 a.m.
No.2 Hall B	Harmonising value of information methods with decision making in practice Chair: Stephen Jan Starts at 8:30 a.m.	Subjective Expectations and Health-Related Behaviour Chair: Andrew Jones Starts at 10 a.m.	Understanding the health and labour relationship Chair: Owen O'Donnell Starts at 11:15 a.m.
No.2 Hall C	Physician Financial Self-interest (FSI) in Imaging: Magnitude and Implications for Healthcare Costs, Outcomes, and Policy Chair: Jonathan Sunshine Starts at 8:30 a.m.	New Challenges in Financing Health Systems in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Chair: Adam Wagstaff Starts at 10 a.m.	The Prospects for a Global Subsidy for Antimalarial Combination Therapy Chair: Kara Hanson Starts at 11:15 a.m.
201A	The distribution of catastrophic health expenditures and its relationship to insurance coverage – Emerging global patterns and evidence Chair: Ravindra Rannan-Eliya Starts at 8:30 a.m.	Health and health care consumption of migrants Chair: Sandy Tubeuf Starts at 10 a.m.	Implementing Economic Evidence and Addressing the International Financial Crisis (IFC) through Clinical Practice Guidelines and Regulation: International Experience Chair: Jeff Richardson Starts at 11:15 a.m.
201B	HPV Vaccine Economics Chair: Tom Hoerger Starts at 8:30 a.m.	Stymie snacks and soda? Evidence on strategies to reverse trends in childhood and adolescent obesity Chair: Nathan Tefft Starts at 10 a.m.	Entitlement to Medical Care and Voluntary Medical Insurance – the Risk and the Potential Chair: Dov Chernichovsky Starts at 11:15 a.m.
201C	The Economics of Non-Communicable Diseases Chair: Dov Chernichovsky Starts at 8:30 a.m.	Explicit Characterization of Uncertainty in Health Technology Assessment: Structural and Other Uncertainties Chair: Cynthia Iglesias Starts at 10 a.m.	The Economics of Health Care Organization: Recent Evidence from Developing Countries Chair: Peter Berman Starts at 11:15 a.m.
310	Getting more useful data on health expenditures: how should the system of health accounts be revised? Chair: Tessa Tan-Torres Starts at 8:30 a.m.	Future Health Systems: Responding to New Challenges and New Opportunities Chair: Zhang Zhenzhong Starts at 10 a.m.	Risk Adjustment and Predictive Modeling Chair: Wei Yu Starts at 11:15 a.m.
303	Analyzing Insurance Chair: Yunwei Gai Starts at 8:30 a.m.	Supplementary Insurance Chair: Chuan-Fen Liu Starts at 10 a.m.	Hospital Productivity 1 Chair: Anatoliy Pilyavsky Starts at 11:15 a.m.
305A	Hospital Organization Starts at 8:30 a.m.	Methodology Chair: Beate Sander Starts at 10 a.m.	Measuring Obesity Chair: Gindo Tampubolon Starts at 11:15 a.m.
305B	Tobacco Use Chair: Mukesh Chawla Starts at 8:30 a.m.	Willingness-to-Pay Chair: Jürgen Wasem Starts at 10 a.m.	Doctor-Patient Relationship Chair: Yang Xie Starts at 11:15 a.m.
305C	Policy to Combat Obesity Chair: Michael Foster Starts at 8:30 a.m.	Mental Health Starts at 10 a.m.	Drug Markets Chair: Chris Carwsell Starts at 11:15 a.m.
307	Doctors and Demand Chair: Mario Pezzino Starts at 8:30 a.m.	Adolescent Health Chair: Ana Gil Starts at 10 a.m.	Retirement Chair: Liqun Liu Starts at 11:15 a.m.
308	Drug Pricing 1 Chair: Hui Zhang Starts at 8:30 a.m.	Cancer Screening 1 Chair: Chao Zhou Starts at 10 a.m.	Community-Based Insurance Chair: David Dror Starts at 11:15 a.m.
311A	Equity and Health Financing Chair: Zijun Wang Starts at 8:30 a.m.	Resource Allocation Chair: Vittorio Mapelli Starts at 10 a.m.	Out-of-Pocket Payments in Developing Countries Chair: Sophie Witter Starts at 11:15 a.m.
311B	Determinants of Health Chair: Benjamin Uzochukwu Starts at 8:30 a.m.	Trends in Health Financing Chair: Peter Zweifel Starts at 10 a.m.	Dental Care Chair: Sanjeewa Kularatna Starts at 11:15 a.m.

Monday Afternoon
Room	2:00 pm	3:15 pm	4:30 pm	5:45 pm
No.2 Hall A	Policy Environments and Substance Use Chair: Eva Leeds Starts at 2 p.m.	Health financing reforms in Africa: experiences from: Rwanda; Uganda and Zambia Chair: Ke Xu Starts at 3:15 p.m.	LATE-BREAKER SESSION: Monitoring the Impact of Economic Crisis on Health and Health Systems - Idea Exchange Chair: Peter Berman Starts at 4:30 p.m.	Are Social Insurance Systems More Resilient to Macroeconomic Shocks? An Analysis of the Expected Impact of the Current Financial Crisis on Health Revenues and Expenditures Chair: Ariel Fiszbein Starts at 5:45 p.m.
No.2 Hall B	Economic Evaluation of Preventive Strategies for Pressure Ulcers Chair: Murray Krahn Starts at 2 p.m.	The Value of Vaccination: Long Term Economic Benefits and Herd Immunity Chair: Damian Walker Starts at 3:15 p.m.	Health information technology and the production of quality Chair: Stephen Parente Starts at 4:30 p.m.	Health care financing reforms in Indonesia: bridging health economics and policy Chair: Nina Sardjunani Starts at 5:45 p.m.
No.2 Hall C	The Economics of two-tier health systems: demand function interdependencies and implications for equity Chair: Kara Hanson Starts at 2 p.m.	AIDS programs in low- and middle-income countries: efficiency, impacts, and future designs Chair: Donald Shepard Starts at 3:15 p.m.	Applying health economics to disease prevention and control: The CDC experience Chair: Ping Zhang Starts at 4:30 p.m.	Economic incentives to promote health Chair: Devendra Shrestha Starts at 5:45 p.m.
201A	The Growth of Diabetes in Asia Pacific Region and Health Technology Appraisal Chair: Chuan Chen Starts at 2 p.m.	Performance of China's health system: measurement issues and policy implications Chair: Yuanli Liu Starts at 3:15 p.m.	Informal care in economic evaluations Chair: Guillem López Starts at 4:30 p.m.	Can the U.S. Join the Emerging Paradigm in its Allies' healthcare System Chair: Wynand van de Ven Starts at 5:45 p.m.
201B	Innovative strategies for weight loss Chair: Kevin Volpp Starts at 2 p.m.	The value of health information technology; efficiency, logistics, and quality Chair: Jeffrey McCullough Starts at 3:15 p.m.	Issues Facing Pharmaceutical Policy Chair: Dominic Hodgkin Starts at 4:30 p.m.	Health Insurance, Medical Care and Health Outcomes Chair: Hope Corman Starts at 5:45 p.m.
201C	Scaling up community financing: key challenges faced Chair: Kent Ranson Starts at 2 p.m.	Multiple-criteria priority setting in health: evidence from developing countries Chair: Tessa Tan-Torres Edejer Starts at 3:15 p.m.	Government Regulation and Health Behaviors Chair: Feng Liu Starts at 4:30 p.m.	Quality and Efficiency Tradeoffs: Evidence from Acute and Long-Term Care Chair: Benny Wong Starts at 5:45 p.m.
310	How equitable is health care financing and service utilisation in African countries: Evidence from Ghana, Tanzania and South Africa? Chair: Adam Wagstaff Starts at 2 p.m.	Risk equalisation in voluntary health insurance markets: the cases of Australia, Ireland and South Africa Chair: Francesco Paolucci Starts at 3:15 p.m.	Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme- the way forward for Sub-Saharan Africa or a hazardous experiment? Chair: Finn Schleimann Starts at 4:30 p.m.	Health and Macroeconomics Chair: Robert Hecht Starts at 5:45 p.m.
303	Compliance Chair: Preethi John Starts at 2 p.m.	Tobacco Pricing Chair: Grace Lordan Starts at 3:15 p.m.	Hospital Efficiency 2 Chair: Sukhontha Kongsin Starts at 4:30 p.m.	Social Capital 1 Chair: Sherman Folland Starts at 5:45 p.m.
305A	Economic Evaluation and Clinical Trials Chair: Xuan Jianwei Starts at 2 p.m.	Adherence to Therapy Chair: Jennifer Ruger Starts at 3:15 p.m.	Modeling Tobacco Use Chair: Denzil Fiebig Starts at 4:30 p.m.	Effect of Out-of-Pocket Payments Chair: Hindrik Vondeling Starts at 5:45 p.m.
305B	Hospital Efficiency 1 Chair: Danny Hughes Starts at 2 p.m.	Waiting for Surgery Starts at 3:15 p.m.	Influenza Chair: Phua Kai Hong Starts at 4:30 p.m.	Effect of Insurance Chair: Gina Lagomarsino Starts at 5:45 p.m.
305C	Physical Activity Chair: Yasuki Kobayashi Starts at 2 p.m.	Hospital Competition Chair: Ted Frech Starts at 3:15 p.m.	Informal Care Chair: Okore Okorafor Starts at 4:30 p.m.	Children and Family Income Chair: Jennifer Ruger Starts at 5:45 p.m.
307	Smoking Cessation Chair: Feng Liu Starts at 2 p.m.	Access and Coverage Chair: Baoping Shang Starts at 3:15 p.m.	Childhood Obesity Chair: Harry Zhang Starts at 4:30 p.m.	Health Sector Financing Chair: Hasbullah Thabrany Starts at 5:45 p.m.
308	Technology 1 Chair: Matteo Ruggeri Starts at 2 p.m.	Experience with Out-of-Pocket Payments Chair: Matthew Jowett Starts at 3:15 p.m.	Injury Chair: Jennifer Ruger Starts at 4:30 p.m.	Discrete Choice Experiments Chair: Alan Diener Starts at 5:45 p.m.
311A	Organizing Doctors Chair: Sarah Barber Starts at 2 p.m.	Equity in Developing Countries Chair: Anna Vassall Starts at 3:15 p.m.	Access to Drugs Chair: Krister Jarbrink Starts at 4:30 p.m.	Hospital Productivity 2 Starts at 5:45 p.m.
311B	Wait Times Chair: Keerti Pradhan Starts at 2 p.m.	Economic Evaluations Chair: Hans Severens Starts at 3:15 p.m.	Doctors’ Prescribing Patterns Chair: Anders Foldspang Starts at 4:30 p.m.	Physician Practice Chair: Mark Showalter Starts at 5:45 p.m.