3rd Croatian Health Economics Workshop
8th-9th September 2025 – Split, Croatia
Now in its 3rd edition, the Croatian Health Economics Workshop encourages the exchange of ideas and best practice, with the aim to promote discussion of high-priority topics for the health systems of Central and Eastern European countries (including EU-member and non-member states). More generally, the workshop acts as a platform for transferring knowledge within Central and Eastern Europe and with the broader international community.
This year we are pleased to announce an Open call and a Themed call for abstracts. Submissions to both streams (Open and Themed) will be considered for inclusion in the overall CHEW programme.
CHEW welcomes submissions of paper using economic approaches to study the broad areas of health and health care, including but not limited to financial sustainability, long-term care and ageing, data linkage and outcomes measurement, healthcare workforce, health outcomes research and decision-making, effects of economic events on health outcomes, effects of health events on economic outcomes, and financial incentives. Papers accepted for the open call will be included in the main CHEW programme running from Monday 8th to lunchtime on Tuesday 9th September.
THEMED CALL – Cross-learning between Central and Eastern Europe and Latin America
Central and Eastern European countries
(including EU-member states and non-member states) lag in terms of innovations
in the ways their healthcare systems are organised and the issues that are tackled.
Additionally, compared to Western Europe, the region still has a substantial
gap in terms of economic growth, with various countries still in a
middle-income status. This makes the fiscal constraints even more salient.
Despite different social, economic and
industrial structures, these challenges are common to various countries in
Latin America. For the 2025 edition, in collaboration with Prof. Daniel
Maceira, and the "Strengthening Agency & Learning across Health
Systems in the Americas”
project funded by the Norwegian cooperation agency (Norhed), CHEW is pleased to
announce a special focus on cross-learning between health systems in Latin
America with those in Central and Eastern Europe. For this themed call, CHEW encourages
authors to submit papers focusing on comparative analyses on health system
organisation, performance, financing and quality in Latin America.
Postdoctoral researchers, Doctoral and Master students from Latin America across European Universities are encouraged to submit their papers for the session on this themed call. Papers accepted for the themed call will be included in a special session held in the afternoon of Tuesday 9th September.
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
Please submit your abstracts (max 350 words, preferably structured) or full papers via email to chew@efri.uniri.hr no later than 18th May 2025. Early Career Researchers are particularly encouraged to submit.
IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract submission deadline: 18th
May 2025
Notification of acceptance: 6th
June 2025
Full paper submission: No later than
31st July 2025
The workshop will start on Monday 8th
September and close in the late afternoon of Tuesday 9th September
2025. The special session on "Cross-learning between Central and Eastern Europe
and Latin America” will be held in the afternoon of Tuesday 9th
September.
WORKSHOP FORMAT
The workshop aims to create a
supportive environment to discuss, critique and ultimately improve scholarly
work, as well as a learning experience for all participants. The workshop will
accept up to 15 full papers. Each accepted paper will be assigned a discussant
who will receive the paper ahead of the workshop. Papers submitted by Early
Career Researchers will be discussed by expert senior academics.
Each session will run as follows :
a) a
brief presentation by the author (15 min)
b)
a
thorough discussion of the paper by the assigned discussant (15 min)
c) open discussion with the audience (5 min)
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
The main workshop keynote lecture (at the end of day 1) will be delivered by Tom van Ourti. Tom is Professor of Applied Health Economics at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam, with a focus on health and inequality. His research focuses on understanding the socio-economic health gradient, with specific interest in impact evaluation, preventive care, mental health, perinatal health, measurement theory of health inequalities, and the elicitation of social preferences for income and health. He has published in journals including the Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Health Economics, and the Bulletin of the World Health Organisation. He teaches applied econometrics and health economics, and organizes a yearly PhD summer school on inequalities in health and health care. He obtained his PhD from the University of Antwerp and has held visiting positions at the university of Melbourne, and the George Washington University.
The keynote for themed session (at lunchtime on day 2) will be delivered by Daniel Maceira, Professor at the Economic Department, National University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina, Independent Researcher of the National Council of Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET), Senior Researcher at the Center for the Study of State and Society (CEDES), Director of the MBA-Health of the University of San Andrés and Board Member and Chair for The Americas of Health Systems Global (HSG) between 2016-2024.
VENUE, LOGISTICS, FEES
The workshop will be held at Faculty
of Economics University of Split, Croatia. Split offers plenty of
accommodation options for the participants to choose from. The international
airport in Split is well connected to most destinations in Europe and the UK
all year round. Further information will be released when opening registration in
May 2025.
Participants will be asked to pay the
conference fee of 350€. This fee is inclusive of all conference lunches,
refreshments, and the conference dinner on 8th September 2025.
If you have any additional questions about the conference, including travel, logistics, registration or fees, please contact us via email at chew@efri.uniri.hr.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
- Prof. Ana Bobinac (University of Rijeka, HR, Chair)
- Igor Francetić (SUPSI, CH & University of Manchester, UK)
- Prof. Lana Kordić (University of Split, Croatia)
- Ismar Velić (University of Rijeka, HR)
- Themed session: Prof. Daniel Maceira (National University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTE
- Prof. Ana Bobinac (University of Rijeka, HR)
- Igor Francetić (SUPSI, CH & University of Manchester, UK)
- Prof. Ria Ivandić (University of Zagreb, HR)
- Lana Kovačević (Imperial College London, UK)
- Prof. Matt Sutton (University of Manchester, UK)
- Ismar Velić (University of Rijeka, HR)
- Themed session: Prof. Daniel Maceira (National University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)
