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Professor Karl Claxton from the Centre for Health Economics at the University of York hosts special IGHI guest lecture.

The Institute of Global Health Innovation and their were pleased to welcome Professor Claxton to 51³Ô¹ÏÍø last week for a talk about health economics. 

Karl Claxton is a Professor at the University of York in the Department of Economics and the and leads the economic evaluation component of their Health Economics MSc. 

In this lecture, Prof Claxton presented specific estimates of health opportunity costs for 123 counties, and discussed how they might be improved and updated. He also discussed how a range of global and national decisions can be better informed using measures of value based on estimates of health opportunity costs. 

The event was chaired by Professor Anthony Culyer, Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of York and Visiting Professor at 51³Ô¹ÏÍø. 

This event was arranged by IGHI and the , a global network of health and economics expertise that supports countries to make better decisions to get the most from every dollar they spend on health care. The initiative is led by the  within IGHI at 51³Ô¹ÏÍø. 

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