NEW PUBLICATION Global income polarization: relative and absolute perspectives @larryroope.bsky.social rdcu.be/fgfoV First long-run estimates (1960–2020) of global income polarization, looking beyond inequality to how incomes cluster into groups and how the “middle” evolves. @oxpop.bsky.social

EPH NEWS Dr Liz Morrell presented on "Risk stratification in newly-diagnosed myeloma: Is a sequencing panel a cost-effective option for the NHS?" at the at the British Society for Haematology Annual Scientific Meeting. (Fred McElwee and prof. Sarah Wordsworth) #BSH2026 @oxpop.bsky.social

NEW PUBLICATION This multi-country study explores a fundamental question in healthcare: should we prioritise saving more lives, or more years of life? @larryroope.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1... 1/3 @oxpop.bsky.social

NEW PUBLICATION A cluster-randomised trial in 84 English primary schools evaluated a screening-to-intervention pathway in children aged 8 - 9 years. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @oxfordpsychiatry.bsky.social @oxexppsy.bsky.social @nihr.bsky.social 1/4

NEW PUBLICATION Proton beam therapy for oropharyngeal cancer (TORPEdO): a phase 3, randomised controlled trial www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @oxpop.bsky.social

NEW PUBLICATION Liquid biopsy for the diagnosis of EBV-positive Burkitt’s lymphoma in endemic areas nature.com/articles/s41... 1/3 @oxpop.bsky.social

HERC SHORT COURSES 2026 Registration is now open for bookings for HERC Online short courses for 2026. This year, we're pleased to offer an exclusive 20% discount when you book multiple online courses. www.herc.ox.ac.uk/herc-short-c... #healtheconomics @oxpop.bsky.social 1/4

NEW PUBLICATION Is liquid biopsy a cost-effective method to diagnose Burkitt Lymphoma in children and young adults? A health economic evaluation in Tanzania link.springer.com/article/10.1... @oxpop.bsky.social 1/2

NEW PUBLICATION Towards a Multi-sectoral Approach to Population Health: A Scoping Review of Cross-sectoral Evaluations of Health Interventions link.springer.com/article/10.1... @oxpop.bsky.social

UPCOMING SEMINAR Assoc. Prof. Helen Dakin will be leading a workshop at King's Health Economics titled "Interacting Decisions in Economic Evaluation and Health Technology Assessment". Monday 2 March, 1-2 pm UK BST via MS Teams @oxpop.bsky.social Link to join 👉 www.herc.ox.ac.uk/upcoming-eve...

NEW PUBLICATION Cost Effectiveness of Local Anaesthetic Transperineal Versus Transrectal Biopsy: Results from the TRANSLATE Study TRANSLATE Trial Study Group (including Jane Wolstenholme, Filipa Landeiro) www.eu-focus.europeanurology.com/article/S240... @oxpop.bsky.social

HERC SHORT COURSES 2026 Registration is now open for bookings for HERC Online short courses for 2026. This year, we're pleased to offer an exclusive 20% discount when you book multiple online courses. herc.ox.ac.uk/herc-short-c... #healtheconomics @oxpop.bsky.social 1/5

NEW PUBLICATION Correspondence on “Parents’ perceptions of the utility of genetic testing in the NICU” by Callahan et al Sally L. Sansom, Chloe Mighton, Hadley Stevens Smith Value in Health 2026 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

HERC NEWS #ISPOREurope2025 Kristian Mallon presented two posters: - Q-squared as a mapping model performance metric in gastrointestinal disease www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... - The HERC Database of Mapping Studies www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @oxpop.bsky.social

HERC NEWS #ISPOREurope2025 Junwen Zhou presented "Modeling Framework for Assessing Cost-Effectiveness of New Treatments in Chronic Kidney Disease". www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @oxpop.bsky.social

HERC NEWS #ISPOREurope2025 Liz Morrell presented "Tell me a story: a randomised study comparing table and narrative presentations of a choice experiment". www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @oxpop.bsky.social

NEW PUBLICATION Supporting women with adherence to adjuvant endocrine therapy (SWEET): feasibility study of the HT&Me intervention SWEET Research Team (includes Jane Wolstenholme and Helen Dakin) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/2 @oxpop.bsky.social

HERC NEWS Our poster ‘Q-squared as a mapping model performance metric in gastrointestinal disease’ MSR176 is in Session 4 (today at 6pm) #ISPOREurope. ispor.org/conferences-... #HERC #HERCMappingDatabase @oxpop.bsky.social 1/2

UPCOMING HERC SEMINAR Financing Long-term Care by Assoc. prof. Raphael Wittenberg Wednesday 12 November, 15:00 hours UK BST Location: Online via Teams/Zoom Free event, requires registration -> app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/oxford/her... @oxpop.bsky.social

🎉 Congrats to Prof Mara Violato and Dr Shuye Yu, part of the Co-CAT study team nominated for an @acamh.bsky.social Award for their research into an online, parent-led programme with therapist support to help children with anxiety ➡️ buff.ly/00cMB1H @herc-oxford.bsky.social #WorldMentalHealthDay

HERC DATABASE UPDATE A new version of #HERC Database of Mapping Studies with 43 new algorithms mapping to #EQ5D is now available at www.herc.ox.ac.uk/downloads/he... #HERCMappingDatabase @oxpop.bsky.social

NEW PUBLICATION WHO model for costing of blood products WHO working group (including Elizabeth Stokes) @oxpop.bsky.social iris.who.int/items/fa7edb...

HERC ARE RECRUITING Vacancy for a researcher in health economics working on a range of projects applying health economics methods to patient-level data from clinical trials and observational studies. Applications by noon on 13 Nov 2025. @oxpop.bsky.social www.herc.ox.ac.uk/about/work-w...

NEW PUBLICATION Underweight children cost the NHS as much per child as children with obesity. A study by researchers from the Nuffield Department for Primary Health Care Sciences and HERC provides evidence of healthcare costs linked to children’s weight www.ndph.ox.ac.uk/news/underwe...

HERC NEWS Team from the University of Oxford, Jake Hitch (Team lead), Nicolás Armijo Escalona, Augustine Luk, Ashley Murray, and Natasha Salant (HERC) wins Student Innovation Award in the 2025 Vivli AMR Surveillance Data Challenge. 1/3 @oxpop.bsky.social amr.vivli.org/data-challen...

HERC NEWS Article by HERC researchers prof. Philip Clarke and Dr Rhys Thomas in the @ConversationUK @oxpop.bsky.social theconversation.com/should-we-de...

UPCOMING WEBINAR From Crib to Clinic: The Economic and Ethical Trade-offs of Genomic Sequencing in Newborn Screening and Diagnosis Dr @hadleyssmith.bsky.social Tues 21 Oct 10:30 h UK BST onsite/online Free event registration app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/oxford/her... @oxpop.bsky.social

HERC Virtual Visitors Scheme The fourth round of HERC Virtual Visitors Scheme (this time aimed at early career health economist from LMIC in Africa) is now taking applications. Applications close on 2nd Nov 2025. @oxpop.bsky.social Details on how to apply: www.herc.ox.ac.uk/news/health-...

HERC ARE RECRUITING Vacancy for a researcher in health economics working on projects applying health economics methods to patient-level data from clinical trials and observational cohort studies. Applications by noon on 6 Nov 2025. @oxpop.bsky.social www.herc.ox.ac.uk/news/now-rec...

HERC SHORT COURSES 2025 HERC Online short courses for 2025 autumn/winter. Registration is open now for bookings. #healtheconomics @oxpop.bsky.social www.herc.ox.ac.uk/herc-short-c... 1/5

HERC NEWS New Podcast Episode by the Centre for Personalised Medicine exploring the “Health Economics of Personalised Medicine”. 1/4 @oxpop.bsky.social podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series-3-epi...

ACAMH AWARDS 2025 NOMINATIONS The Co-CAT Study Team (including HERC researchers prof. Mara Violato and Dr Shuye Yu) @ox.ac.uk was shortlisted for the Digital Innovation Awards: Research on Digital Impact. www.acamh.org/blog/acamh-a... @oxpop.bsky.social 1/3

ACAMH AWARDS 2025 NOMINATIONS The Co-CAT Study Team (including HERC researcher prof. Mara Violato) @ox.ac.uk was shortlisted for the Digital Innovation Awards: Research on Digital Impact. www.acamh.org/blog/acamh-a... @oxpop.bsky.social 1/3

BEST RESEARCH PAPER FINALIST A paper by HERC researchers Borislava Mihaylova, Junwen Zhou, Claire Williams, and Alastair Gray was amongst the 2025 finalists of the BMJ Heart Journal. Link to the full-text paper www.ndph.ox.ac.uk/news/statins... heart.bmj.com/pages/best-p... @oxpop.bsky.social

NEW PUBLICATION Gabapentin for Pain Management after Major Surgery: A Placebo-controlled, Double-blinded, Randomized Clinical Trial (the GAP Study) including Elizabeth Stokes, Sarah Wordsworth journals.lww.com/anesthesiolo... @oxpop.bsky.social

NEW PUBLICATION A new publication shows that while children from lower-income families tend to have poorer mental health outcomes. archpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... @oxpop.bsky.social 1/2

🔔 FINAL EXTENSION: The #IHEA Econ-Omics SIG global survey on integrating #healtheconomics into #genomicmedicine is still open and the deadline has been extended to Friday 15 August! We’d love your input! No economics background needed. 🕒 ~15 mins 🔗 q.surveys.unimelb.edu.au/jfe/form/SV_...

NEW PUBLICATION Effects of empagliflozin on quality of life and healthcare use and costs in chronic kidney disease: a health economic analysis of the EMPA-KIDNEY trial HERC authors Junwen Zhou, Claire Williams, Philip Clarke, Borislava Mihaylova @oxpop.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/ecl...

NEW PUBLICATION Systematic review of health economic models for assessment and diagnosis of dementia HERC authors: Jane Wolstenholme, Alastair M. Gray, Filipa Landeiro Alzheimer’s Dement. 2025 @oxpop.bsky.social alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

NEW PUBLICATION Accuracy of online surveys in predicting COVID-19 uptake and demand: A cohort study investigating vaccine sentiments and switching in 13 countries from 2020 to 2022 Z. Abel, L. Roope, M. Violato, P. Clarke Vaccine 2025 @oxpop.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

HERC SHORT COURSES 2025 HERC is pleased to announce their programme of Online short courses for 2025 and that registration is open now for bookings. #healtheconomics @oxpop.bsky.social 1/6 www.herc.ox.ac.uk/herc-short-c...

NEW PUBLICATION The Value of Hope in Cancer Care: Risk Preference and Heterogeneity in Cancer Patients and the General Public www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

NEW PUBLICATION Roux-en-Y #gastric #bypass, adjustable gastric #banding, or sleeve #gastrectomy for severe #obesity: a multicentre, open label, three-group, RCT By-Band-Sleeve Collaborative Group (including Koen Pouwels, Rositsa Koleva-Kolarova, Sarah Wordsworth) www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

HERC SHORT COURSES 2025 HERC is pleased to announce their programme of Online and In-person short courses for 2025 and that registration is open now for bookings. #healtheconomics www.herc.ox.ac.uk/herc-short-c... @oxpop.bsky.social 1/6

UPCOMING HERC SEMINAR Core Outcome Set for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Dr Lisolette Fierens Tues, 20 May, 11.00 - 12.00 UK BST, in person and online Free event, requires registration www.herc.ox.ac.uk/upcoming-eve... @oxpop.bsky.social

HERC NEWS Tutors and students enjoying HERC's choice modelling course this week!

NEW PUBLICATION Diagnosing Burkitt Lymphoma in Sub-Saharan Africa by Sequencing of Circulating Tumor DNA: A Comparative Microcosting Study Liz Morrell, AI-REAL Consortium, Sarah Wordsworth www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @oxpop.bsky.social

NEW PUBLICATION Reducing inequalities through greater diversity in clinical trials – As important for medical devices as for drugs and therapeutics @larryroope.bsky.social #Diversity #EfficientTrialDesign #Inequality www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @oxpop.bsky.social 🧵

UPCOMING HERC SEMINAR Financial Consequences of Undiagnosed Memory Disorders & Algorithms for Early Detection Prof. Carole Roan Gresenz Tues, 1 April, 13:30 h UK BST, on-site and online via Zoom Free event, requires registration app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/oxford/her... @oxpop.bsky.social

HERC NEWS HERC researcher Keyu Li is presenting today on "The Association of Development with Mortality: Longitudinal Evidence from Malaysia using Nighttime Luminosity as a Proxy” at the CSAE Conference 2025. www.csae.ox.ac.uk/csae-confere... #OxCSAE2025 @oxpop.bsky.social