Health Economics Network
The LACEA’s Health Economics network will bring together economists and other social scientist from Latin America and the Caribbean and other parts of the world working on health issues in order to build a community of practice to promote quality research in health economics in LAC and contribute towards stronger health systems.
Ana Balsa
Universidad de Montevideo
Network Head
Dolores de la Mata
CAF
Network Head
Scientific Committee
Antonella Bancalari, Institute for Fiscal Studies
Damian Clarke, University of Exeter and Universidad de Chile
Pablo Celhay, Universidad Católica de Chile
Fabian Duarte, Universidad de Chile
Guillermo Paraje, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez
Mayra Pineda Torres, Georgia Institute of Technology
Rudi Rocha, FGV EAESP
Nieves Valdés, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez
Mariana Zerpa, Universidad de Chile
Annual Meetings
Health Economics Network
The LACEA Health Economics Network (LAHEN), together with the Research Institute for Development, Growth and Economics (RIDGE), and the University of the West Indies are pleased to announce a call for papers for the Workshop on Health Economics to be held in person in Barbados on 20-21 May 2026, along with other Applied Micro workshops. Full papers, written in English, must be submitted for consideration for the meeting. Authors will be able to select a first and second preference of workshops to present the paper, but papers will only be presented once. The call will be open until January 15, 2026.
Previous meetings
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Closed — Deadline: January 15, 2026
LACEA’S Health Economics Network 9th Annual Workshop
The University of the West Indies, Barbados | 20-21 May, 2026
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Closed — Deadline: February 7, 2025
Health Economics Network
Lima, Peru, 14-15 May 2025
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2024 May Forum
Health Economics Network
Santiago de Chile, Chile, May 16-17, 2024
Subscription to Health Economics Network Mailing List
International Events relevant to LAHEN
With open calls
- June 1-2, 2026. American European Health Study Group. Berlin, Alemania. Deadline: 27 February 2026.
- June 8-9, 2026. Workshop on the Economics of Families, Gender and Work – Barcelona Summer Forum. Deadline: 28 February 2026.
- July 8-9, 2026. 15th Workshop on the Economics of Risky Behaviors. Cagliary, Italia. Submission Deadline: March 6, 2026.
- November 12-14, 2026. LAMES-LACEA Conference, Lima, Perú. Call for papers not open yet.
- July 10-14, 2027. IHEA Congress, Guayaquil, Ecuador. Co-hosted by Escuela Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL). Call for papers not open yet.
With deadlines past due
- March 18-20, 2026. Fifth Ireland Masterclass in Health Economics, University of Galway, Ireland.
- May 20-21, 2026. 9th Workshop of the Latin American Health Economics Network, XXII Ridge Forum Barbados.
- June 3 – 5, 2026. Essen Health Conference. Essen, Alemania.
- June 7 – 10, 2026. ASHEcon (American Society of Health Economics) 15th Annual Conference. Minneapolis, MN, Estados Unidos.
- June 17 – 19, 2026. XLV Jornadas de Economía de la Salud. Sevilla, España.
- July 14-17, 2026. European Health Economics Association Conference (EuHEA). Rotterdam, Holanda.
Other information of potential interest
- You are invited to sign up to LAHEN’s (Latin American Health Economics Network) mailing list if you are interested in receiving information about the network’s and other activities.
- The International Health Economics Association (IHEA) holds several Special Interest Groups (SIGs), which function as spaces for exchange, collaboration, and development of specific research agendas within the field. They are a good opportunity to connect with colleagues from other countries, participate in thematic seminars, organize coordinated sessions for conferences, propose activities, and follow current discussions in the field. All active SIGs within IHEA can be accessed through the following link.
IHEA’s Risky Behaviors SIG organizes monthly webinars by established researchers on substance use and abuse, obesity, violence, risky sexual behaviors, physical activity, self-harm and suicide, among other topics. Recordings of the webinars are available here and can be used for teaching purposes. To stay informed about IHEA activities and those of each SIGs, we suggest subscribing to the IHEA newsletter.
- If you have information worth sharing, please let us know by e-mailing Ana Balsa abalsa@um.edu.uy or Dolores de la Mata dolodelamata@gmail.com.