Global Health Economics
The Global Health Economics Unit (GHEU) is based within the UVM Center for Clinical and Translational Science. The GHEU works to improve the quality and performance of health care and health care systems through research, teaching and collaboration in health economics, behavioral finance and predictive modeling. The GHEU's mission is to provide a more synchronized coordination between health economics, the diagnosis and treatment of disease, and the chambers where public policies are formulated. In pursuing this mission, the GHEU undertakes research in areas that show the promise of improved efficiency; namely, to discover ways to improve outcomes and reduce cost. Vermont with its present health care reforms and as a model for elsewhere in the United States, is at the forefront of these efforts. We are also collaborating with researchers at the London School of Economics to predict health, labor and economic changes under single-payer health systems. We are exploring currency neutrality and recourse to foreign competencies for cross-border health care, taking Canada vs. the United States as an example. Other international research into microfinancing is planned in collaboration with the UVM College of Nursing and Health Sciences, leveraging their existing competencies in Bangladesh and Uganda.
Health economics is our center, but not our perimeter. Translational collaborations are being planned together with the UVM Bioinformatics Unit and UVM Department of Community Development and Applied Economics to span beyond health care and include such areas as behavioral finance, predictive market dynamics and predictive decision-making.
Contact:
Christopher A. Jones, D.Phil., Director
The Courtyard at Given, RM S363
89 Beaumont Avenue
Burlington, VT 05405
Telephone: (802) 656-8217
E-mail: chris.jones@vtmednet.org