Heidelberg Health Economics Summer School 2025 – HTA in Theory & Practice [Core Module]

About

The HEIDELBERG HEALTH ECONOMICS SUMMER SCHOOL 2025 will offer again an unsurpassed opportunity to meet leading experts in health policy and economics, and to discuss with them about key challenges and potential solutions in the context of (health) economic evaluation for use of health technology assessments (HTAs) to inform patient access, pricing, and reimbursement decisions including implications for research and development (R&D).

"EU Joint Clinical Assessments (JCAs) & National Health Economic Evaluations:
Improving Fair Patient Access to Effective Treatment?"

The CORE MODULE will be dedicated to most recent scientific contributions and developments in the world of HTAs, addressing areas such as the gaps between theory and practice, stakeholder expectations, better integration in the evaluation paradigm of the perspectives of citizens and patients, the links between JCAs in the EU and economic evaluation, precision medicine, orphan & ultra-orphan drugs, cancer combination therapies, and recent developments in HTAs of diagnostics and medical devices.

[As in previous years, the Summer School 2025 program will comprise two modules (Intro & Core), which can be booked separately or in combination.]

Course leader

Scientific Program Chair: Professor Michael Schlander, MD, PhD, MBA (Heidelberg University, Germany & InnoVal-HC, Wiesbaden, Germany)

Target group

The Summer School 2025 is aimed for academics (including PhD students), physicians & pharmacists, and professionals.
The CORE MODULE will be most suitable for executives in senior commercial functions, market access, and health policy-makers concerned with HTAs and economic evaluation. It will be also of interest to advanced scholars in the field who wish to actively participate in shaping the future development of the regulatory environment with regard to patient access, financing, pricing, and reimbursement policies in the health care sector

Course aim

To learn about and discuss the most important recent developments in the worlds of HTA and health economic evaluation -- in a Summer School that will be...

IN-DEPTH & INTENSE. Practice-orientated with strong theoretical grounding, combining international policy-relevance with a state-of-the art high-level scientific program
IMPARTIAL. The program will be strictly evidence-based and informed by the latest progress in health economics and beyond
INTERACTIVE & INTERNATIONAL. Limited number of participants will offer numerous opportunities for interaction with the highly-experienced faculty, as well as to work on case studies and group exercises

Fee info

Different rates and discounts are available; please check the Summer School 2025 website for more detailed information