Short Course
Operations Research Methods for
Health Technology Assessment
Date: 3-7 October, 2022
Time*: 9.00am – 6pm (SGT)
Mode: In-person
*Timing to be confirmed
Course outline
The course provides students with the skills and knowledge to use Operations Research (OR) Methods commonly used in health technology assessment and health system planning. Methods taught will include Discrete Event Simulation, optimisation methods, and decision analysis methods such as MultiCriteria Decision Analysis.
Course instructors
 | Dr Alec Morton Professor, University of Strathclyde Dr. Alec Morton has degrees from the University of Manchester and the University of Strathclyde. He has worked for Singapore Airlines, the National University of Singapore, and the London School of Economics, has held visiting positions at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Aalto University in Helsinki, the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in Hefei, and the National Audit Office and is a member of the International Decision Support Initiative. His main interests are in decision analysis and health economics. Alec has been active in the INFORMS Decision Analysis Society, EURO and ISPOR. He is on the Editorial Board of Decision Analysis and is an Associate Editor for the EURO Journal on Decision Processes, the Transactions of the Institute of Industrial Engineers, and OR Spectrum. |
 | Dr Wee Hwee-Lin Joint Associate Professor, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health and Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore Dr Wee is a joint Associate Professor in the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health and Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Science at the National University of Singapore. Her current work involves understanding patient preferences for high cost treatments, public preferences for preemptive pharmacogenetic testing and factors associated with well-being among Singaporeans. |
Course fee
Category | Fees before GST (SGD) |
| Students/LMIC1 | $ 1,250 |
| Partners2/NUS staff | $ 1,500 |
| Public sector/NGOs | $ 2,000 |
| Private sector | $ 2,500 |
Fees reflected are exclusive of Singapore taxes and are non-refundable. Kindly note that the course will only take place with a minimum of 10 participants.
1) There are limited slots available for participants under the Student/LMIC category. For the definition of LMIC, it will follow the World Bank’s definition.
2) Partners refer to staff under the NUHS cluster (including NUH, NTFGH, AH, JCH, NUP, National University Cancer Institute Singapore, National University Heart Centre Singapore, National University Centre for Oral Health Singapore, Centre for Innovation in Healthcare), HTAsiaLink & iDSI members.
Registration
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Registration closes on 26 September, 2022. For more information on this course, please contact us at hiper@nus.edu.sg