Speaker: Jim Butler
Date: Tuesday, 13 August 2008
Venue: Canberra Club, 45 West Row, Civic
Cost: Members are free, Non-members $22.00 - a tax invoice will be issued.
Time: 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Usual format:
5.30pm - drinks & nibbles
6.00pm - Seminar with Q & A
7.00pm - drinks & nibbles
7.30pm - close
Rsvp (essential) via the link below to ensure enough seats and food for all.
SPEAKER: Jim Butler
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Jim Butler is Professor of health economics at The Australian National University (ANU) and Director of the Australian Centre for Economic Research on Health (ACERH). Prior to taking up his current post in 2005, he was Deputy Director of the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health (NCEPH) at ANU.
In 1997, he spent six months as Visiting Associate Professor in the Health Care Systems Department in The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Butler holds a PhD in economics from The University of Queensland, and has had a long-standing interest in health economics. He has authored and edited several books including the following titles: Federalism and Public Policy: Intergovernmental Grants and Health Care Financing, Hospital Cost Analysis and (with Dr Erich Kliewer) Hospital Morbidity Patterns and Costs of Immigrants in Australia. Professor Butler’s research interests include health care financing and economic evaluation.
His recent research on private health insurance in Australia has encompassed issues such as the price elasticity of demand for private health insurance, and the existence of a regulation-induced adverse selection death spiral in private health insurance since the introduction of Medicare. He has also worked as a consultant on health financing and health insurance in a number of Asia-Pacific countries for the World Bank and other agencies.
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