May 11, 2017
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
500 Fifth Avenue North
Seattle, WA 98109
See below to download the workshop slides; the workshop videos are available here. To read our scoping report, click here. Our stakeholder survey results are summarized here.
At this workshop, we discussed the scope of the benefit-cost analysis guidelines project, including current practices, barriers to its conduct, and key challenges to be addressed.
8:30-9:00
Welcome and Introduction
- David Wilson (Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation) (slides)
- Uyi Stewart (Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation)
9:00-9:30
Beyond Cost-Effectiveness: Why Benefit-Cost Analysis?
- Dean Jamison (University of California – San Francisco) (slides)
9:30-10:15
Background and Scope (David Wilson, Chair)
- BCA Reference Case, Lisa A. Robinson (Harvard University) (slides)
- iDSI Reference Case, Tommy Wilkinson (PRICELESS SA) (slides)
- BCA Concepts and Framework, James K. Hammitt (Harvard University) (slides)
10:15-10:30
Break
10:30-12:00
Key Opportunities, Barriers, and Challenges (roundtable; James K. Hammitt, Chair)
- Michele Cecchini (OECD)
- Kalipso Chalkidou (Imperial College London)
- Anil Deolalikar (University of California – Riverside)
- David Evans (World Bank)
- Frederico Guanais (IADB)
- Jeremy Lauer (WHO) (slides)
12:00-1:00
Lunch
1:00-2:30
Approaches for Valuing Health and Longevity (Lisa A. Robinson, Chair)
- Lisa A. Robinson (Harvard University) (slides)
- Maureen Cropper (University of Maryland) (slides)
- Trudy Cameron (University of Oregon) (slides)
- James K. Hammitt (Harvard University) (slides)
2:30-2:45
Break
2:45-4:15
Approaches for Valuing Non-health Outcomes (Maureen Cropper, Chair)
- Dale Whittington (University of North Carolina) (slides)
- Richard Carson (University of California – San Diego) (slides)
- Dean Jamison (University of California – San Francisco) (slides)
- Brad Wong (Copenhagen Consensus Center) (slides)
4:15-5:00
What We Heard