CHDS Seminar with Emily Lancsar – “Preparing for Future Pandemics: Comparison of Health and Economic Trade-offs”

Abstract: Government investment in preparing for pandemics has never been more relevant. The recent pandemic stimulated debate regarding the trade-offs societies are prepared to make between health and economic activity. Using a future-focused, multi-national discrete choice experiment we quantified: (1) how much the public in four countries are prepared to pay in forgone GDP to avoid mortality from future pandemics; and (2) which health and economic policies they want their government to invest in to prepare for and respond to the next pandemic.

Related paper: Preparing for future pandemics: A multi-national comparison of health and economic trade-offs

Bio: Emily Lancsar is Head of the Department of Health Economics Wellbeing and Society at the Australian National University. She is an economist with particular interests in valuing life and health, preference elicitation, choice modelling and panel data econometrics, and policy evaluation. Emily has received a number of prestigious grants and fellowships. She is a member of several government advisory committees, is an Associate Editor of Health Economics and a past Vice President of the Australian Health Economics Society.