I met 18 Nobel Prize winners in Economics and some of the brightest economics Ph.D. students from around the world at the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Germany. We swapped ideas and inspired each other over five days of activities. After Lindau, I continued traveling to meet with leaders of health economics in Zurich, Basel,…
French Innovation
During a visit to the French Ministry of Health, Emilie Sam explained to me the mechanisms for French investments in the innovation of new biomedical technologies. Many of the new life-saving products have a big impact on their budget for medicines in France. It will be interesting to wait and see at what rate this…
Before & After: Time Series Visualization
Often the fastest graph to generate is not the simplest way to communicate meaning. For an analysis of trends over time in pharmacoeconomic graduate student interests, take a look at this figure before and then after modifications to improve visualization of survey results. The first graph under-utilizes the ordering of years by assigning color categories…
Rising cost of HIV drugs
Digging through the Medicaid Prescription Drug Database, I want to find out if HIV drug prices are rising faster over time compared to other daily medications for chronic diseases. I stratified by the number of drugs in each combination tablet, and next I will need to adjust for inflation. Let me know if you think of…