On October 26 the New University of Lisbon in collaboration with the Portuguese National School of Public Health will host a multidisciplinary conference titled ‘Health Care Rationing in Europe’.  The conference aims to confront key issues with health care rationing from a multidisciplinary point of view.  The deadline for abstract submission will be on August 1.  For more information on the conference, please visit the official website.

The Health Economics Research Unit at the University of Aberdeen presents a three-day course on discrete choice experiments and their use in the area of health economics.  It will take place on November 21-23 at the Jury’s Inn, Aberdeen, and centre attention on theoretical and practical issues related to discrete choice experiments.  Further information on the course and registration details may be found here.  If you are unable attend the course this year but would be interested to however attend the course in the future, please send an email to Ms. Alison Findlay to be added to the mailing list.