Course Director: Ali Jalali, PhD
This course provides students with an introduction to health economic modeling and statistical methods central to applied pharmacoeconomics. Through lectures and applied exercises, students will develop a working knowledge of how to select, justify, and apply appropriate statistical distributions to represent a range of health outcomes and cost measures in pharmacoeconomic evaluations of medical products and healthcare programs. Students will also learn how to identify and synthesize multiple sources of evidence in developing computational models for applied pharmacoeconomic analyses. Through hands-on exercises in Microsoft Excel, students will gain practical experience applying parametric, non-parametric, and simulation-based methods using common healthcare data sources.