Andrea Manca

Andrea Manca

@amancayork.bsky.social

Health Economist @CHE @UniofYork | Methods & Applied HEOR | HTA | Economic Evaluation | CEA | Evidence Synthesis | DCE | Modelling & IPD Analyses | RCTs | RWD | Causal Inference | Foodie | Skiing | Martial Arts | Travel Personal views | RT not endorsement

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4 months ago
Jobs - The University of York

We are seeking to recruit a Senior Research Fellow / Reader to join the Centre for Health Economics at @york.ac.uk
More details can be found in the advert
jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/seni...

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5 months ago

Very lucky to have @jamiecummins.bsky.social as a STAR editor at Psych Science, helping us navigate these kinds of issues. This is such important work.

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6 months ago

Just 2 weeks to go to our residential course on advanced statistical methods in economic evaluation for HTA which will be held in beautiful city of York.

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8 months ago
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Statistical Methods in Economic Evaluation for HTA - Advanced Dates - Tuesday 9th - Thursday 11th September 2025 The course will run from 9:00am to 6:00pm BST (GMT+1) on the first day and from 9:30am to 5:00pm on the next two days.  In-person (University of York...

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3-day Advanced Course on Statistical Methods in Economic Evaluation for HTA: Advanced Course: September 9-11, 2025!

Now with an updated program including modern methods for causal inference and machine learning.

www.york.ac.uk/che/courses/...

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8 months ago
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Statistical Methods in Economic Evaluation for HTA - Advanced Dates - Tuesday 9th - Thursday 11th September 2025 The course will run from 9:00am to 6:00pm BST (GMT+1) on the first day and from 9:30am to 5:00pm on the next two days.  In-person (University of York...

Do you want to expand your professional competence in HTA? Register to attend the Statistical Methods in Economic Evaluation for HTA - Advanced Course at the University of York🚀 ⁦‪⁦‪@CHEyork‬⁩

www.york.ac.uk/che/courses/...

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8 months ago
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Statistical Methods in Economic Evaluation for HTA - Advanced Dates - Tuesday 9th - Thursday 11th September 2025 The course will run from 9:00am to 6:00pm BST (GMT+1) on the first day and from 9:30am to 5:00pm on the next two days.  In-person (University of York...

Please share with your network.

3-day Advanced Course on Statistical Methods in Economic Evaluation for HTA: Advanced Course: September 9-11, 2025!

Now with an updated program including modern methods for causal inference and machine learning.

www.york.ac.uk/che/courses/...

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8 months ago
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How do research careers compare across countries? New global database has some answers Online tool from the Research and Innovation Careers Observatory allows users to compare salary, typical career destinations, and more

How do research careers compare across countries? New global database has some answers
Online tool from the Research and Innovation Careers Observatory allows users to compare salary, typical career destinations, and more
www.science.org/content/arti...

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8 months ago

At #CCR25, we saw some trials use a #CompositeOutcome (an endpoint that combines more than one outcome into a single measure) & also saw some of the problems these can throw up. I have discussed these before but thought it would be useful to revisit 1/9
#MethodologyMonday #120

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9 months ago
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Statistical Methods in Economic Evaluation for HTA - Advanced Dates - Tuesday 9th - Thursday 11th September 2025 The course will run from 9:00am to 6:00pm BST (GMT+1) on the first day and from 9:30am to 5:00pm on the next two days.  In-person (University of York...

@CHEyork @UoY_BizTraining @UniOfYork short courses are run face to face in beautiful York, where you’ll be able to meet and spend time interacting with our faculty of experts as well as network with other participants from the industry, consultancy and academia
www.york.ac.uk/che/courses/...

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9 months ago
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Statistical Methods in Economic Evaluation for HTA - Advanced Dates - Tuesday 9th - Thursday 11th September 2025 The course will run from 9:00am to 6:00pm BST (GMT+1) on the first day and from 9:30am to 5:00pm on the next two days.  In-person (University of York...

Correct link: www.york.ac.uk/che/courses/...

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9 months ago

📊Unlock the power of data!📊

Join the Statistical Methods in Economic Evaluation for HTA - Advanced short course at the University of York🚀

📅 9-11 September 2025
📍 York, UK

Secure your spot today! 🔗 york.ac.uk/che/courses/st… #DataScience
#HealthEconomics
#HTA #CEA

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9 months ago

This work is the result of research collaboration between the Universities of York and Sheffield.

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9 months ago
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Professor Nils Gutacker presents report on pharmaceutical pricing to German parliament Recommendations for fair pricing of innovative products

and another one my colleagues recently presented a report to the German parliament on pharmaceutical pricing.

www.york.ac.uk/che/news/nil...

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9 months ago
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Pricing models for multi-indication drugs in the UK NHS Pricing models for multi-indication drugs in the UK NHS

Another piece of research asked “How much should the NHS pay for new drugs when they are used to treat more than one condition?” eepru.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/eepru2-proje...

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9 months ago

One of these answer the question “how should we reward pharmaceutical innovation?” www.york.ac.uk/media/che/Ho...

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9 months ago
Deadly Prices - How Big Pharma Feeds Inequality in Europe - European Press Prize She is only three years old, but the process is as routine as if she had done it thousands of times before. On this far too warm spring day, Milda, a little girl with a short ponytail, puts on the pin...

interesting article by
@investigate-europe.eu on the price of drugs in the EU, heterogeneity of access across countries and how to negotiate with Pharma www.europeanpressprize.com/article/dead.... Colleagues in York have made important scientific contributions to inform possible negotiations.

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9 months ago
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People Overtrust AI-Generated Medical Advice despite Low Accuracy This article presents a comprehensive analysis of how artificial intelligence (AI)–generated medical responses are perceived and evaluated by nonexperts. We conducted a study in which a total of 30...

This article analyzes how nonexperts perceive AI-generated medical advice, finding that it is often rated as accurate as — or better than — doctor responses, raising concerns about overreliance and potential harm from incorrect guidance. Full article: nejm.ai/43xKDG0

#AI #MedSky #MLSky

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9 months ago
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Statistical Methods in Economic Evaluation for HTA - Advanced Dates - Tuesday 9th - Thursday 11th September 2025 The course will run from 9:00am to 6:00pm BST (GMT+1) on the first day and from 9:30am to 5:00pm on the next two days.  In-person (University of York...

Delighted to offer our residential 3-day course on Statistical Methods in Economic Evaluation for HTA: Advanced Course: September 9-11, 2025!

Now with an updated program including modern methods for causal inference and machine learning.

www.york.ac.uk/che/courses/...

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10 months ago

[Read] LLM-based relevance assessment still can’t replace
human relevance assessment arxiv.org/pdf/2412.17156. Really interesting paper, challenging the recent idea that one can use LLLM-based relevance assessments to replace human judgements as gold standard,

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11 months ago
Jobs - The University of York

We are looking to recruit two Research Fellows - Grade 6/7, to work within the Economic Evaluation and Health Technology Assessment team within CHE. Closing Date - 27th April 2025. For further details, visit jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

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1 year ago
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Centre for Health Economics on LinkedIn: 📚 Evaluation of Medical Devices for Product Development and Health… 📚 Evaluation of Medical Devices for Product Development and Health Technology Assessment Course Date - 7th-9th October 2025 Course Leader - Dr Cynthia…

Evaluation of Medical Devices for Product Development and Health Technology Assessment Course

Date - 7th-9th October 2025
Course Leader - Dr Cynthia Iglesias

You can find further details of the course on the University of York website: bit.ly/41lx4cb

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1 year ago
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HealthEconomics.com | A Scientist.com Company on LinkedIn: The Centre for Health Economics University of York is delighted to offer… The Centre for Health Economics University of York is delighted to offer its residential 3-day short course on Statistical Methods in Economic Evaluation for…

Delighted to offer our residential 3-day course on Statistical Methods in Economic Evaluation for Health Technology Assessment: Advanced Course: September 9-11, 2025!

Discover more at: lnkd.in/eY6UCP_W

Now with an updated program including modern methods for causal inference and machine learning.

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1 year ago
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How chocolate entrepreneur's values shaped York Joseph Rowntree's legacy lives on in city where his factory was, 100 years after his death.

'York would be a different city without Rowntree' www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Opportunistic Screening of Chronic Liver Disease with Deep-Learning–Enhanced Echocardiography Chronic liver disease (CLD) affects more than 1.5 billion adults, most of whom are asymptomatic and undiagnosed. Echocardiography is broadly performed and visualizes the liver, but this information...

New example of opportunistic A.I. in medicine
Get a liver diagnosis from an echocardiogram
ai.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
@cedarssinai.bsky.social @ai.nejm.org

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1 year ago
“Why don’t machine learning and large language model evaluations report uncertainty?” | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

“Why don’t machine learning and large language model evaluations report uncertainty?”
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/02/22/w...

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1 year ago
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Integrating the environmental and genetic architectures of aging and mortality - Nature Medicine Based on a systematic analysis of environmental exposures associated with aging and mortality in the UK Biobank, the relative contributions of such exposures and genetic risk for mortality and a range...

Our lifestyle and environmental exposures are the predominant influencers of healthy aging and premature mortality, compared with polygenic risk, in the first comprehensive assessment
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
open-access

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1 year ago
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HealthEconomics.com | A Scientist.com Company on LinkedIn: The Centre for Health Economics University of York is delighted to offer… The Centre for Health Economics University of York is delighted to offer its residential 3-day short course on Statistical Methods in Economic Evaluation for…

Delighted to offer our residential 3-day course on Statistical Methods in Economic Evaluation for Health Technology Assessment: Advanced Course: September 9-11, 2025!

Discover more at: lnkd.in/eY6UCP_W

Now with an updated program including modern methods for causal inference and machine learning.

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1 year ago
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Centre for Health Economics on LinkedIn: 📚 Evaluation of Medical Devices for Product Development and Health… 📚 Evaluation of Medical Devices for Product Development and Health Technology Assessment Course Date - 7th-9th October 2025 Course Leader - Dr Cynthia…

Evaluation of Medical Devices for Product Development and Health Technology Assessment Course

Date - 7th-9th October 2025
Course Leader - Dr Cynthia Iglesias

You can find further details of the course on the University of York website: bit.ly/41lx4cb

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1 year ago
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This is a great paper by Mitsuru Igami framing breakthrough AI algorithms in the familiar logic of structural economic model estimation. doi.org/10.1093/ectj...

But by implication, if structural models behave like board games, such as Chess and Go, how high can their degree of realism really be?

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1 year ago

I just wish this cartoon I drew 10+ years ago wasn't so relevant today...

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