The European Center for Peace and Development University for Peace established by the United Nations (ECPD), an international educational and research organisation from the UN academic system, in the framework of the ECPD International Program of Transfer of Knowledge System in the field of Health Sciences in cooperation with University in Berlin (Germany), Long Island University (USA), VAMK University (Finland), Istituto Superiore di Sanità (Italy), National School of Public Health of Greece and South Eastern Europe Health Network (SEEHN), organizes
VIII ECPD REGIONAL CONFERENCE ON
HEALTH ECONOMICS
with the main topic
Allocation of SCARCE Resources in Health Care
Pula, 14-15 October 2022
(ECPD Regional Center for Development Studies, Flaciusova 18, Pula)
We have the pleasure of inviting you to take part in the Eighth ECPD Regional Conference on Health Economics, which will be held on 14 and 15 October 2022 at the ECPD Regional Center for Development Studies in Pula.
Considering an increasingly important role of health economics in the decision-making process, as well as still inadequately developed resources in this multidisciplinary field in the health systems of South East Europe, the European Center for Peace and Development UN University for Peace has initiated a series of regional conferences, round tables and meetings for key decision makers in the countries across the Region, aiming to improve and strengthen capacities in this field. This year's Conference continues to study relevant topics in the field of health care economics and extends the tradition of gathering health providers, managers and other decision makers in health care systems from the region of South-East and Central Europe.
The topic of this year is the allocation of scarce resources in health care. Demands for all aspects of health care continue to exceed available resources. Policy makers need to make important decisions regarding the use of public funds and specify particular disease areas, population categories and interventions. The problem is that decisions on prioritizing health care needs are complex and multidimensional, while the current decision-making process is based on ad-hoc decisions or decisions based on previous experience, on individual or limited benefit dimensions. Therefore, the resources cannot be used to an optimal extent.
Resource allocation represents a series of activities and decisions that form the basis for prioritizing health care needs: maximizing the health of the population, reducing health inequalities of marginalized or vulnerable groups, and/or responding to crisis situations, while respecting practical and budgetary constraints. At the Conference, these topics will be discussed and current methodological approaches will be presented for the distribution of resources in the field of health care in an efficient, transparent, fair and ethical manner, which gives legitimacy to decisions. In addition to the main topic, other current and relevant issues will be discussed at the Conference.
The Conference will be co-chaired by Prof. Dr. Klaus-Dirk Henke, Department of Public Finance and Health Economics, Technical University in Berlin, Prof. Dr. Tina Bregant, State Secretary in the Ministry of Health of Slovenia, Prof. Dr. Luca Rosi, Director of the Department for International Cooperation, National Institute of Public Health of Italy (ISS), Rome and Dr. Zvonimir Šostar, former Director of the Institute for Public Health "Dr. Andrija Štampar", Zagreb, Croatia.
Preliminary Program
• Supervision of public health in emergency situations, as part of the health management of emergency situations
• Digital medicine and technologies for improving health and well-being
• Combining pharmacotherapy with E-health. Health economic evaluation of costs and benefits
• Determination of benefits from the pharmaceutical industry. Empirical approach
• Pharmacoeconomics as a common platform with decision makers in healthcare
• Cost control mechanisms for medicines: the example of Slovenia
• Paying for health care according to quality
• Pharmaceutical and medical product management processes in the hospital - how to analyze and improve them
• Secondary market in healthcare
• Public costs for medical products in conditions of great innovation and economic crisis: improving access to new medicines
• Access to high-cost therapies and value-based procurement
List of Lecturers
Prof. Dr. Klaus-Dirk Henke, Department of Public Finance and Health Economics, Technical University in Berlin, Germany
Prof. Dr. Tina Bregant, State Secretary in the Ministry of Health of Slovenia
Prof. Dr. Slavica Đukić Dejanović, Special advisor to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Serbia for the implementation of Agenda 2030, former Minister of Health of Serbia
Prof. Dr. Luca Rosi, Director of the Department for International Cooperation, National Institute of Public Health of Italy (ISS), Rome
Dr. Zvonimir Šostar, former Director of the Teaching Institute for Public Health "Dr. Andrija Štampar", Zagreb, Croatia
Prof. Dr. Dušan Keber, former Minister of Health of Slovenia, University of Ljubljana
Prof. Dr. Reinhard Busse, Chair of Department for Health Care Management at the Technical University in Berlin, Germany
Dr. Per Troein, Vice President Strategic Partners, IMS Health, London, UK
Prof. Dr. Thomas Lux, University of Applied Science Niederrhein, Germany
Prof. Dr. Alvaro Hidalgo Vega, Castilla-La Mancha University, Spain
Prof. Dr. Antoni Gilabert, Director of Pharmacy and Medicine, Catalan Health and Social Care Consortium, Spain
Prof. Dr. Verica Jovanović, Director of the Institute for Public Health of Serbia "Dr. Milan Jovanović Batut"
Prof. Dr. Nikola Popovski, International Slavic University, National Bank of the Republic of North Macedonia
Dr. Benno Legler, Director of the Health Economics Sector, WiFOR, Germany
Prof. Dr. Rusmir Mesihović, former Minister of Health of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Application Form and Participation Fee
The participation fee for the Conference is 390 EUR. A 10% “early bind” is available for payments made until 31 August 2022.
An application should be sent to: European Center for Peace and Development (ECPD) University for Peace, Terazije 41, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia; Tel: +381 11 3246 041, E-mail: ecpd@Eunet.rs and This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.; www.ecpd.org.rs
Hotel Accommodation
The European Center for Peace and Development UN-mandated University for Peace has provided accommodation for the Conference participants at the Hotel “Galija“ in Pula, at preferential rates on Bed & Breakfast basis:
95 EUR in a single-bed room daily, and
118 EUR in a double-bed room daily (per room).
The supplement for Half Board accommodation is 22 EUR per person per day.
We are enclosing the form for the reservation of accommodation and recommend the participants to make the hotel booking directly with the Hotel “Galija“ (Epulonova 3, Pula; Tel: +385 52 383 802; E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.; www.hotelgalija.hr).
