Colleagues and friends,
Welcome to our new blog! The graduate students of the Comparative Health Outcomes, Policy, and Economics (CHOICE) Institute at the University of Washington are excited to share our experience as students in health economics and outcomes research (HEOR) with you and to learn from your experiences in return.
This project came about from a meeting of our student chapter of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR), when we thought through ways to network more with other students and to find ways to engage with the conversations around HEOR taking place online. Blogs and Twitter have made the field’s luminaries easier than ever to contact, but at the meeting it emerged that many of us felt like opportunities for students to voice their unique perspective were lacking.
Thus, this blog. We’ll be featuring a broad range of articles here: upcoming research from our students, advice from our faculty for early career professionals in the field, and tips and tutorials on both established and newer methods.
Our blog is a collaborative effort, and we have many people to thank. We’re able to pay for this thanks to a grant from the ISPOR student network. And of course, the support of our professors has been essential — in particular, our senior editors Beth Devine and Ryan Hansen.
We’d love to have you along for this experiment!
Your editors,
Incremental Thoughts 