✨ FIRST SEMINAR OF 2026 ✨
Peer Effects, Mortality and Recovery from Substance Use Disorders
by Dr. Christiern Rose, University of Queensland
📆 Thursday 5 March 2026 12 – 1 pm AEDT
Online via Zoom. Registration required.
Sign up HERE: rb.gy/y4hayz
🗞️ CALL FOR NEWSLETTER ITEMS 🗞️
We are preparing for our next edition of our Mental Health Special Interest Group Newsletter. Please be in touch with submissions by directly messaging this page or email to mentalhealthsig@ahes.org.au
📣 OPPORTUNITIES CLOSING SOON 📣
Submissions for the Labour Econometrics Workshop close on May 15.
Submissions for the Australian Workshop on Public Finance close on May 18.
Submissions for the Sixth World Labor Conference in Toronto, close on May 16.
🗞️ CALL FOR NEWSLETTER ITEMS 🗞️
Please send through any items you would like highlighted to: mentalhealthSIG@ahes.org.au.
Items could include: recently published papers; conference abstracts; upcoming seminars; news stories; awards; promotions; job opportunities etc.
Deadline Friday 30 May
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 14 APRIL
✨TOMORROW✨
✨ UPCOMING SEMINAR NEXT WEEK✨
Mental Health effects of energy poverty: why measurement matters
by Dr Rubayyat Hashmi (University of Adelaide)
📆 Thursday 3 April 2025 12 – 1 pm AEDT
Online via Zoom. Registration required.
Sign up HERE: rb.gy/y4hayz
🏆 Announcing the Mental Health Paper of the Year Award 🏆
This award recognises outstanding contributions to mental health economics w/ a focus on innovative research relevant to Australian policy
📅 Closes 31 March
Email [mentalhealthSIG@ahes.org.au](mailto:mentalhealthSIG@ahes.org.au) for details
✨ AHES MENTAL HEALTH SEMINAR TOMORROW✨
Pharmacist workload, subjective and physiological stress, and the risk of unsafe practice
A/Prof Jonas Fooken
Thursday 6 March 12 – 1 pm AEDT
Online via Zoom. Registration required.
Sign up HERE: rb.gy/y4hayz
Studies across English-speaking countries find a decline in happiness and life satisfaction among young adults over the past decade while older adults show more stable or improving well-being, from Jean Twenge and David G. Blanchflower https://www.nber.org/papers/w33490
🌟 Welcome to Australian Health Economics Society's Mental Health SIG! 🌟
🎯 Aim: Bring together health economists working on issues in mental health including services, policy, outcomes, and determinants.
👀 Watch this Space:
- Newsletter/seminars announcements
- 2024 Mental Health Paper of the Year
