The Call for Abstract Submissions for the 2027 Annual Conference of the American Society of Health Economists is now open!
The Program Committee of the 16th Annual Conference of the American Society of Health Economists invites individuals to submit proposals for consideration by the scientific review committee. We are soliciting: individual abstracts to be combined into sessions, organized sessions made up of 3 abstracts, individual abstracts for emerging scholars sessions and submissions for policy roundtables, spotlight sessions.
Submissions are now open. The deadline for submissions is December 17, 2026.
2027 Program Areas and Chairs
| Area | Chair | |
| Aging and Long-Term Care | David Grabowski | grabowski@hcp.med.harvard.edu |
| Alcohol, Tobacco, Narcotics, and Addiction | Thuy Nguyen | thuydn@umich.edu |
| Child and Infant Health | Hamid Noghanibehambari | noghanibehambarih@apsu.edu |
| Competition in Health Care Markets | Steve Parente | paren010@umn.edu |
| Diet, Physical Activity, and Obesity | Brandyn Churchill | bchurchill@american.edu |
| Economic Theory of Health and Health Care | Michael Darden | mdarden4@jhu.edu |
| Effects of Health Insurance and Consumer Decision Making | Mark Meiselbach | mark.meiselbach@jhu.edu |
| Environmental and Health | Alex Hollingsworth | hollingsworth.126@osu.edu |
| Global Health and Development | Jessica Leight | J.Leight@cgiar.org |
| Health Econometrics | Edward Norton | ecnorton@umich.edu |
| Health Equity | Benjamin Harrell | bharrell@trinity.edu |
| Health Systems and Health Care Financing* | Hannah Neprash | hneprash@umn.edu |
| Health, Labor Markets, and the Economy | Chris Lowenstein | clowenstein@missouri.edu |
| Illegal Activities, the Criminal Justice System, and Health | Kerri Raissian | kerri.raissian@yale.edu |
| Innovation and Digitization | Lucy Xiaolu Wang | xiaoluwang@umass.edu |
| Insurer and Hospital Behavior* | Adam Sacarny | ajs2102@cumc.columbia.edu |
| Maternal, Sexual, and Reproductive Health | Andie Hall | halland@grinnell.edu |
| Mental and Behavioral Health | Shelby Steuart | ssteuart@umd.edu |
| Prescription Drugs | Emma Dean | emma.c.b.dean@dartmouth.edu |
| Provider Labor Markets and Treatment Decisions | Ian McCarthy | ian.mccarthy@emory.edu |
*If the abstract asks what a payment or delivery arrangement does to the system it governs, please submit to Health Systems and Health Care Financing. If it asks how an insurer or provider organization behaves, please submit to Insurer and Hospital Behavior.
