Integrating Economic Evaluation into Clinical Trials
Applications are now closed.
Overview
In modern healthcare research, demonstrating that new treatments are cost-effective is as important as showing they are clinically effective. This short course equips participants with the knowledge and skills to plan and incorporate economic evaluation into clinical trials from the start. Through a combination of theory and practical exercises, the course helps ensure that a trial’s outcomes can inform real-world decisions about the value for money of new interventions.
Format
Online. The course comprises around five hours of pre-recorded lectures (40-75 minutes per session), practical exercises and live sessions The dates are for the live sessions during which tutors review exercises and offer opportunities for questions.
Access to the online course materials is provided two weeks before the live sessions, so lectures and practical exercises can be viewed and worked through before the live sessions, at a time convenient to participants. To get the most out of the live sessions, we recommend viewing the lectures and working through the exercises before the live Q&A sessions.
Who is this course for?
This new course is ideal for anyone involved in designing, conducting, or managing clinical trials who wants to include health economic perspectives in their work. It is tailored for clinical investigators, trial managers, research nurses, and other professionals looking to gain the skills needed to integrate economic evaluations into a study’s design and analysis. The content is accessible to those without a background in economics; all essential concepts are explained. The course provides a valuable foundation for professionals from academia, healthcare, or the pharmaceutical industry who aim to assess the cost-effectiveness of interventions through trials.
Fees & registration
Format: Online
Date: 28–29 April 2026
Fees:
- Academic/public sector £375
- Commercial/private sector £500
Applications are now closed.
Enquiries and group bookings
For enquiries or group bookings, please email the Administration team, or register on our waiting list to hear about future courses.
Learning outcomes
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- understand key health economic concepts and their application to clinical trial design;
- explain why governments and healthcare funders often require economic evaluations to assess new interventions;
- integrate health economists in a clinical trial from initial design and funding applications through to analysis and reporting;
- interpret the results of trial-based economic evaluations to inform healthcare decision-making and policy.
Course programme
This two-day online course is divided into five sessions. Key topics include:
- fundamental concepts of health economics: introduction to cost-effectiveness analysis, and other core principles of economic evaluation;
- measuring outcomes for economic evaluation: assessing health-related quality of life and using clinical outcomes in analysis;
- collecting and valuing cost data: techniques for gathering cost data during trials and valuing resource use;
- economic evaluation methods and modelling: conducting trial-based cost-effectiveness analyses, addressing uncertainty, and basic health economic modelling;
- practical applications and collaboration: case studies, securing funding for trials with an economic component, and best practices for working with health economists.
The course is taught in English.
Day one
| Pre-recorded Lectures & Exercises Timings (approx) | Live Q&A Sessions Timings | |
| Session 1: Introduction to key health economic concepts | 45 minutes | *2–3.30pm |
| Session 2: Measuring health-related quality of life and use of clinical outcomes | 74 minutes | |
| Session 3: Collecting and valuing relevant cost data in clinical trials | 57 minutes |
Day two
| Pre-recorded Lectures & Exercises Timings (approx) | Live Q&A Sessions Timings | |
| Session 3: Economic evaluation, modelling and uncertainty | 57 minutes | *2–3.30pm |
| Session 4: Economic evaluation in practice, examples and funding | 42 minutes | |
| Session 4: Final Q&A |
- For each of the 5 sessions, the Q & A session will begin by discussing your answers to the practical exercises that were set at the end of each session, followed by general questions relating to that session.
- We strongly recommend working through the online lectures and exercises in advance and identifying any questions you may have, so that you get the most out of the live sessions.
*All timings will be either UK GMT or BST dependent on time of year