June 2024 - One Health, Gifts and Plasma

Welcome to the sixth episode of Health Econ On The Go. In this episode, we will cover three papers from May 2024, touching on the economic impact of One Health interventions, the effects of industry gifts to physicians and the different strategies to increase plasma donation. We launched this podcast with the moto "finish not perfect", so please leave me your comments and questions at healthecononthego@gmail.com

Papers discussed on this episode: 

1. "The Impact of Global Health R&D: The high return of investing in R&D for neglected diseases" https://d110txtih22jhy.cloudfront.net/The%20Impact%20of%20Global%20Health%20R&D%20Report.pdf
2. "This is the world’s best investment: A new study finds that combating malaria, TB, and HIV pays for itself 405 times over." https://www.vox.com/today-explained-newsletter/352605/global-health-investment-study-roi
3. "Current evidence of the economic value of One Health initiatives: A systematic literature review" available here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11103946/
4. "The cost of influence: How gifts to physicians shape prescriptions and drug costs" available here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167629624000328?ref=pdf_download&fr=RR-2&rr=88f914ec0924b762
5. "Incentives for plasma donation" available here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/vox.13644
6. "Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health" Goodreads link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55077565-lifelines