About MAHEA
Who We Are
Malaysian Health Economic Association is an association among personnel from Ministry of Health and Universities who are interested in health economics.
01 — Vision
To be a fully regional, educational and scientific group that fosters excellence in the core disciplines of health economics and outcomes research and the use of this research information in health care decisions at all levels.
02 — Mission
To promote the science of health economics and outcomes research and facilitate the translation of this research into useful information for healthcare decision-makers — ensuring society allocates scarce health care resources wisely, fairly and efficiently.
03 — Scope
What We Embrace
MAHEA embraces health care researchers from all disciplines conducting economic evaluation, covering a broad range of methodologies and healthcare areas.
Disciplines
- Health economics
- Epidemiology
- Decision analysis & modeling
- Risk assessment
- Patient-reported outcomes (quality of life)
- Real-world data & database analyses
- Observational studies
- Patient registries
Healthcare Areas
- Pharmaceuticals & biologics
- Genetically-derived products
- Medical devices
- Delivery systems
- Health services
04 — Objectives
What We Aim to Achieve
To promote scientifically sound health economics research and its application in health.
To introduce and expand medical educational activities in the field of health economics for medical officers, nurses and all support staff.
To organize seminars, courses, conferences and other events pertaining to management practice and health policy.
To conduct studies and research in the field of health economics.
To provide methodological expertise and research infrastructure to support such research.
To provide opportunities for collaborative research which act as a forum to share experiences and research findings.
To disseminate research findings and incorporate them into management practice and health policy.
To be an international excellence center for health economics education, training, consultancy and innovations.
To prepare and publish scientific papers, journals and other publications.
05 — Strategies
How We Operate
To collaborate with relevant stakeholders including government agencies, academic institutions, and industry.
To become resource experts in regional and international health economics activities.
To organise workshops, seminars and conferences in health economics at national and international level.
To become excellence centers in health economics research with national and international networking.
To be an incubator center for health economics innovation.
To coordinate networking among health economists in the region.
To be centre of excellence in health economics education and training.
To provide expertise and consultation on health economics to interested parties.