COVID-19 Special Award

The German Health Economics Association (dggö) awards a prize of €5,000 to the

BEST HEALTH ECONOMICS PAPER RELATED TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

published or accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed scientific journal. Researchers from across the globe are eligible to apply for this prize. We welcome papers on topics including but not limited to

• Evaluating the impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions
• Economic and societal costs and benefits of policy responses to the pandemic
• Modelling pandemics and its impact on the health care sector
• Individual and societal risk perception
• Vaccination: take-up, equity, and efficiency
• Indirect health effects of the pandemic
• Impact of the pandemic on health behavior and self-protection
• Challenges of Covid-19 to health systems

Articles need to make a significant contribution to studying the current Covid-19 pandemic. Research on other epidemics is not eligible for this prize.

The prize will be delivered and presented in a public ceremony at the dggö Annual Conference 2022 in Hamburg. Applicants should submit their paper until December 31, 2021 by email to: covid19-award@dggoe.de

Further information can be found in this Flyer