Special sessions

SBCA 2026 Leeds special sessions 

Thursday 17th, 13:30 – 15.10 

Special session: Valuing QALYs in CEA and BCA (Roundtable) 

Chair: Lisa A. Robinson, Harvard University 

Room: Maurice Keyworth 1.32 

This session will be a roundtable discussion among researchers with related expertise, including those who use cost-effectiveness analysis to address health care interventions and those who use benefit-cost analysis to address interventions outside the health care system. The session will start with brief comments from each participant, followed by discussion with the audience. Confirmed participants include: 

Maddalena Ferranna, University of Southern California
Daniel Herrera, Mines Paris - PSL
Itamar Megiddo, University of York
Jytte Nielsen, Newcastle University
Lotte Steuten, Office of Health Economics
Clémence Thébaut, University of Bordeaux 

Friday 18th, 10:50 – 12:30  

Special session: Weather & Climate Services 

Chair: Adriaan Perrels, Tyrsky Consulting 

Room: Maurice Keyworth 1.32 

The session aims to promote the linking of valuation of weather and climate services with other similar and partly overlapping application areas such as transport, health, energy economics, as well as to promote embedding in advances in theory and methodologies of cost benefit analysis, with a particular focus on the balance between sophistication and easy replicability.  

Friday 18th, 13:30 – 15.10 

Special session: VSL in transport 

Chair: Romain Crastes dit Sourd 

Room: Maurice Keyworth 1.32 

TBD 

Friday 18th, 13:30 – 15.10 

Special session: Active Travel 

Chair: John Nellthorp 

Room: Maurice Keyworth 1.32 

This session addresses a set of key issues in CBA for active travel investments and related local transport projects with health co-benefits.