The 21st HIAS Brown Bag Seminar / The 82nd HIAS Health Regular Seminar

The HIAS Brown Bag Seminar is a new seminar series hosted by Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study (HIAS).
The seminar series aims to promote interaction between HIAS researchers, faculty members, and students university-wide.
HIAS, with its 10 research centers, will continue to strive to function as a hub to facilitate active research collaboration throughout the University.

This seminar is co-hosted by HIAS Health as its 82nd Regular Seminar. It will held in a hybrid format of in person and via online [Zoom]. ZOOM URL will be sent to pre-registered participants in advance.

*Registration is due 3 PM, 12 November.
Anyone is welcome to attend!<If space allows, walk-in participants will be accepted on the day of the event.

*Bring your own lunch.
<Coffee and snacks will be served.>

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▪️Date: Thursday 13, November, 2025 12:40-13:40 (Presentation + Chat over lunch)

▪️Title: “Public preferences and trade-offs for government interventions during a pandemic in the UK: a discrete choice experiment”

▪️Presenter: “Mandy Ryan (Emeritus Professor, Health Economics Research Unit, University of Aberdeen / Specially Appointed Professor, HIAS)

▪️Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic required countries worldwide to introduce non-pharmaceutical interventions to protect the health of their citizens. Most European and high-income nations focused on reducing the R number to less than one and thereby curtailing the epidemic spread of the virus. This strategy required several non-pharmaceutical interventions such as enforced social distancing, closing schools and non-essential businesses, and a range of other social restrictions. Such ‘lockdowns’ had wider indirect impacts on health and wellbeing as well as economic impacts. This raised the question of how the public value the trade-offs faced during and post-pandemic. For example, are the public willing to accept a certain number of excess deaths to have restrictions eased? This study uses a discrete choice experiment to provide evidence on the trade-offs the UK public were willing to make between excess deaths, economic impacts, and easing or tightening ‘lockdown’ restrictions.

▪️Meeting Format: Hybrid
[Face-to-Face] Seminar Room 517, Faculty Building II (*) 5th floor
(*) No. 21 building in the campus map https://www.hit-u.ac.jp/eng/about/direction/campusmap/kunitachi.html
[Online (Zoom)] Registered participants will receive the Zoom link via email the day before.

▪️Language: English

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Click HERE to register!