17th Meeting of International Academy of Health Preference Research
About this Event
Established on 15 April 2014, the International Academy of Health Preference Research (IAHPR) is a member-driven, inter-generational organization that promotes educational activities and research with respect to health and health-related preferences.
Our aim is to improve decisions about health and healthcare throughout the world by developing, promoting, and supporting health preference research with the widest possible applicability.
The 17th Meeting (with the pre-meeting workshop) will be held from Monday, October 5 through Wednesday, October 7, 2026 at the Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore.
Please visit http://iahpr.org/meetings/ for more information.
Registration fees
The fee schedule below excludes processing fees and any taxes required with the purchase of the registration. Please note all costs are quoted in US dollars.
Agenda
[DAY 1: MONDAY, 5 OCTOBER 2026]
8:30 - 9:00 Welcome & Opening Remarks
09:00 - 10:30 IAHPR Workshop - Part 1 | Setting the Scene
Info: 9:00 - 9:45 AM Keynote - Simon Fifer; 9:45 - 10:10 AM The View from HTA - ACE; 10:10 - 10:30 AM Joint Q&A
10:30 - 11:00 Morning Tea
11:00 - 12:30 IAHPR Workshop - Part 2 | Integration into HTA Decision-Making
Info: 11:00 - 11:30 AM Group Exercise 1; 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM Group Exercise 2; 12:00 - 12:15 PM Barriers to Integration; 12:15 - 12:30 PM Where the Field Goes Next
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:10 Oral Session 1 | Advances in Preference Methods and Analytics
Info: 1:30 - 1:50 PM Mesfin Genie Valuing Equity in Health Care Using Quantum Choice Models: Evidence from a Case Study; 1:50 - 2:10 PM Axel Mühlbacher Minimal Important Difference in Preference Studies: A Probabilistic Framework for Behaviorally Relevant Change; 2:10 - 2:30 PM Divya Mohan Estimating shifts in preferences during a pandemic using weighting and matching strategies; 2:30 - 2:50 PM Hengzhe Zhao Protection, Flexibility, and Bequests: Seniors' Retirement Income Preferences; 2:50 - 3:10 PM Tina (Xinyi) Cheng Evaluating Large Language Models for Recovering Latent Preference Classes and Predicting Individual Choices
15:10 - 15:40 Afternoon Tea
15:40 - 17:00 Oral Session 2 | Innovations in Preference Elicitation and Study
Info: 15:40 - 16:00 Jennifer Whitty - Methodological Adaptations for Preference Elicitation in an Older, Visually Impaired Population; 16:00 - 16:20 John F P Bridges - Quantifying the importance of stability for people with Duchenne muscular dystrophy: A community-led approach to developing choice experiments; 16:20 - 16:40 Thao Thai - Emoji Scale, Purple Colour Coding or Text Only? Visual Aids for Inclusive Discrete Choice Experiments among Marginalised and Vulnerable Populations; 16:40 - 17:00 Tina (Xinyi) Cheng - From Guidelines to Unspoken Consensus: What are the Missing Pieces to Risk Tolerance Measures Elicitation in Health Preference Research?
[DAY 2: TUESDAY, 6 OCTOBER 2026]
08:30 - 09:50 Oral Session 3 | Communication, Context and Preference Formation
Info: 08:30 - 08:50 Li Xiang - Message Framing and Preference Formation: A Best-Worst Discrete Choice Experiments on Women's Cervical Cancer Screening in China; 08:50 - 09:10 Liu Linqiu - How Information Dosage and Message Content Reshape Breast Cancer Screening Preferences: A Best-Worst DCE in a Randomized Information Trial; 09:10 - 09:30 Luis Pilli - First Empirical Application of the Choice Mimicry Model of Social Influence; 09:30 - 09:50 Meng Zhengnan - The Impact of Personalised Risk Disclosure on Women's Preferences for Breast Cancer Screening: A Randomised Trial Using Best-Worst DCE
09:50 - 10:30 Morning Tea
10:30 - 11:50 Oral Session 4 | Preferences for Treatments and Emerging Health
Info: 10:30 - 10:50 Richard De Abreu Lourenco - Patient preferences regarding radiation therapy for prostate cancer: a health preferences study; 10:50 - 11:10 Jeong Min Choi - Caregiver Preferences and Money Equivalence for Digital Therapeutics in ASD Adolescent Treatment: A Discrete Choice Experiment in South Korea; 11:10 - 11:30 Jiale Zhang - Bridging the Trust Gap: Tuberculosis Physicians' Preferences for Explainable Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Decision-Making; 11:30 - 11:50 Jin Liu - Preferences for Assistive Healthcare Technology by Older Chinese Adults: A Discrete Choice Experiment
11:50 - 14:00 Lunch + Poster Viewing
Info: Poster presentations will take place in parallel with lunch
14:00 - 15:20 Oral Session 5 | Designing Person-Centred Health Services
Info: 14:00 - 14:20 Mesfin Genie - Public Preferences for Dementia Support Programmes and Implications for Service Design in Australia: Evidence from a Discrete Choice Experiment; 14:20 - 14:40 Ashani Abayasekara - Preferences for psychological services in rural and remote Australia: A discrete choice experiment; 14:40 - 15:00 Juyang Xiong - A Study on Residents' Preferences for Informal Care Related to disability; 15:00 - 15:20 Warittha Tieosapjaroen - Preferences for Accessing Online Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis for HIV Services in Australia
15:20 - 15:50 Afternoon Tea
15:50 - 16:50 Oral Session 6 | Patient, Caregiver and Stakeholder Preferences
Info: 15:50 - 16:10 Jingjing Cai - How self-reliance shapes the trade-off between disability and seeking medical care in later life: A moderated
mediation analysis; 16:10 - 16:30 Zhao Shi - Patient and clinician preferences on shared decision-making in infertility treatment: A qualitative study; 16:30 - 16:50 Haipeng Wang - Patient, care partner and physician preferences for amyloid-targeting therapies of Alzheimer's disease in China
18:00 - 18:30 Conference Dinner Transport
Info: Complimentary transport from Duke-NUS
19:00 - 22:00 Conference Dinner
[DAY 3: WEDNESDAY, 7 OCTOBER 2026]
08:30 - 09:30 Oral Session 7 | Health Policy, HTA and Resource Allocation
Info: 08:30 - 08:50 Chris Gillette - Workforce policy levers to improve access to care in rural Appalachia: Evidence from a discrete choice experiment (DCE); 08:50 - 09:10 Eline van den Broek-Altenburg - Incorporating Risk Preferences into Value Assessment for Alzheimer's Disease: A Discrete Choice Experiment Using the GRACE Framework; 09:10 - 09:30 Shunping Li - What Drives Public Preference for Rare Drugs Coverage in China? Insights from a Multi-center Discrete Choice Experiment
09:30 - 10:00 Morning Tea
10:00 - 11:00 Oral Session 8 | Preference Measurement, Valuation and Evidence
Info: 10:00 - 10:20 Alice Yu - Impact of format and framing on Best Worst Scaling item ranking: A case study using the EQ-5D-5L and the EQ-5D-Y-5L; 10:20 - 10:40 Alice Yu - Valuing the EQ-5D-Y-5L in adolescents using a discrete choice experiment with nonlinear time preferences; 10:40 - 11:00 Wenqian Xu - Discrete Choice Experiments in Sexual and Reproductive Health: A Systematic Review of Applications, Methodologies, and Policy Relevance Over Time
11:00 - 11:30 Closing Session
11:30 - 14:00 Lunch + Networking
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