I am pleased to announce that the NBER Health Economics Program will hold its first Summer Institute during the summer of 2001 in Cambridge, MA--probably at the Royal Sonesta Hotel. I am tentatively scheduling the Health Economics Summer Institute for Thursday, August 9 and Friday, August 10. I have in mind a one day meeting with six papers or a day and a half meeting with nine papers. I will decide on whether six or nine papers will be presented based on the response to the request for abstracts. I selected these dates to avoid conflicts with the Third International Health Economics Conference, which meets in York, England from July 22 through July 25 and with the Western Economic Association International Annual Conference, which meets in San Francisco from July 4 through July 8. If anyone has serious objections to the dates that I have selected, please let me know as soon as possible. I cannot accommodate everyone, but I will consider changing them if I receive enough significant objections.

I have not held Summer Institutes to date because much of the program was concentrated in the NBER New York Office. In the past few years, however, a number of new research associates and faculty research fellows have been appointed, most of whom are not located in New York. Hence the program has increased its national presence, and a Summer Institute should have a substantial benefit.

I am pleased to announce that Health Economics Program members in New York have had a considerable amount of success in obtaining new funding from the National Institutes of Health during 2000. Since June we have received grants from the National Institute on Mental Health (NIMH), the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDKD). The NIMH grant deals with substance abuse and psychiatric disorders, the NIDA grant deals with substance use and risky sex, and the NIDDKD grant deals with obesity. Taken together, the three grants amount to approximately $1.2 million in total costs for the next three and a half years.

Michael Grossman
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