Amin Hussain defended his dissertation on 10 June

About the dissertation

Amin Hussain's dissertation has the title Optimizing Healthcare Payments: Regulation, Payment Schemes and Value-Adjustment.
The dissertation consists of three essays addressing key challenges in pharmaceutical and health economics. The first essay develops a model for regulating prices in multi-indication drug markets, showing how regulators can use market segmentation to maximize both social and consumer surplus. The second essay examines how different payment schemes for advanced one-time treatments (ATMPs) affect efficiency and long-term healthcare budgeting. The third essay explores how the public values cost-effectiveness versus disease severity in healthcare prioritization, and proposes a method to adjust cost-effectiveness thresholds to reflect equity considerations.

About the defence

The opponent at the defence was David Granlund from Umeå University. The grading committee consisted of Elias Aas (University of Oslo), Steve McKeever (Uppsala University), and Chuan-Zhong Li (Uppsala University). Amin Hussain's supervisors were Ola Andersson and Erik Grönqvist, both from Uppsala University.