Amin Hussain awarded prize for best thesis
Amin Hussain is awarded the Bengt Jönsson and SHEA prize for best thesis in health economics.
Amin Hussain has been awarded the Bengt Jönsson and SHEA Prize for Best Thesis in Health Economics. He defended his thesis “Optimizing Healthcare Payments: Regulation, Payment Schemes and Value-Adjustment” at the Department of Economics in 2025.
The prize is SEK 50,000 and is jointly awarded by the Swedish Health Economics Association (SHEA) and the Bengt Jönsson Foundation.
The prize committee's motivation was:
Amin Hussain is awarded the prize for his important contributions to the pricing and regulation of pharmaceuticals. The thesis carries out a rigorous theoretical analysis of how prices of multi-indication pharmaceuticals can be regulated to achieve desirable societal effects. Through market segmentation, mechanisms can be designed that maximize both societal benefit and consumer surplus. The thesis also shows how the public's values regarding the severity of diseases can be integrated into economic evaluations through adjusted thresholds for cost-effectiveness. Overall, the thesis stands out through its high methodological rigor and its ability to translate microeconomic theory into concrete solutions to policy problems in healthcare.