About HERO - Health Economics Research Programme at the University of Oslo
HERO is a research programme concentrating on research in health economics at the University of Oslo, Norway's oldest and largest university. HERO has its foundation in economics, but emphasises the need for cross-disciplinary cooperation to ensure the relevance of research to the needs of the health care sector.
HEROs staff members include researchers in social sciences, mainly economics, and researchers from the medical profession. The programme has three research units which cover a wide range of fields, The Institute of Health Management and Health Economics, The Frisch Centre, and The Department of Economics at the University of Oslo. The programme affords opportunities for economists, doctors, and political scientists to cooperate in projects in health economics in Norway. One of the main goals is to recruit undergraduate students and doctoral cancidates in subjects related to health economics.
To some extent the researchers in the programme will carry out their own projects, but other researchers and research institutions in Norway will also be involved.
HERO's research activity is financed by the Research Council of Norway, but the programme does also cooperate with others whose projects are not financed by the Council. The programme's administration is located at the Institute of Health Management and Health Economics in Forskningsveien 3A, close to Campus of University of Oslo, Blindern, and Oslo Innovation Center.
The programme is a collaboration between three institutions: