About the Burden of Disease Epidemiology, Equity and Cost-Effectiveness Programme (BODE³)

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BODE³ is an HRC-funded programme, funded from 2010-2015 and renewed for 2016-2021. Its goal is to estimate health and wider societal gains, costs, cost-effectiveness and equity impacts of health sector interventions, and build capacity in modelling of health sector interventions. There is also MBIE-funded BODE³ from 2014-2020.

• About BODE³, 2016-2021
• About BODE³, 2010-2015
• About MBIE-funded BODE³, 2014-2020
• Overview of funded "programmes" within BODE³

BODE³ 2016-2021

Objectives:

1. To estimate the health gains (total & equity-related), costs and cost-effectiveness of dietary and physical activity interventions.
2. To estimate the health gains (total & equity-related), costs and cost-effectiveness of interventions targeted by absolute risk of cardiovascular disease.
3. To estimate which preventive interventions maximally: gain health among working age adults; increase productivity and decrease welfare payments; increase quality of life among older people.

How we do this:

We are closely integrated with these NZ projects:

We collaborate with a range of research teams:

Overview of the funded "programmes" within BODE³

Health Research Council of NZ Programme Grant funding for BODE³:

• 2016-2021: Focusing on preventive interventions (diet, physical activity, interventions targeted by level of cardiovascular disease risk) and morbidity and productivity costs around the retirement age
• 2010-2015: Focused on cancer control and preventive interventions, and capacity building

Health Research Council of NZ Programme Grant funding for the University of Auckland hosted DIET Programme, specifically:

• Objective 2: A Virtual Supermarket experiment of price variations in foods to generate improved price elasticities for modelling food taxes and subsidies
• Objective 5: Health gain and cost modelling of front of pack food labelling (randomised trial in Objective 1 of this DIET Programme), food reformulation (Objective 3 of this DIET Programme) and food price interventions (i.e. Objective 2 above)

Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment programme funding, 2014-2020, focusing on:

• 2014-16: Rapid assessment of multiple interventions
• 2016-19: In-depth research to improve quality of parameters identified in the initial modelling that cause large uncertainty in QALYs gained or cost outputs
• 2019-20: Update of modelling, with improved input parameters from in-depth research