This project aims to improve open science (OS) practices in health economics research (HER) through the promotion of transparency and reproducibility (TR) tools. Although HER has a huge impact on the policy-making process, transparent and reproducible research has not been entirely fulfilled. The practice of OS standards within the community has been taken for granted. Even though many tools for OS research are available, barriers to their implementation still exist.

Catalyst Andrea Salas Ortiz organized a transparency and reproducibility workshop for health economics researchers at the University of York on Sep. 22-23, 2021. This workshop’s goals were to understand the perceived norms within the community and identify how interests could be harmonized, and operations aligned to decrease the probability of reluctance to improve transparency and to identify the leadership role each researcher should play in adopting transparency tools and reproducibility standards. All materials can be found here.