Published 4 April 2017 Three new articles from VBE researchers will soon be accessible from the VBE website: Nils-Eric Sahlin and Lena Wahlberg in Förvaltningsrättslig tidskrift, Wändi Bruine de Bruin and Baruch Fischhoff in PNAS and Wändi Bruine de Bruin, Annika Wallin et al. in Medical Decision Making. In "Om icke vedertagna behandlingsmetoder och kravet på vetenskap och beprövad erfarenhet.", p

https://www.vbe.lu.se/article/recently-published-vbe-articles - 2025-07-13

Published 5 April 2017 European Comission President Jean-Claude Juncker has renewed the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies, EGE, and has appointed 15 distuinguished scholars as members. One of these is our own Nils-Eric Sahlin. In a short interview (in Swedish) with the Lund University communicator Johanna Sandahl, Nils-Eric describes the role of EGE and his own role within t

https://www.vbe.lu.se/article/nils-eric-sahlin-appointed-member-ege - 2025-07-13

Published 5 May 2017 Baruch Fischhoff from CMU in Pittsburgh, the Howard Heinz University Professor, and member of the VBE program, has been elected to National Academy of Sciences. It is a great honor and we all at the VBE program heartily congratulate him! You can read more about Baruch's achievements and about the National Academy of Sciences here.

https://www.vbe.lu.se/article/baruc-fischhoff-new-member-national-academy-sciences - 2025-07-13

Published 9 May 2017 Den 26 april medverkade Annika i Vetandets Värld i Sveriges Radio, i ett program om intuition. Annika, som alla följare av VBE-programmet vet, är kognitionsvetare och hon forskar bland annat om vardagsbeslut. I Vetandets Värld diskuterar hon och Paul Hemeren - kongnitionsvetare från högskolan i Skövde - intuition och beslutsfattande med Ylva Carlqvist Warnborg. Programmet kan

https://www.vbe.lu.se/article/annika-wallin-i-vetandets-varld - 2025-07-13

Published 13 July 2017 Workshop i Lund 25 september 2017 Vetenskap och beprövad erfarenhet är ett begrepp som förekommer i många sammanhang, bland annat i olika lagtexter och regleringar. I hälso- och sjukvården har begreppet spelat roll sedan slutet av 1800-talet och vi hittar det numera både i patientlagen och patientsäkerhetslagen. Men idag har samma termer smugit sig in i andra lagar och regle

https://www.vbe.lu.se/article/vbe-politik - 2025-07-13

Published 30 October 2017 Recently Barry successfully defended his thesis "Measurement of Health-Related Quality of Life: Preference Aggregation, Exclusion, and Public Policy" at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, US. Barry's own description of the thesis follows: The dissertation provides a normative, descriptive, and prescriptive analysis of the design of societal-preference based health-re

https://www.vbe.lu.se/article/congratulations-barry-dewitt-phd - 2025-07-13

Published 12 February 2018 We congratulate Johannes today, February 12, on his fiftieth birthday! Bild: Sten Anttila Johannes was celebrated by VBE colleagues and other friends last Friday. He was then presented with a festschrift to his honour with contributions from the VBE collaborators.The theme of the book is quite naturally VBE, from different angles. A flipbook version can be found here, an

https://www.vbe.lu.se/article/celebrating-johannes - 2025-07-13

Published 5 April 2018 We welcome Dr. Astrid Kause, from Leeds University, as a new member of the VBE programme! Dr. Kause holds a joint research position at the Centre for Decision Research and the Sustainability Research Institute at the University of Leeds and at the University of Lund. Her research focuses on individuals' perceptions of uncertain scientific knowledge, in particular related to

https://www.vbe.lu.se/article/new-member-vbe-programme - 2025-07-13

Published 23 August 2018 Under Almedalsveckan anordnade FAMNA - Riskorganisationen för idéburen välfärd - en serie seminarier om ämnen såsom upphandling respektive evidens. Vid seminariet "Vad är evidens - egentligen?" som hölls 4 juli talade Sten om SBUs arbete med evidensutvärdering och satt med i  efterföljande paneldiskussion.De frågor som diskuterades var följande: Hur väl stämmer den evidens

https://www.vbe.lu.se/article/sten-anttila-pa-almedalsveckan-2018-english-below - 2025-07-13

Published 7 September 2018 The VBE program welcomes new collaborator Petra Björne! Petra Björne Dr. Björne has a PhD in Cognitive Science and occupies a position as research and development coordinator at the City of Malmö Department for Disability Support. She has been granted a three year research grant by Forte (Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare) for the project "Ada

https://www.vbe.lu.se/article/petra-bjorne-new-vbe-collaborator - 2025-07-13

Published 3 July 2019 Wändi Bruine de Bruin shares her insights into the conditions that help create effective interdisciplinary collaborations. The blog, that you find here, is based on Wändi's paper for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

https://www.vbe.lu.se/article/blog-wandi-inderdisciplinary-work - 2025-07-13

Published 5 June 2015 Johannes Persson co-author of article in Science Advances. Focus of this article, "Why resilience is unappealing to social science: Theoretical and empirical investigations of the scientific use of resilience", might not be Science and Proven Experience, but is co-authored by Johannes Persson and has a cool context. Follow the link!http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/4/e

https://www.vbe.lu.se/article/general-interest - 2025-07-13

Published 2 December 2015 Collaborator Alexander Davis recently joined the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy. Congratulations! Doctoral student Barry Dewitt, affiliated to the VBE group, was nominated as a Lusted finalist at the Society of Medical Decision-Making's 37th Annual Conference for his paper "Preference Aggr

https://www.vbe.lu.se/article/alex-davis-gets-position-assistant-professor-cmu - 2025-07-13

Published 16 March 2016 On January 28 the VBE research group organized a half-day conference on the subject of science and proven experience in medicine. Speakers were: Anders Castor, pediatric onchology, Lund University, Karel Marsal, obsthetrics and gynechology, Lund university, Nils Ståhl, neurosurgery, Lund university hospital, Susanna Axelsson, head of the Swedish Agency for Health Technology

https://www.vbe.lu.se/article/mini-conference-vbe-medicine - 2025-07-13

Published 17 March 2016 The series of half day conferences continues. This time talks center around questions related to how science and proven experience is used in legal settings. The conference will be held at the Faculty of Law at Lund university, 13.15 to 16.15 on June 17. Invited speakers are legal practioners and scholars together with collaborators in the VBE research program. The conferen

https://www.vbe.lu.se/article/half-day-conference-lund-june-17-vbe-and-law - 2025-07-13

Published 16 June 2016 The goal of Academia Europaea is to, through its members, work for the advancement of research and academic education in all areas, for the public benefit. The Academia Europaea writes in its homepage, http://www.ae-info.org: "The object of Academia Europaea is the advancement and propagation of excellence in scholarship in the humanities, law, the economic, social, and poli

https://www.vbe.lu.se/article/nils-eric-sahlin-elected-academia-europaea - 2025-07-13

Published 23 June 2016 Alex Davis, Baruch Fischhoff and co-workers at CMU presented one conference paper and two posters at the Annual Meeting of the Society for General Internal Medicine in Hollywood, Florida. The presentations dealt with new results regarding comparisons between human and automated assessments of risk of patient deterioration, regarding assessment of patient risk between doctors

https://www.vbe.lu.se/article/vbe-presentations-society-general-internal-medicine - 2025-07-13

Published 22 August 2016 For two days, August 17-18, the VBE group met in Biskobshuset in Lund for discussions about ongoing and future work within the program. Focus was on new areas of collaboration between the participants in the program. Both Pittsburgh and Leeds were present at the meeting and we were very happy to welcome three new participants to the group. From CMU, Barry Dewitt, working o

https://www.vbe.lu.se/article/annual-meeting-vbe-group - 2025-07-13

Published 24 August 2016 Tamar Krishnamurti, researcher from CMU in Pittsburgh, is associated to the VBE program. She visited the Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making in Vancouver and a workshop in Washington, D. C., at the Federal Trade Commission. At both occasions she presented work related to VBE. Engaging a high-risk pregnancy population: Results from a proof-of-concept p

https://www.vbe.lu.se/article/presentations-vbe-related-work-vancouver-and-washington-d-c - 2025-07-13

Published 25 August 2016 Two papers by Alex, Baruch and the VBE associated researchers at CMU have been presented lately. One at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Mecical Decision Making, in Vancouver, and one at the Annual Meeting of the Society for General Internal Medicine. The papers presented were:Davis, A., Krishnamurti, T., Fischhoff, B., Grace, J., Klobuka, A., Yecies, E., Arnold, J., M

https://www.vbe.lu.se/article/presentations-cmu-branch-vbe - 2025-07-13