🏆 Congrats to Prof. Marcella Alsan (@harvard.edu) on the Humboldt Research Award, presented by Federal Research Minister Bär. Alsan is researching refugee movements impact on the german healthcare system with #HCHE colleagues. #HumboldtAward #HealthEconomics #Harvard #GlobalHealth 📸 M. Merz
👉 New publication out by Michael Möller/Eva Wild/Winnie Tan/Jonas Schreyögg #hche: ML for heterogeneous treatment effect estimation in real-world health data. Scoping review: 1,700+ records, 74 studies. Growing use in medical research. Lack of adoption in health economics. doi.org/10.1016/j.jv...
Portrait of Professor Tobias Klein
Today at #HCHE: Prof. Tobias Klein (Tilburg University) explores if GP incentives can cut costs vs patient copays. “Is Physician Cost-Sharing an Alternative to Patient Cost-Sharing?” 📅 Jan 26, 2026 🕓 16:00–17:15 📍 Hamburg (HCHE) #HealthcareEconomics #GPIncentives #HealthPolicy #HealthcareCosts
Portrait of Professor Heiner Schumacher
How does platform design drive prices? Today at #HCHE Research Seminar: Heiner Schumacher (University of Innsbruck) discusses how features like buy boxes & algorithms impact market power, using Medicare Part D as an example.
📅 19 Jan | 16:00 hrs | HCHE
#HealthEconomics #HCHE #Medicare
📢 Job alert: We’re looking for a Research Associate (Health Economics) at the University of Hamburg Business School / #HCHE!
🧬📊 Work on genomic sequencing evaluation + PhD option. 3-year contract (E13 TV-L), full-time/part-time possible.
Apply by Jan 20, 2026. More information: uhh.de/o80hn
Portrait of Benjamin Ukert
📢 Update to today’s #HCHE Research Seminar:
Ana Costa-Ramón had to cancel at short notice.
Thanks to Benjamin Ukert (#TAMU) for stepping in. He presents new work on hospital crowding in Texas and its impact on patient outcomes.
🗓 1 Dec, 16:00 @ HCHE
ℹ️ uhh.de/sj53h
#HealthEconomics #HospitalCrowding
Studie „Climate Anxiety in Germany“ (A. Hajek & H.-H. König #HCHE) zeigt: Klimaemotionen bei Jugendlichen stark ausgeprägt. Angst, Ohnmacht & Frust wirken psychisch. Selbstwirksamkeit, lösungsorientierte Narrative & klimafreundliches Handeln können Ängste mindern & Resilienz stärken. uhh.de/cuy8z
Group picture of the participants of the conference
We had the pleasure of welcoming numerous national & international researchers to the XVI Workshop of the dggö Committee Allocation and Distribution at #HCHE. Over 2 days we had discussions on topics such as health inequality, provider motivation, hospital regulation, and innovation in healthcare.
📢 The Hamburg Center for Health Economics (HCHE) is accepting applications for its fully funded PhD Program (2nd Cohort) starting April 2026
🗓 Deadline: Nov 15, 2025
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#PhD #HealthEconomics #HCHE #Research #DoctoralProgram #PublicHealth #Economics #Germany
Portrait of Fabian Grünwald
And another summa cum laude – excellent work, Fabian Grünwald! Congrats on the successful defense of your dissertation “Exploring Pharmaceutical Policy and Access in Europe: Three Essays on Marketing Authorization and Regulation”! 🎓 🍾 🏆 We are proud of you! #HCHE
Summa cum laude! Huge congrats to Carolin Brinkmann on the successful defense of your dissertation, “Essays on Health Economic Evaluation, Well-being, and Willingness to Pay Measurement”! You have done very well! The #HCHE team is proud of you! 🎓 🥂 👏
Darf’s auch etwas mehr sein? Zusatzleistungen in der medizinischen Versorgung – Was bedeuten sie für Krankenkassen, Arztpraxen und Patient:innen? Unsere jährliche Veranstaltungsreihe im #HCHE:
👉 HCHE Research Results live
📅 6. November 2025, 17:00 Uhr
📍 Kostenlos, Anmeldung unter uhh.de/5a9xm
Group portrait of Robert Messerle, Esra Eren Bayindir, Marcella Alsan, Jonas Schreyögg
Today, US guest researcher Prof. Marcella Alsan presents “Why Doesn’t the United States Have National Health Insurance? The Political Role of the American Medical Association” at #HCHE.
She is currently working on a joint research project with Jonas Schreyögg, Esra Eren Bayindir and Robert Messerle.
📣 Call for Applications!
We are excited to announce the next cohort of the DFG Research Training Group Managerial and Economic Dimensions of Health Care Quality is launching in April 2026!
We are seeking 12 highly motivated doctoral students to join our interdisciplinary #HCHE team.
👉 uhh.de/gmazf
Portrait of Dr Cate Bailey
On September 29, 2025, Dr Cate Bailey (Senior Research Fellow, Melbourne Health Economics, School of Population and Global Health, UoM) will visit the #HCHE to present the topic 👉 "The validity of the EQ-HWB instruments in caregiver, mental health, and general populations for economic evaluation"
Group photo of HCHE researchers in the foyer on Bali
At this year’s #IHEA2025 World Congress on Health Economics in #Bali (Indonesia), several #HCHE members and associates were guests and presented their research projects. Well done - and have a good and safe journey back home to Hamburg!
Isa-Maria Steiner, Prof. Dr. Martin Spindler, Prof. Dr. Jonas Schreyögg, Prof. Dr. Tom Stargardt toast in the HCHE foyer.
Congrats, Isa Steiner, on the successful defense of your dissertation “Balancing Quality of Life and Costs for Patients receiving Biologic Therapies” at the #HCHE / University of Hamburg! We are very happy and proud of you! All the best for your private life and of course for your career! 🎓 🥂 👏
Portrait of Meghan I. Esson
How do private equity (PE) firms boost profits in price-regulated markets? Meghan I. Esson shows that PE exploits regulations to serve high-profit customers while pushing low-profit cases onto government providers.
Today at 16:30 hrs at the #HCHE Research Seminar!
Science Comic: "Politische Perspektive nach der Bundestagswahl – welche Neuerungen werden die Krankenhausversorgung in den kommenden Jahren prägen?" Keynote von Prof. Dr. Jonas Schreyögg
Science Comic: "Patientenpräferenzen stärken: Analyse von Qualitätsindikatoren bei der Wahl des Krankenhauses" von Malin Hüllemann
Science Comic: "Ready to Discharge? Eine empirische Betrachtung des Entlassmanagements in der Kardiologie" von Lena Imhof
Science Comic: "Guiding Patients: Ein Ansatz um die Fehlinanspruchnahme von Notaufnahmen zu reduzieren" von Dr. Sebastian Neumann-Böhme
Gelungener Start für #Research4Talents! Gemeinsam mit Hashtag Gesundheit und zahlreichen engagierten Young Professionals diskutierten wir im #HCHE im Juni 2025 zentrale Fragen zur Transformation der Krankenhausversorgung. Vielen Dank an Anna Breuer für die großartigen Visualisierungen!
Today we welcome to the #HCHE Provider Behavior Workshop guests as Prof. Line Pedersen & Dr. Benjamin Chibuye (University of Southern Denmark), as well as our close academic partners Prof. Daniel Wiesen (University of Cologne) and Dr. Jan Priebe (Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine).
Tugboats on the river Elbe
📣 Call for Papers for the 16th Workshop of the #dggö committee “Allocation and Distribution” on Nov 14/15, 2025 at the #HCHE! More information & the link to submit papers under uhh.de/sqde5 We explicitly welcome theoretical, empirical & experimental contributions. 📷: Vallbracht/Mediaserver Hamburg
Finger points to screen presentation
European Health Data Space: Today Nick Schneider, Head of Division 511 on New Technologies and Data Use at the German Federal Ministry of Health, presents insights in current developments of the Europeam Health Data Space at 15:30 hrs at the #HCHE. Please register on our website: uhh.de/0cl72
Portrait of Deirdre Weymann
Real-World Evidence and Life-Cycle Health Technology Assessment: Deirdre Weymann from Simon Fraser University (Cananda) presents a case study of entrectinib in NTRK fusion positive solid tumours today, on 16 June 2025, 4:30 pm, at the #HCHE.
What a great start of our new event series Research4Talents yesterday at the #HCHE! With Hashtag Gesundheit and many young professionals, we had great guests and interesting discussions on the topic of the transformation of hospital care. Thank you all for coming and your enriching input!
Portrait of Dr. Michael Kuhn
Explaining the increasing inequality in life expectancy across income groups in the US: Michael Kuhn from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis is guest at the #HCHE research seminar and presents his findings today at 16.30 hrs. Guests are welcome, please register: uhh.de/q6of7.
Four doctoral students holding awards and certificates.
Congrats to Fabian Grünwald, Benedicta Hermanns, Carolin Brinkmann and Jona Frasch for receiving the #HCHE Young Researcher Awards 2025 for their outstanding work in the fields of pharmaceutical markets, population health and inpatient care. We are very proud of you! 🏆 🍾 👏
Photo: Claudia Höhne
Portrait of Susan Stewart
Welcome Susan Stewart from the National Bureau of Economic Research (USA)! Susan will be guest researcher at #HCHE and present the health-measurement aspects of her group’s work on a satellite account for the US health sector, which measures productivity growth in health care for elderly population.
Portrait of Prof. Sabine Steinke
"Cost-effectiveness and Quality of Specialized and Routine Care in a German Cohort of Patients with Chronic Pruritus" is the title of our next #HCHE Research Seminar on 12 May 2025 with Prof. Sabine Steinke (Universität Bielefeld)!
Guests are welcome, please register on our website: uhh.de/d0gly
Discussion of young researcher.
Upcoming! 👉 On 11 June 2025 #HCHE & #Gesundheit invite to a new afterwork format: #Research4Talents. The event adresses young healthcare professionals in order to transfer health economic research results from science to practice. Topic: "Transformation of Hospital Care". Registration: uhh.de/rfud4
Vanessa Ress and Robert Messerle with doctor's hats
Disputation completed! Congratulations to Vanessa Ress & Robert Messerle on successfully defending their dissertations in Health Care Management at the University of Hamburg. 2 promising new health economists are leaving #HCHE. All the best and hope to stay in touch both academically & personally!
