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The HCHE is a joint research center of the University of Hamburg and the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf. More than 90 researchers are working on interdisciplinary solutions for current and future questions in the field of health economics.
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"
25.09.2025 12:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Portraits of international researchers Katarzyna Dubas-Jakóbczyk, Tobias Klein, Ana Costa-Ramón, Heiner Schumacher, Gregor Pfeifer, Benjamin Chibuye and Dr. Stefan Sliwa Ruiz.
Starting on 20 Oct 2025, we will be presenting a diverse program of lectures with international guests at the HCHE Research Seminar. Speakers: Katarzyna Dubas-Jakóbczyk, Tobias Klein, Ana Costa-Ramón, Gregor Pfeifer, Benjamin Chibuye & Stefan Sliwa Ruiz.
👉 The events can be found here: uhh.de/lz2h9
Die Bundesgesundheitsministerin hat die Mitglieder der neuen #FinanzKommission Gesundheit berufen. Sie sollen Maßnahmen für eine dauerhafte Stabilisierung der Beitragssätze in der GKV erarbeiten. Mit dabei u.a. #HCHE-Direktor Prof. Dr. Jonas Schreyögg. Zur PM: uhh.de/6w27f
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#HCHE-Direktor Professor Jonas Schreyögg im Interview mit der ÄrzteZeitung über das erhebliche Einsparungspotential einer Reform der Notfallversorgung.
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📣 Job alert: Are you interested in applying empirical methods to investigate market behavior? We are looking to hire a PhD student to join a German-French project investigating the role of market power in determining consumer choice using micro-level data. Deadline: 3 September 2025.
👉 uhh.de/mublj
New publication: Association of using AI tools for personal conversation with social disconnectedness outcomes link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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@hche-uhh.bsky.social #loneliness #isolation #withdrawal
#AI #KI
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!
23.07.2025 12:51 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Presenting at iHEA
Presenting at iHEA
Just presented at #iHEA2025 on how guiding patients with triage tools can improve emergency care decisions under uncertainty. Great fun sharing our findings—thanks to my @hi-prix.bsky.social & @hche-uhh.bsky.social colleagues for joining and supporting! #healthliteracy #healtheconomics #EDuse #Bali
22.07.2025 07:15 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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! 🎓 🥂 👏
15.07.2025 11:41 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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!
08.07.2025 12:58 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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).
01.07.2025 11:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New publication:
It’s all about the attitude: Findings on internalized #caregiver #stigma and #mental health of informal caregivers
academic.oup.com/psychsocgero...
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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
26.06.2025 10:44 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New publication:
Association of #professional #environment with #loneliness and perceived social #isolation among individuals in their second half of life
link.springer.com/article/10.1... @springer1842.bsky.social @hche-uhh.bsky.social
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
18.06.2025 08:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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.
16.06.2025 10:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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!
12.06.2025 11:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Heute starten wir mit einem neuen Afterwork-Format: Research4Talents! Die Veranstaltung richtet sich an junge Akteur:innen der Gesundheitsbranche, um gesundheitsökonomische Forschungsergebnisse im interdisziplinären Dialog bei Drinks & Fingerfood von der Wissenschaft in die Praxis zu transferieren.
11.06.2025 14:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New Paper out: "Cost-utility analysis of 177Lu-PSMA-617 radioligand therapy in second-line and third-line treatment for metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) in Germany" by @cabrinkmann.bsky.social, Richard P. Baum & @tomstargardt.bsky.social. Have a look 👉 doi.org/10.1007/s002...
04.06.2025 08:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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.
02.06.2025 08:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The paper “Does timing matter? The role of health information shocks in measuring willingness to pay”, with Carolin Brinkmann, @snb.bsky.social, and @tomstargardt.bsky.social, is now in print at the European Journal of Health Economics and can be found here:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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.
15.05.2025 09:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Group of researchers discussing
📣 Job alert! The call for applications for the 2nd cohort of the #HCHE's DFG Research Training Group will initially start with two PhD positions. Graduates of a master's program in economics can apply until June 6, 2025. More information: uhh.de/cke5v
12.05.2025 13:11 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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
05.05.2025 14:01 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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!
29.04.2025 13:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
