Hamburg Center for Health Economics
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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.
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.
November 17, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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.
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
October 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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! 🎓 🥂 👏
October 15, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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
👉 HCHE Research Results live
📅 6. November 2025, 17:00 Uhr
📍 Kostenlos, Anmeldung unter uhh.de/5a9xm
October 14, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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
👉 HCHE Research Results live
📅 6. November 2025, 17:00 Uhr
📍 Kostenlos, Anmeldung unter uhh.de/5a9xm
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.
She is currently working on a joint research project with Jonas Schreyögg, Esra Eren Bayindir and Robert Messerle.
October 6, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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.
She is currently working on a joint research project with Jonas Schreyögg, Esra Eren Bayindir and Robert Messerle.
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"
September 25, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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"
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
👉 The events can be found here: uhh.de/lz2h9
September 17, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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
👉 The events can be found here: uhh.de/lz2h9
📣 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
👉 uhh.de/mublj
August 20, 2025 at 8:07 AM
📣 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
👉 uhh.de/mublj
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! 🎓 🥂 👏
July 15, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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! 🎓 🥂 👏
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!
Today at 16:30 hrs at the #HCHE Research Seminar!
July 14, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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!
Today at 16:30 hrs at the #HCHE Research Seminar!
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!
July 8, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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).
July 1, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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).
📣 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
June 26, 2025 at 10:44 AM
📣 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
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
June 18, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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
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.
June 16, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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!
June 12, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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!
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.
June 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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.
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.
June 2, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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.
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
Photo: Claudia Höhne
May 16, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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
Photo: Claudia Höhne
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.
May 15, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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.
📣 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
May 12, 2025 at 1:11 PM
📣 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
"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
Guests are welcome, please register on our website: uhh.de/d0gly
May 7, 2025 at 10:28 AM
"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
Guests are welcome, please register on our website: uhh.de/d0gly
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
May 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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
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!
April 29, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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!