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

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 bsky.app/profile/bmg-...

#HCHE-Direktor Professor Jonas Schreyögg im Interview mit der ÄrzteZeitung über das erhebliche Einsparungspotential einer Reform der Notfallversorgung. www.aerztezeitung.de/Politik/Gesu...

📣 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... @springer.springernature.com @hche-uhh.bsky.social #loneliness #isolation #withdrawal #AI #KI

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!

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

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!

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).

New publication: It’s all about the attitude: Findings on internalized #caregiver #stigma and #mental health of informal caregivers academic.oup.com/psychsocgero... @hche-uhh.bsky.social ‪‪@geronsociety.bsky.social‬

📣 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

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

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.

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.

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...

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.

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...

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

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

"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

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!

Congrats to our “Research Runners”, the athletic PhD students in our #DFG Research Training Group! Three #HCHE teams completed the 2025 Hamburg Marathon. In addition to great placings of 116th, 395th & 489th, team spirit was at the forefront. A fantastic team performance! 📷 www.johannes-c-schmidt.de

Suicide is a leading cause of death worldwide and a critical public health concern. Martin Halla (WU Wien) examines the hypothesis of suicide contagion within the workplace, investigating whether exposure to a coworker's suicide increases an individual's suicide risk. 👉 28.4.2025 at 4.30 p.m. #HCHE

On 14 April 2025 Samantha Pollard talks about "Uncertainty in Precision Oncology" at the #HCHE Research Seminar. She will discuss the important role of patient integration into the evidence base informing reimbursement and uptake decisions related to precision oncology. Guests welcome 👉 uhh.de/pmgia

What were the highlights of the #HCHE in 2024? What events and lectures took place last year? Which new projects were acquired? If you would like to find out more about the activities and projects at the #HCHE, take a look at our Annual Report 2024, which has just been published: uhh.de/5p4ke

Im geplante Infrastruktur-Sondervermögen sind auch Gelder fürs Gesundheitswesen vorgesehen. Das kann Fluch und Segen zugleich sein. Im Tagesspiegel hat Prof. Dr. Jonas Schreyögg zu den in Aussicht gestellten Milliarden Stellung genommen. Den vollständigen „Standpunkt“ finden Sie hier: uhh.de/3uqe2

New book on “Public Health Care” out! #HCHE member Prof. Dr. Mathias Kifmann is one of four authors of the textbook published by Cambridge Elements on the topic of public health financing, which is initially available online. Here you can access the free online version: uhh.de/rt7ch

New publication: Prevalence of #loneliness and social #isolation among individuals with mild cognitive impairment or #dementia: systematic review and meta-analysis doi.org/10.1192/bjo.... #BJPOpen @hche-uhh.bsky.social

👁️ New #HCHE research seminar program for summer semester 2025 is online: From April 14 to July 14, 2025 every two weeks national and international guests will present their health economics research at Hamburg Center for Health Economics. The event overview can be found here: uhh.de/4paok

Which factors influence the decision of hospitals to provide procedures on an outpatient basis? A research team from the #hche at @uni-hamburg.de has gained new insights: A sole focus on financial incentives falls short of the mark! The paper can be found here: lnkd.in/eYZ3nicS

New publication: Associations of #procrastination with #loneliness, social #Isolation, and social #withdrawal link.springer.com/article/10.1... @hche-uhh.bsky.social

Members of the #HCHE published more than 200 papers in around 60 journals in 2024. Topics range from healthcare systems, outpatient/inpatient management, pharmaceuticals, care, ageism/loneliness, migration, pregnancy, dermatology or oncology among many others. The HCHE publication list: uhh.de/on78i

Today: Arendse Tange Larsen (VIVE – The Danish Center for Social Science Research / DaCHE) will present her actual research in a Brownbag Seminar from 12:00-13:30 hrs at #HCHE. 👉„Potential Health Economic Impact of Advanced Continuous Vital Signs Monitoring for In-Hospital and Home Use“

I am pleased to announce a new publication on the excess costs of #PTSD related to child maltreatment in Germany: doi.org/10.1192/j.eu... #hche @hche-uhh.bsky.social #PTSDAwareness

New publication in #BMCPsychiatry @biomedcentral.bsky.social. Always nice to see that a submission I had managed as editor made it to publication. #psychotherapy #depression bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Congrats! Kristina Hagenström (#UKE/#HCHE) receives the German Acne Tarda Award for an epidemiological secondary data analysis on the prevalence & disease burden of acne tarda. 👏 Link to publicaton: uhh.de/jnqlt

Im ZDF spricht #HCHE-Mitglied Prof. Iris Kesternich über die Herausforderungen im deutschen Gesundheitssystem und berichtet aus den Niederlanden. Hier geht es zur WISO-Sendung „Baustelle Gesundheit und Pflege“ vom 27.1.2025: uhh.de/r3agh (Interview bei Minute 16:37 und 32:21.

New research cooperation with Harvard University: Professor Marcella Alsan receives the Humboldt Research Award. Together with Professor Jonas Schreyögg & Dr Esra Bayindir (#HCHE/@uni-hamburg.de), she conducts research on inequalities in the German healthcare system. 📷@harvardkennedy.bsky.social

The impact of hospital closures on hospital admission and the impact on nearby surviving hospitals – Professor Benjamin Ukert (Texas A&M University) presents findings by analyzing the Texas discharge data. Lecture at #HCHE Research Seminar on 13 January 2025, 4.30 pm in Hamburg. More: uhh.de/tbsj2