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Hamburg Center for Health Economics @hche-uhh.bsky.social · 2d

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.

Group portrait of Robert Messerle, Esra Eren Bayindir, Marcella Alsan, Jonas Schreyögg

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Hamburg Center for Health Economics @hche-uhh.bsky.social · 7d

📣 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

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Hamburg Center for Health Economics @hche-uhh.bsky.social · 13d

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"

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Hamburg Center for Health Economics @hche-uhh.bsky.social · 21d

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

Portraits of international researchers Katarzyna Dubas-Jakóbczyk, Tobias Klein, Ana Costa-Ramón, Heiner Schumacher, Gregor Pfeifer, Benjamin Chibuye and Dr. Stefan Sliwa Ruiz.

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Hamburg Center for Health Economics @hche-uhh.bsky.social · 23d

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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Hamburg Center for Health Economics @hche-uhh.bsky.social · Aug 27

#HCHE-Direktor Professor Jonas Schreyögg im Interview mit der ÄrzteZeitung über das erhebliche Einsparungspotential einer Reform der Notfallversorgung.
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Gesundheitsökonom Schreyögg: Notfallreform könnte pro Jahr fünf Milliarden Euro einsparen

Überfüllte Ambulanzen, gestresste Ärzte, hohe Kosten: Die Notfallversorgung gehört zügig reformiert, sagt der Hamburger Gesundheitsökonom Jonas Schreyögg. Auf den Gesetzentwurf der Ampel lasse sich au...

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Hamburg Center for Health Economics @hche-uhh.bsky.social · Aug 20

📣 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

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andrehajek.bsky.social @andrehajek.bsky.social · Jul 31

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

Association of using AI tools for personal conversation with social disconnectedness outcomes - Journal of Public Health

Aim To examine the association of using AI tools exclusively for personal conversation with loneliness and perceived social isolation and social withdrawal. Subjects and methods We used data from a qu...

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Hamburg Center for Health Economics @hche-uhh.bsky.social · Jul 23

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!

Group photo of HCHE researchers in the foyer on Bali

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Sebastian Neumann-Böhme @snb.bsky.social · Jul 22

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

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Hamburg Center for Health Economics @hche-uhh.bsky.social · Jul 15

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! 🎓 🥂 👏

Isa-Maria Steiner, Prof. Dr. Martin Spindler, Prof. Dr. Jonas Schreyögg, Prof. Dr. Tom Stargardt toast in the HCHE foyer.

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Hamburg Center for Health Economics @hche-uhh.bsky.social · Jul 14

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!

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Hamburg Center for Health Economics @hche-uhh.bsky.social · Jul 8

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!

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

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Hamburg Center for Health Economics @hche-uhh.bsky.social · Jul 1

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).

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andrehajek.bsky.social @andrehajek.bsky.social · Jul 1

New publication:
It’s all about the attitude: Findings on internalized #caregiver #stigma and #mental health of informal caregivers
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It’s all about the attitude: Findings on internalized caregiver stigma and mental health of informal caregivers

AbstractObjectives. In this study, we aim to explore the associations between internalized care-related stigma, positive aspects of caregiving, caregiver b

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Hamburg Center for Health Economics @hche-uhh.bsky.social · Jun 26

📣 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

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andrehajek.bsky.social @andrehajek.bsky.social · Jun 23

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

Association of professional environment with loneliness and perceived social isolation among individuals in their second half of life - Aging Clinical and Experimental Research

Background Little attention has been paid to the association of job-related factors with loneliness and perceived social isolation. More specifically, studies are missing examining how professional en...

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Hamburg Center for Health Economics @hche-uhh.bsky.social · Jun 18

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

Hamburg Center for Health Economics @hche-uhh.bsky.social · Jun 16

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.

Hamburg Center for Health Economics @hche-uhh.bsky.social · Jun 12

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!

Hamburg Center for Health Economics @hche-uhh.bsky.social · Jun 11

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.

Hamburg Center for Health Economics @hche-uhh.bsky.social · Jun 4

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...

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 - European Journal of Nuclear...

Purpose To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of 177Lu-PSMA-617 radioligand therapy (PRLT) in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) in Germany by comparing (I) PRLT plus standard-of-car...

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Hamburg Center for Health Economics @hche-uhh.bsky.social · Jun 2

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.

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Werner Brouwer @wernerbrouwer.bsky.social · Apr 17

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...

Does timing matter? The role of health information shocks in measuring willingness to pay - The European Journal of Health Economics

Objectives The optimal point in time to measure willingness-to-pay (WTP) remains unclear. We investigated the role of health information shocks (HIS) in individuals’ WTP, analyzing the extent to which...

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Hamburg Center for Health Economics @hche-uhh.bsky.social · May 16

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

Four doctoral students holding awards and certificates.

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