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Thiemo Fetzer is a German economist and professor at the University of Warwick and the University of Bonn. His research… more

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Since we all are in a need for a dose of good news… health research alignment with public health needs has improved a lot in recent decades.
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Hongyu Zhou @zhou-hy.bsky.social · 6d
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🔹 Responsiveness has grown since 1990
🔹 Strongest growth in upper-middle-income countries
🔹 Rises modestly with GDP per capita — but varies widely among the wealthiest
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happened just around the EU enlargement. Magdeburg attracted a lot of students from Eastern Europe. 35 years after reunification, Germany finds itself in the heart of a European Union that is under attack from outside and within. They shall not suceed.
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tensions between communities were everywhere. It was the first time in my life I was confronted with racism and open far right demonstrators marching through the city. You mostly see young men, this is an often documented feature. For me, the period was remarkable because it...
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also brutally reshaped multiple times. The scars of accelerated de-industrialisation, population decline and the efforts to halt the visual decline were everywhere. The University stood as a marker of hope for the communities that had been through a lot of rapid change...
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by Thiemo Fetzer

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happened just around the EU enlargement. Magdeburg attracted a lot of students from Eastern Europe. 35 years after reunification, Germany finds itself in the heart of a European Union that is under attack from outside and within. They shall not suceed.

by Thiemo Fetzer

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having to justify, WHY study in the East, coming from the prosperous south west. It had just been 15 years after reunification. It felt exciting to explore the "foreign" at "home". I studied in Magdeburg, a city that has a hugely significant and rich European history that was...
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by Thiemo Fetzer

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tensions between communities were everywhere. It was the first time in my life I was confronted with racism and open far right demonstrators marching through the city. You mostly see young men, this is an often documented feature. For me, the period was remarkable because it...
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by Thiemo Fetzer

trfetzer.com
also brutally reshaped multiple times. The scars of accelerated de-industrialisation, population decline and the efforts to halt the visual decline were everywhere. The University stood as a marker of hope for the communities that had been through a lot of rapid change...
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by Thiemo Fetzer

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Just arriving in Berlin for a workshop next week on the Future of Democracy. Today also marks the day that Germany celebrates its reunification. It also has been nearly 20 years since I started my undergraduate in the East. Back then, I was met with bewilderment...
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by Thiemo Fetzer

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having to justify, WHY study in the East, coming from the prosperous south west. It had just been 15 years after reunification. It felt exciting to explore the "foreign" at "home". I studied in Magdeburg, a city that has a hugely significant and rich European history that was...
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by Thiemo Fetzer

trfetzer.com
Just arriving in Berlin for a workshop next week on the Future of Democracy. Today also marks the day that Germany celebrates its reunification. It also has been nearly 20 years since I started my undergraduate in the East. Back then, I was met with bewilderment...
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The alignment of research effort with public health needs across countries and diseases has improved markedly. We document that there is notable difference in the source of research funding that drives this change... I sometimes refer to this as the potential @gates effect...
Screenshot of quoted post from @HongyuZZZ
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by Thiemo Fetzer

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The alignment of research effort with public health needs across countries and diseases has improved markedly. We document that there is notable difference in the source of research funding that drives this change... I sometimes refer to this as the potential @gates effect...
Screenshot of quoted post from @HongyuZZZ
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by Thiemo Fetzer

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This is IMO one of the most relevant dimensions. We highlight the alignment of research effort with health needs has improved most drastically in upper middle income countries. Meaning: the matching of need to effort has improved. But it also highlights the huge potential gains from cooperation.
zhou-hy.bsky.social
Hongyu Zhou @zhou-hy.bsky.social · 6d
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🔹 Responsiveness has grown since 1990
🔹 Strongest growth in upper-middle-income countries
🔹 Rises modestly with GDP per capita — but varies widely among the wealthiest

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Very effective installation in the Ozeaneum in Stralsund on the oceanic plastic waste patch
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Very effective installation in the Ozeaneum in Stralsund on the oceanic plastic waste patch
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Screenshot of quoted post from @HongyuZZZ
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Screenshot of quoted post from @HongyuZZZ
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📈 The result: health shocks trigger rapid, durable rises in research attention — both domestic & global.
Responses are strongest for high-lethality threats, showing how the system mobilizes when risks are greatest.
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