On 11 June 2025, the Hamburg Center for Health Economics, together with Hashtag Gesundheit, invites to a new afterwork format: Research4Talents. The event adresses young professionals from the healthcare sector in order to transfer health economic research results from science to practice in an interdisciplinary dialogue...

Dr. Michael Kuhn presents a novel life-cycle model, grounded in demographic principles, to examine the influence of medical progress, technological progress, and the reduction in age-independent mortality on the rise in life expectancy across socioeconomic groups. His findings indicate that the expanding disparity in life...

Congratulations to Fabian Grünwald, Benedicta Herrmanns, Carolin Brinkmann, and Jona Frasch! The four young HCHE scientists have been honored with the HCHE Young Researcher Awards 2025 for their outstanding work in the fields of pharmaceutical markets, population health and inpatient care. The awards were presented by an...

The call for applications for the second cohort of the HCHE's DFG Research Training Group will initially start with two doctoral positions, with more to follow this fall. Graduates of a master's degree program in economics can apply until June 6, 2025. The two positions are advertised for dissertation topics "Staffing...

Congratulations to our “Research Runners”, the athletic doctoral students in our DFG Research Training Group! Three teams of four runners each completed the 42.195 km marathon distance at the Haspa Marathon Hamburg yesterday. A total of over 30.000 runners participated, including 1.500 teams. In addition to great placings...

“We are heading towards one of the biggest deficits in the SHI system in history. The new German government should tackle reforms with high potential for relief at an early stage,” Prof. Dr. Jonas Schreyögg told the Deutsches Ärzteblatt in response to the publication of a first results paper on future plans in the...