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 players from the healthcare sector in order to transfer health economic research results from science to practice in an interdisciplinary dialogue. After a...

Suicide is a leading cause of death worldwide and a critical public health concern. Professor Martin Halla from the 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. Using high-quality administrative data...

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...

What were the highlights 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.

Hospital reform, climate change, skilled labor shortage – these are just some of the...

In March 2025, “Public Health Care”, a new book on the topic of public health financing, was published. HCHE member Prof. Dr. Mathias Kifmann is one of four authors of the textbook published by Cambridge Elements, which is initially available online free of charge (until 25 March 2025). The printed work will be available on...