Since the founding of the Practice Advisory Board, Dr. Thomas M. Helms, co-founder and honorary chairman of the German Foundation for the Chronically Ill (DScK), has been a member of our advisory board and has guided the development of the HCHE for more than ten years. We have lost someone who has always been committed to...

For the second edition of our "Research4Talents" after-work event on 1 October 2026, we welcomed around 70 young professionals, trainees, and early-career academics to the HCHE. We discussed about intrinsic motivation, the power of incentive systems, and the broader question of what makes us happy in life. Following a...

When a hospital is taken over by a new operator, public concern often centres on cost-cutting measures and a decline in the standard of care. A recent nationwide study by Dr Esra Eren Bayindir and Prof. Dr Jonas Schreyögg from the Hamburg Centre for Health Economics (HCHE) at the University of Hamburg, together with Prof...

From September 2 to 4, 2026, the Heinrich Böll Foundation and HCHE will jointly host the writing workshop “Schreib.Raum.Zeit”. The workshop is aimed at doctoral scholarship holders, alumni of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, HCHE members, and external researchers who are working on dissertations, academic articles, or...

From Hamburg to Rotterdam: “Bridging health economics excellence in research & practice” – this year’s title of the EuHEA Conference 2026 seems to fit perfectly with the close connection between the two health economic hubs EsCHER (Erasmus Centre for Health Economics Rotterdam) and HCHE (Hamburg Center for Health...

According to Professor Jonas Schreyögg, Director of the HCHE, a mandatory primary care physician system would be more effective than the current GP-centered care model (HZV). In an interview with the German Ärzte Zeitung, Schreyögg emphasizes that the voluntary nature of the HZV significantly limits its ability to steer...