April 2024
Research Seminar "Winds of illness: air pollution and health outcomes in Germany"
Prof. Dr. Thomas Siedler from the University of Potsdam is investigating the effects of air quality on population health in Germany.
Resarch Seminar: "Public preferences for value based healthcare attributes – a discrete choice experiment"
Prof. Henry Cutler from the Center for the Health Economy at Macquarie University Sydney speaks about the shift towards value-based healthcare in our research seminar. He compares the European efforts with Australia's “Leading Better Value Care” (LBVC) initiative, which was launched in 2017. The objective of the study was to develop weights of public importance for LBVC objectives to help local...
May 2024
Celebration for graduates and alumni
For the second time since 2019, the HCHE is inviting all former doctoral students and graduates to an alumni meeting in Hamburg on May 3, 2024. The event will take place together with the graduation ceremony of the students of the Master's program Health Economics & Health Care Management. In addition to the official program with various speeches and honors, the alumni meeting also serves as an...
Research Seminar: "More than joints: multi-substance use, choice limitations, and policy implications"
Prof. Michelle Sovinsky from the University of Mannheim is investigating how access and consumption of legal and illegal substances can influence each other and which political decisions could curb an increase in consumption of it.
Research Seminar: Should "willingness-to-pay" thresholds change with disease severity?
Prof. Erik Grönqvist from Uppsala University will speak at the research seminar about the Swedish population's preferences regarding the trade-off between cost-effectiveness and disease severity in the context of healthcare prioritization.
June 2024
HCHE Center Day
The HCHE Center Day will take place again in June 2024. This event offers HCHE members the opportunity to present their own research projects and discuss them with colleagues. The HCHE event aims to promote scientific exchange and networking among HCHE researchers.
Research Seminar: "Child benefits and the health and well-being of new families"
Prof. Miriam Wüst from the Department of Economics at the University of Copenhagen / Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality talks about the social, economic and health effects for families in relation to possible changes to the amount of child benefit.
Research Seminar: "Causal effects of early career sorting on labor and marriage market choices"
Prof. Frederik Plesner Lyngse from the Department of Public Health at the University of Copenhagen is investigating whether and how early labor market choices determine longer-run career versus family outcomes differentially for male and female professionals.
July 2024
Research Seminar: "Self-medication under uncertainty: insights on consumer behaviour and drug quality in Burkina Faso"
Prof. Renate Hartwig from RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research and the Ruhr University Bochum presents insights into consumer behavior and drug quality in Burkina Faso.
Hamburg International Summer School 2024
Once again the HCHE offering its Summer School Health Economics this year. During two intensive weeks of courses, students, doctoral candidates and practitioners will learn about various areas of health economics and gain an insight into current research.
September 2024
51st Seminar of the European Group of Risk and Insurance Economists in Hamburg
The 51st Seminar of the European Group of Risk and Insurance Economists (EGRIE) will take place at the Universität Hamburg. Petra Steinorth, core member of the Hamburg Center for Health Economics, is the local organizer
EGRIE is one of the four largest organisations in the field of risk and insurance worldwide.
October 2024
9. Workshop in Behavioral and Experimental Health Economics
The HCHE invites you to the 9th Workshop in Behavioral and Experimental Health Economics (BEH) in Hamburg. The workshop brings together economists who apply behavioral science findings and experimental methods to health economics to present and discuss their research.