The Research Center
Our healthcare system is subject to constant change – characterized by demographic developments and the continuous improvement of medical services. Over 90 researchers and scientists at Hamburg Center for Health Economics (HCHE) work on solutions for actual and future questions in the field of health care and health economics to cope successfully with challenges of any kind in this sector. Our goal is to develop a complex and comprehensive picture of important topics of health economics and health care management.
As a joint center of the University of Hamburg and the University Medical Center Eppendorf (UKE), HCHE integrates economic and social science, competencies as well as comprehensive medical expertise. A unique feature of the center is its highly interdisciplinary set-up, a result of the integration of physicians and economists. Founded in 2011, HCHE has already become one of the largest institutions for health economics research in Europe. From 2012 to 2021 the center received funding by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) for its further expansion. Since 2023, the HCHE's own DFG Research Training Group "Managerial and economic dimensions of health care quality" has been researching cause-effect relationships in order to improve the management of quality in the healthcare system.
The following professorships and institutes belong to the HCHE:
Universität Hamburg, Faculty of Business Administration:
Professorship of Health Care Management
Prof. Dr. Tom Stargardt
Professorship of Health Care Management
Prof. Dr. Jonas Schreyögg
Professorship of Risk Management and Insurance
Prof. Dr. Petra Steinorth
Professorship of Statistics with Application in Business Administration
Prof. Dr. Martin Spindler
Junior Professorship of Business Administration with a focus on Health Care Management
N. N.
Universität Hamburg, Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences:
Professorship of Economics with a focus on Empirical Health Economics
Prof. Dr. Iris Kesternich
Professorship of Health Economics and Social Policy
Prof. Dr. Mathias Kifmann
Junior Professorship of Behavioral Health Economics
Prof. Dr. Johanna Kokot
Professorship of Economics with a focus on Health Economics, especially Empirical Methods
Prof. Dr. Biliana Yontcheva
Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, Faculty of Medicine:
Institute of Health Economics and Health Care Research
Director of the institute Prof. Dr. Hans-Helmut König
Professorship of Interdisciplinary Health Care Epidemiology
Prof. Dr. André Hajek
Institute of Health Care Research in Dermatology and Nursing
Professorship of Health Economics and Quality of Life Research
Prof. Dr. Matthias Augustin