Prof. Reinhard Busse Dr. med. MPH, FFPH

Professor Reinhard Busse, Dr. med. MPH, is department head for health care management in the Faculty of Economics and Management at Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. He is also Co-Director and Head of the Berlin hub of the European Observa¬tory on Health Systems and Policies, a partnership to bridge the gap between research and evidence-informed policy-making.

His research focuses on methods and contents of comparative health system analysis and performance assessment, health services research (with emphasis on hospitals, human resources, cross-border care, role of EU, financing and payment mechanisms as well as disease management), health economics and health technology assessment (HTA).

He is editor-in-chief of the international peer reviewed journal Health Policy (since 2011) and director of the Berlin Centre of Health Economics Research, one of four centres in Germany funded by the Federal Ministry of Research (since 2012). In 2015-2018 he was speaker of the board of the inter-university Berlin School of Public Health and in 2016/17 President of the German Health Economics Association. Since 2017, he has supported the School of Public Health at Kwame Nkrumah's University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi, Ghana, in setting up a new master's program in Health Systems' Research and Management.

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