Reinhard Busse
Prof. Dr. med. MPH FFPH Reinhard Busse
Professor Busse is department head for health care management in the Faculty of Economics and Management at Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. He is also a faculty member of Charité, Berlin’s medical faculty as well as Co-Director and Head of the Berlin hub of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, a member of several scientific advisory boards as well as a regular consultant for WHO, the EU Commission, the Worldbank, OECD and other international organizations within Europe and beyond as well as national health and research institutions. From 2006 to 2009, he served as dean of his faculty.
His research focuses on methods and contents of comparative health system analysis and health services research (with emphasis on hospitals, human resources, cross-border care, health reforms in Germany, role of EU, financing and payment mechanisms as well as disease management), health economics and health technology assessment (HTA). He was the PI/coordinator of the EU-funded project “EuroDRG: Diagnosis-Related Groups in Europe: towards Efficiency and Quality”. He has been and is also involved in several other EU-funded projects, e.g. on the relationship between nursing and patient outcome (RN4Cast), mobility of health professionals (PROMetHEUS), evaluating care across borders (ECAB), on health care data for cross-country comparisons of efficiency and quality (EuroREACH), on the impact of new roles for health professionals (Munros), and on advancing and strengthening HTA (Advance_HTA).
Since 2011, he is editor-in-chief of the international peer reviewed journal Health Policy. Since 2012, he is the director of the Berlin Health Economics Research Centre (BerlinHECOR, overarching topic “Towards a Performance Assessment of the German Health Care System“), one of four centres in Germany funded by the Federal Ministry of Research. Since 2015, he is also speaker of the board of the newly founded inter-university Berlin School of Public Health (BSPH). In 2016/17, he was President of the German Health Economics Association (dggö).
Prof. Busse is the director of the annual Observatory summer school in Venice, which is directed at policy-makers and has covered a wide range of topics: Human Resources for Health, Hospital Reengineering, Innovation and Health Technology Assessment, EU Integration and Health Systems, The Ageing Crisis, Performance Assessment for Health System Improvement, Innovative Ways of Improving Population Health, Integrated Care – Moving Beyond the Rhetoric, Primary Care – Innovating for Integrated, More Effective Care, and Quality of care – Improving effectiveness, safety, and responsiveness.
His regular Master-level teaching courses at TU Berlin include “Managing and Researching Health Care Systems”, “Health Technology Assessment” (blended learning, i.e. mainly online), “Health Insurance Management”, “Health Provider Management”, “Health Industry Management” (pharmaceuticals and medical devices) and “Health Economic Evaluation”. He is the principal editor of the German text book on health care management, author of a book on the German health system as well as co-editor of German textbooks on public health and on HTA (all in their 2nd, 3rd or 4th edition).
Professor Busse studied medicine in Marburg/ Germany, Boston/ USA and London/ UK as well as Public Health in Hannover/ Germany. Prior to his appointment at TU Berlin in 2002, he was head of the Observatory’s hub in Madrid/ Spain (1999-2002), a senior research fellow in the Department of Epidemiology, Social Medicine and Health Systems Research (1994-1999), a resident physician in the Department of Rheumatology (1992-1994), both at Hannover Medical School, and a researcher in the Planning Group for a Problem-based Medical Curriculum at the Freie Universität Berlin (1991-1992). In 1993, he earned a “Dr. med.” (PhD in Medicine) from Philipps-Universität in Marburg.