Professor Busse is Head of the Department of Health Care Management at the Faculty of Economics and Management, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. He is also a faculty member of Charité – Berlin’s medical faculty – and Co-Director and Head of the Berlin hub of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies. In addition, he serves on several scientific advisory boards and regularly consults for the WHO, European Commission, World Bank, OECD, and other international and national health and research institutions. From 2006 to 2009, he served as Dean of his faculty.

His research focuses on comparative health system analysis and health services research, with emphasis on hospitals, human resources, cross-border care, health system reforms, and financing and payment mechanisms, as well as health economics and health technology assessment (HTA). He was Principal Investigator and coordinator of the EU-funded project EuroDRG. He has also contributed to several other EU projects, including RN4Cast, PROMETHEUS, ECAB, EuroREACH, MUNROS, and Advance_HTA.

Since 2011, he has been Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed journal Health Policy. Since 2012, he has directed the Berlin Health Economics Research Centre (BerlinHECOR), funded by the German Federal Ministry of Research, and since 2015 has been Speaker of the Berlin School of Public Health. In 2016/17, he served as President of the German Health Economics Association (dggö).

He is also Director of the annual Observatory Summer School in Venice, aimed at policy-makers, covering topics such as hospital reform, health technology assessment, integrated care, and health system performance.

His teaching at TU Berlin includes health care systems, health technology assessment, health insurance, provider and industry management, and health economic evaluation. He is the principal editor of a German textbook on health care management and co-editor of several major textbooks on public health and HTA.

Professor Busse studied medicine in Marburg, Boston, and London, as well as public health in Hannover. Prior to his appointment at TU Berlin in 2002, he worked at Hannover Medical School and at the Freie Universität Berlin. In 1993, he earned a Dr. med. (equivalent to a PhD in medicine) from Philipps-Universität Marburg.