Busse, Reinhard
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1. Current Status, Position
Prof Reinhard Busse is Department Head for Healthcare 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 Observatory on Health Systems and Policies.
2. Education
Prof Reinhard 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 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 Free University of Berlin (1991-1992). In 1993, he earned a Dr Med (PhD in Medicine) from Philipps University in Marburg.
3. Research Area
Prof Reinhard Busse research focuses on methods and contents of comparative health system analysis and assessment as well as 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).
4. Conflict of interest: none