Katharina Blankart

I am a business economist with interests in health economics, policy and health care management. I am leading the team of health economics and policy at the School of Health Professions at the Bern University of Applied Sciences in Bern, Switzerland. I am also a fellow of the Leibniz Science Campus Ruhr, Essen, Germany, and affiliate of the Hamburg Center of Health Economics, Hamburg, Germany.

I obtained my PhD (Dr. oec. publ.) in Business Administration in 2012 from Ludwig-Maximilans-University, Munich School of Management, Munich, Germany. Between 2012 and 2016, I was Post-Doc at Hamburg Center of Health Economics, Universität Hamburg, Germany and head of a junior research group on pharmacoeconomics. In the academic year 2015/2016, I have been visiting researcher at Columbia Business School, Columbia University, NY, USA. From 2016 to 2023, I was assistant professor of empirical health economics at University of Duisburg-Essen and CINCH Health Eonomics Research Center.

Research fields

My research is in the areas of health and innovation. I study the institutional settings of determining value of and access to health technology. An important aspect of this research is how providers and patients use technology to improve health and health care. I am especially dedicated to study the economics and management of pharmaceutical care. I employ the state of the art toolbox to establish causal analyses relying on data science techniques, econometrics, as well as qualitative methods.

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