Katharina Blankart

Dr. Katharina Blankart is the Head of the Institute of Health Economics and Health Policy at the Department of Health Professions at Bern University of Applied Sciences and a faculty member of the Swiss School of Public Health (ssph+). From 2016 to 2023, she was a faculty member at the CINCH Health Economics Research Center of the University of Duisburg-Essen and an affiliate of the Leibniz Science Campus Ruhr. Her research focuses on health economics, health policy, and innovation in health care, using methods from econometrics and data science. For her work, she uses and combines a wide array of data, including medical claims, bibliometric data, and administrative data. Her projects consider pharmaceutical policies, regulation, and provider behavior, with a focus on technology adoption, supply security, and health outcomes. She has published in leading journals in medicine, health economics, and healthcare management and policy. Katharina received her PhD from Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, where she also holds an undergraduate degree in economics (Diplom-Volkswirtin) and a Master of Business Research degree. From 2012 to 2016, Katharina was the head of a junior research group and a core member of the Hamburg Center of Health Economics, a national center for health economics in Germany. In the academic year 2015/2016, she was a visiting research fellow at Columbia Business School, USA. Katharina regularly serves as a health policy advisor for government, industry, and stakeholder initiatives in predominantly Switzerland and Germany, and advises healthcare entrepreneurs and initiatives. She regularly comments on ongoing health policy developments in national outlets such as SRF, Republik, or Handelsblatt.

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