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Professor Reinhard Busse, Dr. med. MPH FFPH, 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 Associate Head of Research Policy 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 (with a particular emphasis on the reforms in Germany, other social health insurance countries in western as well as central and eastern Europe and beyond, role of EU, financing and payment mechanisms as well as disease management), health services research including cost-effectiveness analyses, health targets, and health technology assessment (HTA). His department has been designated as a WHO Collaborating Centre for Health System Research and Management.
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 Care Management I - Insurance Management”, “II - Provider Management”, “III - Industry Management” (pharmaceuticals and medical devices) and “IV - Tools for Evaluation”. He is the principal editor of the German text book on health care management (published with Springer, 5th edition 2022), author of a book on the German health system (3rd edition 2017) as well as co-editor of German textbooks on public health (4th edition 2022) and on HTA (3rd edition 2023).
He is the director of the annual Observatory’s summer schools 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; Quality of Care: Improving Effectiveness, Safety, and Responsiveness; Health Security: from public health to strengthening health systems; and in 2025: Does Health System Performance Assessment (HSPA) actually improve performance? Designing HSPA to enable better policy decision making.
Between 2011 and 2022, he was editor-in-chief of the international peer reviewed journal Health Policy. Since 2012, he is the director of the Berlin Health Economics Research Centre (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. 2015-18 and 2022-24, he was speaker of the board of the inter-university Berlin School of Public Health. In 2016/17, he was President of the German Health Economics Association.
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, finishing with his “habilitation”/ second PhD), 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.
