Dr Ewout van Ginneken is the Director of the European Observatory
on Health Systems and Policies. He was previously Coordinator of the
Berlin hub at the Berlin University of Technology.
His
expertise is in comparative international health systems research and
health policy research. His main interests include health financing,
health access, insurance competition, care purchasing, integrated care,
cross-border care, and migrants’ access to care. He has published widely
on these topics in international peer-reviewed literature and the wider
literature. He is a series coordinator of the Health Systems in
Transition (HiT) series and has co-authored the HiT template as well as
several reviews including on the health care systems of Bulgaria,
Czechia, Estonia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Slovakia, Slovenia and the
United States of America.
Before joining
the Observatory, Ewout was a senior researcher at the Berlin University
of Technology and a 2011–2012 Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow in
Health Care Policy and Practice at the Harvard School of Public Health.
He holds a master’s degree in health policy and administration from
Maastricht University in the Netherlands, and a PhD in public health
from the Berlin University of Technology.
Publication highlights
Van
Ginneken E, Habicht J, Murauskiene L, Behmane D, Mladovsky P. The
Baltic states: building on 20 years of health reforms. BMJ. 2012 Nov
23;345:e7348. doi:10.1136/bmj.e7348.
van
Ginneken E, Swartz K, Van der Wees P. Health Insurance Exchanges In
Switzerland And The Netherlands Offer Five Key Lessons For The
Operations Of US Exchanges. Health Aff (Millwood). 2013
Apr;32(4):744-52.
Barnes
AJ, Unruh L, Chukmaitov A, van Ginneken E. Accountable care
organizations in the USA: Types, developments and challenges. Health
Policy. 2014Oct;118(1):1-7. doi: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2014.07.019. Epub
2014 Aug 1. PubMedPMID: 25145942.
Keith
L, van Ginneken E. Restricting access to the NHS for undocumented
migrants is bad policy at high cost. BMJ. 2015 Jun 16;350:h3056.
van
Ginneken E. Perennial Health Care Reform--The Long Dutch Quest for Cost
Control and Quality Improvement. N Engl J Med. 2015 Sep
3;373(10):885-9. doi:10.1056/NEJMp1410422.
Struckmann
V, Quentin W, Busse R, van Ginneken E. How to strengthen financing
mechanisms to promote care for people with multimorbidity in Europe?
[Internet]. Copenhagen (Denmark): European Observatory on Health Systems
and Policies; 2017.
Rice
T, Quentin W, Anell A, Barnes AJ, Rosenau P, Unruh LY, van Ginneken E.
Revisiting out-of-pocket requirements: trends in spending, financial
access barriers, and policy in ten high-income countries. BMC Health
Serv Res. 2018 May 18;18(1):371. doi: 10.1186/s12913-018-3185-8.
Greer
SL, Klasa K, van Ginneken E. Power and Purchasing: Why Strategic
Purchasing Fails. Milbank Q. 2020 Sep;98(3):975-1020. doi:
10.1111/1468-0009.12471. Epub 2020 Aug 4. PMID: 32749005; PMCID:
PMC7482378.
Palm
W, Webb E, Hernández-Quevedo C, Scarpetti G, Lessof S, Siciliani L, van
Ginneken E. Gaps in coverage and access in the European Union. Health
Policy. 2021 Mar;125(3):341-350. doi: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2020.12.011.
Epub 2020 Dec 25. PMID: 33431257.
van
Ginneken E, Reed S, Siciliani L, Eriksen A, Schlepper L. et al.
(2022). Addressing backlogs and managing waiting lists during and
beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. [Internet]. Copenhagen (Denmark): European
Observatory on Health Systems and Policies; 2022.
van
Ginneken E, Webb E, Maresso A, Cylus J; HSRM network. Lessons learned
from the COVID-19 pandemic. Health Policy. 2022 May;126(5):348-354. doi:
10.1016/j.healthpol.2022.04.004.
Winkelmann
J, Gómez Rossi J, van Ginneken E. Oral health care in Europe:
Financing, access and provision. Health Syst Transit. 2022
Jun;24(2):1-176. PMID: 35833482.
Scarpetti
G, Shadowen H, Williams GA, Winkelmann J, Kroneman M, Groenewegen PP,
De Jong JD, Fronteira I, Augusto GF, Hsiung S, Slade S, Rojatz D,
Kallayova D, Katreniakova Z, Nagyova I, Kylänen M, Vracko P, Jesurasa A,
Wallace Z, Wallace C, Costongs C, Barnes AJ, van Ginneken E. A
comparison of social prescribing approaches across twelve high-income
countries. Health Policy. 2024 Jan 21;142:104992. doi:
10.1016/j.healthpol.2024.104992. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38368661.
