Reinhard Busse

Professor Reinhard Busse, Dr. med. MPH, is department head for health care 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, a partnership to bridge the gap between research and evidence-informed policy-making.

His research focuses on methods and contents of comparative health system analysis and performance assessment (in Germany and Europe, but also low- and middle-income countries), health services research (with emphasis on hospitals, human resources, financing and payment mechanisms, quality as well as disease management), health economics and health technology assessment (HTA).

From 2011 to 2022, he was editor-in-chief of the international peer reviewed journal Health Policy. From 2012 to 2021, he was director of the Berlin Centre of Health Economics Research, one of four centres in Germany funded by the Federal Ministry of Research. He was speaker of the board of the inter-university Berlin School of Public Health in its founding phase (2015-2018). In 2016/17, he was President of the German Health Economics Association. Since 2017, he has supported the School of Public Health at Kwame Nkrumah's University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi, Ghana, in setting up a new master's program in Health Systems' Research and Management – and since 2021 in running the German-West African Centre for Global Health and Pandemic Prevention. In 2022, he chaired the European Public Health Conference. He was and is a member of several expert committees, e.g. for the German Federal Ministry of Health on Modern and Needs-based Hospital Care (2022-2025) and for the German Chancellor’s Office on Health and Resilience (2024-2025).

In 2025, he was awarded the Andrija Stampar medal for excellence in the field of Public Health.