Our mission at M-CHEP is to conduct research to improve health care systems and population health on national and international level

About us

The Munich Center for Health Economics and Policy (M-CHEP) consists of nine chairs situated at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), the Ludwg-Maximilians-University of Munich (LMU), the University of Augsburg, and the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg.
The aim of M-CHEP is to foster interdisciplinary cooperation between researchers in the field of health economics and health policy working in and around Munich, Bavaria.

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Center and research updates

February M-CHEP Research Seminar

Alexander Ahammer (Johannes Kepler University Linz) presented his research on The Labor and Health Economics of Breast Cancer in the M-CHEP Research Seminar.
Rainer Kolisch and Andreas Schmid join M-CHEP

20.01.2025
As start of a closer collaboration between M-CHEP and the TUM School of Management, Rainer Kolisch joins and the center and together with Andreas Schmid from University of Bayreuth occupies the new focus area of Health Care Management.
Health Care Management as additional focus area

20.01.2025
In addtion to the four research areas Design of Health Care Systems, Health Services Research, Economics of Population Health, and Global Health, Health Care Management builds the fifth focus area of M-CHEP.
Andreas Landmann and Simon Reif join M-CHEP

16.12.2024
We welcome our newest members Prof. Andreas Landmann (Developement Economics) and Prof. Simon Reif (Economics of Health Care Markets) to M-CHEP! Both are professors at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg.
Policy Brief #1 (11/24)

14.11.2024
In the first M-CHEP Policy Brief, Karl Emmert-Fees and Michael Laxy summarise their work on the economic and health effects of a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages in Germany.
Second M-CHEP Research Seminar

06.11.2024
Mahesh Karra (Boston University) presented his research on User-Centered Approaches to Contraceptive Counseling: Experimental Evidence from Urban Malawi in the M-CHEP Research Seminar.
Start of M-CHEP Research Seminar series

11.09.2024
Carlos Riumallo Herl kicked off the M-CHEP Research Seminar series with his talk about Tailoring incentives for prevention: A field experiment in El Salvador.
M-CHEP at EuHEA in Vienna

01.07.2024
A total of 16 researchers affiliated with M-CHEP presented and discussed health economic and health policy research at the EuHEA conference, the largest Health Economics conference in Europe.
Kick-off meeting M-CHEP

22.03.2024
A first meeting of the involved researchers took place at the Olympiapark-Campus of the TUM to discuss the first steps of creating the Munich Center for Health Economics & Policy.