We are a multidisciplinary and state-wide center for health economics and policy

About us

The Munich Center for Health Economics and Policy (M-CHEP) consists of twelve chairs situated at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), the Ludwg-Maximilians-University of Munich (LMU), Augsburg University and the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg.

First ideas of building a center were discussed among four researchers from the Technical University Munich in 2023, but it soon became clear that it makes sense to expand the center to further departments and universities. The center is still in a very early stage, but we plan to develop it to a relevant platform for health economics and policy in southern Germany. The center was founded in 2024.

From left to right: Sebastian Himmler, Helmut Farbmacher, Leonie Sundmacher, Janina Steinert, Harald Tauchmann, Robert Nuscheler, Antonius Schneider, Michael Laxy, Alexander Hapfelmeier, Nikkil Sudharsanan (top), Joachim Winter (bottom). Not in the picture: Andreas Landmann and Simon Reif.

Where we come from

Mission

We see it as our mission to conduct research to improve health care systems and population health on a national and international level. As a center, we combine expertise from Health Economics, Health Services Research, Public Health, Global Health, and Prevention. In our work, it is important to us to have both academic and policy impact, fruitful collaborations with policy makers, methodological rigor, interdisciplinary research, and a culture of mutual learning.

Activities

We organise internal PhD/Postdoc seminars, research seminars open to external researchers, and plan to contribute to policy discussions by writing policy briefs and organising policy symposia. For information on our research interests and publications, visit the repective pages.

Governance

The center is lead by Leonie Sundmacher as Scientifc Director and Sebastian Himmler as Managing Director in conjunction with the involved researchers.

Scientific Director

Managing director