Prof. Dr. med. Dr. rer. pol.
Konrad Obermann
Co-Founder German Institut Wilhelm v. Humboldt UAC-Mansôa
Prof. Konrad Obermann MD, PhD is the Co-Founder of the Wilhelm von Humboldt University Institute.
Medical doctor and economist with more than 25 years’ experience in clinical work, research, and strategic planning and consulting. Focus of work on international health economics, health system development and health care financing / social health insurance, and rationing health care, as well as empirical quantitative and qualitative health systems research. Broad national and international research and consulting experience, in-depth theoretical and practical knowledge on health systems and hospital care, health care financing, social protection, and policy applications. More than 15 years’ experience in international cooperation in non-European countries with more than 60 completed assignments. Wide-ranging international training and teaching experience as well as in-depth knowledge of university structures, accreditation processes, and the development of innovative / internet-based curricula in national and international settings with special emphasis on teaching health economics and health care financing in different settings and for different audiences. High degree of inter-cultural sensibility and strong communication and moderation skills. Project experience in Europe, Northern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Central, South and Southeast Asia.
Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
1985–1992
Medical School, Universities of Bonn and Göttingen
1990–1991
“Biomedical Sciences Exchange Program” in the United States, sponsored by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
1992
“Dr. med.” (MD thesis), “Medicine in Göttingen 1933–45”, University of Göttingen
1987–1997
Economics studies, Universities of Göttingen and Hannover
1999
“Dr. rer. pol.” (PhD thesis), “Public Participation in the Rationing of Health Care”, University of Hannover
Fellowships
DAAD (1990-1), DFG (Post-Doc 1995-7), DFG (Lecture 2005), DFG (Lecture 2014)
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCES AND QUALIFICATION
1984–1985
Military service
Additional training
Costing methodology, computer programmes, presentation techniques, meeting management and moderation, conflict management, inter-cultural communication
Membership in scientific societies
Verein für Socialpolitik, German Society for Health Economics (dggö), International Health Economics Association (iHEA)
WORK EXPERIENCE
1992–1993
Bremen
Junior House Officer Psychiatric Clinic > Clinical training
1993–1995
Hannover
Junior/Senior House Officer Transplant-Surgery > Clinical training and research
1995–1997
Hannover
Post-doctorate grant German Research Council (DFG) > Economic evaluation of abdominal transplants
1995
York, England
Visiting scholar at the Centre for Health Economics
1997–1999
Hamburg
Consultant with The Boston Consulting Group > Energy (marketing-strategy), Biotechnology (gentech-strategy) Medical technology (medical imaging). Human resources (BCG tool))
2000–2001
Berlin
Head of the Health Economics department, IGES (Institute for Research in Health and Social Sciences) > Disease Management, Case Management, Determinants of drug consumption, Health Technology Assessment
2002–2004
Tacloban, Philippines
Long-term expert for German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) > Supporting the Philippine Health Sector Reform: Health Policy, Social Health Insurance, Monitoring and Evaluation
2005–2008
Göttingen
Professor for Economics and Ethics in Health Care Private University of Applied Sciences of the German Red Cross > Accreditation of the University and various Bachelor and Master studies. President of the University 2007/8
since 2008
Mannheim
Senior Lecturer at the MIPH Mannheim Institute of Public Health, (Heidelberg University) > Teaching medical and international master students, supervising PhD students, research; accreditation and development of the “Master of Health Economics”
Islamabad
Visiting scholar at the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE)
London
Overseas Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine
since 2004
Free-lance consultant in international health economics, health care financing and social protection
2021
Mansoa, Guinea Bissau
Co-Founder of the Wilhelm von Humbold University Institute, Guinea Bissau
Research
RESEARCH INTERESTS
International health systems and health financing
Innovative health care projects
Rationing in medicine
Teaching, training and curriculum development
METHODOLOGICAL EXPERTISE
Strategy
Concept development
Financing models for health systems
Health system development
Questionnaire design
RESEARCH PROJECTS
International health financing and social health insurance
Projects in Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, Nepal, China, Myanmar, Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Libya, Egypt, Tanzania and Sierra Leone
Rationing in the health sector
Since 2007, studies on "Doctors in the future market of health" (in cooperation with Stiftung Gesundheit, Hamburg)
Publications
Books
Glazinski, B., Obermann, K. (2016). Komplexität und Kontrolle: Wirklichkeit und individuelle Haltung im digitalen Zeitalter, Köln: Verlag für Angewandte Managementforschung.
Obermann, K., Müller, H., Müller, H.-H., Glazinski, B. (Hrsg.). The German Health Care System: Accessing in the German Health Care Market, Heidelberg: medhochzwei Verlag, 2016.
Obermann, K, Chanturidze T, Richardson E, Tanirbergenov S, Shoranov M, Nurgozhaev A: Data for development in health: a case study and monitoring framework from Kazakhstan. BMJ Global Health, Onlineveröffentlichung 18.04.2016
Obermann, K, Müller HH, Müller P, Schmidt B, Glazinski B: Understanding the German Health Care System. Hamburg: Ratgeber Verlag 2012.
Bodart, C and Obermann K (eds.): Making your local health system work. A resource book on the local health system development. Applied research for the health sector reform GTZ German Technical Cooperation, Manila, Philippines 2005.
Bodart C and Obermann K (eds.): Let us make our local health system work. A primer for the general public on local health system development. Applied research for the health sector reform. GTZ German Technical Cooperation, Manila, Philippines 2005.
Obermann K: Ärzte, Universitäts- und Alltagsmedizin in Göttingen 1933–1945, Göttingen 1992.
Articels
Obermann K, Scheppe J, Glazinski B. More than figures? Qualitative research in health economics. Health Econ 22: 253-257 (2013).
Obermann K, Müller P: Zur Messung des Zugangs zu Gesundheitsleistungen: Konzepte und Operationalisierung am Beispiel der ambulanten Versorgung. In: Behrens-Potratz A, Lüke KH, Ahlers F, Matthes R (eds): Demographischer Wandel. Vielfältige Herausforderungen für Unternehmen und Gesellschaft; p. 155-170. Göttingen: Cuvillier 2013.
Obermann K, Fischer J: Gesundheit als Menschenrecht und als Grundlage ökonomischer Entwicklung. In: FW Schwartz et al (eds): Public Health. Gesundheit und Gesundheitswesen. 3.A. München: Urban und Fischer 2012.
Marx M, Panea R, Stahl HC, Obermann K: Gesundheitsökonomie, öffentliche Gesundheitspflege und Gesundheitssystem. In: AllEx. Das Kompendium für die 2. Ärztliche Prüfung. Stuttgart, Thieme 2012.
Obermann K: Free health care in Sierra Leone - a mite too optimistic? Lancet 378 (2011): 400-1.
Obermann K, Jowett MR, Taleon JD, Mercado MC: Lessons for health care reform from the less developed world: the case of the Philippines. Eur J Health Econ 9 (2008): 343-9.
Obermann K, Müller P: Qualitätsmanagement in der ärztlichen Praxis 2008. Eine deutschlandweite Befragung niedergelassener Ärztinnen und Ärzte. Qualitätsmanagement in Klinik und Praxis 16 (2008): 59-71.
Obermann K: Öffentliche Beteiligung bei Rationierungsentscheidungen in der Medizin. In: Sesselmeier W und F Schulz-Nieswandt (Hrsg.): Normative Grundlagen des Sozialstaates - Sozialpolitische Grundlagendiskurse; p. 121-34. Berlin: Duncker und Humblot 2008.
Obermann K: Global health and foreign policy. Lancet 369 (2007): 1688.
Obermann K, Jowett MR, Alcantara MOO, Banzon EP, Bodart C: Developing social health insurance in low and middle-income countries: the case of the Philippines. Soc Sci Med 62 (2006): 3177-85.