July 2026: Elisa Piseddu and Dr. Jan Priebe presented ongoing work (i) on the impact of China's and India's expansion in the market for antibiotics on child mortality in Africa and (ii) the impact of overconfidence among physicians on medical decision-making in Ghana at the bi-annual conference of the European Health Economics Association (EUHEA) in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Link. 

June 2026: Dr. Stefan Sliwa-Ruiz presented his ongoing work on the impact of improving access to healthcare on election outcomes in Brazil at the 21st World Congress of the International Economic Association in Belgrade, Serbia. Link. 

June 2026: Cédric Mbavu concluded his primary data collection related to a study on informal healthcare payments in hospitals in Kinshasa, DRC. Funding from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation is greatfully acknowledged. 

June 2026: Dr. Jan Priebe participated in the annual symposium of the German Alliance for Global Health Research (GLOHRA) in Berlin, Germany.  Please see the GLOHRA website for further information: Link.

June 2026: Dr. Jan Priebe presented recent work on the role of knowledge and skills of healthcare providers on medical decision making in Ghana at the annual NOVAFRICA conference in Lisbon, Portugal. Link. 

June 2026: Elisa Piseddu, Maximilian Guigas, and Dr. Jan Priebe presented ongoing research projects at the annual conference of the German Development Economics Association (VfS) in Kiel, Germany. Link.

May 2026: Elisa Piseddu participated in the international summer school on ‘Biocultural Diversity’ - organized by the University of Frankfurt - in Puerto Williams, Chile. Funding from the Werner Reimer's Foundation is greatfully acknowledged. 

May 2026: Dr. Jan Priebe presented ongoing work on the impact of stewardship campaigns on antibiotic dispensing at BNITM's Public Information Event - One Health and Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) - in Hamburg, Germany. For more information visit BNITM's event website. Link.

April 2026: Elisa Piseddu and Dr. Jan Priebe  represented the BNITM at the bi-annual Leibniz Research Alliance ‘Infections’ meeting in Potsdam, Germany. For more information visit the LFV infections website. Link.

March 2026: Dr. Stefan Sliwa-Ruiz presented ongoing work on ‘Who writes global health? Two centuries of authorship and institutional geography in ten leading medical journals (1820–2025)’ at FIOCRUZ in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

March 2026: Dr. Jan Priebe was elected as co-chair of the Committee on Development Cooperation of the German Health Economics Association (dggö). For more information please see the dggö website. Link. 

March 2026: Maximilian Guigas and Dr. Jan Priebe presented ongoing research projects with Ghanaian counterparts on (i) the impact of pharmacist trainings on antibiotic dispensing and (ii) the role of overconfidence for physician decision-makink at the annual meeting of the German Health Economics Association (dggö) in Wuppertal, Germany. Link.

March 2026: Lena Merkel successfully defended her PhD in economics at the University of Göttingen, Germany. The topic of the PhD concerned the market design of public health in interventions in the context of antimicrobial resistance in sub-Saharan Africa.  

February 2026: Cédric Mbavu participated in the ‘Conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo’ workshop in Berlin, Germany. The workshop was organized by Cédric in collaboration with the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) with generous support from the Konrad-Adenauer Foundation.

January 2026: Elisa Piseddu presented her ongoing work on Antibiotic trade and child health in sub-Saharan Africa at the RWI health economics seminar in Essen, Germany.

January 2026: Cédric Mbavu represented our research group at the TREATPREG consortium meeting (EDTP3 funded project) in Lambaréné, Gabon. The meeting was hosted by the Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné (CERMEL) and involved stakeholders from Benin, Gabon, Ghana, Spain, and Germany.   

November 2025: Dr. Stefan Sliwa-Ruiz presented his work ‘What happens to population health when the doctors leave? Evidence from the exist of Cuban doctors in Brazil’ at the research seminar of the Hamburg Center for Health Economics (HCHE) in Hamburg, Germany. Link.

October 2025: The Health Economics Research group was successful and received a grant in the most recent call of the German Alliance for Global Health Research (GLOHRA). The project consortium includes in addition the Ethnopharmacology research group of BNITM, the University of Applied Sciences Neubrandenburg (Germany), and Makerere University (Uganda). The project will investigate the quality of herbal medicine across spatial and socio-economic gradients in Uganda. More details will be posted on our project site over the next months. Link.

October 2025: Maximilian Guigas and Dr. Jan Priebe presented two ongoing research projects on curbing excessive antibiotic dispensing at community pharmacies in Ghana. Presentations took place as part of the annual meeting of the committee on Development Cooperation of the German Health Economics Association (dggö) hosted at TU Munich, Germany. Link.

September 2025: Cédric Mbavu and Dr. Jan Priebe presented ongoing research projects on (i) cost of illness of loiasis in Gabon and (ii) heuristic medical decision-making among pharmacists in Ghana at the European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health (ECTMIH) in Hamburg, Germany. Link.

September 2025: Dr. Stefan Sliwa-Ruiz presented his work about the healthcare impact of Cuban doctors exiting Brazil at the workshop on tat the Göttingen workshop on Ibero-American development at the University of Göttingen, Germany. Link. 

September 2025: Dr. Kerstin Perlik left BNITM to start her new position as post-doctoral Marie Curie research fellow at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. Dr. Perlik will remain affiliated with our research group. We wish her all the best for her new position.

August 2025: Cédric Mbavu conducted a research scoping visit to Kinshasa (DRC) to explore the situation of informal healthcare payments among formal healthcare providers. The visit was supported by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS).  

July 2025: Cédric Mbavu presented insights and best-practice methods on how to collect primary data in resource poor settings in low-and middle income countries at the University of Bamberg, Germany.  

July 2025: Dr. Stefan Sliwa-Ruiz presented his work about the healthcare impact of Cuban doctors exiting Brazil at the workshop on the economics of Latin America hosted by FU Berlin, Germany. Please see the conference website for further information. Link. 

July 2025: Dr. Jan Priebe presented work on the role of diagnostic uncertainty for antibiotic dispensing practices by community pharmacies in Ghana at the ‘New perspectives on provider behavior’ workshop hosted by the Hamburg Center for Health Economics (HCHE), Germany.  

July 2025: Maximilian Guigas presented the team's joint work on (i) antibiotic dispensing in Ghana and (ii) kidney organ donations in sub-Saharan Africa at the annual conference of the International Health Economic Association (IHEA) on Bali, Indonesia. Please see the conference website for further information: Link.

June 2025: Cédric Mbavu participated in the summer school ‘Development Economics in the Field’ at the Paris School of Economics. Please see the PSE website for further information: Link.

June 2025: Dr. Kerstin Perlik and Dr. Jan Priebe presented their work at the annual conference of the German Development Economics Association in Frankfurt a.M., Germany. Please see the conference website for further information: Link.

June 2025: Dr. Jan Priebe participated in the annual symposium of the German Alliance for Global Health Research (GLOHRA) in Berlin, Germany.  Please see the GLOHRA website for further information: Link.

March 2025: Maximilian Guigas presented his work on preferences for alternative kidney donation systems across sub-Saharan Africa at the annual meeting of the German Health Economic Association (dggö) in Paderborn, Germany.  Please see the conference website for further information: Link.

February 2025: Dr. Stefan Sliwa Ruiz started as post-doc in the Health Economics Research group. Please see his personal website for further information. Link.

January 2025: The Health Economics Research group was successful and received a grant in the most recent call of the European Commission's European Horizon program. The project consortium includes the University of Tübingen (Germany), the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGLOBAL), CERMEL (Gabon), FCRM (DRC), FORS (Benin), and KNUST (Ghana) and will explore enhanced antiparasitic treatment for better health in pregnant women and their their children in sub-Saharan Africa. More details will be posted on our project site over the next months. 

January 2025: Dr. Jan Priebe presented on recent methodological advances in the field of health-related audit studies in the social sciences at the annual Leibniz Center Infections (LCI) symposium. Please see the LCI website for further information. Link.

November 2024: Mr. Cédric Mbavu was awarded a four-year PhD fellowship by Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation (KAS). Please see the KAS website for further information: Link.

November 2024: Dr. Jan Priebe participated as senior discussant at the annual workshop of the committee on allocation & distribution of the German Health Economics Association (dggö) in Cologne, Germany: Please see the dggö website for further information: Link.

October 2024: Dr. Jan Priebe presented recent work on the role of endogenous online information acquisition on health behaviour in sub-Saharan Africa at the University of Wageningen, Netherlands: Please see the university's website for further information: