15. dggö Annual Conference 2023,
Hannover

Keynote Speakers

Marcella Alsan, Harvard University

Plenarvortrag I, more Information

Marcella Alsan has been a professor of public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, Boston, since 2019 and is affiliated with the Department of Economics of Harvard University. Further, she is co-editor of the Journal of Health Economics and member of the editorial board of the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. She focuses on health inequality, e.g., in Alsan et al. (2019) and most recently in Alsan et al. (2021). At the annual meeting in Hannover, she will highlight some of the heterogeneities in the health sector in the first plenary lecture and highlight possible policy interventions to improve equity.

Luigi Siciliani, University of York

Plenarvortrag II, more Information

Luigi Siciliani has been Professor of Health Economics at the University of York since 2011. He is Co-Editor of the Journal of Health Economics and has been a member of the European Expert Panel on Effective Ways of Investments in Health since 2017. Prior to joining the University of York, he worked for the OECD in Paris. In the second plenary lecture he addresses the theory and evidence of the impact of policies intended to contribute to hospital quality improvement, e.g. in Gaughan et al. (2019). He further examines potential effects on inequality as recently in Palm et al. (2021).