The Petris Center is hosting visiting scholar Dr. Heinz J. Janßen for several weeks this fall. Dr. Janßen is a professor of public health at Bremen University of Applied Sciences in Germany, focusing on Health Economics and Healthcare Management, where he has taught since 2004. He has severed as the University’s Dean of the Faculty of Social Science since 2012 and currently serves as the head of the University’s Institute of Health and Nursing Economics, with previous positions as the director of the University’s International Degree Course in Health and Nursing Management and as the project leader and EU coordinator for the International Master Degree in Health Care and Social Management. His research interests include health economics evaluations, health services research, evaluations in orthopedics, cardiology, internal medicine, geriatrics, and rehabilitation; and is currently working on researching a project entitled “Evaluation of Mobile Geriatric Rehabilitation,” funded by the German Ministry of Health through 2018.
For Dr. Janßen’s CV, click here.