Date/Time
Date(s) - 22/07/2025
10:00 - 11:30
Categories
Date: 22 July 2025
Time: 10.00 – 11.30 BST (11.00 – 12.30 CEST)
EEF Event: Boosting workforce productivity in the European Health Sector – session#2
The European Evaluation Society (EES) is excited to announce the Evidence and Evaluation Forum, a new initiative designed to strengthen the use of evidence and evaluation in European public policy making. For further details about this new initiative and to book your place, click here.
Speakers:
- Federico Pratellesi is a Policy Analyst in the OECD Health Division
- Reinhard Busse is Co-Director and Head of the Berlin hub of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
- Discussant is Professor Ellen Nolte, Professor of HS and Systems Research
Speaker Bios:
Federico Pratellesi
Federico Pratellesi is a Policy Analyst in the OECD Health Division, where he focuses on health workforce policy and Health System Performance Assessment (HSPA) projects across Europe in collaboration with the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies. Prior to joining the OECD, Federico worked for six years at the European Commission, where he served as a Policy Officer in the Directorate for Health and Food Safety’s ‘Performance of national health systems’ unit. In this role, he conducted country desk analysis for multiple EU countries, negotiated health-sector investments within EU Recovery and Resilience Plans and served as secretary to the EU Expert Group on HSPA. Federico holds an MSc in Public Policy and Management from the London School of Economics.
Professor Reinhard Busse, Dr. med. MPH
Professor Reinhard Busse, Dr. med. MPH, is department head for health care management in the Faculty of Economics and Management at Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. He is also Co-Director and Head of the Berlin hub of the European
Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, a partnership to bridge the gap between research and evidence-informed policy-making.
His research focuses on methods and contents of comparative health system analysis and performance assessment (in Germany and Europe, but also low- and middle-income countries), health services research (with emphasis on hospitals, human resources, financing and payment mechanisms, quality as well as disease management), health economics and health technology assessment (HTA).
From 2011 to 2022, he was editor-in-chief of the international peer reviewed journal Health Policy. Since 2012, he has been director of the Berlin Centre of Health Economics Research, one of four centres in Germany funded by the Federal Ministry of
Research. He has been speaker of the board of the inter-university Berlin School of Public Health since its beginning in 2015. In 2016/17, he was President of the German Health Economics Association. Since 2017, he has supported the School of Public Health at Kwame Nkrumah’s University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi, Ghana, in setting up a new master’s program in Health Systems’ Research and Management – and since 2021 in running the German-West African Centre for Global Health and Pandemic Prevention. In 2022, he chaired the European Public Health Conference. He was and is a member of several expert committees, e.g. for the German Federal Ministry of Health on Modern and Needs-based Hospital Care (2022-2025) and for the German Chancellor’s Office on Health and Resilience (2024-2025).
Professor Ellen Nolte, Professor of HS and Systems Research
Professor Ellen Nolte’s background is in public health, with a Masters degree (MPH) from the University of Bielefeld, Germany, and a PhD at the LSHTM. She previously led the two London offices of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies at the LSHTM and the LSE, and before that, she led the Health and Healthcare Policy Programme at RAND Europe, Cambridge, where she also co-directed the Cambridge Centre for Health Services Research.
She is co-editor of the Journal of Health Services Research and Policy, and she currently teach on Issues in Public Health and Health Systems.
Her main interest and expertise is in health services and systems research, international health care comparisons and performance assessment. Over the past decade she led a programme of work around international health care comparisons and developed an internationally recognised research portfolio around innovative service models that seek to better meet the needs of people with complex and long-term health problems, with a particular focus on care coordination and integration within and across sectors.
She is Director of the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Policy Innovation and Evaluation, a collaboration between the LSHTM, the Care Policy Evaluation Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and University of Glasgow, where they develop rigorous research evidence to support innovation in health and social care policy across England.
Recent and ongoing projects include collaborative implementation research to inform and support scale up of the Primary Health Integrated Care Project for Chronic Conditions (PIC4C) in Kenya and NIHR Global Health Research Group on Improving Hypertension Control in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa (IHCoR Africa) with colleagues at KEMRI-Wellcome Trust and MRC Gambia.
They recently completed research to better understand the role of health system factors and international variation in cancer survival as part of the International Cancer Benchmarking Partnership. She also led work synthesising evidence to support the development of person-centred health systems, examining perspectives on ‘person-centredness’ from the different roles people take in health systems, as individual service users, care managers, taxpayers or active citizens.
To book your place at this workshop, click here.