Project Title: Analysing Trust in Different Types of Health Care Systems

Mentor: Robert Blendon, Sc.D.

Placement: Harvard School of Public Health

Harkness Fellowship Biography: Claus Wendt, M.A., Ph.D., a 2008–09 Commonwealth Fund Harkness/Bosch Foundation Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice, is research fellow and project director at the Mannheimer Zentrum für Eruopäische Sozialforschung (Center for European Social Research) at the University of Mannheim. Previous positions include senior research fellow at the Collaborative Research Center 597, University of Bremen, and lecturer and research fellow at the Institute of Sociology, University of Heidelberg. Wendt's research interests include institutional theory, political sociology, international comparisons of welfare states and health care systems, and the sociology of health. He has written 18 journal articles, with publications in Das Gesundheitswesen, European Review, Social Policy & Administration, International Journal of Health Services, Health, Economics, Policy & Law, and Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis. Wendt holds a Ph.D. summa cum laude in sociology and a master's degree in political science, sociology, and economics from Heidelberg University, where his Ph.D. thesis won the Ruprecht-Karls Prize.

Career Activity Since Fellowship

• Professor of Sociology of Health and Health Systems, University of Siegen, 2009

Current Position : Professor of Sociology of Health and Health Systems, University of Siegen. (Updated August 2010)

E-mail: Claus.Wendt@mzes.uni-mannheim.de

Harkness-Related Publications

Gauld R, Blank R, Burgers J, Cohen AB, Dobrow M, Ikegami N, Kwon S, Luxford K, Millett C, Wendt C., “The World Health Report 2008: Primary Healthcare: How wide is the gap between its agenda and implementation in 12 High-Income Health Systems?” Healthcare Policy. 7(3). 2012.

Wendt C, Kohl J, Mischke M, Pfeifer M. “How Do Europeans Perceive Their Healthcare System? Patterns of Satisfaction and Preference for State Involvement in the Field of Healthcare.” European Sociological Review. Advance Access published on March 13, 2009. doi:10.1093/esr/jcp014

Minhas, R.; Wendt, C.; and Wierzibicki, A. (2008): Is healthcare in the United States too big to fail? International Journal of Clinical Practice, 62, 12, 1827-1830

Minhas, R. and Wendt, C. (2009): Letter from America: The Political Economics of US Healthcare Reform. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 102(4): 129—133; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.09k022