Harkness Project Title: The Potential Impact of Comparative Effectiveness Research on Health Care in the Context of Health Reform

Placement: University of California-San Francisco

Mentors: Lisa Bero, Ph.D., Professor, University of California, San Francisco
Carolyn Clancy, M.D., Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Biography at time of Harkness Fellowship: Ansgar Gerhardus, Dr. med., a 2010-11 Harkness/Robert Bosch Stiftung Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice, is research associate and head of the working group in evidence-based public health at the University of Bielefeld. Previously, Gerhardus was founding scientific executive director of the Centre for Health Technology Assessment Bremen at the University of Bremen, and team leader of the working group on evidence-based medicine, health technology assessment, and disease management, at Hannover Medical School. He is author of 15 peer-reviewed publications and recipient of first prize of the Medvantis Research Award for a Book—HTA category, 2002, for his work, Methoden zur Erfassung ethischer Aspekte und gesellschaftlicher Wertvorstellungen in Kurz-HTA-Berichten - eine internationale Bestandsaufnahme [Methods to assess ethical aspects and societal values in rapid health technology assessments]. Gerhardus holds an M.D. and M.A. from the University of Heidelber, as well as an M.P.H. from Hannover Medical School.

Career Activity Since Fellowship

• Professor and Head, Health Services Research, Institute for Public Health and Nursing Research, University of Bremen, 2011

Current Position: Professor and Chair, Health Service Research, Institute for Public Health and Nursing Research, University of Bremen (Updated July 2011)

Email: ansgar.gerhardus@uni-bremen.de