Harkness Project Title: Implementing State-Based Health Insurance Exchanges: Identifying Key Issues and Developing Evidence-Based Proposals

Placement: Harvard School of Public Health

Mentor: Katherine Swartz, Harvard School of Public Health

Co-Mentor: Timothy Jost, Washington & Lee University

Biography at time of Harkness Fellowship: Ewout van Ginneken, Ph.D., a 2011-12 Dutch Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice, is senior researcher at the European Observatory/WHO Collaborating Centre for Health Systems Research and Management, Berlin University of Technology. Previously, he was a lecturer in finance and management at the Instituto Tecnologico y Estudios Superiores de Monterey, Mexico. Van Ginneken is co-author of 8 books, including the last two European Observatory Health Systems in Transition (HiT) books on the Dutch health care system and reforms. With a team of U.S. researchers, led by Thomas Rice, professor of health services at the University of California, Los Angeles, van Ginneken is currently working on the first European Observatory HiT review of the U.S. health care system. He has also written book chapters on the health insurance benefit basket, cost pressures on the health system, public expectations, and cross-border health, as well as peer-reviewed articles on private health insurance in the Netherlands and European pharmaceutical policy. Van Ginneken holds a doctorate in public health from Berlin University of Technology and a master’s in health sciences and health policy and administration from Maastricht University.

Current Position: Senior Researcher, Department of Health Care Management  at the European Observatory/WHO Collaborating Centre for Health Systems Research and Management, Berlin University of Technology and the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies

Email: ewout.vanginneken@tu-berlin.de

Harkness-Related Publications

van Ginneken E, Groenwegen PP, McKee M. “Personal healthcare budgets: what can England learn from the Netherlands?” BMJ. March 2012.