Program details
The preliminary programme will be published in July. Detailed full programme via ConfTool.
There will be two types of presentations: full paper presentations and short presentations.
Full paper presentations:
- 25 minutes presentation by the author
- 15 minutes discussion by another student’s supervisor
- 10 minutes for questions and general discussion
Short presentations:
- 15 minutes presentation by the author
- 5 minutes general discussion
Please find also some guidelines for presenters, session chairs, and discussants here.
Venue: OHM Professional School
Keynote speaker
This years Keynote speaker will be Prof. Dr. Ariel Dora Stern, Alexander von Humboldt Professor for Digital Health, Economics and Policy at the Hasso Plattner Institute and a Full Professor at the University of Potsdam
Prof. Dr. Ariel Dora Stern is the Alexander von Humboldt Professor for Digital Health, Economics and Policy at the Hasso Plattner Institute and a Full Professor at the University of Potsdam. Prior to joining the HPI, she spent ten years as faculty at Harvard Business School. Her research focuses on technology management and innovation in health care, using methods from econometrics and data science to curate and analyze novel datasets. Her projects consider the regulation, strategy, and economics of health care, with a focus on emerging health care technologies and delivery modalities. She has published widely in top journals in medicine, economics, and health care policy and her research has been cited by Bloomberg, The New York Times, National Public Radio, STAT News, the Handlesblatt and the Tagesspiegel. Ariel received her Ph.D. from Harvard University, where she was a National Bureau of Economic Research Predoctoral Fellow in the Economics of Health and Aging. She holds an undergraduate degree in economics from Dartmouth College, where she was a Presidential Scholar and national collegiate figure skating champion. From 2020-2021 Ariel served as the Director for International Health Care Economics at the Health Innovation Hub, an independent think tank of the German Federal Ministry of Health focused on digital transformation projects. She is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Society for Digital Medicine and the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, and advises numerous health care startups.
Pre-cronference programme
Wednesday 2.9.2026
10:30 - 11:45
City walk: A short, guided tour through the city of Nuremberg
Meet in front of Handwerkerhof here.
Pre-Conference supported by the German Health Economic Association
12:00 – 13:00
Light Lunch
13:00 - 14:20
Economists’ journey to planet medicine: Prequel to the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
Stefan Listl is Professor of Translational Health Economics and Director of the Oral Health Section at Heidelberg Institute of Global Health. Trained as an economist and a clinician, his research focuses on health economics and improvement science with particular emphasis on identifying and implementing better governance, financial, and healthcare delivery arrangements. He will highlight differences and complementarities between medical and economic research and give some practical tips on how economists can not only survive but strive on planet medicine.
14:30 – 16:00
The Economics of Paid Sick Leave
Nicolas Ziebarth is head the Research Unit “Labour Markets and Social Insurance” at the ZEW – Centre for European Economic Research and professor of economics at the University of Mannheim. He studies the interaction of (social) insurance systems with labour markets and population health. He will give an overview on the economics of paid sick leave from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. He will clarify paid leave concepts, review the literature, institutional differences across OECD countries, and arguments for and against government intervention. The empirical applications will focus on German reforms that varied benefit generosity as well as consequences of mandating paid sick leave at the state level in the United States.
16:00 – 16:30
Coffee break
16:30 – 17:45
Panel Discussion – Health Economists Careers beyond Academia
Start of the EuHEA PhD & Supervisor Conference 2026
18:00 – 18:30
Welcome Note
18:30
Welcome Reception with Food and Drinks