Professor Christian Gericke
M.D. ( Berlin ), M.P.H. (Cantab), M.Sc. ( London ), D.U. (Marseille), FACP, FAFPHM
Chair in Public Health Policy, The University of Adelaide

• Director, Centre for Health Services Research, The University of Adelaide
• Co-Director, Australian Institute of Health Policy Studies
• Honorary Fellow, European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
• Full faculty member, Berlin University of Technology, Faculty of Economics and Management

Location:
Room 914, Level 9, 10 Pulteney St

Email:
christian.gericke@adelaide.edu.au

Phone:
+61 8 8303 6877

Disciplinary orientation:
Health Policy, Management and Economics

Areas of Interest:

• Health policy and health systems research in countries at all levels of development
• Health care management
• Economic evaluation of health interventions in developing countries
• Health technology assessment (HTA)
• Health services research using routine data and cluster-randomised trials

Current projects:

• Study of health reforms, health financing and access to care issues in China, Brazil and Peru
• HIV/AIDS behaviour surveys in the Federated States of Micronesia
• Effective transfer of HTA information to health policy
• Effectiveness and cost of atypical versus typical antipsychotic drugs for schizophrenia in routine care: retrospective cohort study
• Effect of regular exercise on blood pressure in pre-school children: a 2-year cluster-randomised controlled trial
• Cost-effectiveness of immediate vs. delayed antiretroviral therapy in HIV patients with tuberculous meningitis in Vietnam
• Cost-effectiveness of control measures for neglected tropical parasitoses: a systematic review
• The economics of overweight and obesity prevention in South Australia
• Data linkage at the national level: vaccine safety surveillance in Australia

Office Bearer to Scientific Societies:

• Co-Chair of the Retrospective Database Policy Advocacy Working Group; Advisory Committee Member, ISPOR Asia Consortium; International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR)
• Member, South Australian Regional Committee, Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine, Royal Australasian College of Physicians

Editorial Board:

• Australian and New Zealand Health Policy

Teaching:

• Coordinator, Master of Public Health program
• Public Health Interventions
• International Health
• Public Health Ia
• Public Health Inquiry III 

Selected recent publications:

1. Gericke CA, Kurowski C, Ranson MK, Mills A. Intervention complexity – a conceptual framework to inform priority setting in health. Bull World Health Organ 2005; 83: 285-293.
2. Gericke CA. Comparison of health care financing in Egypt and Cuba: lessons for health reform in Egypt. East Mediterr Health J 2005; 11 (5/6): 1073-1086.
3. Schwefel D, Holst J, Gericke CA, Carrin G, Scheil-Adlung X, Sabri B. Towards a national health insurance system in Yemen. GTZ, WHO, the World Bank, ILO and the Ministry of Public Health and Population of the Republic of Yemen, Eschborn and Sana’a, 2005, pp. 449.
4. Kuszewski K, Gericke C. Health Systems in Transition – Poland. Copenhagen: WHO Regional Office for Europe on behalf of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, 2005;
5. Busse R, Schreyögg J, Gericke C, editors. Management im Gesundheitswesen. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2006, pp. 459.
6. Zurn P, Colombo F, Gericke C. Chapter 2: The Performance of the Swiss Health System: Effectiveness and Quality. OECD Reviews of Health Systems: Switzerland. Paris: Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development, 2006: 63-88.
7. Coronini-Cronberg S, Laohasiriwong W, Gericke CA. Healthcare utilisation under the 30-Baht Scheme among the urban poor in Mitrapap slum, Khon Kaen, Thailand: a cross-sectional study. Int J Equity Health 2007 Sep 21, 6:11.
8. van Ginneken E, Busse R, Gericke CA. Universal private health insurance in the Netherlands: the first year. Journal of Management & Marketing in Healthcare 2007, 1:  (accepted for publication, 22 May 2007)
9. Morrato E, Elias M, Gericke CA. Using population-based routine data for evidence-based health policy decisions:  Lessons from setting and evaluating national health policy in Australia, the UK, and the USA. J Public Health (Oxf) 2007; 29: 463-471.
10. Busse R, Schreyögg J, Gericke CA. Health Financing Challenges in High Income Countries. HNP Discussion Paper Series, World Bank, Washington, DC, 2007, pp. 40.