Dr Ewout van Ginneken is Coordinator of the Berlin office of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies at the Berlin University of Technology. He holds a master’s degree in health policy and administration from Maastricht University in the Netherlands, and a PhD in public health from the Berlin University of Technology. His expertise is in comparative international health systems research and health policy research. His main interests include health financing, insurance competition, care purchasing, integrated care, cross-border care, and migrants’ access to care. He has edited several Health Systems in Transition (HiT) reviews including on the health-care systems of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Slovakia, Slovenia and the United States of America. He has published widely on these topics in international peer-reviewed literature and the wider literature. Before joining the Observatory, Ewout was a senior researcher at the Berlin University of Technology and a 2011–2012 Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice at the Harvard School of Public Health.

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