Alexander Haarmann is currently a postdoc researcher within the project “Relaunch initiative!” (Initiative Neustart!). The aim of the project is an ideal-typical redesign of Germany’s (health) care system, without taking path dependencies and opposing actors into account in a first step.
Prior to joining the Hertie School, Alexander Haarmann has worked in several projects comparing healthcare provision, healthcare systems, policy reforms, and health promotion measures between different countries and/or regions (amongst others: CSA TO-REACH, NIVEL, Utrecht; Patients’ subjective concepts about healthcare utilisation, University of Magdeburg; Social insurances’ self-governance, University of Bremen) and was leader of the work package “Health promotion & disease prevention” in the JA-CHRODIS (Federal Centre for Health Education - BZgA - Cologne).
Alexander studied sociology and psychology at the University of Bielefeld and the University of Gothenburg. He obtained his doctoral degree from the University of Bremen, where he compared public and patient involvement in England, Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden. By working for the Dutch participation monitor and its underlying panels (NIVEL, Utrecht) as well as within the National Action Plan on Health Literacy (Hertie School and University of Bielefeld) he has continued this line of research and the focus on patients and the public at the heart of (health) care.
His field of expertise is in particular health systems research, internationally comparative approaches, and the broader realm of social policies. Within these broader fields, he is particularly interested in patient and public involvement, health literacy, health promotion and disease prevention, and health equity. Methodologically, Alexander is trained in a variety of both quantitative and qualitative methods and has applied them in several projects.
