About the conference

This year's Essen Health Conference took place for the fifteenth time from May 22 to 24. Organizers Martin Karlsson (University of Duisburg-Essen) and Therese Nilsson (University of Lund) hosted the conference at the traditional venue Essener Hof, offering over 40 scientists the opportunity to discuss the latest research in health economics.

A highlight of the conference were the presentations by keynote speakers Casper Worm Hansen (University of Copenhagen), Carol Propper (University of Bristol, Imperial College London), Anupam Jena (Harvard Medical School) and Johanna Rickne (Stockholm University). Their contributions to current research topics such as “The Historical Mortality Transition” were appreciated by the scientific audience and discussed afterwards. 

This year's conference was once again organized with the help of the health economics research center CINCH, which is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. This year's conference was financially supported by the Kulturstiftung Essen, for which we would like to take this opportunity to express our sincere thanks. We would also like to thank mcEmpirics, which once again supported the conference financially this year. We would also like to express our special thanks to the Förderverein Universität Duisburg-Essen e.V., whose generous financial support made this year's conference possible.