Biography
Werner Brouwer (1972) is a Professor of Health Economics within the Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management (ESHPM) of the Erasmus University Rotterdam.
He obtained an MSc in Economics (1996) and a PhD in Health Economics (1999) at the same university. Werner is also affiliated with the institute for Medical Technology Assessment and the Erasmus School of Economics. Moreover, he is an Honorary University Professor at the Corvinus University in Budapest, Hungary.
His research focuses on the methodology of welfare economic evaluations in health care. His work has covered topics like optimal decision rules, normative foundations of economic evaluations in health, measurement and valuation of informal care and productivity costs, incorporating equity considerations in economic evaluations as well as the monetary value of health gains. In addition, he has performed work on the link between economic evaluation and health policy, behavioral economics and public health economics. He published extensively on these topics including in journals like Health Economics, Journal of Health Economics, Medical Decision Making, Social Science & Medicine and British Medical Journal.
Werner has been involved in several courses taught in the bachelor phase as well as in the international Master of Health Economics, Policy and Law (HEPL) of the Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management. So far, he has supervised 12 completed PhD theses. From 2012-2018 he was Dean of ESHPM.
Werner is an Associate Editor of Health Economics and a member of the Editorial Boards of the European Journal of Health Economics, PharmacoEconomics and Cost-Effectiveness and Resource Allocation. He is a member of the European Commission Expert Panel on Effective Ways of Investing in Health and the independent chairman of the Foundation for Top Clinical Mental Health Care (TOPGGz) and chairs the Erasmus Initiative Smarter Choices for Better Health of the Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management
- brouwer@eshpm.eur.nl
- Location
- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
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Work
- Werner Brouwer, Kaya Verbooy, Renske Hoefman & Job van Exel (2023) - Production Losses due to Absenteeism and Presenteeism: The Influence of Compensation Mechanisms and Multiplier Effects - PharmacoEconomics - doi: 10.1007/s40273-023-01253-y - [link]
- , Valérie van Hezik-Wester, Saskia de Groot, Tim Kanters, Matthijs Versteegh, Louis Wagner, Jacqueline Ardesch, Werner Brouwer & Job van Exel (2022) - Burden of illness in people with medically refractory epilepsy who suffer from daily to weekly seizures: 12-month follow-up of participants in the EPISODE study - Frontiers in Neurology, 13 - doi: 10.3389/fneur.2022.1012486 - [link]
- Meg Perry-Duxbury, Sebastian Himmler, Job van Exel & Werner Brouwer (2022) - Willingness to pay for health gains from an international integrated early warning system for infectious disease outbreaks - European Journal of Health Economics - doi: 10.1007/s10198-022-01527-w - [link]
- Sandor Kovács, Zoltán Kaló, Rita Daubner-Bendes, Katarzyna Kolasa, Rok Hren, Tomas Tesar, Vivian Reckers-Droog, Werner Brouwer, Carlo Federici, Mike Drummond & Antal Tamás Zemplényi (2022) - Implementation of coverage with evidence development schemes for medical devices: A decision tool for late technology adopter countries - Health Economics (United Kingdom), 31 (S1), 195-206 - doi: 10.1002/hec.4504 - [link]
- Arthur E. Attema, Werner B.F. Brouwer & Jose Luis Pinto (2022) - The Role of Perceived Utility of Full Health in Age Weighting - Value in Health, 25 (9), 1559-1565 - doi: 10.1016/j.jval.2022.04.1733 - [link]
- Sebastian Himmler, Marcel Jonker, Frédérique van Krugten, Mariska Hackert, Job van Exel & Werner Brouwer (2022) - Estimating an anchored utility tariff for the well-being of older people measure (WOOP) for the Netherlands - Social Science & Medicine, 301 - doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.114901 - [link]
- Sebastian Himmler, Job van Exel & WBF (Werner) Brouwer (2022) - Did the COVID-19 pandemic change the willingness to pay for an early warning system for infectious diseases in Europe? - European Journal of Health Economics, 23 (1), 81-94 - doi: 10.1007/s10198-021-01353-6 - [link]
- SPI (Samare) Huls, A (Ayesha) Sajjad, TA (Tim) Kanters, L (Leona) Hakkaart - van Roijen, WBF (Werner) Brouwer & NJA (Job) van Exel (2022) - Productivity of Working at Home and Time Allocation Between Paid Work, Unpaid Work and Leisure Activities During a Pandemic - PharmacoEconomics, 40 (1), 77-90 - doi: 10.1007/s40273-021-01078-7 - [link]
- Hareth Al-Janabi, Eve Wittenberg, Cam Donaldson & Werner Brouwer (2022) - The relative value of carer and patient quality of life: A person trade-off (PTO) study - Social Science and Medicine, 292 - doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114556 - [link]
- F C W van Krugten, K Feskens, J J V Busschbach, L Hakkaart-van Roijen & W B F Brouwer (2021) - Instruments to assess quality of life in people with mental health problems: a systematic review and dimension analysis of generic, domain- and disease-specific instruments - Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 19 (1) - doi: 10.1186/s12955-021-01883-w - [link]
European Journal Health Economics
- Start date approval
- November 2020
- End date approval
- November 2023
- Place
- NA
- Description
- Lid Editorial Board
Health Economics
- Start date approval
- November 2020
- End date approval
- November 2023
- Place
- YORK
- Description
- Associate Editor
Zorginstituut Nederland
- Start date approval
- November 2020
- End date approval
- November 2023
- Place
- DIEMEN
- Description
- Lid Wetenschappelijke AdviesRaad Zinl
BMC journal Cost-effectiveness Res Alloc
- Start date approval
- February 2021
- End date approval
- February 2024
- Place
- NA
- Description
- Member Editorial Board
European Journal Health Economics
- Start date approval
- February 2021
- End date approval
- February 2024
- Place
- NA
- Description
- Lid Editorial Board
Health Economics
- Start date approval
- February 2021
- End date approval
- February 2024
- Place
- YORK
- Description
- Associate Editor
PharmacoEconomics
- Start date approval
- February 2021
- End date approval
- February 2024
- Place
- NZ
- Description
- Lid Editorial Board
Stichting TOPGGz
- Start date approval
- February 2021
- End date approval
- February 2024
- Place
- AMERSFOORT
- Description
- Voorzitter
Zorginstituut Nederland
- Start date approval
- February 2021
- End date approval
- February 2024
- Place
- DIEMEN
- Description
- Lid Wetenschappelijke AdviesRaad Zinl
institute for Medical Technology Assessm
- Start date approval
- February 2021
- End date approval
- February 2024
- Place
- ROTTERDAM
- Description
- Member Supervisory Board
Stichting Erasmus Trustfonds
- Start date approval
- October 2021
- End date approval
- October 2024
- Place
- ROTTERDAM
- Description
- lid bestuur
Stichting Veens Welzijn
- Start date approval
- October 2021
- End date approval
- October 2024
- Place
- VEENENDAAL
- Description
- Voorzitter Raad van Toezicht
zonmw
- Start date approval
- October 2021
- End date approval
- October 2024
- Place
- DEN HAAG
- Description
- lid programmacommissie/beoordelingscommissie
Charity Office of Health Economics
- Start date approval
- January 2022
- End date approval
- December 2024
- Place
- LONDEN
- Description
- Member Board of Trustees OHE
Rationing Health Care
- Level
- Bachelor 3
- Year Level
- Bachelor 3
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- GW301
Health Economics
- Year Level
- bachelor 3, bachelor 3, bachelor 3, bachelor 3
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- FEB13053