Teaching in the field of public health needs to employ a global perspective to account for the fact that public health problems and solutions have global determinants and implications as well. International university partnerships can promote such a perspective through the strengthening of cooperation, exchange, and communication between academic institutions across national boundaries. As an example for such an academic network in the field of public health, we introduce the International Public Health Partnership—a collaboration between a university in Germany and universities in India, Turkey, and Nigeria. Formed in 2005, it facilitated the exchange of information, fostered discussion about the transferability of public health concepts, contributed to the structural development of the universities involved, and promoted an intercultural dialog through a combination of local and distance learning activities. Although well accepted by students and staff, different obstacles were encountered; these included limited external funding, scarce own financial, time and personnel resources, and diverging regulations and structures of degree programs at the partnership sites. In the present article, we share several lessons that we learned during our joint collaboration and provide recommendations for other universities that are involved in partnerships with institutions of higher education or are interested to initiate such collaborations.

Zugl. Kurzfassung von: Diss. Univ. Basel, 2007. / Zusfassung und Übers. der Diss.: Parallel imports of pharmaceuticals. Originaltitel: Parallel trade of pharmaceuticals, Titel Originaldiss. Literaturverz.

Innovation in healthcare is a central way of coping with the changes affecting the healthcare system through the megatrends of demographic change, digitalization as well as the opportunities in the life-sciences sector and the “-omics” subjects. Due to the multiple facets of the topic, research on innovation in healthcare is diverse and draws insights from systems theory, management theory, human resources, innovation and change management. While the literature on innovation in healthcare has grown steadily in the last 20 years and publications on pharmaceutical and medical device innovation, health technology assessment strategies, or digital innovations have increased significantly, other areas such as sectoral health innovation systems, the creation and implementation of innovation in hospitals still remain fairly uncharted. Applying established concepts such as systems of innovation theory, mass customization theory or management of employee involvement in innovation activities to the healthcare sector provides new insights into a field that is often considered a “blackbox”. This thesis adds to the topic in three essays, each focusing on a different aspect and depth level ranging from a macro perspective on healthcare innovation on a global scale to a meso level perspective on the implementation of personalized medicine in one country and putting a micro lens on innovation activities of hospital staff. The aim of this thesis is to provide an overview for researchers, policy makers and healthcare stakeholders about current developments, propose tools for measuring innovation and allow for benchmarking the current status quo in healthcare in order to foster new and innovative developments.

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Univ., Diss.--Basel, 2006. / Auch als dt. Kurzfassung u.d.T.: Parallelimporte von Arzneimitteln.

Zugl.: Berlin, Humboldt-Universiẗat, Diss., 2008.

Zugl.: Bonn, Univ., Diss., 2009

Im Gesundheitswesen müssen ganz unterschiedlich strukturierte Einrichtungen bei der Behandlung von Patienten zusammenarbeiten. Die Arbeit stellt Lösungen vor, die eine solche Zusammenarbeit mit Hilfe verteilter Anwendungen auf Basis von Webservices und Peer-to-Peer Technologie unterstützen. Dabei werden vorhandene Strukturen und Beziehungen zwischen diesen Einrichtungen benutzt, um gute Ergebnisse bei der Suche nach Daten und der Steuerung von Abläufen zu erzielen.

Zugl.: München, University, Diss., 2007.

Univ., Diss.--Copenhagen, 2005.