Prof. Dr. Andreas Gerber-Grote

Work at ZHAW

Position

Dean School of Health Sciences / Professor of Health Economics and Health Services Research

Focus

Health Economics, Health Services Research, Unconscious Bias

Teaching

Professor of Health Economics and Health Services Research

Experience

• Head of Department Health Economics
  Institute of Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG)
  08 / 2009 - 12 / 2015
• Research Fellow
  Institute of Health Economics and Epidemiology, University of Cologne
  05 / 2003 - 07 / 2009

Education and Continuing education

Education

• MSc / Health Economics
  Cologne University
  10 / 2003 - 07 / 2005
• Federal Licensing Exam Step 3 / Medicine
  University of Hamburg
  10 / 1992 - 02 / 1999
• Diploma / Protestant Theology
  University of Hamburg
  10 / 1983 - 07 / 1990

Network

ORCID digital identifier

ORCID ID: 0000-0003-2157-4065

Projects

• Education Initiative on Unconscious Bias in Health Care / Co-project leader / ongoing
• Medicines containing valerian for treating symptoms of insomnia, mental stress and test anxiety / Team member / completed
• Health Technology Assessment: Medicines for Dementia due to Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease / Team member / completed
• Health Technology Assessment: Infliximab reference product versus biosimilar for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis / Team member / completed

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

• Meidert, U., Höglinger, M., Wieber, F., & Gerber-Grote, A. (2025). Unconscious bias in students of health professions : an experimental vignette study. BMC Medical Education, 26(1), 65. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-025-08317-x
• Steiger, C., Meidert, U., & Gerber-Grote, A. (2025). How do nurses belonging to the LGBTIQ + community relate to patients? : a qualitative study from Switzerland. BMC Nursing, 24(586). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12912-025-03254-y
• Dugerdil, A., Babington-Ashaye, A., Bochud, M., Chan, M., Chiolero, A., Gerber-Grote, A., Künzli, N., Paradis, G., Puhan, M. A., Suggs, L. S., Van der Horst, K., Escher, G., & Flahault, A. (2024). A new model for ranking schools of Public Health : the Public Health Academic Ranking. International Journal of Public Health, 69(1606684). https://doi.org/10.3389/ijph.2024.1606684
• Meidert, U., Dönnges, G., Bucher, T., Wieber, F., & Gerber-Grote, A. (2023). Unconscious bias among health professionals : a scoping review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(16), 6569. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20166569
• Osterwalder, P., Huber, M., Feusi, E., Gerber-Grote, A., Witt, C. M., & Gysin, S. (2022). Evaluation of the Interprofessional Education Day 2019 / Evaluation des Interprofessional Education Day 2019. International Journal of Health Professions, 9(1), 116–126. https://doi.org/10.2478/ijhp-2022-0013
• Meier, O., Kleinberger, U., & Gerber-Grote, A. (2022). Interprofessional collaboration – a health science term from the perspective of linguistics / Interprofessionalität – ein gesundheitswissenschaftlicher Begriff aus dem Blickwinkel der Linguistik. International Journal of Health Professions, 9(1), 139–150. https://doi.org/10.2478/ijhp-2022-0009
• Gysin, S., Huber, M., Feusi, E., Gerber-Grote, A., & Witt, C. M. (2022). Interprofessional education day 2019 : a qualitative participant evaluation. GMS Journal for Medical Education, 39(5), Doc52. https://doi.org/10.3205/zma001573
• Ehrich, J., Burla, L., Sanz, A. C., Crushell, E., Cullu, F., Fruth, J., Gerber-Grote, A., Hoey, H., Illy, K., Janda, J., Jansen, D., Kerbl, R., Mestrovic, J., Mujkic, A., Namazova-Baranova, L., Nicholson, A., Pettoello-Mantovani, M., Pilossoff, V., Sargsyans, S., et al. (2018). As few pediatricians as possible and as many pediatricians as necessary? The Journal of Pediatrics, 202, 338–339. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpeds.2018.07.074
• Ehrich, J., Fruth, J., Jansen, D., Gerber-Grote, A., & Pettoello-Mantovani, M. (2018). How to calculate the risk of shortage and surplus of pediatric workforce? The Journal of Pediatrics, 199, 286–287. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpeds.2018.04.075
• Sandmann, F. G., Mostardt, S., Lhachimi, S. K., & Gerber-Grote, A. (2018). The efficiency-frontier approach for health economic evaluation versus cost-effectiveness thresholds and internal reference pricing : combining the best of both worlds? Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research, 18(5), 475–486. https://doi.org/10.1080/14737167.2018.1497976
• Ehrich, J., Gerber-Grote, A., Marg, W., Werner, A., & Levy, C. (2018). Internetbasierte Erfassung und Bearbeitung von Forschungsdaten zur Kindergesundheit : „Wikipädiatrie“ und Onlineforschung. Monatsschrift Kinderheilkunde, 166(6), 487–497. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00112-018-0453-y
• Seidl, A., Danner, M., Wagner, C. J., Sandmann, F. G., Sroczynski, G., Stürzlinger, H., Zsifkovits, J., Schwalm, A., Lhachimi, S. K., Siebert, U., & Gerber-Grote, A. (2018). Estimation of input costs for a Markov model in a German health economic evaluation of newer antidepressants. MDM Policy & Practice, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/2381468317751923
• Vermöhlen, V., Schiller, P., Schickendantz, S., Drache, M., Hussack, S., Gerber-Grote, A., & Pöhlau, D. (2017). Hippotherapy for patients with multiple sclerosis : a multicenter randomized controlled trial (MS-HIPPO). Multiple Sclerosis Journal, 24(10). https://doi.org/10.1177/1352458517721354
• Dintsios, C.-M., Icks, A., Gerber-Grote, A., & Chernyak, N. (2017). Effizienzbewertung im Rahmen des GKV-Versorgungsstärkungsgesetzes : was kann die Gesundheitsökonomie hierzu beitragen? Sozialer Fortschritt, 66(10), 651–673. https://doi.org/10.3790/sfo.66.10.651
• Gerber-Grote, A., Namazova-Baranova, L., Hoey, H., Pettoello-Mantovani, M., Vural, M., Mestrovic, J., Somekh, E., & Ehrich, J. (2017). European paediatric association, the union of national European paediatric societies and associations turns 40 years : what this European platform offers to pediatricians. The Journal of Pediatrics, 186, 217–218. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpeds.2017.03.060
• Ehrich, J., Molloy, E., Kerbl, R., Pettoello-Mantovani, M., Vural, M., & Gerber-Grote, A. (2017). Conceptual design of future children’s hospitals in Europe : the role of caregivers in transferring new concepts from theory into practice. The Journal of Pediatrics, 184, 244–245. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpeds.2016.12.017
• Ehrich, J., Molloy, E., Kerbl, R., Pettoello-Mantovani, M., & Gerber-Grote, A. (2017). Conceptual design of future children’s hospitals in Europe : the role of public and private stakeholders as transferors of new concepts from theory into practice. The Journal of Pediatrics, 183, 204–205. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpeds.2016.12.001
• Luhnen, M., Waffenschmidt, S., Schwalm, A., Gerber-Grote, A., & Hanke, G. (2017). Quality assessment of systematic reviews of health economic evaluations : pitfalls with the application of the PRISMA statement : comment on Quang et al. (Sys Rev Pharm. 2017;8(1):52-61). Systematic Reviews in Pharmacy, 9(1), 83–84.
• Corro Ramos, I., Lhachimi, S. K., Gerber-Grote, A., & Al, M. J. (2016). Cost recommendation under uncertainty in IQWiG’s efficiency frontier framework. Medical Decision Making, 37(2), 162–172. https://doi.org/10.1177/0272989X16636856

Book chapters, peer-reviewed

• Bucher, T., & Gerber-Grote, A. (2025). Promotion für Gesundheitsberufe in der Schweiz : die Wege ebnen sich. In R. Richter, N. El-Seoud, & C. Czernik (eds.), Physiotherapie weiterdenken: Festschrift für Prof. Dr. Heidi Höppner (pp. 119–127). Mabuse-Verlag.
• Gerber-Grote, A., & Ungar, W. (2025). Gesundheitsökonomie und Kinder- und Jugend-Public Health : ein Spiel über den Sandkasten hinaus. In J. Dratva, A. von Wyl, D. Lätsch, & M. Höglinger (eds.), Public Health im Kindes- und Jugendalter: Schlüsselkonzepte, Methoden und Umsetzungsstrategien (pp. 153–160). Hogrefe.
• Danner, M., & Gerber-Grote, A. (2017). Analytic hierarchy process. In K. M. Facey, H. Ploug Hansen, & A. N. V. Single (Eds.), Patient involvement in health technology assessment (pp. 135–147). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4068-9_11

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

Vetsch-Tzogiou, C., Mattli, R., Tomonaga, Y., Vinci, L., Sharakin, M., Kobler, I., Carlander, M., Wirth, B., Schliek, M., Egli, P., Gerber-Grote, A., Nordström, K., Puhan, M. A., & Wieser, S. (2024, June 15). Medicines for dementia due to Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. HTAi 2024 Annual Meeting, Seville, Spain, 15-19 June 2024.

Other publications

• Gerber-Grote, A., Bucher, T., & Höppner, H. (2023). Akademisierung der Gesundheitsfachberufe : Deutschland quo vadis? Die neue Hochschule, 2023(2), 14–17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7688634
• Mattli, R., Tomonaga, Y., Tzogiou, C., Vinci, L., Sharakin, M., Wirth, B., Carlander, M., Schliek, M., Egli, Ph., Gerber-Grote, A., Nordström, K., & Wieser, S. (2022). Health technology assessment (HTA) : medicines for dementia due to Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. Bundesamt für Gesundheit BAG. https://www.bag.admin.ch/dam/en/sd-web/59GbzBb6Io0A/h0048alzh-hta-report.pdf
• Mattli, R., Grobet, C., Sharakin, M., Pöhlmann, J., Vinci, L., Syleouni, M.-E., Carlander, M., Meier, F., Egli, P., Gerber-Grote, A., & Wieser, S. (2022). Health technology assessment (HTA) : Infliximab reference product versus biosimilar for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. Bundesamt für Gesundheit BAG. https://www.bag.admin.ch/dam/de/sd-web/V3YYJtd9QUUy/h0047infx-hta-report.pdf
• Höppner, H., Gerber-Grote, A., & Bucher, T. (2021). Pflege- und Therapieberufe an die Hochschulen! : Dokumentation der Online-Symposien «Sind duale Studiengänge der Hebammen ein Modell für die Therapieberufe?» und «Bachelor-Studiengänge in Österreich und der Schweiz: Modelle für die Therapie- und Pflegeberufe in Deutschland?» vom 18. März und 8. September 2021. International Journal of Health Professions, 8(1), 125–127. https://doi.org/10.2478/ijhp-2021-0014
• Huber, M., Spiegel-Steinmann, B., Schwärzler, P., Kerry-Krause, M. J., Kaap-Fröhlich, S., Panfil, E.-M., Witt, C., Feusi, E., Gerber-Grote, A., Melloh, M., Wieber, F., Schirlo, C., & Dratva, J. (2020). Kompetenzen zur interprofessionellen Zusammenarbeit und geeignete Unterrichtsformate. Bundesamt für Gesundheit.
• Pöhlmann, J., Mattli, R., Syleouni, M.-E., Carlander, M. J., Meier, F., Egli, P., Gerber-Grote, A., & Wieser, S. (2020). Infliximab reference product versus biosimilar for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis : scoping report. Bundesamt für Gesundheit. https://www.bag.admin.ch/dam/de/sd-web/3RooeUZY0X7B/h0047infx-scoping-report.pdf
• Gantschnig, B., Kaiser, M.-L., Bader, M., & Gerber-Grote, A. (2018). Betätigungsbasierte und -fokussierte Interventionen bei Kindern / Jugendlichen mit ADHS. Ergotherapie, 2018(4), 6–8.
• Gerber-Grote, A. (2017). Grundlagenforschung und Angewandte Forschung: Ist diese Trennung hilfreich? Bulletin der Vereinigung der Schweizerischen Hochschuldozierenden, 43(2), 20–24. https://doi.org/10.5169/seals-893694

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

• Gerber-Grote, A. (2025, January 16). Akademisierung der Gesundheitsberufe in der Schweiz : Versorgungsqualität sichern. CHEtalk, DuZ Spotlight, online, 16 Januar 2025. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzNRDKrc60I&list=PLG0rTvkAte4n7W1WSipb6b9W6zPX4CVFc&index=7
• Meidert, U., Bucher, T., Dönnges, G., & Gerber-Grote, A. (2022, August 27). Unconscious bias in European health care : preliminary results of a scoping review. 19th Biennial European Society for Health and Medical Sociology Conference, Bologna, Italy, 25-27 August 2022.

Affiliations

Current Affiliations

• FKG-CSS: Co-President
  Strategic planning and organization of the regular meeting of the FKG-CSS, Granges
  06 / 2020 - 06 / 2026
• Schweizerische Studienstiftung: Mentor
  Mentor for Schweizerische Studienstiftung, Zürich
  01 / 2019 - 07 / 2029

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