Prof. Dr. Andreas Gerber-Grote

Prof. Dr. Andreas Gerber-Grote

ZHAW School of Health Sciences
Katharina-Sulzer-Platz 9
8400 Winterthur

+41 58 934 48 20
andreas.gerber-grote@zhaw.ch

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

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

Meidert, U. et al. (2026) 'Bias and discrimination in healthcare through the eyes of future professionals : a qualitative study of student observations', BMC Medical Education. doi: 10.1186/s12909-026-09461-8.
Meidert, U. et al. (2025) 'Unconscious bias in students of health professions : an experimental vignette study', BMC Medical Education, 26(1), p. 65. doi: 10.1186/s12909-025-08317-x.
Steiger, C., Meidert, U. and Gerber-Grote, A. (2025) 'How do nurses belonging to the LGBTIQ + community relate to patients? : a qualitative study from Switzerland', BMC Nursing, 24(586). doi: 10.1186/s12912-025-03254-y.
Dugerdil, A. et al. (2024) 'A new model for ranking schools of Public Health : the Public Health Academic Ranking', International Journal of Public Health, 69(1606684). doi: 10.3389/ijph.2024.1606684.
Meidert, U. et al. (2023) 'Unconscious bias among health professionals : a scoping review', International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(16), p. 6569. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20166569.
Osterwalder, P. et al. (2022) 'Evaluation of the Interprofessional Education Day 2019 / Evaluation des Interprofessional Education Day 2019', International Journal of Health Professions, 9(1), pp. 116–126. doi: 10.2478/ijhp-2022-0013.
Meier, O., Kleinberger, U. and 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), pp. 139–150. doi: 10.2478/ijhp-2022-0009.
Gysin, S. et al. (2022) 'Interprofessional education day 2019 : a qualitative participant evaluation', GMS Journal for Medical Education, 39(5), p. Doc52. doi: 10.3205/zma001573.
Ehrich, J. et al. (2018) 'How to calculate the risk of shortage and surplus of pediatric workforce?', The Journal of Pediatrics, 199, pp. 286–287.e2. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2018.04.075.
Sandmann, F. G. et al. (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), pp. 475–486. doi: 10.1080/14737167.2018.1497976.
Ehrich, J. et al. (2018) 'Internetbasierte Erfassung und Bearbeitung von Forschungsdaten zur Kindergesundheit : "Wikipädiatrie" und Onlineforschung', Monatsschrift Kinderheilkunde, 166(6), pp. 487–497. doi: 10.1007/s00112-018-0453-y.
Seidl, A. et al. (2018) 'Estimation of input costs for a Markov model in a German health economic evaluation of newer antidepressants', MDM Policy & Practice, 3(1). doi: 10.1177/2381468317751923.
Ehrich, J. et al. (2018) 'As few pediatricians as possible and as many pediatricians as necessary?', The Journal of Pediatrics, 202, pp. 338–339.e1. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2018.07.074.
Ehrich, J. et al. (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, pp. 204–205. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2016.12.001.
Dintsios, C.-M. et al. (2017) 'Effizienzbewertung im Rahmen des GKV-Versorgungsstärkungsgesetzes : was kann die Gesundheitsökonomie hierzu beitragen?', Sozialer Fortschritt, 66(10), pp. 651–673. doi: 10.3790/sfo.66.10.651.
Ehrich, J. et al. (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, pp. 244–245.e1. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2016.12.017.
Gerber-Grote, A. et al. (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, pp. 217–218.e2. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2017.03.060.
Vermöhlen, V. et al. (2017) 'Hippotherapy for patients with multiple sclerosis : a multicenter randomized controlled trial (MS-HIPPO)', Multiple Sclerosis Journal, 24(10). doi: 10.1177/1352458517721354.
Luhnen, M. et al. (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), pp. 83–84.
Corro Ramos, I. et al. (2016) 'Cost recommendation under uncertainty in IQWiG's efficiency frontier framework', Medical Decision Making, 37(2), pp. 162–172. doi: 10.1177/0272989X16636856.

Book chapters, peer-reviewed

Bucher, T. and Gerber-Grote, A. (2025) 'Promotion für Gesundheitsberufe in der Schweiz : die Wege ebnen sich', in Richter, R., El-Seoud, N., and Czernik, C. (eds) Physiotherapie weiterdenken: Festschrift für Prof. Dr. Heidi Höppner. Frankfurt am Main: Mabuse-Verlag, pp. 119–127.
Gerber-Grote, A. and Ungar, W. (2025) 'Gesundheitsökonomie und Kinder- und Jugend-Public Health : ein Spiel über den Sandkasten hinaus', in Dratva, J. et al. (eds) Public Health im Kindes- und Jugendalter: Schlüsselkonzepte, Methoden und Umsetzungsstrategien. Bern: Hogrefe, pp. 153–160.
Danner, M. and Gerber-Grote, A. (2017) 'Analytic hierarchy process', in Facey, K. M., Ploug Hansen, H., and Single, A. N. V. (eds) Patient involvement in health technology assessment. Springer, pp. 135–147. doi: 10.1007/978-981-10-4068-9_11.

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

Vetsch-Tzogiou, C. et al. (2024) 'Medicines for dementia due to Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease', in HTAi 2024 Annual Meeting, Seville, Spain, 15-19 June 2024.