Prof. Dr. Kai Michelsen

+49 661 9640-6405
+49 661 9640-6490
kai.michelsen(at)gw.hs-fulda.de

Health policy

Fulda University of Applied Sciences
Building 53, Room 133
Leipziger Straße 123
36037 Fulda

Consultation hours: Tuesday, 12:00 - 13:00 and by appointment

CV

  • 2009-2018: Assistant Professor, Maastricht University, Department of International Health (Maastricht, The Netherlands)
  • 2005-2008: Research Assistant, North Rhine-Westphalia State Institute for the Public Health Service (lögd) / State Institute for Health and Labour (LIGa.NRW) (Bielefeld)
  • 2002-2004: Substitute professor, University of Applied Sciences Fulda, Faculty of Nursing and Health (Fulda)
  • 1996-2001: Research assistant, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt a.M., Institute for Medical Sociology
  • 1989-1996: Studies in Political Science, Philipps University Marburg (Marburg)
  • 1987-1989: Civilian service in individual care for the severely disabled (Lüneburg)
  • 1974-1987: Pupil, Anne Frank School and Johanneum Lüneburg
  • 1967: born in Hameln

Teaching Areas

Health policy, health systems, health system comparison, political science and policy advice

Publications

  • Fehr, Rainer / Alexanderson, Kristina / Favaretti, Carlo / de Jong, Judith / La Torre, Giuseppe / Lim, Tek-Ang / Martin-Olmedo, Piedad / Mekel, Odile C L / Michelsen, Kai / Rosenkötter, Nicole / Verschuuren, Marieke / Waure, Chiara de / Zeegers Paget, Dineke (2017): Health assessments for health governance-concepts and methodologies. The European Journal of Public Health 27(4):609-616.
  • Clemens, Timo / Sørensen, Kristine / Rosenkötter Nicole / Michelsen Kai / Brand Helmut (2017): The Directorate-General for Health and Consumers 1999-2014: An assessment of its functional capacities. Health Policy 121(6): 594-603.
  • Neagu, Oana Maria / Michelsen, Kai / Watson, Jonathan / Dowdeswell, Barrie / Brand, Helmut (2017): Addressing health inequalities by using Structural Funds. A question of opportunities. Health Policy 121: 300-306.
  • Zanden, Brigitte van der / Michelsen, Kai / Mekel, Odile / Ward, Odile (2016): Scaling up projects and initiatives for better health: from concept to practice. Copenhagen: WHO Regional Office for Europe.
  • Rosenkötter, Nicole / Achterberg, Peter W. / van Bon-Martens, Marja J. H. / Michelsen, Kai / Oers, Hans A. M. v. / Brand, Helmut (2015): Key features of an EU health information system: a concept mapping study. European Journal of Public Health, doi: 10.1093/eurpub/ckv075.
  • Michelsen, Kai / Brand, Helmut / Achterberg, Peter W.; Wilkinson John R. (2015): Promoting better integration of health information systems: best practices and challenges. Copenhagen: WHO Regional Office for Europe (Health Evidence Network (HEN) synthesis report).
  • Aluttis, Christoph, den Broucke Stefan v., Chiotan, Christina / Costongs, Caroline / Michelsen Kai / Brand, Helmut (2014): Public health and health promotion capacity at national and regional level: a review of conceptual frameworks. Journal of Public Health Research 24;3 (1): 199.
  • Clemens, Timo /Michelsen,Kai / Commers, Matt / Garel, Pascal/ Dowdeswell, Barry/ Brand, Helmut (2014): European hospital reforms in times of crisis: aligning cost containment needs with plans for structural redesign? Health Policy 117(1): 6-14.
  • Clemens, Timo / Michelsen, Kai / Brand Helmut (2014): Supporting health systems in Europe: added value of EU actions? Health Economics, Policy and Law 9 (1): 49-69.
  • Schröder-Bäck, Peter / Michelsen, Kai / Bongers, Lisette / Brand, Helmut / Förster, Katharina / Townend, David (2013): Legal and ethical aspects of cross-border healthcare within the European Union. Ethics in Medicine, DOI 10.1007/s00481-013-0282-4.
  • Clemens, Timo / Michelsen, Kai / Brand, Helmut (2013): Supporting Health Systems in Europe: Added value of EU actions? Health Economic, Policy and Law; available on CJO 2013 doi:10.1017/S1744133113000273.
  • Brand, Helmut / Rosenkötter, Nicole / Clemens, Timo / Michelsen, Kai (2013): Austerity policies in Europe - bad for health. Health protection within the EU mandate is more relevant than ever. Editorial. British Medical Journal 346: f3716.
  • Mainil, Tomas / Commers, Matt / Michelsen, Kai (2013): The European Cross-Border Patient as Both Citizen and Consumer: Public Health and Health System Implications. In: Botterill, David / Pennings, Guido / Mainil, Tomas (eds.): Medical Tourism and Transnational Health Care. Houndsmils, Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke: 131-148.
  • Knies, Saskia / Lombardi, Gloria / Commers, Matt / Dauben, Hans-Peter, Evers, Silvia / Michelsen, Kai / Ortwijn, Weya / Opara, Chibuzu / Brand, Helmut (2013): Supporting decision making in cross-border regions: a health technology assessment tool for hospitals. International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care 29(1): 71-78.
  • Michelsen, Kai / Brand Helmut (2012): Health 2020: the new WHO health policy framework. Public Health 74 (12): 771-777.
  • Schröder-Bäck, Peter / Clemens, Timo / Michelsen, Kai / Schulte in den Bäumen, Tobias / Sørensen, Kristin / Borrett, Glenn / Brand, Helmut (2012): Public health ethical perspectives on the values of the European Commission's White Paper "Together for Health". Central European Journal for Public Health 20 (2): 95-100.
  • Brand, Helmut / Michelsen, Kai (2012): Collaborative governance: The example of health conferences. In: McQueen, David / Lin, Vivian / Wismar, Matthias / Jones, Catherine / St.-Pierre, Louise / Davis, Maggie (eds.): Inter-sectoral governance for Health in All Policies. Copenhagen: WHO on behalf of European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies: 165-184.
  • Holly, Romuald / Michelsen, Kai (2011): Risk Adjustment as a principle and a tool of the social change in Health Care System: from "passive" to "active" adjustment. Journal of Health Policy, Insurance and Management (Polityka Zdrowotna) VIII / I (May 2011).
  • Michelsen, Kai / Brand, Helmut (2010): Quantified health targets: Outgrowing their infancy? Experiences and discussions outside Germany. In: Gesellschaft für Versicherungswissenschaft und -gestaltung e.V. (GVG) (ed.) (2010): EU health policy in the non-harmonised area: current developments in the Open Method of Coordination. Bonn: nanos Verlag: 141-159.
  • Michelsen, Kai (2010): Health targets for health promotion in the field of tension between individual freedom, state paternalism and the common good. Das Gesundheitswesen 2010: 72:41-47.
  • Michelsen, Kai (2009): Dissent in public health ethics. A guarantor of political credibility? Bundesgesundheitsblatt Vol. 52: 512-518.
  • Brand, Helmut / Cornelius-Taylor, Birgit / Michelsen, Kai / Schröder, Peter (2008): Evaluation of health reports in Europe. Prevention Vol. 31 No. 3, 75-78.
  • Michelsen, Kai (2007): Political parties as transmission belts for a participatory policy of sustainable health promotion? Prevention and Health Promotion Vol. 2 (2007) H. 2: 112-117.
  • Michelsen, Kai / Brand, Helmut (2007): Health reporting and policy. In: Reintjes, Ralf / Klein, Silvia (eds.): Health Reporting and Surveillance. Measuring, Deciding, Acting. Bern: Verlag Hans Huber.
  • Brand, Helmut / Michelsen, Kai (2007): Policy advice through health monitoring? Das Gesundheitswesen Vol. 69; No. 10: 527-533.
  • Michelsen, Kai (2007): Possibilities and limits of (scientific) policy advice. In: Heckenhan, Markus / Berendonk, Charlotte (Eds.): Aufbruch unter Vorbehalt. Proceedings of the 11th student conference of the OStiPuG - Fulda 2006. Fulda: pg-papers.
  • Blättner, Beate / Michelsen, Kai / Sichting, Juliane / Stegmüller, Klaus (2005): Analysis of the offer and the need for qualification from the point of view of persons practically active in care. Preliminary study commissioned by the Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
  • Michelsen, Kai / Mosebach, Kai (2005): Social inequality and health. Poverty and increasing social exclusion prevent opportunities for participation and realisation. In: Z. No. 63 September 2005, 36-50.
  • Michelsen, Kai / Stegmüller, Klaus (2004): Health and Health Policy in Flexible Capitalism. The Social Treatment of 'Health' as a 'Sensitive Measure'. In: Elsner, Gine / Gerlinger, Thomas / Stegmüller, Klaus (eds.) (2004): Markt versus Solidarität. Health Policy in Deregulated Capitalism. Hamburg: VSA, 42-55.
  • Michelsen, Kai (2003): The Swedish health system in the 1990s. Competitive Reforms between Fashion, Pragmatism and "Strategic Reform". In: Gerlinger, Thomas et al. (eds.) (2003): Health Systems in International Comparison. Yearbook for Critical Medicine. Hamburg: Argument.
  • Michelsen, Kai (2002): Self-government between functionalisation and blockades. In: Deppe, Hans-Ulrich / Burkhardt, Wolfram (eds.): Solidarische Gesundheitspolitik. Alternatives to privatisation and two-class medicine; Hamburg: VSA 2002, 104-115.
  • Burkhardt, Wolfram / Michelsen, Kai (2002): Where is health policy heading? On the balance sheet of the Red-Green health policy and the future of SHI. In: Z., No. 50 June 2002, 117-132.
  • Michelsen, Kai (2002): Health care and the welfare state in Sweden. Health Policy in the Changing Social Democratic Welfare State Regime (Dissertation). Frankfurt / M.: VAS 2002. 422 pp.
  • Michelsen, Kai (1999): Sweden: Exemplary - in one way or another. In: Schmacke, Norbert (ed.): Health and Democracy. From the Utopia of Social Medicine; Frankfurt / M.: VAS 1999, 325-338.
  • Michelsen, Kai (1998): Problematic successes - successful problems? On Swedish Health Policy. In: Deppe, Hans-Ulrich: Medicine and Economic Competition; Frankfurt / M.: VAS 1998, 103-123.
  • Gerlinger, Thomas / Giovanella, Ligia / Michelsen, Kai (1997): From cost containment to system change. On the "third stage" of the health reform; in: Z., No. 29 March 1997, 118-130.
  • Michelsen, Kai (1997): Sweden: Luxury renovation of the "people's home"? In: Bieling, Hans-Jürgen / Deppe, Frank (eds.): Unemployment and the Welfare State in Western Europe. A comparison of nine countries; Opladen: Leske + Budrich 1997; pp. 185 - 216.
  • Michelsen, Kai (1996): The Failed Transformation of the Swedish Model; Marburg 1996 (Studies of the European Communities Research Group (FEG) 9.

Abstracts

  • Michelsen, Kai / Kosinska, Monika (2016): Working with society: strategies and instruments addressing the governance challenge. Organised by: European Observatory, WHO EURO and EUPHA section on Public health practice and policy. European Journal of Public Health, Volume 26, Issue suppl_1, 1 November 2016, ckw173.053, https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckw173.053.
  • Ostlin, Piroska /Michelsen, Kai (2016): Round table: Empowering All For Health. Engaging citizens in Health Policy Development: Experience From the Field: Organised by: EUPHA Section on Public health practice and policy; WHO Regions for Health Network. European Journal of Public Health, Volume 26, Issue suppl_1, 1 November 2016, ckw168.053, https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckw168.053.
  • Michelsen, Kai (2015): Preparing the ground: Effective scaling up - what is recommended in the literature?: European Journal of Public Health, Volume 25, Issue suppl_3, 1 October 2015, ckv169.011, https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckv169.011.
  • Michelsen Kai / Martin-Olmedo, Piedad / Fehr, Rainer (2015): On the role of health assessments in public health practice and policy European Journal of Public Health, Volume 25, Issue suppl_3, 1 October 2015, ckv174.007, https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckv174.007.
  • Neagu, Oana M. / Beenackers Marielle A. / Michelsen, Kai (2014): A Policy Matrix to fit health within The European Structural and Investments Funds (ESIF) 2014-2020. Euruopean Journal of Public Health 24 (suppl 2) (7th European Public Health Conference).
  • Michelsen, Kai / Muscat, Natasha Azzopardi (2014): B.6th Workshop: Overcoming Health Inequalities through the use of EU Structural and Investment Funds. European Journal of Public Health 24 (suppl 2) (7th European Public Health Conference).
  • Rosenkötter, Nicole /Marmann, Paula / Achterberg, Peter W. / Oers, Hans J.A.M. van / Bon-Martens, Maja van / Michelsen Kai / Brand, Helmut (2013): Quality criteria of a European Union health information system. Results of a concept mapping study among experts and policy makers. European Journal of Public Health, 23 (suppl 1) (6th European Public Health Conference).
  • Michelsen, Kai / Riley, Neil (2013): P.1. workshop: Tools for addressing regional health inequities. European Journal of Public Health 23 (suppl 1) (6th European Public Health Conference).
  • Broucke, Stefan van den / Aluttis Christoph / Michelsen, Kai / Brand, Helmut / Chiotan, Christina / Costongs, Caroline (2013): Public Health capacities for action on the social determinants of health. Europopean Journal of Public Health (2013) 23 (suppl 1) (6th European Public Health Conference).
  • Brand, Helmut / Rosenkötter, Nicole / Clemens, Timo / Michelsen, Kai / Schroeder-Baeck, Peter (2013): Limits of austerity - "European Public Health" under the conditions of economic crisis and austerity policy. Public Health 75 (8-9): 581 f. (Joint congress of the DGSMP and the DGMS in cooperation with the MDK Hessen).
  • Michelsen, Kai (2012): From the discussion of the impact of PH reports towards the development of Health Information System Performance Assessments. European Journal of Public Health Vol. 22 (Suppl 2): 22 (5th European Public Health Conference).
  • Molen, Ingeborg van der / Commers, Matt / Taylor, M. / Michelsen, Kai / Opara, Chibuzo / Brand, Helmut (2011): Legal challenges in cross-border cooperation - Experiences from the Euregio II Project. European Journal of Public Health 21 (Supplement): 35 (4th European Public Health Conference).
  • Aluttis, CA / Brand, H. / Michelsen, K. / Van den Broucke, S, / Costongs, C. / Chiotan, C. / Otok, R. / Jelfs, E. / Barnhoorn, F / Rechel, B. (2011): Review of public health capacities in the European Union. European Journal of Public Health 21 (Supplement): 134 (4th European Public Health Conference).
  • Clemens, Timo / Michelsen, Kai / Brand, Helmut (2011): Hospital care in the process of EU cooperation and integration - a policy transfer perspective. European Journal of Public Health 21 (Supplement): 206 (Abstract) (4st European Public Health Conference).
  • Brand, Helmut / Burger, Renate / Michelsen, Kai (2009): Solutions for improving health cooperation in border regions (EUREGIO II). European Journal of Public Health Vol. 19 Supplement 1 (2nd European Public Health Conference).
  • Brand, Helmut / Hollederer, Alfons / Michelsen, Kai / Rosenkötter, Nicole / Ward, Gudula (2008): An interactive application to support decision making about investments in health by EU Structural Funds. European Journal of Public Health Vol. 18 Supplement 2 (16th EUPHA Conference. Abstract Supplement).
  • Ledésert, Bernard / Michelsen, Kai (2007): Public health reporting systems, their utilization and impact in France and Germany. European Journal of Public Health Vol. 17 Supplement 2 (15th EUPHA Conference. Abstract Supplement).
  • Brand, Helmut / Hollederer, Alfons / Michelsen, Kai / Rosenkötter, Nicole (2007): Scientific knowledge, its utilization and impact - some hypotheses for public health reporting. European Journal of Public Health Vol. 17 Supplement 2 (15th EUPHA Conference. Abstract Supplement).
  • Brand, Helmut / Michelsen, Kai (2007): GBE as policy advice. Das Gesundheitswesen Vol. 69 No. 3: 178.
  • Brand, Helmut / Hollederer, Alfons / Michelsen, Kai for the PIA PHR study group (2006): Policy Impact Assessment of Public Health Reporting (PIA PHR). European Journal of Public Health Vol. 16 Supplement 1 (14th EUPHA Conference. Abstract Supplement).

Teaching materials

  • Czabanowska, Katarzyna / Smith, Tony / de Jong, Nynke / Fieldsend, Gill / Lohrmann, Christa / Johnson, Dave / Michelsen, Kai / Mundy, Tim / Rethmeier, Kenneth A. / Stankunas, Mindaugas / Sauliune, Skirmante / Sumskas, Linas / Fahy, Nick, Whitfield, Malcolm (2013): Leadership for Public Health in Europe. Teacher's handbook. Maastricht: Maastricht University
  • Czabanowska, Katarzyna / Smith, Tony / de Jong, Nynke / Fieldsend, Gill / Lohrmann, Christa / Johnson, Dave / Michelsen, Kai / Mundy, Tim / Rethmeier, Kenneth A. / Stankunas, Mindaugas / Sauliune, Skirmante / Sumskas, Linas / Fahy, Nick, Whitfield, Malcolm (2013): Leadership for Public Health in Europe. Nominal plan: Maastricht: Maastricht University
  • Czabanowska, Katarzyna / Smith, Tony / de Jong, Nynke / Fieldsend, Gill / Lohrmann, Christa / Johnson, Dave / Michelsen, Kai / Mundy, Tim / Rethmeier, Kenneth A. / Stankunas, Mindaugas / Sauliune, Skirmante / Sumskas, Linas / Fahy, Nick, Whitfield, Malcolm (2013): Leadership for Public Health in Europe. Student Module Book. Maastricht: Maastricht University

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