The professorship in epidemiology and household economics at the University of Basel works at the intersection between public health and health economics. Supported by the Eckenstein-Geigy Foundation, our team works on a wide range of projects involving three broad types of studies:

1. Studies assessing new interventions to improve health behavior and health outcomes – these studies are usually set up as randomized controlled trials. 
    
2. Studies assessing the relative cost-effectiveness of interventions and control strategies – these studies mostly rely on modeling approaches.
    
3. Studies assessing the long-run returns to health investments – we use historical and cohort data to estimate the welfare implications of investing in health in general, and of early life investments in particular.