1. Current Status, Position

Matthias Schwenkglenks is Head of Research at the Institute of Pharmaceutical Medicine (ECPM) of the University of Basel, Switzerland, since 2003. He also leads the Medical Economics Unit at the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine of the University of Zürich, Switzerland, since 2010.

2. Education

He obtained a Master of Arts in Sociology and Political Sciences from the University of Tübingen, Germany, a Master of Public Health from the Universities of Basel, Bern and Zürich, and a PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Basel. He received the Venia legendi in "Health Economics and Public Health" from the University of Zürich in 2009.

3. Research Area

His current research interests and teaching activities are in the fields of pharmacoeconomics and health economics, health economic evaluation and modelling, health services research, epidemiology, observational study and trial design, and biostatistics. Disease areas of key interest include malignant and cardiovascular diseases.