Prof. Dr Martin Siegel

"Equal opportunities and equity in health and health care are values that inspire my research: Everyone deserves a fair chance to live a long and healthy life in dignity."

Martin Siegel Professor for General Economics, Health Economics and Econometrics at the University of Greifswald since July 2025. In his work, he aims to identify causes of health inequalities, to develop strategies to avoid avoidable inequalities, and to contribute to shaping an equitable and efficient healthcare system for everyone. For this, he uses and refines statistical methods for both health economics evaluations and epidemiology that allow him to explicitly describe diversity and heterogeneity. The department is internationally active and addresses the micro level (e.g. financial protection, determinants of health, prevention and diagnostics of infectious diseases), as well as with health policy interventions and evaluations.

• Inequalities in health and healthcare: social, economic, regional, ...
• Global Health Economics
• Economic evaluations of complex interventions
• Resilience of health systems
• Econometric models for the explicit representation of heterogeneity

• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gesundheitsökonomie (dggö)
• Vorsitz Ausschuss Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (dggö)
• German Alliance for Global Health Research
• Verein für Socialpolitik (VfS)

• October 2024 
  Habilitation in Public Health, Faculty of Economics and Management, Technische Universität Berlin
• December 2012 
  Dr. rer. pol., Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Cologne
• December 2005 
  Diplom-Volkswirt, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Kiel

• July 2025 
  Professor and chair holder for General Economics, Health Economics and Econometrics, University of Greifswald
• March 2018 - June 2025 
  Junior professor for Empirical Health Economics, Technische Universität Berlin
• September 2016 - March 2018 
  Researcher at the Department of Public and Health Economics, Technische Universität Berlin
• October 2012 - August 2016 
  Researcher at the Department of Health Care Management, Technische Universität Berlin
• September 2007 - September 2012 
  Researcher at the Institute of Health Economics and Clinical Epidemiology, University Hospital of Cologne

• B. Langenberger, M. Siegel (shared first authorship), R. Busse, V. Vogt (2025). Health economic evaluation of a medication safety intervention in elderly care: identifying causal effects in a multi-center quasi-experimental study design. BMC Health Services Research 25(1):1-15.
• F. Ibrahim, A. Neumann, K. A. Mensah, D. Opoku, M. A. Kwawukume, L. Nübler, M. Siegel, E. Owusu-Dabo, W. Quentin, V. Struckmann, R. Waitzberg (2025). Is mobile renewal enough? A qualitative study exploring stakeholders’ perspectives on mobile phone-based add-ons for national health insurance uptake in Ghana. BMC Public Health 25:1700.
• C. Arpa, A. Abd El Wahed, S. Aydin, P. Ghosh, D. Mondal, L.. Nakiyingi, J. B. Okuni, S. Schneitler, M. Weidmann, M. Siegel (2025). Health economic evaluations of diagnostic tests for tuberculosis: a narrative review. Health Economics Review 15(1):1-12.
• P. Ghosh, S. Anwar, M. Siegel, J. B. Okuni, M. Weidmann, N. T. Mithila, K. Cassar, S. E. Müller, F. R. Luba, R. M. Kobialka, B. P. Dey, A. Ceruti, L. Nakiyingi, E. E. Kiracho, S. N. Morshed, C. Arpa, M. A. A. Chowdhury, B. Bhowmik, A. A. Saleh, A. Abd El Wahed, D. Mondal, S. Schneitler (2025). Assessing the performance of a point-of-need diagnostic algorithm in rapid detection of peripheral lymph node tuberculosis (Mobile-TB-Lab): a diagnostic evaluation study protocol. BMJ open 15(5):e097001.
• F. Hossain, P. Ghosh, F. R. Chowdhury, A. Basher, N. Ahsan, S. J. Shumu, T. Jahan, F. Khanam, M. A. Rahat, R. Chowdhury, M. R. Uddin, M. S. Shomik, S. Maruf, M. U. Rashid, S. K. Sagar, N. T. Mithila, M. A. A. Chowdhury, M. Kamal, A. Sharfaraz, Z. Hossain, M. S. Islam, A. Rashid, K. Kumkum, S. Roy, M. S. Rana, M. S. Hossain, M. Siegel, A. Abd El Wahed, D. Mondal (2024). Enhancing Secondary Dengue Diagnosis in Bangladesh: A Novel Point-of-Need Approach. International Journal of Infectious Diseases 150, 107299.
• P. Hengel, M. Blümel, M. Siegel, K. Achstetter, J. Köppen, R. Busse (2024). Financial risk protection in private health insurance: Empirical evidence on catastrophic and impoverishing spending from Germany's dual insurance system. Health Economics, Policy & Law 19(1):3-20.
• D. Lewkowicz, E. Böttinger, M. Siegel (2023). Economic Evaluation of Digital Therapeutic Care Apps for Unsupervised Treatment of Low Back Pain: Monte Carlo Simulation. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth, 11:e44585.
• N. Gottlieb, M. Siegel (2023). Associations between physical and mental health and the utilization of ambulatory and emergency healthcare among asylum-seekers. Results from a cross-sectional survey in Berlin, Germany. International Journal for Equity in Health 22, 99.
• L. Nübler, R. Busse, M. Siegel (2023). The role of consumer choice in out-of-pocket spending on health. International Journal for Equity in Health 22, 24.
• R. Waitzberg & M. Siegel (shared first authorship), W. Quentin, R. Busse, D. Greenberg (2022). It probably worked: a Bayesian approach to evaluating the introduction of activity-based hospital payment in Israel. Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 11:8.
• C. Pross, E. Berger, M. Siegel, A. Geissler, R. Busse (2018). Stroke units, certification, and outcomes in German hospitals: a longitudinal study of patient-based 30-day mortality for 2006–2014. BMC Health Services Research 18:880.
• M. Siegel, D. Koller, V. Vogt, L. Sundmacher (2016). Developing a composite index of spatial accessibility across different health care sectors: a German example. Health Policy 120(2):205-212.
• M. Siegel, P. Allanson (2015). Longitudinal analysis of income-related health inequalities: methods, challenges and applications. Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research 16(1):41-49.
• M. Siegel, A. Mielck, W. Maier (2015). Individual income, area deprivation, and health: Do income-related health inequalities vary by small area deprivation? Health Economics 24(11):1523-1530.
• F. Henschel, M. Redaelli, M. Siegel, S. Stock (2015). Correlation of Incident Potentially Inappropriate Medication Prescriptions and Hospitalization: An Analysis Based on the PRISCUS List. Drugs - Real World Outcomes 2(3):249-259.
• N. Grundmann, A. Mielck, M. Siegel, W. Maier (2014). Area deprivation and the prevalence of type 2 diabetes and obesity: Analysis at the municipality level in Germany. BMC Public Health 14:1264.
• S. Stock, M. Redaelli, D. Simic, M. Siegel, F. Henschel (2014). Risk factors for the prescription of potentially inappropriate medication (PIM) in the elderly. Wiener klinische Wochenschrift126:604-612.
• M. Siegel, K. Mosler (2014). Semiparametric modeling of age-specific variations in income related health inequalities. Health Economics 23(7):870-878.
• V. Vogt, M. Siegel, L. Sundmacher (2014). Examining regional variations in the use of cancer screening in Germany.Social Science & Medicine 110:74-80.
• M. Siegel, V. Vogt, L. Sundmacher (2014). From a conservative to a liberal welfare state: Decomposing changes in income-related health inequalities in Germany, 1994–2011. Social Science & Medicine 108:10-19.
• M. Siegel (2014). Measuring age-specific variations in income-related inequalities in smoking behavior in Germany. Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine 2(1):412-423.
• M. Siegel, M. Lüngen, S. Stock (2013). On age-specific variations in income-related inequalities in diabetes, hypertension and obesity. International Journal of Public Health 58(1):33-41.
• M. Lüngen, M. Siegel, K. W. Lauterbach (2011). Could inequality in health be cured by universal coverage for all citizens? International Journal of Clinical Practice 65(3):249-252.
• M. Lüngen, A. Drabik, G. Büscher, A. Passon, M. Siegel, S. Stock (2010). Analyse von Selektionsanreizen für Krankenkassen nach Einführung des morbiditätsorientierten Risikostrukturausgleichs: Eine empirische Analyse. Gesundheitswesen 72(11):790-796.
• H. Herwartz, M. Siegel (2009). Development and determinants of systemic risk in European banking – an empirical note. Applied Economics Letters 16(4):431-438.

• C. Strupat, M. Schäferhoff, M. Siegel, A.K. Hornidge (2025). Global health at a crossroads: Policy recommendations in light of the Lancet Global Health 2050 Report. IDOS Policy Brief 5/2025.
• T. Alfvén, A. Y. Chang, H. O. Cleaver, A.-K. Hornidge, S. L. B. Jensen, E. Mofoss, F. N. Nilsen, O. F. Norheim, M. Schäferhoff, M. Siegel, C. Strupat (2025). Responses to the Third Lancet Commission on Investing in Health from Denmark, Germany, and Norway. The Lancet Regional Health - Europe 56:101377.
• M. Siegel, R. Busse (2018). Can people afford to pay for health care? New evidence on financial protection in Germany. Copenhagen: WHO Regional Office for Europe.
• M. Siegel (2018). Empirische Messung von Ungleichheit und Ungerechtigkeit. In: P. Kriwy, M. Jungbauer-Gans (Hrsg). Handbuch Gesundheitssoziologie. Springer Reference Sozialwissenschaften. Springer VS, Wiesbaden
• R. Busse, M. Siegel, L. Sundmacher, und die Mitglieder des Gesundheitsökonomischen Zentrums Berlin (2013). Gesundheitsökonomisches Zentrum Berlin (BerlinHECOR).Public Health Forum 21(4):22e1-22e3.
• A. Mielck, M. Lüngen, M. Siegel, K. Korber (2012). Folgen unzureichender Bildung für die Gesundheit. Gutachten im Auftrag der Bertelsmann-Stiftung, Gütersloh.
• M. Lüngen, M. Siegel (2011). Determinanten der Patientenzufriedenheit in der ambulanten Versorgung. Eine empirische Abschätzun für Deutschland. Studien zu Gesundheit, Medizin und Gesellschaft (SGMG), Köln: Ausgabe 05/2011.
• A. M. Passon, M. Siegel (2010). Das Marktmodell im Gesundheitssystem. In: K. Lauterbach, M. Schrappe (Hrsg). Gesundheitsökonomie, Qualitätsmanagement und Evidence-based Medicine. Schattauer-Verlag Stuttgart
• M. Siegel, K. Mosler (2010). On the life course perspective in income related health inequalities: A semiparametric approach.Discussion Papers in Statistics and Econometrics 3/2010. Universität zu Köln, Seminar für Wirtschafts- und Sozialstatistik.
• M. Lüngen, M. Siegel, A. Drabik, G. Büscher, I. von Törne (2009). Ausmaß und Gründe für Ungleichheiten der gesundheitlichen Versorgung in Deutschland.Gutachten im Auftrag der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, Düsseldorf.