Prof. Dr. Werner Brouwer

Werner Brouwer (1972) is a Professor of Health Economics at the Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management (ESHPM) of the Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He obtained an MSc in Economics (1996) and a PhD in Health Economics (1999) at the same university. Werner is also affiliated with the institute for Medical Technology Assessment and the Erasmus School of Economics. Moreover, he is an Honorary University Professor at the Corvinus University in Budapest, Hungary. His research focuses on the methodology of welfare economic evaluations in health care. His work has covered topics like optimal decision rules, normative foundations of economic evaluations in health, measurement and valuation of informal care and productivity costs, incorporating equity considerations in economic evaluations as well as the monetary value of health gains. In addition, he has performed work on the link between economic evaluation and health policy, behavioural economics, and public health economics.

He published extensively on these topics including in journals like Health Economics, Journal of Health Economics, Medical Decision Making and Social Science & Medicine. Many of these topics are directly or indirectly related to the topic of rationing health care. Werner is involved in several courses taught in the bachelor phase as well as in the international Master of Health Economics, Policy and Law (HEPL) of the Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management. So far, he has supervised 12 completed PhD theses. Werner is an Associate Editor of Health Economics and a member of the Editorial Boards of the European Journal of Health Economics, Pharmaco-Economics and Cost-Effectiveness and Resource Allocation. He is a member of the European Commission Expert Panel on Effective Ways of Investing in Health and the independent chairman of the Foundation for Top Clinical Mental Health Care (TOPGGz). From 2012 to 2018 he was Dean of the Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management. He has also been a member of the scientific advisory board of the Dutch Health Care institute.

Five key publications

  1. AE Attema, WBF Brouwer, O L’Haridon. Prospect theory in the health domain: A quantitative assessment. Journal of Health Economics 2013; 32(6): 1057-1065
  2. A Bobinac, NJA van Exel, FFH Rutten, WBF Brouwer. Caring for and caring about: disentangling the family effect and the caregiving effect. Journal of Health Economics 2010; 29(4):549-556
  3. WBF Brouwer, AJ Culyer, NJA van Exel, FFH Rutten. Welfarism vs. extra-welfarism. Journal of Health Economics 2008; 27(2): 325-338
  4. WBF Brouwer, NJA van Exel, B van Gorp, WK Redekop. The CarerQol: A new instrument to measure care-related quality of life of informal caregivers for use in economic evaluations. Quality of Life Research 2006; 15(6):1005-1021
  5. WBF Brouwer, LW Niessen, MJ Postma, FFH Rutten. Need for differential discounting of costs and health effects in cost effectiveness analyses. British Medical Journal 2005; 331: 446 – 448

Over the past two decades, a close research and educational collaboration has developed between Prof. Brouwer and the staff of the Health Economics Research Centre (HECON) (EKIK). This collaboration has resulted in excellent publications in the quality publication segment. Currently, there is ongoing joint research taking place both in the Netherlands and Hungary, as well as involving other countries, and we are planning D1, Q1 publications from the results of this research. Professor Brouwer served as the strategic dean of Erasmus University Rotterdam for eight years, during which he was responsible for the innovation activities of Erasmus University. He is currently the leader of an innovation hub that brings together the universities, companies, and municipalities of the region. Using his knowledge and experience, he participates as a member of the International Advisory Board of the Innovation Management Doctoral School at Obuda University and is involved in the education of students. Prof. Brouwer and his colleagues, along with Obuda University, plan to write and submit further joint applications.

Updated: 14.06.2024.