Karl Emmert-Fees, MSPH
Research associate
| Professorship of Public Health & Prevention Technical University of Munich Georg-Brauchle-Ring 60/62 80992 Munich | Room: L-516 Telephone: +49 (0) 89/289 24981 E-Mail: karl.emmert-fees(at)tum.de |
Profile
Karl has been a research associate at the Chair of Public Health and Prevention at TUM since March 2021. Previously, he was a doctoral candidate in the "Economics and Management of Diabetes" research group led by Prof. Dr. Michael Laxy at the Institute of Health Economics and Health Care Management at Helmholtz Zentrum München. Since 2019, he has been pursuing his PhD in the "Medical Research in Epidemiology and Public Health" program of the Munich Medical Research School at LMU Munich, focusing on the evaluation of public health measures using simulation models. Karl holds an M.Sc. in Public Health from LMU Munich and a B.A. in Socioeconomics from FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg. Internationally, Karl is also involved in projects with the Emory Global Diabetes Research Center at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.
Research Interests
- Public health economics
- Health inequalities
- Structural uncertainty in simulation modeling methods
- Quantitative methods
Selected Publications
- Ali MK, Chwastiak L, Poongothai S, Emmert-Fees, KMF, et al. Effect of a Collaborative Care Model on Depressive Symptoms and Glycated Hemoglobin, Blood Pressure, and Serum Cholesterol Among Patients With Depression and Diabetes in India: The INDEPENDENT Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA 2020, 10.1001/jama.2020.11747
- Emmert-Fees, K. M. F., Amies-Cull, B., Wawro, N., Linseisen, J., et al. Projected health and economic impacts of sugar-sweetened beverage taxation in Germany: A cross-validation modelling study. PLoS medicine 2023, 10.1371/journal.pmed.1004311
- Emmert-Fees, K. M. F., Karl, F. M., Von Philipsborn, P., Rehfuess, E. A., et al. Simulation modeling for the economic evaluation of population-based dietary policies: a systematic scoping review. Advances in Nutrition 2021, 10.1093/advances/nmab028
- Emmert-Fees, K. M. F., Laxy, M., Patel, S. A., Singh, K., et al. Cost-Effectiveness of a Collaborative Care Model Among Patients With Type 2 Diabetes and Depression in India. Diabetes Care 2023, 10.2337/dc21-2533
