Prof. Dr. Mirella Cacace

Equal Opportunity Officer, Professor

Appointment: Healthcare System Design und Healthcare Politics

Function: Equal Opportunity Commissioner

Office hours: Appointment via ILIAS

Professional career

Since 2021: full-time Equal Opportunity Commissioner (acting in this role since 2019)
Since winter semester 2018: Professor for Healthcare System Design und Health Politics at the Catholic University of Applied Sciences Freiburg
Project leader for the special research field 1342 at Bremen University fo-cused on transformation in healthcare systems in middle and eastern Europe (2018 -2021)
Projects in health and social areas, e.g., at SOCIUM at Bremen University, Prognos GmbH Berlin/Potsdam, UKE Hamburg
Professor for Health Economics at the Apollon University of Applied Sciences Bremen
Guest professor at the Innovation Incubator at Leuphana University, Lüne-burg
Analyst for Health and Healthcare, RAND Europe (UK)
Harkness Fellowship as part of the Commonwealth Fund at Columbia Univer-sity New York, USA
PHD (Dr. rer. pol.) investigating transformation in governance structures in the US healthcare system
Research assistant und doctoral candidate for the special research field 597 “Statehood in Transformation” at Bremen University
Studies in Economics at Freiburg University; qualification as Diploma-Economist in May 1996

Work and research focus

Teaching and research projects

Academically trained nurse practitioners and advanced nursing practice (AP2 Caritas)
How can employee satisfaction be improved? A conjoint analysis at the KWA Parkstift St. Ulrich (current research project)
Shaping Change: Digitalization in Teaching at the Catholic University of Ap-plied Sciences Freiburg (Teaching Research Project 3rd/4th Sem. MGB/BGB, in completion)
Violence in nursing (teaching research project 1st/2nd sem. MGB, in conclu-sion)
“Hospital Structures and Capacity Management in the Corona Pandemic. A country comparison” Study commissioned by the Bertelsmann Foundation (2020)
“Transformation of Health Care Systems in Central and Eastern Europe” Col-laborative Research Center 1342 "Global Development Dynamics of Social Policy", University of Bremen (Project Director, 2018-2021)
“Policy learning in health care systems using the example of managed care”, own post-doctoral project, SOCIUM of the University of Bremen (2014-2018)
“Financial and Non-financial Barriers to Equity in Healthcare Utilization: A Three Country Comparison”, Harkness Fellowship, Columbia University, New York, USA (2008/09)
“Changing Statehood in the Health Care Systems of OECD Countries" Col-laborative Research Centre 597 “Statehood in Transition” University of Bre-men (WiMi/Doctoral Candidate) (2003-2010)