Ellen Nolte
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Education
Overview
Biography
Ellen Nolte directs the Health and Healthcare research team at RAND Europe. In 1998, she was awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship, funded by the European Commission, to undertake her Ph.D. at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where she worked as senior lecturer in the Health Services Research Unit and held a prestigious National Institute for Health Research Career Scientist Award. Her main research is the field of health systems, including approaches to health system performance assessment, health system responses to chronic disease, international health system comparisons, and trends and determinants of population health in former communist countries of central and eastern Europe. Nolte has published widely on health system performance assessment, European health policy, and the health implications of political and socioeconomic transition in central and eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Nolte qualified in biology and received her M.P.H. from Bielefeld University.
Research Focus
Recent Projects
- International comparative analysis of chronic disease management
- Cross-country analysis of health-sector policies
- Assessment of the contribution of health systems to population health
- International health care quality benchmarking
Health & Health Care
Biography
Ellen Nolte directs the Health and Healthcare research team at RAND Europe. In 1998, she was awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship, funded by the European Commission, to undertake her Ph.D. at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where she worked as senior lecturer in the Health Services Research Unit and held a prestigious National Institute for Health Research Career Scientist Award. Her main research is the field of health systems, including approaches to health system performance assessment, health system responses to chronic disease, international health system comparisons, and trends and determinants of population health in former communist countries of central and eastern Europe. Nolte has published widely on health system performance assessment, European health policy, and the health implications of political and socioeconomic transition in central and eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Nolte qualified in biology and received her M.P.H. from Bielefeld University.
Selected Publications
Desai M, Nolte E, Mays N, Nikolentzos A, "International experience of paying for expensive medicines," BMJ, 338:b1993, 2009
Nolte E, McKee M, Caring for people with chronic conditions. A health system perspective, Open University Press/McGraw Hill Education, 2008
Nolte E, Ettelt S, Thomson S, Mays N, "Learning from other countries: an on-call facility for health care policy," Journal of Health Services Research & Policy, 13(Suppl. 2):58-64, 2008
Nolte E, Knai C, McKee M, Managing chronic conditions - experience in eight countries, World Health Organization, on behalf of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, 2008
Nolte E, McKee M, "Measuring the health of nations: updating an earlier analysis," Health Affairs, 27:58-87, 2008
Nolte E, Bain C, McKee M, "Chronic diseases as tracer conditions in international benchmarking of health systems: the example of diabetes," Diabetes Care, 29:1007-1011, 2006
Nolte E, McKee M, Does health care save lives? Avoidable mortality revisited, The Nuffield Trust, 2004
Honors & Awards
- Personal Career Scientist Award (2005-2009), NIHR / NCC-RCD
- Marie Curie Fellowship (1998-2001), European Commission
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