[2][3] Busse also supports the rigorous training of public health professionals globally through his teaching and other activities.
More recently, he supports the School of Public Health at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana.
After finishing high school in Bad Nenndorf, Lower Saxony, he completed his civilian service as a paramedic and ambulance driver.
), Busse has a master's degree in population medicine and public health (Magister sanitatis publicae; M.S.P.).
[10] From 1991 to 1992, Busse worked as a research associate under German teacher, pediatric neurologist, and epilepsy researcher, Dieter Scheffner, in the planning group for the reform of medical training in Berlin (Reformstudiengang Medizin) at the Rudolf Virchow Hospital, Free University of Berlin.
[11] His department currently comprises around 30 research fellows [12] and four administrative employees,[13] with whom he collaborates and oversees national and international projects.
[6][7][8][17][18][19] Busse's research is interdisciplinary, bridging medicine, economics, politics, and public health, aimed at combining methodological advancement and policy-relevance.
He links these fields of research to make clear policy recommendations, including his recommendation of significantly reducing hospital locations and the number of hospital beds in Germany, while still retaining the clinical staffing levels, which would significantly improve quality of care.
[21] Health services: Busse focuses on the design and effect of payment mechanisms, in particular Diagnosis-related groups (DRG-systems),[22] quality of care,[23] models of integrated care[24] and the role of nursing staff,[25] among other things on its impact on patient outcomes, a line of study he has developed since the 1990s.
[27] HTA: Busse's work on developing methods to appropriately and effectively assess health technologies has been instrumental in this area of activity.