Sebastian Vollmer What is the Global Economic Burden of Diabetes?
Sebastian Vollmer is Professor of Development Economics and director of the Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CEMIS) at the University of Göttingen. Vollmer’s research focuses on development economics and global health. Regularly acting as a consultant to organizations including UNICEF, UNESCO, and The World Bank, in 2018, Vollmer, jointly with his team, received the Science Award from the German Society of Health Economics.
Area of Research
Development Economics, Global Health
since 2016
Professor of Development Economics
University of Göttingen (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) (more details)
Faculty of Economic Sciences & Center for Modern Indian Studies
2016-2018
Adjunct Professor of Global Health
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
2012-2016
Assistant Professor of Development Economics
University of Göttingen (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) (more details)
2012-2016
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Global Health
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
2011-2012
Instructor
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
2009-2011
Research Fellow
Harvard University
Center for Population and Development Studies
2009-2012
Research Fellow
University of Hanover (Leibniz Universität Hannover)
Institute of Macroeconomics
2009-2009
Ph.D. (Dr. rer. pol.) in Economics
University of Göttingen (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) (more details)
2006-2006
2005-2005
Prizes
- Science Award of the German Society of Health Economics (jointly with his Team)
- KfW Development Bank Prize for Excellence in Applied Development Research
- German National Merit Scholar (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
Fellowships
- German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Fellowship
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University of Göttingen (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
Göttingen, GermanyFounded in 1737, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen is a research university of international renown with strong focuses in research-led teaching. The University is distinguished by the rich diversity of its subject spectrum particularly in the humanities, its excellent facilities for the pursuit of scientific research, and the outstanding quality of the areas that define its profile. From 2007 to 2012 Georg-August-Universität Göttingen was rewarded funding from the Initiative of Excellence of the German Federal and State Governments with its institutional strategy for the future entitled “Göttingen.Tradition – Innovation – Autonomy”. The University was able to realise all measures of the concept. Now Göttingen University develops the successfully established measures further to continously advance the University’s positive developments in research and teaching. (Source)
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Lifestyle and demographic changes have led to diabetes becoming increasingly prevalent in rich and poor countries alike. In this video, SEBASTIAN VOLLMER assesses the global economic burden of diabetes. Going beyond previous studies in its recognition of the differing costs relating to such chronic conditions in both high and low-income countries, the research concludes that the economic burden of diabetes amounts to almost 2% of global GDP. With further work providing insight into how costs are likely to develop in the coming decades, Vollmer’s research helps policymakers to identify ways to reduce the economic burden of diabetes.
LT Video Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.21036/LTPUB10651
The Global Economic Burden of Diabetes in Adults Aged 20–79 Years: A Cost-of-Illness Study
- Christian Bommer, Esther Heesemann, Vera Sagalova, Jennifer Manne-Goehler, Rifat Atun, Till Bärnighausen and Sebastian Vollmer
- The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology
- Published in 2017
Diabetes and Hypertension in India: A Nationally Representative Study of 1.3 Million Adults
- Pascal Geldsetzer, Jennifer Manne-Goehler, Michaela Theilmann, Justine I. Davies, Ashish Awasthi, Sebastian Vollmer, Lindsay M. Jaacks, Till Bärnighausen and Rifat Atun
- JAMA Internal Medicine
- Published in 2018
Global Economic Burden of Diabetes in Adults: Projections from 2015 to 2030
- Christian Bommer, Vera Sagalova, Esther Heesemann, Jennifer Manne-Goehler, Rifat Atun, Till Bärnighausen, Justine Davies and Sebastian Vollmer
- Diabetes care
- Published in 2018
Geographic and Sociodemographic Variation of Cardiovascular Disease Risk in India: A Cross-sectional Study of 797,540 Adults
- Pascal Geldsetzer, Jennifer Manne-Goehler, Michaela Theilmann, Justine I. Davies, Ashish Awasthi, Goodarz Danaei, Thomas A. Gaziano, Sebastian Vollmer, Lindsay M. Jaacks and Till Bärnighausen
- PLoS Medicine
- Published in 2018
