Join a research project focused on creating sustainable business models for digital disease prevention in Switzerland. You will lead a subproject that explores how digital precision prevention services can benefit individuals, insurers, providers, public authorities, and society. This temporary full-time position runs from May 2026 until September 2029.

• Lead and shape Subproject 5 on business model innovation for prevention
• Design and evaluate business models for upstream disease prevention
• Align incentives among insurers, providers, public authorities, and digital health companies
• Integrate prevention into existing reimbursement, tariff, and policy frameworks
• Assess economic viability, return on investment, and social impact
• Translate prevention from pilot projects into scalable, long-term solutions
• Work directly with Switzerland’s largest health insurers
• Collaborate with cantonal health authorities, hospitals, and provider networks
• Conduct co-design workshops, expert interviews, focus groups, and surveys
• Coordinate interdisciplinary partners across academia, industry, and the public sector
• Perform cost-benefit analyses, break-even calculations, and economic simulations
• Analyze insurer data, Swiss tariff systems, and prevention cost structures
• Evaluate value-based prevention and investment cases for insurers and public payers
• Study regulatory, reimbursement, and operational barriers to adoption
• Support pilot implementations of digital preventive interventions
• Analyze engagement, outcome, and adoption data
• Co-develop policy guidance and an open-access business model toolkit for national scale-up
• Contribute to dissemination via policy webinars and practitioner-oriented outputs
• Publish in international journals in management, digital health, and health economics
• Present findings at academic and practitioner conferences
• Complete a cumulative or monographic PhD dissertation at HSG

• Master’s degree from a qualified university with a minimum grade of 5.0 (Swiss grading system)
• Excellent proficiency in German and English
• Strong interest in health economics, health technology assessment, and economic evaluation
• Ability to coordinate and communicate with diverse stakeholders, including senior decision-makers
• High intrinsic motivation to work on interdisciplinary, applied research with societal impact