Resumé
Research focus
Dr. Manuela Fritz is a postdoctoral researcher at the Professorship of Global Health since June 2024. Within the scope of her DFG-funded research project “Mercury Rising”, she investigates the health consequences of climate change and the relationship between climate shocks and investment decisions for climate adaptation measure. As part of this project, she is also affiliated with the Professorship for Public Policy for the Green Transition (Prof. Florian Egli).
Her research interests lie in the area of development and health economics, as well as the intersection with public health. As part of her dissertation, she was involved in the EU-Horizon project SUNI-SEA, which researched cost-effective measures to prevent chronic diseases in Vietnam, Indonesia and Myanmar.
Manuela works in particular with microeconomic and econometric methods and uses, among others, insurance data, social network data, geodata, climate simulation and health simulation models as well as primary data collected via household surveys or lab-in-the-field experiments.
Scientific career
Manuela completed her Bachelor degree in International Cultural and Business studies at the University of Passau, with an exchange semester at the RMIT University in Ho-Chi-Minh-City, Vietnam. Afterwards, she completed a Master in Development Studies with a specialization in Economics, also at the University of Passau. She completed her PhD as part of a joint doctoral program at the University of Passau and the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Before joining the team at TUM, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Groningen.
Publications
Fritz M. Temperature and non-communicable diseases: Evidence from Indonesia’s primary health care system. Health Economics. 2022; 31(11), 2445-2464.
Fritz M. Wave after wave – Determining the temporal lag in Covid-19 infections and deaths using spatial panel data from Germany. Journal of Spatial Econometrics. 2022; 3, 9.
Fritz M & Fromell H. How to dampen the surge of non-communicable diseases in Southeast Asia: Insights from a systematic review and meta-analysis. Health Policy and Planning. 2021; 37(1), 152-167.
Fritz M, Grimm M, Keilbart P, Laksmana DD, Luck N, Padmanabhan M, Subandi N & Tamtomo K. Turning Indonesia organic: Insights from transdisciplinary research on the challenges of a societal transformation. Sustainability. 2021; 13(23), 13011.