Resumé
Research Focus
Dr. Anna Reuter is an Economist in the area of Global Health. She works on issues of health behavior, especially the decision to seek care. She designed and implemented several primary data collections in Indonesia, including a randomized controlled trial on the impact of text messages on the uptake of preventive health care. In further projects, she applies quasi-experimental methods and machine learning.
Career
Dr. Anna Reuter holds a bachelor degree in Economics and Political Science as well as a master degree in Development Economics from the University of Göttingen. During her Master studies, she conducted an ERASMUS semester at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (Netherlands). She completed her doctoral studies at the DFG-funded graduate school 1723 “Globalization and Development” at the University of Göttingen in 2022, with field research stays in Aceh, Indonesia, in 2017/18 and 2019. Since July 2021, she works as a researcher at the Heidelberg Institute of Global Health. During the winter term 2023/24, she works as a parental leave replacement at the Professorship of Global Health.
Publications
Reuter, A., Smolić, Š., Bärnighausen, T., Sudharsanan, N. (2023). Predicting missed health care visits during the COVID-19 pandemic using machine learning methods: Evidence from 55,500 individuals from 28 European Countries. BMC Health Services Research, 23, 544.
Reuter, A., Bärnighausen, T., & Kohler, S. (2023). Chapter 37: Global Ageing and Health. In: Bloom, D.E., Sousa-Poza, A., Sunde, U. (Eds.). The Routledge Handbook of the Economics of Ageing, Routledge International Handbooks. Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY.
Reuter, A., Bärnighausen, T., & Vollmer, S. (2022). Parental health, children's education and unintended consequences of state support: Quasi-experimental evidence from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (No. 291). Discussion Papers. Courant Research Centre: Poverty, Equity and Growth, Göttingen.
Reuter, A., Rogge, L., Monahan, M., Kachapila, M., Morton, D. G., Davies, J., & Vollmer, S. (2022). Global economic burden of unmet surgical need for appendicitis. British Journal of Surgery, 109(10), 995-1003.
Marcus, M.E., Reuter, A., Rogge, L., Vollmer, S. (2021). The Effect of SMS Reminders on Health Screening Uptake: A Randomized Experiment in Indonesia (No. 284), Discussion Papers. Courant Research Centre: Poverty, Equity and Growth, Göttingen.
Kuber, A., Reuter, A., Geldsetzer, P., Chimbindi, N., Moshabela, M., Tanser, F., Bärnighausen, T., Vollmer, S. (2021). The effect of eligibility for antiretroviral therapy on body mass index and blood pressure in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Scientific Reports, 11, 14718.
Chavarría, E., Diba, F., Marthoenis, M., Marcus, M., Reuter, A., Rogge, L. & Vollmer, S. (2021). Knowing versus doing: Protective health behavior against COVID-19 in Aceh, Indonesia. Journal of Development Studies, 57(8), 1245-1266.
Reuter, A., Vollmer, S., Aiyub, A., Susanti, S. S., & Marthoenis, M. (2020). Mental distress and its association with sociodemographic and economic characteristics: Community-based household survey in Aceh, Indonesia. BJPsych Open, 6(6), e134.
Deichmann, U., Reuter, A., Vollmer, S., & Zhang, F. (2019). The relationship between energy intensity and economic growth: New evidence from a multi-country multi-sectorial dataset. World Development, 124, 104664.