Lecture: The future of the US healthcare system

Find out more about the background to US healthcare policy in Prof. Ezekiel Emanuel's lecture. His analysis is clear: the US healthcare system is not currently fulfilling any of its five central objectives. What's more, the Trump administration is actively trying to dismantle the existing system. But even without this political backlash, Emanuel says there is an urgent need for reform: the entire healthcare system in the United States not only needs to be overhauled, but fundamentally redesigned.

The on-site event is free of charge if you register in advance.

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Ezekiel Emanuel is a leading international oncologist, health policy expert and bioethicist. He is a special advisor to the WHO Director-General, has advised the Obama, Biden and Trump administrations in the US and played a key role in shaping Obama's Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare"). Emanuel was the founding director of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health and is considered the world's most cited bioethicist with over 350 scientific publications and 15 books.

In a special edition of the IGEM External Speaker Series, the Institute for the History and Ethics of Medicine at TUM is cooperating with the TUM Think Tank. In a one-hour lunch talk, you will have the opportunity to meet Ezekiel Emanuel in person and learn more about US health policy first-hand.