Sophia Sgraja, M.A.

research associate

Research focus Health Economics and Health Policy

Phone +49 (0)511 532 5417

Professional background

01/2023
Research Assistant, Institute of Epidemiology, Social Medicine and Public Health Research, Hannover Medical School

10/2021-12/2022
Student Assistant, Institute of Epidemiology, Social Medicine and Public Health Research, Hannover Medical School

04/2021-12/2022
Research assistant, inav - private Institute for Applied Health Services Research GmbH

02/2021-07/2021
Student assistant, Association of University Hospitals (VUD)

Stays abroad

02/2025 - 08/2025
Visiting Researcher, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Vancouver, Canada & remote

01/2017-08/2017
Semester abroad, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain

08/2011-08/2012
Exchange year, Formosa, Argentina

Education

since 2023
Doctorate Public Health (Dr. PH), Hannover Medical School

04/2022-11/2022
Master's thesis, German Alliance Climate Change and Health, Berlin

10/2019-11/2022
M.A. Economics and Law, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg

2014-2019
LL.B. Law, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Georg-August-University Göttingen

Projects

HeartGap - Gender Health Gaps in guideline-oriented inpatient cardiology care and implementation strategies to reduce them
Benefits and Acceptance of Digital Health (NADI): International experiences, options for action and patient preferences
Evaluation of the Primary Care Platform (PPV), Gesundheit Österreich GmbH

Teaching

Seminar Social Medicine and Health Economics in the module Public Health II in the model study program Human Medicine (HannibaL) at Hannover Medical School
Seminar Management in Module 5 of the Public Health study programmes at Hannover Medical School
Seminar Health Policy in Module 6 of the Public Health study programmes at Hannover Medical School
Organization of the annual health policy excursion to Berlin for students of the Master's degree course in Public Health at Hannover Medical School

Publication

Kraft L, Brecher A-L, Sgraja S, Amelung VE (2025). Germany: Integrated Care as a Competitive Strategy for Health Insurance Companies. In: Amelung V, Stein V, Suter E, Goodwin N, Balicer R, Beese AS. (eds) Handbook of Integrated Care. Springer, Cham. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25376-8_115-1

Mollenhauer J, Sgraja S, Seeland U, Kloepfer M, Amelung VE, Kurscheid C (2025). Multifarious approaches of implementation to transfer gender sensitivity in health care practice: A scoping review. BMC Health Services Research, 25, 825. doi.org/10.1186/s12913-025-13032-w

Sgraja S, Mollenhauer J (2025). Health in the context of gender differences. In: Kurscheid C, Balke-Karrenbauer N, Mollenhauer J (eds). Health economics and health services science. Springer Reference Nursing - Therapy - Health. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-66798-9_23-1

Sgraja S, Schwarz M, Burgmann S, Dick D, Stigler F, Wachabauer D (2025). Structures of the Austrian healthcare system. In: Kurscheid C, Balke-Karrenbauer N, Mollenhauer J (eds). Health economics and health services science. Springer Reference Nursing - Therapy - Health. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. S 1-15. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-66798-9_85-1

Sgraja S, Hügel MG (2024). Climate, environment and health - health care science and health policy interrelationships. In: Kurscheid C, Balke-Karrenbauer N, Mollenhauer J (eds) Health economics and health services science. Springer Reference Nursing - Therapy - Health. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-66798-9_24-1

Sgraja S, Mollenhauer J, Kloepfer M, Seeland U, Kurscheid C, Amelung V (2024) Gender health gaps in guideline-based inpatient cardiovascular medical and nursing care and implementation strategies to reduce the gap (HeartGap): A mixed methods study protocol. PLoS ONE 19(4): e0301732.

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0301732

Abstracts

Dukuray M, Katzmarzyk D, Sgraja S, Klawunn R and Amelung VE (2025). Cost, benefit and outcome dimensions of economic evaluations of digital nursing technologies in outpatient and long-term inpatient care: A scoping review. In: Lahmann, Nils, Sandra Strube-Lahmann, Steffen Dißmann, Nicole Freitag, Alina Unkart, Susan Vorwerg-Gall, and Pflegepraxiszentrum Berlin (eds.). Conference proceedings of the seventh Cluster Conference 2025, p. 78, Berlin. March 11-12, 2025.

Brecher AL, Kraft L, Sgraja S, Amelung VE (2024). International case studies on success and failure factors in the implementation and use of digital health tools. Healthcare 2024; 86(S 05): 314-315. doi: 10.1055/s-0044-1794308.

Kraft L, Brecher AL, Sgraja S, Amelung VE (2024.) Digital health tools in international comparison: case studies on success and failure factors for implementation and use. Health - together. Cooperation conference of the German Society for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS), German Society for Social Medicine and Prevention (DGSMP), German Society for Epidemiology (DGEpi), German Society for Medical Sociology (DGMS) and the German Society for Public Health (DGPH). Dresden, 08-13.09.2024. Düsseldorf: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House; 2024. docAbstr. 496. doi: 10.3205/24gmds799

Kraft L, Brecher A-L, Sgraja S, Amelung VE (2024). International case studies: success and failure factors for digital transformation in healthcare. European Journal of Public Health. 2024; 34(Suppl 3). https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckae144.1193

Sgraja S, Mollenhauer J, Amelung VE (2024). Breaking the Gender Gap: Measures to implement gender-sensitive care. Health - together. Cooperation conference of the German Society for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS), German Society for Social Medicine and Prevention (DGSMP), German Society for Epidemiology (DGEpi), German Society for Medical Sociology (DGMS) and the German Society for Public Health (DGPH). Dresden, 08-13.09.2024. Düsseldorf: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House; 2024. docAbstr. 594. doi: 10.3205/24gmds307

S Sgraja, J Mollenhauer, U Seeland, M Kloepfer, C Kurscheid, V Amelung (2024). Closing the Gap: Implementing Gender-Sensitive Care to Address Healthcare Disparities, European Journal of Public Health, Volume 34, Issue Supplement_3, November 2024, ckae144.607. doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckae144.607