Dr. Christoph Strupat
Department
Transformation of Economic and Social Systems
Function
Project Lead & Senior Researcher
Specialization
Economy
Work areas
- Global Health
- Health economics
- Social Protection
- Insurance schemes
- Impact evaluation
Regional expertise
- Africa
- East Asia
- South Asia
Vita
| since 1/2018 | German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) Researcher, Research Department "Transformation of Economic and Social Systems" |
| 5/2015-12/2017 | German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) Researcher, Department "Sustainable Economic and Social Development" |
| 5/2015-7/2015 | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) External Consultant (Pakistan) Project: "Performance-based financing schemes in the public sector“ |
| 6/2014-4/2015 | University of Duisburg-Essen, University of Heidelberg Postdoctoral Researcher |
| 6/2013-5/2014 | University of Duisburg-Essen, Chair of Health Economics Research Assistant |
| 10/2010-2/2014 | RWI Essen and Ruhr Graduate School in Economics Doctorate in Economics (PhD), Thesis Title: “Microeconometric Evaluations of Health and Infrastructure Interventions in Developing Countries” |
| 3/2011-3/2012 | Rheinisch- Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI) Research Assistant |
| 9/2011-11/2011 | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) Consultant (Ghana) Project evaluation "Industrial zone development“ |
| 10/2009-9/2010 | Post-graduate Program at Ruhr Graduate School in Economics (Scholarship) Post-graduate lectures in Econometrics, Microeconomics, and Macroeconomics |
| 1/2009-7/2009 | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) Intern/Consultant (Ghana) Good Financial Governance Program |
| 10/2003-11/2008 | Ruhr-University Bochum Master of Science (Diplom) in Economics |
Awards
- Scholarship award, Ruhr Graduate School in Economics (RGS econ), 2009-2013
Member of
- Head of the Committee "Development Cooperation" at the German Health Economics Association
- Member of the Research Group on Development Economics at the German Economic Association
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of SOPHEA project (Strengthening One and Planetary Health in Eastern Africa)
Refereed Publications
- Wamalwa, Phidelis / Christoph Strupat / Edmund Yeboah / MaryBennah N. Kuloba / Boniface Mbuthia / Manuela De Allegri (2025)
Do free healthcare policies play a role in expanding national health insurance enrollment among informal sector workers? The case of the Afya Care pilot program in Kenya
in: BMC Public Health 25, article 3610 - Kuloba, MaryBennah N. / Christoph Strupat / Thit Thit Aye / Phidelis N. Wamalwa / Judy Gichuki / Benjamin Tsofa / Manuela De Allegri (2025)
Establishing the effect of COVID-19 lockdown policy on the resilience of facility-based delivery in Kenya: a multi-method study
in: BMC Health Services Research 25, article 1014 - Alfvén, Tobias / Angela Y. Chang / Hanna Ohm Cleaver / Anna-Katharina Hornidge / Steven L. B. Jensen / Eirik Mofoss / Fride Nordstrand Nilsen / Ole F. Norheim / Marco Schäferhoff / Martin Siegel / Christoph Strupat (2025)
Responses to the Third Lancet Commission on Investing in Health from Denmark, Germany, and Norway
in: The Lancet Regional Health – Europe 56, article 101377 - Strupat, Christoph / Emmanuel Nshakira-Rukundo / Arndt Reichert (2025)
The impact of shock-responsive social cash transfers: evidence from an aggregate shock in Kenya
in: Journal of Development Studies, first published 28.05.2025 - Strupat, Christoph / Divya Parmar / Swati Srivastava / Stephan Brenner / Diletta Parisi / Susanne Ziegler / Rupak Neogi / Caitlin Walsh / Manuela De Allegri (2023)
Effects of the Indian National Health Insurance Scheme (PM-JAY) on hospitalizations, out- of-pocket expenditures and catastrophic expenditures
in: Health Systems & Reforms 9 (1), article 2227430 - Parisi, Diletta / Swati Srivastava / Christoph Strupat et al. (2022)
Awareness of India’s national health insurance scheme (PM-JAY): A cross-sectional study across six states
in: Health Policy and Planning 38 (1), 289-300 - Strupat, Christoph (2022)
Social protection and social cohesion in times of the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from Kenya
in: European Journal of Development Research, 34 (3), 1285 - 1307 - Strupat, Christoph / Zemzem Shigute / Arjun S. Bedi / Matthias Rieger (2022)
Willingness to take COVID-19 vaccination in low-income countries: evidence from Ethiopia
in: PLoS ONE 17(3), e0264633 - Alkesandrova, Mariya / Daniele Malerba / Christoph Strupat (2021)
“Building Back Better” through social protection
in: Bündnis Entwicklung hilft, Bochum: Ruhr University Bochum – Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict, 33-37 - Strupat, Christoph / Gabriela Farfan / Laura Moritz / Mario Negre / Renos Vakis (2021)
Obesity and food away from home: what drives the socioeconomic gradient in excess body weight?
in: Economics & Human Biology 43, article 101048 - Strupat, Christoph (2021)
Effects of social protection on health
in: Esther Schüring / Markus Loewe (Hrsg.), Handbook on Social Protection Systems, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 608–620 - Strupat, Christoph / Paul Marschall (2021)
Strengthening social systems
in: OECD Development Co-operation Report 2020: learning from crises, building resilience, Paris: OECD Publishing, 195 - 200 - Garcia-Mandico, Silvia / Arndt Reichert / Christoph Strupat (2021)
The social value of health insurance: results from Ghana
in: Journal of Public Economics 194, article 104314 - De Allegri, Manuela / Swati Srivastava / Christoph Strupat et al. (2020)
Mixed and multi-methods to evaluate implementation processes and early effects of the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana Scheme in seven Indian states
in: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17 (21), article 7812 - Burchi, Francesco / Armin von Schiller / Christoph Strupat (2020)
Social protection and revenue collection: how they can jointly contribute to strengthening social cohesion
in: International Social Security Review 73(3), 13-32 - Shigute, Zemzem / Christoph Strupat / Francesco Burchi / Getnet Alemu / Arjun S. Bedi (2019)
Linking social protection schemes: the joint effects of a public works and a health insurance programme in Ethiopia
in: The Journal of Development Studies 56 (2), 431-448 - Strupat, Christoph / Florian Klohn (2018)
Crowding out of solidarity? Public health insurance versus informal transfer networks in Ghana
in: World Development 104 (4), 212-221 - Strupat, Christoph (2017)
Do targeted reproductive health services matter? The impact of a midwife program in Indonesia
in: Health Economics (online first) DOI: 10.1002/hec.3465 - Strupat, Christoph / Jörg Peters / Maximiliane Sievert (2015)
Impacts of a micro-enterprise clustering programme on firm performance in Ghana
in: European Journal of Development Research 27 (1), 99-121 - Peters, Jörg / Christoph Strupat / Colin Vance (2014)
Television and contraceptive use: a weak signal?
in: Journal of Development Studies 50 (11), 1538–1549
Non-refereed Publications
- Reichert, Arndt / Anne Simon / Alina Sowa / Christoph Strupat (2025)
Matrilineal kinship norms and gender gaps in labor market outcomes
in: Hannover Economic Papers (738) - Strupat, Christoph / Sandul Yasobant / Srinivasa Srigiri / Saravanan Subramanian (2025)
Overcoming silos for One Health: key determinants of One Health governance platforms in low- and lower middle-income countries
(Discussion Paper 13/2025) - Strupat, Christoph / Marco Schäferhoff / Martin Siegel / Anna-Katharina Hornidge (2025)
Global health at a crossroads: policy recommendations in light of the Lancet Global Health 2050 Report
(Policy Brief 5/2025) - Strupat, Christoph / Emmanuel Nshakira-Rukundo / Arndt Reichert (2024)
The impact of shock-responsive social cash transfers: evidence from an aggregate shock in Kenya
Ruhr Economic Papers 1073, Essen: RWI Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - Strupat, Christoph / Pooja Balasubramanian / Srinivasa Srigiri / Anna-Katharina Hornidge (2023)
Gesundheitsfinanzierung in Zeiten von Mehrfachkrisen: Analyse und Empfehlungen
(Policy Brief 13/2023) - Strupat, Christoph / Pooja Balasubramanian / Srinivasa Srigiri / Anna-Katharina Hornidge (2023)
Health financing in times of multiple crises: analysis and recommendation
(Policy Brief 11/2023) - Leininger, Julia / Armin von Schiller / Christoph Strupat / Daniele Malerba (2022)
Policy responses to COVID-19: why social cohesion and social protection matter in Africa
(Discussion Paper 20/2022) - Strupat, Christoph (2022)
Economic effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on the informal economy: who has fallen into poverty?
in: Rudolf Traub-Merz / Manfred Öhm / Julia Leininger / Florence Bonnet / Henrik Maihack (eds.), A majority working in the shadows: A six country opinion survey on informal labour in sub-Saharan Africa, Bonn: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 41-48 - Strupat, Christoph / Emmanuel Nshakira Rukundo (2022)
The impact of social assistance programmes in a pandemic: evidence from Kenya
in: ZEF Discussion Paper (316) - Strupat, Christoph / Liz Grant / Maike Voss / Katharina Molitor / Sophie Gepp / Alexia Faus Onbargi / Saravanan Subramanian / Anna-Katharina Hornidge (2022)
Global transformation towards planetary health
in: T7 Task Force Global Health, 30.03.2022 - Strupat, Christoph (2021)
The preserving effect of social protection on social cohesion in times of the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from Kenya
(Discussion Paper 33/2021) - Leininger, Julia / Francesco Burchi / Charlotte Fiedler / Karina Mross / Daniel Nowack / Armin von Schiller / Christoph Sommer / Christoph Strupat / Sebastian Ziaja (2021)
Social cohesion: a new definition and a proposal for its measurement in Africa
(Discussion Paper 31/2021) - Stamm, Andreas / Christoph Strupat / Anna-Katharina Hornidge (2021)
Global access to COVID-19 vaccines: challenges in production, affordability, distribution and utilisation
(Discussion Paper 19/2021) - Leininger, Julia / Christoph Strupat / Yonas Adeto / Abebe Shimeles / Wilson Wasike (2021)
The COVID-19 pandemic and structural transformation in Africa: evidence for action
(Discussion Paper 11/2021) - Burchi, Francesco / Armin von Schiller / Christoph Strupat (2020)
Steuer- und Sozialpolitik: ein unterschätzter Beitrag zur sozialen Kohäsion
(Analysen und Stellungnahmen 4/2020) - Burchi, Francesco / Christoph Strupat / Armin von Schiller (2020)
Revenue collection and social policies: their underestimated contribution to social cohesion
(Briefing Paper 1/2020) - Strupat, Christoph / Gabriela Farfán / Laura Moritz / Mario Negre / Renos Vakis (2019)
Obesity and food away from home: what drives the socioeconomic gradient in excess body weight?
Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group (Policy Research Working Paper 9066) - Garcia Mandico, Silvia / Arndt Reichert / Christoph Strupat (2019)
The social value of health insurance: results from Ghana
in: World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 9004, Washington, DC: World Bank Group - Burchi, Francesco / Christoph Strupat (2018)
Unbundling the impacts of economic empowerment programmes: evidence from Malawi
(Discussion Paper 32/2018) - Shigute, Zemzem / Christoph Strupat / Francesco Burchi / Getnet Alemu / Arjun S. Bedi (2017)
The joint effects of a health insurance and a public works scheme in rural Ethiopia
Bonn: IZA - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA Discussion Paper Series 10939) - Beierl, Stefan / Francesco Burchi / Christoph Strupat (2017)
Economic empowerment pilot project in Malawi: qualitative survey report
(Discussion Paper 15/2017) - Burchi, Francesco / Christoph Strupat (2017)
Die Wirkung von cash transfers auf die Ernährungssicherung in Subsahara-Afrika: Fakten, Gestaltung und Umsetzung
(Analysen und Stellungnahmen 6/2017) - Burchi, Francesco / Christoph Strupat (2016)
The impact of cash transfers on food security in sub-Saharan Africa: evidence, design and implementation
(Briefing Paper 15/2016) - Strupat, Christoph (2016)
From protection to reduction? The impact of the public health insurance scheme on child labour in Ghana
(Discussion Paper 16/2016) - Strupat, Christoph (2014)
Does timing of health and family planning services matter? Age at first birth and educational attainment of women in Indonesia
Bochum: Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB), Department of Economics (Ruhr Economic Papers 503) - Klohn, Florian / Christoph Strupat (2013)
Crowding out of solidarity? Public health insurance versus informal transfer networks in Ghana
Bochum: Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB), Department of Economics (Ruhr Economic Papers 432) - Nguyen-Thanh, David / Christoph Strupat (2012)
Is the burden too small? Effective tax rates in Ghana
Bochum: Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB), Department of Economics (Ruhr Economic Papers 389)
Opinion Pieces
- Strupat, Christoph / Srinivasa Srigiri (2025)
Securing Germany’s Leadership in Global Health
Bonn: German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), The Current Column of 7 April 2025 - Strupat, Christoph / Remco van de Pas (2024)
The Road to an Equitable Pandemic Agreement
Bonn: German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), The Current Column of 7 May 2024 - Strupat, Christoph (2023)
How can climate-resilient health systems be successfully established?
Bonn: German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), The Current Column of 27 November 2023 - Strupat, Christoph (2022)
Achieving globally equitable vaccine supply
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), The Current Column of 21 February 2022 - Strupat, Christoph (2021)
The hidden value of social health insurance: breaking the intergenerational poverty trap?
published on poverty-unpacked.org, 24.02.2021 - Marschall, Paul / Christoph Strupat (2021)
COVID-19 vaccination for all!
German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), The Current Column of 1 February 2021 - Strupat, Christoph / Paul Marschall (2020)
How “One Health” can prevent pandemics
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), The Current Column of 29 April 2020 - Strupat, Christoph / Francesco Burchi / Daniele Malerba (2020)
Why social protection is crucial in the corona crisis
German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), The Current Column of 26 March 2020 - Burchi, Francesco / Christoph Strupat (2019)
What makes economic empowerment programmes successful? Experimental evidence from Malawi
Brasília: The International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (One Pager 423) - Strupat, Christoph (2019)
Modicare could help India’s poor population
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), (The Current Column of 11 March 2019) - Loewe, Markus / Strupat, Christoph (2017)
No stability without social protection
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), The Current Column of 23 October 2017 - Rudolph, Alexandra / Armin von Schiller / Christoph Strupat (2017)
Evidence for Learning – How to use impact assessments more effectively
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) (The Current Column of 2 October 2017)
Projects
- Gender inequality, child labor, and schooling: Evidence on social policies to mitigate the impact of economic shocks
- Fostering resilience through Health and Social Protection policies in times of multiple crises
- Social cohesion in Africa
- Impact assessment of the PMJAY Public Health Insurance Scheme in India
- Social cash transfers and their impact on households' investment decisions
- Social protection, food security and rural development
- Promoting food security in rural Sub-Saharan Africa: The role of agricultural intensification, social security and results-oriented approaches