The Minister of Health has been officially promoted to a doctorate in economics and finance. The topic of his dissertation is hospital restructuring.

Author: Beata Pieniążek-Osińska • Source: Rynek Zdrowia • Added: October 2, 2025 20:12 • Updated: October 2, 2025 20:20
Minister of Health Jolanta Sobierańska-Grenda announced on social media that her doctoral dissertation had been officially promoted. The ceremony took place on Thursday (October 2) at the University of Gdańsk. The dissertation focused on the Pomeranian restructuring model.
The Minister of Health, Jolanta Sobierańska-Grenda, boasted on her social media profile about her official promotion to a doctorate in Economics and Finance at the University of Gdańsk.
As she explained, the defense of the thesis took place in November, but the official promotion took place only today on the occasion of the inauguration of the academic year at the Faculty of Management of the University of Gdańsk.
"Today is the final straw. The defense took place in November, but today Rector Piotr Stepnowski officially promoted me. When I received my doctoral degree in Economics and Finance at the University of Gdańsk in November, I wrote: 'The dissertation concerned the Pomeranian model of restructuring hospitals belonging to the Pomeranian Voivodeship government, implemented since 2011. The final stage was possible thanks to the patience of Professor Anna Zamojska in guiding me through the scientific and econometric arcana. The many hours spent talking, reading, analyzing, and discussing were priceless – they cannot be counted,'" wrote Jolanta Sobierańska-Grenda.
She also wrote several reflections, including:
- "It's good that my dissertation concerned processes that I had the pleasure of co-creating in my professional life for many years, because otherwise I wouldn't have made it to the end. The motivation was to parameterize the effects of decisions made (which were repeatedly questioned), and this is where econometric models came in handy, models I had no idea existed when I was restructuring hospitals (...)".
She added that she is glad that "the doctorate coincided with the discussion on further reforms in the healthcare system, because it describes the effects of specific solutions that were implemented in Pomerania, maybe it is worth taking advantage of them."
She dedicated her doctorate to "all those who implemented the restructuring processes in Pomerania, making risky decisions whose consequences were only predictable at the time. Without you, there would be nothing to write about."
The Rector of the University of Gdańsk, Prof. Dr. hab. Piotr Stepnowski, also announced the official promotion on his social media profile.
"Today, at the inauguration of the academic year at the Faculty of Management at the University of Gdańsk, I had the honor of promoting a doctor – our Minister of Health, Jolanta Sobierańska Grenda. Jola – the University of Gdańsk is keeping its fingers crossed for you and for the reforms you are implementing. Congratulations once again to all the doctors promoted today and their supervisors!" he wrote.
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