Research Fellow in Health Economics (NIHR ARC North Thames and UCLPartners Academic Health Science Partnership)

NIHR ARC North Thames works together with its university, NHS, local authority, patient, charity and industry partners to identify the key health and care problems. We design innovative research in response and rapidly put findings into practice across our region and beyond. UCLPartners is one of the largest academic health science partnerships in the world, bringing together 17 NHS Trusts, 5 Higher Education Institutes and 3 Integrated Care Systems in North East London, North Central London and Mid and South Essex. It’s role is to accelerate research translation and innovation adoption to transform outcomes in priority areas, reduce inequalities and improve the health of our population. We are seeking to appoint a Health Economist Research Fellow to work with both NIHR ARC North Thames and UCLPartners.

The post holder will be responsible for developing and strengthening the ARC and UCLPartners’ expertise, by applying appropriate and innovative health economics research methods to evaluate health, social care and population health interventions and policies with a particular focus on national upscaling and implementation research. Duties will include undertaking research to understand the needs of decision makers; collaborating with partners and key stakeholders; bringing research teams together; leading/supporting proposal development, research delivery, and dissemination; leading/supporting grant applications to prestigious funders; contributing to our ARC Academy training programme.

You will have a PhD in health economics, or equivalent research experience, and will be expected to conduct high quality academic research, using health economics research methods, to evaluate complex health interventions in the UK NHS. You will have experience of undertaking economic evaluations of health care interventions (including modelling) and writing health economic analysis plans, including obtaining ethical and research governance approvals for research. A proven ability and commitment to carry out high quality original research, ability to manage and analyse routine data using analysis software (Excel, STATA) is required. Experience in collaborating with healthcare or public health professionals in research is essential, and you will have experience developing and delivering successful research grant funding applications, and a good peer reviewed publication record. Ability to manage time, appropriately prioritise workload and work to deadlines across several tasks and projects is essential.

A job description and person specification can be accessed at the bottom of this page. If you have any queries about the role, please contact Dr Elena Pizzo e.pizzo@ucl.ac.uk If you need reasonable adjustments or a more accessible format to apply for this job online or have any queries about the application process, please contact s.mutyasira@ucl.ac.uk. The UCL Ways of Working supports colleagues to be successful and happy at UCL through sharing expectations around how we work – please visit www.ucl.ac.uk/ways-of-working to find out more. As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, staff at UCL have access to some great benefits. Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/reward-and-benefits to find out more.

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