Global Health Econ Postdoc: Equity & Cost-Effectiveness

Medical Delta Living Lab Better In Better Out; Beacon; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

BEACON-HD invites applications for a postdoctoral researcher to lead cost‑effectiveness and equity analyses within a large EU Horizon Europe consortia project. You will combine field data collection with econometric work and decision‑analytic modelling to evaluate telemedicine and community medication delivery in rural Rwanda and Uganda.

The position offers a 36‑month, 90% research and 10% teaching split, working with international partners to generate evidence on efficient and equitable chronic

Responsibilities

• Contributing to and helping coordinate the BEACON‑HD field experiment, from the design of data collection instruments to implementation, analysis and interpretation of results, in close collaboration with consortium partners across Europe, Rwanda and Uganda.
• Leading the collection, quality assurance and analysis of data on costs, resource use and outcomes together with in-country partners, including field visits to Rwanda and/or Uganda.
• Building and extending a decision‑analytic (Markov) model to estimate the cost‑effectiveness of telemedicine with self‑monitoring and community medication delivery, relative to standard care, from the perspective of the public health systems in both countries.
• Leading a budget‑impact analysis assessing the short‑ and medium‑term financial implications of scaling up these strategies.
• Leading an equity‑modelling study evaluating how the implementation strategies affect health outcomes across socioeconomic subgroups, and their potential to contribute to universal health coverage.
• Co‑authoring peer‑reviewed publications and presenting findings at international conferences.
• Contributing to the day‑to‑day coordination of the work package

Skills

Data collection & analysis

Cost-effectiveness analysis

Decision-analytic modelling

Econometric analysis

Collaborative research

Job description

BEACON-HD invites applications for a postdoctoral researcher to lead cost‑effectiveness and equity analyses within a large EU Horizon Europe consortia project. You will combine field data collection with econometric work and decision‑analytic modelling to evaluate telemedicine and community medication delivery in rural Rwanda and Uganda.

The position offers a 36‑month, 90% research and 10% teaching split, working with international partners to generate evidence on efficient and equitable chronic