postdoctoral researcher

Beacon; United States; Remote; USD 46,000 - 84,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

CAO-NU benefits

Work from home option

Bicycle budget

Job summary

Erasmus School of Economics invites applications for a postdoctoral researcher position within the BEACON-HD project, focusing on economic and equity analyses of telemedicine and community-based medication delivery for hypertension and diabetes in Sub-Saharan Africa.

The 36-month postdoc (90% research, 10% teaching) is based in the Department of Applied Economics, with fieldwork in Rwanda and Uganda and collaboration across Europe. Salary ranges from €3,706 to €6,682 per month under CAO-NU.

Qualifications

• Completed PhD (or near completion) in health economics, development economics, economics, econometrics, or related field.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills with knowledge of economic evaluation methods (cost-effectiveness modelling).
• Proficiency in statistical programming (Stata, R).
• Excellent written and spoken English.
• Ability to work independently within a large, international consortium.
• Willingness to travel to Rwanda and Uganda for fieldwork and meetings.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and contribute to BEACON-HD field experiment design, data collection, analysis and interpretation with consortium partners.
• Lead data collection quality assurance and analysis on costs, resource use, and outcomes with in-country partners.
• Build and extend a decision-analytic (Markov) model to estimate cost-effectiveness from public health system perspectives in Rwanda and Uganda.
• Lead budget-impact analysis on short- and medium-term financial implications of scaling up strategies.
• Lead equity-modelling to assess health outcomes across socioeconomic groups and contributions to universal health coverage.
• Co-author peer-reviewed publications and present findings at international conferences.

Skills

Analytical skills

Statistical programming

English proficiency

Independent work

Travel willingness

Education

PhD in health economics

Tools

Stata

R

Job description

BEACON-HD is an international, Horizon Europe-funded research project testing two promising strategies - telemedicine with self-monitoring and community-based medication delivery - to strengthen primary health care systems and improve the management of hypertension and type 2 diabetes in rural Rwanda and Uganda. As a postdoctoral researcher, you will play a leading role in the economic and equity analyses within this large-scale field experiment, working closely with an international consortium of health economists, clinicians and implementation scientists. Join us to help generate the evidence needed to make chronic disease care more effective, efficient and fair in low-resource settings., Are you interested in leading applied research within a large-scale field experiment aimed at improving the management of chronic disease in low-resource settings? Do you want to help make healthcare delivery more effective, efficient and equitable for people living with hypertension and diabetes in Sub-Saharan Africa? We offer a post-Doc opportunity for 36 months (90% research, 10% teaching) within BEACON-HD, a large EU Horizon Europe-funded international consortium project. BEACON-HD is testing two promising implementation strategies, telemedicine with self-monitoring and community-based medication delivery, through a large-scale field experiment in rural Rwanda and Uganda. The project combines this field experiment with qualitative, behavioral and economic research to understand not only whether these strategies work, but how, for whom, and at what cost. As a postdoctoral researcher, you will take a leading role in the economic and equity work package, working closely with the project's PI and the wider consortium.

• 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 our 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

This postdoc position combines field-based data collection and analysis with decision-analytic modelling and applied econometric work. It offers the opportunity to generate new methodological and empirical insights into the evaluation of health-system-strengthening strategies, helping to guide fairer and more efficient healthcare policy in low- and middle-income countries.

Qualifications

Must-haves

• A completed PhD (or a PhD close to completion) in health economics, development economics, economics, econometrics, or a closely related discipline.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills, with knowledge of economic evaluation methods such as decision-analytic or cost-effectiveness modelling.
• Proficiency in statistical programming (e.g., Stata, R).
• Excellent written and spoken English, with the ability to communicate complex ideas clearly.
• Ability to work independently on a research agenda while collaborating within a large, multidisciplinary, international consortium.
• Willingness to travel to Rwanda and Uganda for fieldwork and consortium meetings.

Nice-to-haves

• Demonstrated experience conducting research in development economics or health economics.
• Hands-on experience designing and/or implementing fieldwork or field experiments, ideally in low- and middle-income country settings.
• Familiarity with Markov modelling, budget-impact analysis, or equity-weighted economic evaluation.
• Prior research experience in Sub-Saharan Africa or other global health / global development contexts.
• Experience working with trial or field-experiment data.
• Interest in contributing to broader project tasks beyond one's own work package, within a large international consortium.
• A track record of, or clear potential for, publishing in high-impact peer-reviewed journals.

Benefits

We offer you an internationally oriented and varied job in an enthusiastic team, with excellent working conditions in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities (CAO-NU).

The start date of this position is 1 January 2027 and you will be based at the department of Applied Economics at Erasmus School of Economics (ESE). This position is for 1,0 fte. The salary is dependent on your experience and knowledge and ranges from a minimum of € 3.706 (scale 10) to a maximum of € 6.682 gross per month (scale 11) on a fulltime basis (38 hours), in accordance with the CAO-NU. This postdoc position offers a total duration of 3 years.

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