Research Fellow in Health Economics (Nairobi, Kenya)

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is one of the world’s leading public health universities. Our mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working in partnership to achieve excellence in public and global health research, education and translation of knowledge into policy and practice.

The Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology & International Health is seeking to appoint a Research Fellow to conduct an impact evaluation to measure how successful Food for Education (F4E) school feeding program (SFP) has been on the nutritional and educational outcomes of primary school children in Nairobi County. The post-holder will support the health economics and financing workstream of this research, including data collection. A key output will be to conduct cost effectiveness, cost-benefit, and value for money analysis of the SFP. The role will involve compiling a set of resources and creating new learning materials.

The successful candidate must have a postgraduate degree, ideally a doctoral degree, in a relevant topic and have experience in advanced statistical analyses in R, STATA or Python. Relevant experience in performing cost effectiveness analysis and health financing, including contributing to value for money case studies in the health care sector of under resourced settings, with government policy engagement is also essential. Further particulars are included in the job description.

The post is full-time 35 hours per week, 1.0 FTE and fixed-term for 12 months (with the latest possible end date 31 May 2026). The post is funded by the Child Investment Fund Foundation and The ELMA Philanthropies and is available immediately.

The salary will be on the Academic Pathway salary scale, Grade 6 in the range £44,847 - £50,808 per annum (inclusive of London Weighting). The post will be subject to the LSHTM terms and conditions of service.  Annual leave entitlement is 30 working days per year, pro rata for part-time staff. In addition to this there are discretionary “Wellbeing Days”. Membership of the Pension Scheme is available. The post is based in London at LSHTM.

Applications should be made by clicking the 'Apply' button above. Online applications will be accepted by the automated system until 10pm of the closing date. Any queries regarding the application process may be addressed to jobs@lshtm.ac.uk. Please quote reference EPH-EPIH-2025-04.

The supporting statement section should set out how your qualifications, experience and training meet each of the selection criteria. Please provide one or more paragraphs addressing each criterion. The supporting statement is an essential part of the selection process and thus a failure to provide this information will mean that the application will not be considered. An answer to any of the criteria such as "Please see attached CV" will not be considered acceptable. 

Please note that if you are shortlisted and are unable to attend on the interview date it may not be possible to offer you an alternative date.

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