Research Fellow in Health Economics (NIHR ARC North Thames)

About us

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.

About the role

The postholder will be responsible for developing and strengthening the ARC’s expertise by applying appropriate and innovative health economics research methods to evaluate health, social care and population h ealth interventions and policies with a particular focus on national upscaling and implementation research; including 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 fully to our ARC Academy training programme. The postholder will also support the ARC research teams in reviewing/advising on proposed study designs, to ensure that the methods proposed enable data collection for economic analyses and in orientating research outputs to those required in order to implement their findings into the health and care system. This role is fixed term until 31st March 2026.

About you

You will have a PhD in health economics, or equivalent research experience, and will be expected to conduct high quality academic research, using h ealth 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.

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