Research Assistant in Economic Evaluation and Healthcare Decision Modelling

We are looking for an enthusiastic and talented academic researcher who will focus on economic evaluation and decision modelling of healthcare interventions. This post is available immediately. This is an opportunity to join a thriving health economic research team with a commitment to supporting and developing its members and which offers excellent opportunities for career development. We have a wide portfolio of funded research projects which provides the opportunity to gain experience in a broad range of health economic methods and their application and further develop your own areas of expertise and interests.

The Unit’s research projects span a variety of therapeutic areas (including oncology, rheumatology, public and mental health) and we have developed key strategic relationships which will allow the pursuit of methodological research in technology appraisal. For example, we are part of the Leeds-based NIHR Diagnostics Evidence Co-operative (http://www.nihr.ac.uk/infrastructure/Pages/DECs.aspx) for which we have adopted a philosophy of decision modelling early in the development pathway for in-vitro diagnostics. We also work closely with the Medical Technologies Innovation and Knowledge Centre (http://www.medical-technologies.co.uk/) and the University of Leeds Stratified Medicine Hub (http://www.leeds.ac.uk/info/125114/stratified_medicine).

You will be expected to support the further development of our portfolio of research in evidence synthesis, technology appraisal and model-based economic evaluation. You must have experience or training in the quantitative and computational methods needed for decision modelling including competence with relevant software or programming tools. A suitable background might include economics, statistics, business, operations research, informatics, decision science or applied programming. Experience in health economics is desirable but not essential if you can bring alternative valuable skills to the position.

The University of Leeds is committed to providing equal opportunities for all and offers a range of family friendly policies (http://hr.leeds.ac.uk/homepage/4/policies). The University is a charter member of Athena SWAN and holds the Bronze award. The School of Medicine gained the Bronze award in 2013.  We are committed to being an inclusive medical school that values all staff, and we are happy to consider job share applications and requests for flexible working arrangements from our employees.

Informal enquiries regarding the post should be directed Professor Claire Hulme, Head of Unit, Academic Unit of Health Economics, Tel. +44 (0) 113 343 0875, Email: c.t.hulme@leeds.ac.uk.

If you have any specific enquiries about your online application please contact Sue Davis, Tel + 44 (0) 113 3430831, Email: s.davis@leeds.ac.uk

Interviews have been scheduled for Wednesday 12 October 2016.