24 Oct
University of Birmingham
United Kingdom
Job Description:
Position Details
Department of Applied Health Sciences
Location: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK
Full time starting salary is normally in the range £35,880 to £45,163 with potential progression once in post to £47,874
Grade: 7
Full Time, Fixed Term contract up to September 2025
Closing date: 13th November 2024
Please note: We are advertising both Research Associate (104767) and Research Fellow (104734) however there is only 1 post available
Background
Sepsis is a major cause of maternal mortality worldwide, with the greatest burden borne by women in low- and middle-income countries. APT-Sepsis is a multi-national,
cluster-randomised study involving 60 hospital facilities across Malawi and Uganda. The APT-Sepsis programme is specifically designed for use in resource-limited settings and aims to change health care workers behaviours to ensure mothers get the best care possible to better prevent and manage infections. The study aims to evaluate the programme's effectiveness in reducing infection-related maternal mortality and severe morbidity, assess its implementation, and determine its cost-effectiveness.
We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic and capable researcher to conduct economic analysis as part of the APT-Sepsis study. The post-holder will analyse the costs and health outcomes associated with the APT-Sepsis programme, through undertaking an economic analysis based on the resource use, clinical outcomes and cost data collected from the study.
The post-holder will be based in the Health Economics Unit in the Department of Applied Health Sciences, supervised by Professor Tracy Roberts, and will work with a multi-disciplinary health.
Role Summary
The post holder will have a knowledge and experience of health economics in order to undertake a trial-based economic evaluation as appropriate and carry out appropriate analyses.
- Work within specified research grants and projects and contribute to writing bids
- Operate within area of specialism
- Analyse and interpret research findings and results
- Contribute to generating funding
- Contribute to licensing or spin out deals with demonstrated commercial success (such as revenues, asset or company sales, IP generated) and/or public understanding of the discipline or similar
Main Duties
- Review and critically appraise relevant economic literature
- Identify and collect appropriate cost data
- Estimate costs and conduct a trial-based economic evaluation
- Analyse and interpret research data as directed
- Apply knowledge in a way which develops new intellectual understanding
- Contribute to developing new models, techniques and methods
- Support the writing of reports and papers for publication
- Support the dissemination of research findings using appropriate and effective media, including publications in leading journals, presentation at conferences and meetings
- Develop research objectives and proposals for own or joint research, with assistance of a mentor if required
- Contribute to writing bids for research funding
- Supervise students on research related work and provide guidance to PhD students where appropriate to the discipline
- Deal with problems that may affect the achievement of research objectives and deadlines
- Undertake management/administration arising from research
- To a limited degree, support the HEU teaching programme, particularly in relation to the Masters programme in Health Economics and Health Policy/Econometrics
- Support any other appropriate activities that will help to achieve the objectives of the Health Economics Unit
- Contribute to enterprise, business development and/or public engagement activities of manifest benefit to the College and the University, often under supervision of a project leader
Person Specification
- A Masters degree in Health Economics and preferably a PhD (or one near to completion of a PhD in Health Economics)
- Evidence of a high level of quantitative skills for health economic analysis
- Very good writing skills
- Good knowledge of health economics and research methods and techniques to work within the specified project
- Practical experience of statistical analysis of data including regression analysis
- Familiarity with STATA
- Ability to work to fixed deadlines
- Ability to work as a member of a team
- Ability to communicate complex information clearly
- Very good communication skills and confidence to deal with a variety of senior researchers and external project partners at project meetings and dissemination events
- Fluency in health economics methods and ability to contribute to developing new ones
- Ability to assess resource requirements and use resources effectively
- Understanding of and ability to contribute to broader management/administration processes
- Contribute to the planning and organising of the specified research projects and the future research programme
- Co-ordinate own work with others to avoid conflict or duplication of effort
Further particulars can be found
Informal enquiries to Eleanor Williams
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▶️ Research Fellow - Department of Applied Health Sciences - 104734 - Grade 7
🖊️ University of Birmingham
📍 United Kingdom