"Research Fellow X3 (109137-0524)"

For informal enquiries, please contact Professor Kat Rock (Lead Principal Investigator - HAT MEPP Group) at k.s.rock@warwick.ac.uk or Dr Emily Crowley (HAT MEPP Scientific Project Manager) at emily.crowley@warwick.ac.uk. 

The Mathematics Institute at Warwick is looking to appoint up to three Research Associates (RAs) or Postdoctoral Research Associates (PDRAs) for an exciting new opportunity to develop a career in infectious disease health economics within one of the UK’s leading groups for between 6-10 months (finishing on or before 30th April 2025).

This opportunity will allow post-holders to experience the economics of decision analyses for infectious diseases as part of the HAT Modelling and Economic Predictions for Policy (HAT MEPP) group, multidisciplinary research group working with key partners to develop regional, policy ready models and results that support decision-makers in the national sleeping sickness control programmes.

The roles will focus on the evaluation of future strategies, with a specific focus on health economics (decision-making and resource allocation), for the vector-borne infection, gambiense human African trypanosomiasis (gHAT or sleeping sickness) targeted for elimination of transmission by 2030. Whilst the posts are short, it is expected that the successful candidates will be assigned a specific project component that will result in a first- or second-author publication in a peer-reviewed journal which also has an impact on HAT strategy.

The roles provide an exciting opportunity to develop skills in science communication, the complex analysis of datasets, adapting health economic models, programming and optimisation problems, and cost-effectiveness analyses (CEAs) within a supportive and friendly environment. It is expected that the CEAs will be conducted in R, however the team also use Matlab and C++ for transmission modelling aspects of this project.

About You  

It is a role suitable to those who have worked or have a desire to work in health economics and have a BSc and/or a Master’s degree in Mathematics, Economics, Operational Research or another subject with a substantial quantitative component or (for the PDRA role) a PhD in Health Economics or Mathematical Modelling.

We particularly encourage applicants with a strong quantitative background and interest in the field who wish to develop their skills in health economics to apply. Some knowledge of health economics is desirable but not essential for the role.

If you have not yet been awarded your PhD but are near submission or have recently submitted your PhD, any offers of employment will be made as Research Assistant on level 5 of the University grade structure (£32,982 pa).

Upon successful award of your PhD and evidence of this fact, you will be promoted to Research Fellow on the first point of level 6 of the University grade structure (£33,966 pa).

For those who have not completed a PhD or who are not near submission, offers of employment will be made as a Research Assistant on level 5 (from £29,605 pa).