Economists & Senior Economists
Office of Health Economics
London - United Kingdom
S: A competitive salary
The Office of Health Economics (www.ohe.org) wishes to recruit well-qualified, highly motivated and energetic economists, with particular strengths in the economics of health, health care, and/or the life sciences industry. We are particularly interested in receiving applications from economists with the following specialisms in industrial organisation, microeconomics and econometrics
The economists will contribute to all three of the OHE's core activities:
ï‚·peer-reviewed research
ï‚·consultancy
ï‚·advising the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI)
The OHE is a London-based, not for profit, economic research and consultancy organisation, founded in 1962. Our scope is international and our client portfolio spans all three sectors: public, private and charitable. OHE's work covers a broad range of analyses into the economics and policy of four related areas:
incentivising quality–for example, assessinghow incentives, payments and reimbursement mechanisms can influence quality, behaviours and performanceeconomics of innovation –for example, understanding how new models of innovation can help streamline development, reduce costs and speed patient benefit
judging value for money and improving decision making –for example, assessing the value of health care through the use of cost-effectiveness thresholds
measuring and valuing outcomes –for example, valuing health using stated preference techniques such as discrete choice experiments
The main purpose of the economist role is to undertake and present analyses on topics in one or more of ourareas of specialismin all three core OHE activities, i.e. research, consultancy, and advice to the ABPI. This involves working with OHE colleagues, academic collaborators, the ABPI and other clients, and with external stakeholders. Candidates must have:
ï‚·a good first degree, majoring in economics, orï‚·a postgraduate qualification in economics or health economics;
ï‚·thorough knowledge of the application of economics to the at least one of the four areas of specialism described above;
ï‚·practical experience of research and/or consulting;
ï‚·demonstrable ability to research, write and present clearly argued analyses in fluent English within tight deadlines
.The UK government currently enforces restrictions on granting non-European Economic Area citizens the right to work in the UK. If you are not an EEA citizen, please specify in your application if you currently have the right to work in the UK.