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October 31, 2008
Health Economist: The Swiss Tropical Institute
Location: Basel, Switzerland
Closing date: 31 October 2008
The Swiss Tropical Institute is seeking to recruit a health economist to carry out research on the economic evaluation of malaria control strategies as part of the team working on simulation models of malaria epidemiology and control. Applicants should have completed /almost completed a Ph.D. in health economics, economics or a related discipline.
The position is based in Basel, Switzerland, in a highly interdisciplinary international environment and will be supported initially for 2 years, with a possibility of extension for a longer period.
The person recruited would have scope to develop and coordinate an economic research agenda within the modeling group. Areas of interest would include:
- Strengthening the link between cost-effectiveness outcomes and the simulation of scenarios for major malaria control interventions singly or combined (e.g.case management; ITNs, IRS, IPT, vaccines) applied in different epidemiological and health system scenarios;
- Assist in refining the health economics conceptual approach, sensitivity analyses, expected value of perfect information (EVPI) and related analyses of the resulting model;
- Contributing to the debate on the economic implications of malaria eradication and elimination.
Other responsibilities would include:
- Supervising doctoral students working on health economics of malaria control.
- Teaching health economics at STI.
Applications, including curriculum vitae, names and addresses of three referees, should be sent by 31 October 2008 to Isabelle Bolliger, Personnel Officer, Swiss Tropical Institute, Socinstrasse 57, CH-4002-Basel, Switzerland, preferably as an email attachment (email: Isabelle.Bolliger@unibas.ch).
For further information please contact Prof. Thomas Smith (Thomas-A.Smith@unibas.ch).
