Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA
JEL Classification: I1 Health
Deadline Date: 02/8/2012

The Health Policy Resources Center is the analytic policy research department of the American Dental Association, producing policy reports, discussion papers, briefing notes and academic journal publications on a wide variety of topics that are critical to the dental profession. These include key forces driving trends in dentist incomes, estimating supply and demand for dental care in local areas, as well as the impact of alternative payment mechanisms, especially Medicaid, on access to dental care. The Center is the trusted source of data on the dental profession.

Position Responsibilities: The position’s main responsibilities include, but are not limited to, leading advanced economic analysis for critical policy issues identified in the Health Policy Resources Center research agenda; independently authoring or leading a team of co-authors in drafting reports and articles including peer reviewed policy journals; contributing to survey reports and survey activities by assisting in the design of questionnaires, development of strategies for data collection as well as improved response rates, designing sampling frames, analyzing data; supporting the Managing Vice President in day-to-day operations.

Requirements: The ADA is an Affirmative Action employer and has minimum requirements for all of its positions. This position has the following minimum requirements: Master’s degree in Economics or Ph.D. in progress with a focus on any of the following fields: labor economics, econometrics, health economics and applied microeconomics; minimum of 2 years experience; experience leading health policy research on a wide variety of topics using advanced economic techniques; working with large micro-data sets, designing surveys, sampling frames, cleaning and analyzing primary data; excellent written and oral presentation skills including a demonstrated ability to write in different styles including academic journals, briefing notes, non-technical summaries for non-economists (most notably dentists and policy makers); experience as lead author in publications; excellent knowledge of statistical programs such as Stata, SPSS, SAS, geo-mapping software; demonstrated ability to work in teams both as a team leader and as a contributing member; track record of peer-reviewed publications in health policy journals; demonstrated ability to manage research projects and staff.

Highly desirable skills include: Doctoral degree in economics; demonstrated experience leading large policy research initiatives that focus on oral health care policy including labor force activity of dentists, access to oral health services among vulnerable groups, conceptualizing and measuring demand and supply of dental care and dentist shortages, estimating demand for dental care in local market areas.

Please apply online via our website: http://www.ada.org/careers.aspx or direct correspondence to: American Dental Association, Attn: Human Resources PR#6296, 211 E. Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611.

Location: Santa Monica, California, USA
Application deadline: February 10, 2012

Overview

The RAND Postdoctoral Training Program in the Study of Aging enables outstanding junior scholars in demographic and aging research to sharpen their analytic skills, learn to communicate research results effectively, and advance their research agenda. Housed within RAND Labor and Population, the program blends formal and informal training and extensive collaboration with distinguished researchers in a variety of disciplines. Fellowships are for one year, renewable for a second. Each fellow receives a competitive annual stipend, travel stipend and health insurance.

Fellows must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents, and must have completed a Ph.D. (or its equivalent) in a relevant discipline before they begin the program. The RAND Fellows program is open to new scholars in the field of demographic and aging research, as well as individuals who already have research experience on these topics. For example, in some cases, fellows are on leave from an academic position so they can engage in research and writing full time, and extend their research agenda and funding base.

The Program gives Fellows a great opportunity to jump-start their research careers. After completing the program, RAND Fellows have taken positions at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, University of Virginia, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Minnesota, Johns Hopkins University, SUNY Stony Brook, the World Bank, and CDC, for example.

Advantages of the RAND Environment

RAND provides a distinctive environment for fellows in the program.

• RAND’s primary activity is research. The environment provides a rich variety of ongoing studies and an experienced staff of professional researchers with whom fellows can collaborate. The fellows also have the opportunity to interact with other scholars at RAND. In addition, each fellow will design and pursue an individual research program.
• RAND projects are typically interdisciplinary, bringing together, for example, economists, sociologists, psychologists, statisticians, and health professionals. Thus fellows can collaborate on research projects already under way that link population studies and aging research to other areas.
• RAND’s research in population and aging is distinguished by its scholarly orientation and by the productivity of its staff. The value and visibility assigned to publications increase the likelihood that fellows will produce scholarly articles, either individually or in collaboration with RAND staff.
• Fellows have full access to RAND’s research facilities. These include state-of-the-art computer hardware and software, a nationally acclaimed library, an extensive data facility that obtains and maintains research data bases, and special consulting and training services in computing, statistical analysis, and written and oral presentations.

Structure of the Program

Each fellow, in regular consultation with a staff adviser, will design a program that reflects his or her research needs and interests, and stage in their research career.

Formal Training. When appropriate, fellows may choose from a wide range of substantive and methodological courses in policy analysis offered by the Pardee RAND Graduate School. These include statistics, econometric methods, social science research methods, health policy analysis, and a number of other courses in applied policy analysis. In addition, members of the RAND Statistics Group, who have doctorates in statistics, offer a series of short courses on current topics of interest. Examples of recent courses include survival analysis, general linear models, regression diagnostics, and the analysis of cluster-sampled data. Fellows also enhance their experience in preparing and using large data bases. In addition, fellows can sharpen their communications skills by taking advantage of classes in effective writing and briefing for scientific and policy audiences.

Collaboration and Informal Training. Fellows benefit not only from formal education opportunities, but also from the opportunity to collaborate closely with senior researchers. The Research Profile of Training Staff (see below) shows the exceptionally broad analytic interests of the RAND staff. Typically, fellows work on two or three projects each year, including ongoing studies in collaboration with RAND researchers and studies of his or her own design.

Fellows broaden their informal interaction with the research staff by participating in several seminar series on topics concerning population and aging offered at RAND, at the University of California at Los Angeles, and at the University of Southern California.

Developing a Research Agenda. An important goal of the program is to help fellows enhance their careers as independent researchers. Staff advisers will mentor fellows in the preparation of presentations for professional meetings and papers for journal publication. In addition, fellows will be encouraged to design and submit a proposal for a research project to be conducted after leaving RAND. Fellows can sharpen the skills vital to preparing a successful proposal by drawing on the experience of senior staff and by taking advantage of classes on writing effective proposals.

Research Profile of Training Staff

The training staff includes both members of RAND’s permanent staff and academic consultants. The former are always available to fellows; the latter, who spend from several weeks to several months at RAND each year, enrich the training environment and extend the valuable informal scholarly network to which fellows have access.

The director of the Program in the Study of Aging is Nicole Maestas.

RAND Staff and Academic Consultants

Applications

The application deadline is February 10, 2012.

Applicants should submit a completed application form, curriculum vitae, two or more letters of recommendation, a sample of written work, and a statement of their research goals for the Fellows program. Application forms are available online (in PDF or in interactive format) or by writing to the address below. Members of the program’s steering committee will rank applications on the basis of academic performance, the match between the applicant’s research interests and those of the RAND staff, and the applicant’s ability to benefit from the program.

As part of RAND’s continuing commitment to affirmative action, members of minorities are encouraged to apply.

Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents

Begin the Application Process

For additional information, please contact:

Diana Malouf
RAND
1776 Main Street
Santa Monica, CA 90407-2138
(Postal code for overnight mail: 90401)

Email: malouf@rand.org

Telephone: Diana Malouf (310) 393-0411, ext. 6462

Other Opportunities

Individuals interested in health may also want to consider a post-doctoral training program that is jointly housed in the RAND Health Sciences program and the UCLA School of Public Health. See http://www.ph.ucla.edu/hs/post_doctoral.asp for more details.

Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Pharmaceutical Economics Research Group in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the University of Pittsburgh invites applications for a post-doc position in health economics/health policy. The successful candidate will participate in several federal-funded research projects evaluating the methods to cover medications to Medicare beneficiaries with mental disorders, racial and geographic variations in overall medication use and adherence, and their correlations with medical-care use. You are encouraged to develop independent projects along this line of research. This position can potentially be developed to a faculty position.

The position is open until filled and the start date is no later than July 2012. It is currently one-year but possible to be extended to second-year subject to 1st year productivity. Applicants should have a PhD, PharmD, MD or other advanced degree in health economics, health policy/services research, or pharmacoeconomics. The position requires excellent writing skills, strong background in health policy and economics, statistical/econometrics analysis, in the areas of pharmacy benefit design, cost-effectiveness analysis using large existing observational data. Please send cover letter indicating your research interests and how your interests match with the proposed research projects http://www.per.pitt.edu, CV, and names of 3-references to: Dr. Yuting Zhang ytzhang@pitt.edu.

Location: Dee Why, Sydney, Australia
Closing date: 12 Feb 2012

Make your mark. Improve lives.

Experience it for yourself. Everyday your contribution to our Health Economics team will influence patient outcomes.

The main focus of the Head of Health Economics and Pricing is to provide strategic vision, leadership and oversight of all departmental activities, ensuring optimal reimbursement and pricing of new products and indications. In this role, you will be working closely with key internal and external stakeholders including the Senior Management team, Global Health Economics and Pricing (GHEP), and the Department of Health and Ageing.

The main responsibilities in this key role include:

• Provide strategic direction for reimbursement and pricing of products.
• Ensure that PBAC/MSAC Submissions are completed within defined timeframes following receipt of the TGA dossier and according to Health Economics Standards.
• Participate as a member of the Senior Management Team to review and determine policy and direction for the business.
• Lead and motivate the Health Economics department to achieve operational excellence.
• Provide strategic and technical input to team members to achieve successful PBAC and MSAC Submissions.
• Approve all PBAC/MSAC Submissions.
• Represent company at meetings with Pharmaceutical Evaluation Branch, Medical Benefits Division, PBAC members and Government officials.
• Direct and manage pricing activities and risk sharing arrangements for new and marketed products to support products throughout their lifecycle.
• Manage Health Economics department’s budgets and resource requirements.

To be successful in this role you will have:

• Degree in Medicine, Pharmacy, Life Sciences or Economics, and preferably a post- graduate degree, with a minimum of 10 years of related experience including 3 years of management experience.
• Previous experience in Health Economics within a pharmaceutical or health organisation in Australia.
• Demonstrated leadership and people management skills.
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills.
• Demonstrated knowledge in pharmacoeconomics, economic analyses and design of prospective and retrospective outcomes research.
• Excellent communication skills, including oral presentations; at ease with external customers and KOLs.
• Ability to successfully negotiate with senior government officials.
• Ability to initiate and maintain effective interactions with cross-functional internal customers.

Sharing our passion for pioneering products, you’ll find yourself at home here, working with like- minded people looking to make their mark.

Please apply online by 5pm EDST, Sunday, 12 Feb 2012. For more information or an informal discussion about the role, you can call Jill Genelza on +61 2 9454 9692

Location: Cologne, Germany
Closing date: 12 Feb 2012

• Relocation paid for, 30 days holiday, 12% bonus and market leading salary.
• EU passport holders only.
• English speaking environment, no knowledge of German is needed.

Overview

• Lead and support worldwide statistical programming activities for assigned project area, for epidemiological projects.
• Function as lead statistical programmer or validation programmer with respect to all statistical programming activities for multiple epidemiological projects.
• Set-up and oversee an epidemiological project, and provide programming support to enable delivery of high quality statistical programming work product. Generate datasets and tables, figures, listings, and documentation to support publications, ad hoc requests, and regulatory submissions.
• Collaborate and Interface with project and clinical trials teams and other departments assigned to ensure delivery of high quality statistical programming services and work product.
• Provide input on and ensure respect to agreed timelines for projects assigned.

Major Accountabilities

• Lead statistical programming activities for assigned projects. Coordinate timelines and work product required to deliver high quality statistical programming services.
• Provide a high level of effective Collaboration for statistical programming initiatives with departments within Global Data Operations, and outside Global Data Operations (Global Biostatistics, Global Health Outcomes Research, Global Medical Writing, New Medicines, Global Clinical Operations, Therapeutic Areas, Global Medical Affairs and Affiliates, Publications Management) to facilitate understanding of statistical programming services and work product.
• Maintain knowledge and understanding of area of responsibility (pharmacoeconomics and epidemiology).
• Program, validate, maintain, and document statistical analysis programs for epidemiological projects on the basis of the Statistical Analysis Plan or the Protocol.
• Oversee and manage project related activities for statistical programming on epidemiological projects.,
• Ensure that analysis datasets, tables, figures, listings, statistical output, and program documentation meet standards requirements.
• Ensure that datasets, tables, figures, listings, and statistical outputs are produced in an efficient manner, following Global Statistical Programming procedures and standards.
• Lead the development of specification documentation for analysis datasets, tables, figures, listings, and associated metadata for epidemiological projects.
• Support direction, motivation, and oversight of statistical programming resources (internal and external) for timely delivery of all statistical programming deliverables. Mentor other statistical programmers as designated.
• Support development and rollout of new standards and processes with respect to own statistical programming operations team.
• Review Epidemiological protocols and related Statistical Analysis Plans and ensure that appropriate statistical methods are applied.

Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree required.
• Master’s Degree is an asset.
• A degree in Biostatistics, Epidemiology or Public Health is desirable

Experience

• At least 7+ years in Statistical Programming within the Biotechnology and/or Pharmaceutical Industry, including clinical research organizations.
• At least 4+ years experience in a multicultural and global pharmaceutical environment.
• At least 2 years experience within the field of Epidemiology

Specific Skills:

• Expert SAS Software Programming skills, including expert level DATA step, SQL and macro development, Output Delivery System (ODS), to solve complex programming tasks.
• Expert knowledge and demonstrated experiences with structured programming practices and principles.
• Advanced knowledge of statistical and epidemiological principles, including descriptive and inferential statistical (parametric and non-parametric) methods, survival analysis, logistic regression, and multivariable model development and validation.
• Ability to develop statistical programming tools to efficiently develop project specific analysis datasets, statistical programming systems and standard macros for efficient programming.
• Mentor and Coach Statistical Programmers.
• Superior communication skills to report activities, results, and processes to Managers, Heads and Directors. Includes excellent listening and comprehension skills, with the ability to feedback information received.
• Superior Command, both verbal and written, of English.
• Excellent leadership and collaboration skills to obtain action, consent, agreement or approval, when necessary.
• Ability to lead, develop and obtain co-operation within team environments in an effort to facilitate open communication and team effectiveness.
• Excellent project and time management skills.
• Independent decision making and implementation.

Problem Solving

• Superior level of analytical ability, exhibiting characteristics that are structured and methodical to ensure that sound, decisions are made.
• Able to use facts, data, measurements and to have a systematic approach to provide expert levels for solving complex statistical programming tasks and problems.
• Able to plan, perform, trouble-shoot and make decisions based on precedent, company policies, procedures, international and national regulations and Good Clinical Practice. All decisions must be weighed for strategic implications in all Global Data Operations departments and other Clinical Development Departments.
• Mature judgment skills to work accurately and efficiently toward quality results and to create new processes and procedures, when necessary.
• Proactive in evaluating trial and project reports to detect problematic issues.

Contact:

Jason Crawford
Jcrawford@juicegroup.com
+44 (0) 1727 867 772

Location: Soborg, Denmark
Closing date: 12 Feb 2012

Apply now

The two-year programme will consist of three rotations in different parts of the Novo Nordisk organisation whilst anchored in the Health Economics skill area within Global Development. The aim of the Health Economics Graduate Programme is to develop people through extensive practical health economic work with a strong focus on competencies such as analytical skills, communication, and project management skills.

What you’ll be doing

You will be given a broad range of responsibilities and experience a variety of projects from cross-departmental project work and stakeholder management and have assignments within identification of needs, specific analyses, reporting and potential publication of major findings.

You will get a unique insight into the full global development value chain of Novo Nordisk, and you will be part of a highly skilled and motivated international working environment, with dynamic teams, each of which are providing Novo Nordisk with a competitive edge and driving state of the art drug development.

Whilst taking on a broad variety of responsibilities, you will enjoy the privilege of being part of both formal and informal graduate networks. This will allow you to broaden your learning even further, while building your opportunities and relationships across the company.

Scope of the programme

The Health Economics Graduate Programme is tailored to ensure your full personal and professional development, accelerated by prioritised training and dedicated coaching from experienced colleagues.

The programme comprises three rotations during a two-year period. The first rotation will be in the Health Economics and HTA department, HQ in Denmark. The main purpose of this rotation is an introduction to the department’s areas of responsibilities and at least one of our key projects, and to gain hands-on experience e.g. assisting experienced staff in developing health economic strategies.

In the second rotation we normally send the graduate to one of our affiliates like USA, UK, China, or other. This will give the graduate insight into health economics work from a local perspective related to use and communication of results to external stakeholders and a better understanding of the collaboration between Novo Nordisk headquarter and local markets.

The third rotation will most likely take place in Novo Nordisk headquarter in a department with ties to Health Economics. Possible areas could be Global Stakeholder Engagement or Global Marketing. This will help build your network and showcase the importance of health economics within other areas in drug development and drug commercialisation.

Requirements

You are a top M.Sc. graduate with a degree in health economics, economics, public health, pharmaceutical/medical sciences, or other relevant fields. You have an international profile and a passion for learning. You are independent, flexible and efficient with a ‘can-do’ attitude. You have a high level of understanding of the practical implications of conducting health economics research. At the cutting-edge of a highly complex and innovative industry, you’ll also need to be good at cross functional collaboration, and have the ability to communicate your great ideas well. You must be prepared to invest significant personal effort to meet the expectations and you should proactively take ownership of your areas of responsibility.

Please apply in English, and add a scanned copy of your grade sheets.

please mark your application NN60691 Health Economics Graduate

Apply by joining Novo Nordisk’s Talent Community and applying online at http://www.novonordisk-jobs.com/job/Soborg-Health-Economics-Graduate-Job/1572680/?utm_source=ihea@utm_campaign=Novo_globalhealth

Job Segments: Economics, Finance, Healthcare, Medical, Pharmaceutical, Project Manager, Public Health, Research, Science, Technology

Location: Adelaide, SA, Australia
Reference number: 11381
Closing date: 13 February 2012

These two key positions represent an exciting opportunity to contribute to an expanding programme of health economics and health services research. It is expected that the Research Fellows will actively assist the Professor of Health Economics in the recently awarded nationally competitive National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) and Australian Research Council (ARC) projects, as well as enhancing the research profile in relation to:

• The development of health economics and health services research methods and applications in policy and practice;
• The Excellence in Research Australia Initiative (ERA);
• Strengthening capability in key research themes and areas of strategic priority.

The role requires experience and expertise in health technology appraisal.

• Flinders Clinical Effectiveness (School of Medicine), Repatriation General Hospital
• Available as a 3 year, full time appointment
• Salary: Research Academic Level B $76,188 to $90,471
• Plus 17% employer superannuation
• Applications close: 11am, Monday 13 February 2012

For a confidential discussion and further information, please contact Professor Julie Ratcliffe from Health Economics, Flinders Clinical Effectiveness, School of Medicine, Flinders University. Phone: (08) 8275 2858 or Email: julie.ratcliffe.@flinders.edu.au

Full details including how to apply on-line can be found at our Jobs@Flinders website: http://www.flinders.edu.au/employment.

Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Submission Deadline: February 13, 2012
website: http://www.crich.ca/education.php

ACHIEVE is aimed to equip new researchers with the competencies necessary for closing the gap between measuring inner city health inequities and reducingthem. The program has two main foci:

• Population Health and Health Services Interventions Research
• Community Engagement, Partnerships, and Knowledge Translation

Information and Eligibility:

• PhD completed within the past 3 years OR Health professional degree + Master’s level degree (Master’s degree completed within the past three years)
• 2 year term: September, 2012 - August, 2014
• Stipend: Based on CIHR guidelines for qualified candidates
• Fellows are required to complete all training program components within the two years
• 3-5 Fellows may be accepted for the 2012-2014 term
• Fellows are required to work onsite in Toronto, Canada

Aboriginal Health Priority Placement:

Priority placement will be held for a qualified Aboriginal applicant interested in pursuing research related to urban Aboriginal Health issues. Aboriginal applicants are encouraged to self-identify within their applications, and to describe their experience with Aboriginal community engagement and Aboriginal health knowledge. Candidates will be assessed on their knowledge of Indigenous approaches to health (broadly defined), their effectiveness and experience in Aboriginal community engagement, and their capacity to participate in and benefit from the ACHIEVE curriculum.

Important Dates:

Deadline to apply: February 13, 2012
Decision announcements: May, 2012

For More Information and to apply, go to http://www.crich.ca/education.php

A Canadian Institutes of Health Research Strategic Training Initiative in Health Research

at the

CENTRE FOR RESEARCH ON INNER CITY HEALTH
Keenan Research Centre, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute,
St. Michael’s Hospital
Toronto, Canada

Location: Shanghai, China
School: Public Economics and Administration
University: Shanghai University of Finance and Economics

Positions

The School of Public Economics and Administration at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (SHUFE) invites applications for tenure-track assistant, associate, and full professor positions. We seek candidates who specialize in health policy, hospital management, health insurance or economic evaluation of medical care. Successful candidates should demonstrate active research agenda that promise to generate high-quality publications. For more information about our school, please visit the following website: http://spea.shufe.edu.cn/structure/shouye.htm.

Qualifications

A Ph.D. in health policy and management or health economics, which must be received by the time of appointment. Candidates must be fluent in both Chinese and English.

Salary and Benefits

The University offers a competitive compensation package. Annual salary is commensurate with experience and qualifications. The starting salary for an assistant professor is around RMB 280k. Benefits include a housing allowance of RMB 240k (payable in three years); a one-time moving stipend of RMB 20k; travel reimbursement, RMB 10k/year, in the first three years; and a start-up research grant of RMB 30k/year in the first 3 years.

Application Deadline

Please have your cover letter, curriculum vitae, at least three letters of recommendation, sample publications, graduate transcripts, and teaching evaluations sent to: spea.shufe@gmail.com. To ensure full consideration, submit all materials online by February 15, 2012. Qualified candidates will be invited for an interview in March 2012.

Location: MidAtlantic, USA

I am an executive recruiter, identifying candidates for one of our clients who is adding an Associate Director to the HEOR team. This is an outstanding opportunity to have a major impact while working with a team of well-respected experts in Health Economics and Outcomes Research. As a growing company, there is significant opportunity to be part of an organization that has a young and balanced portfolio and a strong pipeline which can lead to tremendous personal growth. Advanced degree in Health Economics or related discipline plus 3-5 years industry experience is required. To learn more about this opportunity or to be considered, please contact Sue Meier at smeier@thinkingahead.com or 800.933.4092.

Location: Northeast USA

I am an executive recruiter in the Life Science and Medical Device industry. One of our clients is adding an Associate Director to their global HEOR team. You will be part of the Global Product Team with in-line products to verify consistency of HEOR strategy with commercial strategy. You will ensure that economic modeling supports product launch price and complete research to support product medical and marketing goals.

An advanced degree in Health Economics or related discipline is required as well as 5-7 years of direct experience. Relocation is available. To learn more about this opportunity or to submit your CV/resume for consideration, please email Sue Meier at smeier@thinkingahead.com or call 800.933.4092.

Location: Warwick, UK
Salary in the Range:
£37,012 - £44,166 pa for Assistant Professor
£45,486 - £52,706 pa for Associate Professor
(Additional market supplement available)
Closing date: 20 February 2012

Warwick Medical School wishes to appoint an ambitious and experienced academic to develop a personal research programme in health economics at one of the UK’s leading universities. Working with the Professor of Health Economics, you will contribute to the development of high quality economic analyses in the health care context, including economic evaluations alongside large Phase III clinical trials, and further develop and broaden the portfolio of health economic research.

You will also be encouraged to collaborate with colleagues in other departments of the University of Warwick with synergistic research activities. This may include colleagues in the University’s Economics Department, which is widely regarded as one of the top University Economics Departments in the UK and Europe in terms of its teaching and research, and colleagues in the Statistics Department who specialise in medical statistics. Potential areas of collaboration with colleagues in the Economics Department include the development of new approaches to the measurement and valuation of health and well-being, and the application of econometric techniques to health survey datasets.

The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to an MSc module on health economics, the teaching of the subject in the undergraduate medical curriculum and play a key role in the supervision of research degree students.

You will hold a PhD in a relevant subject and will have a significant academic track record.

Click here for further details of the post in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF).

Click here for an application form.

An application form must be completed if you wish to be considered for this post.

Informal enquiries are welcome and should be directed to Stavros Petrou; S.Petrou@warwick.ac.uk or 0044 2476 151124.

Minicom users can call 024 7615 0554 if they require any further help.

Please quote job vacancy reference number 34903-012.

The closing date/time for applications is midnight (British time) at the end of Monday 20 February 2012.

Location: York, UK
Closing date: 21 February 2012

Applications are invited for a research fellow position, to be appointed at Grade 6, within the Team for Economic Evaluation and Health Technology Assessment, based at the Centre for Health Economics (CHE) at the University of York. You will contribute to CHE’s programme in economic evaluation and health technology assessment. You will work on a range of applied and methodological projects including decision analytic modelling, statistical analysis of individual patient data, evidence synthesis and value of information analysis. This research is likely to relate to a range of funding streams including research programmes for the Department of Health and NICE (through the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR)), and project work for the NIHR.

You will hold a higher degree in Health Economics, Economics or another quantitative subject.

More details of the Centre can be found at http://www.york.ac.uk/che, and the team at http://www.york.ac.uk/che/research/teehta/.

The post is available for 2 years in the first instance.

The closing date for applications is Tuesday 21 February 2012.

Location: London, UK
Closing date: 21 February 2012
Reference number: NM05

We are seeking an enthusiastic and experienced quantitative analyst with a background in statistics or econometrics to join a multi-disciplinary policy research unit.

The post-holder will contribute to both long and short term evaluations across a broad range of health services, public health and social care issues.

Salary is on the Academic Pathway scale Grade 7 (#41,477 - #47,502 per annum inclusive).

Applications should be made on-line via our website at: http://jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/

The reference for this post is NM05.

Any queries regarding the application process may be addressed to jobs@lshtm.ac.uk.

The closing date for this post is 21 February 2012.

Potential applicants may contact Bob Erens (tel: 020-7927 2784; email: Bob.Erens@lshtm.ac.uk) for an informal discussion of the post.

Location: Lisle, Illinois, USA
Reference number: 2034

SXC Health Solutions Corp. is redefining pharmacy benefit management by providing a broad range of pharmacy spend management solutions and information technology capabilities. Our product offerings and solutions combine a wide range of PBM software applications, application service provider (ASP) processing services, and professional services designed for many of the largest organizations in the pharmaceutical supply chain, such as pharmacy benefit managers, managed care organizations, self-insured employer groups, retail pharmacy chains, and state and federal government entities.

The Business Analyst is a position that performs tasks necessary for the support of the business needs of the SXC client. These individuals must be able to analyze the business needs of the client and identify the means for fulfilling those needs within the RxClaim application. This requires developing and maintaining an excellent working relationship with the client(s) and the team, in addition to possessing an excellent understanding of the industry and the various system solutions. The person will be the liaison between the client and the SXC development team to design solutions that meet the client’s business requirements.

The Business Analyst is adept at the art of client diplomacy and team relationship building, in addition to possessing sound project management skills to apply these attributes to meet the clients’ business needs. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Essential Job Functions:

• Embrace SXC Health Solutions’ and our client’s strategic direction, while maintaining an excellent understanding of SXC Health Solutions’ systems to further enhance our relationship with our client base.
• Assist in product development by participating in strategic planning and system design for product redesigns and major product enhancements.
• Meet weekly with product teams to keep updated with new software in development. Participate in client User Group meetings.
• Understand the role of the system in the big picture and provides ideas and recommendations regarding the evolution of the system.
• Provide resolution for SXC Health Solutions’ external client by investigation of client requests for enhancements and determination of solutions including system design and specification development.
• Respond to client’s questions and influence them regarding current and potential system inputs, processes, and outputs.
• Negotiate plans, time frames and trade-offs while ensuring client understands the final results of the project.
• Define user requirements and create design specifications.
• Maintain an ongoing knowledge of clients’ business.

• Assist in client product implementation.

• Must have excellent analytical, organizational, and interpersonal skills, as well as a strong background in pharmacy claims processing and the managed care industry. Prefer experience working within the PBM market, with understanding of pharmacy benefit plan structures, NCPDP standards, HIPAA regulations.

• Must understand the work flow of pharmacy claim processing, including Enrollment, Drug Utilization Review, Adjudication, Pricing, Payments/Billing, and, other features resident in a pharmacy benefit system
• Strong business knowledge of Pharmacy Benefit Systems and Drug benefit plan administration.
• Ability to review deliverables with external and internal users.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from clients, management and technical associates
• Ability to write reports and business correspondence
• Experience with various software products
• Excellent organizational, communication and analytical skills

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