Resources and Opportunities

Career Opportunities
Mentoring Program
Fellowship Program
Funding, Publication
and Other Opportunities
EDI Resources
Health Economics
Training Programs

Career Opportunities

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Mentoring Program

IHEA initiated a mentoring program in 2019 to support early- and mid-career health economists in their professional development and personal wellbeing. Every year, there is a call for experienced health economists to volunteer to be mentors and for applications from IHEA members who would like to be mentees. As many mentee applicants as possible are matched with a mentor, based on common research interests and other preferences.

Would you like to participate as a mentor or mentee in IHEA’s mentoring program for early- and mid-career health economists?

The IHEA Mentoring Program supports early- and mid-career health economists in their professional development and personal wellbeing. Mentees are matched to mentors based on career goals versus experience, professional development needs versus skills, common research interests and other characteristics. The program consists of at least four meetings, usually via video call, over a one-year period. Since the program was started in 2019, it has grown to nearly 100 mentor-mentee pairings per year.

We are calling for expressions of interest in being a mentor in the next round of the program, which will start in June 2026. There are many benefits of serving as a mentor, such as:

Being able to share valuable knowledge with others, based on your experience
Helping the next generation of health economists to use and further develop their skills, and motivate and support them to fulfill their potential
Developing your communication, coaching and leadership skills
Providing an opportunity to reflect on your own practice.

Mentors should have at least seven years post-graduation experience; our mentees are looking for mentors who have more experience than they do, and particularly that mentors are working independently and are taking on some management or leadership roles.

We are also calling for applications from IHEA members to participate as mentees. While the program may be of particular interest to early-career health economists (currently studying or within 7 years of graduation), it is also of benefit to mid-career health economists who are working more independently and assuming more responsibility for supervision, managing research teams and other leadership activities.

Mentee applicants must be current IHEA members to be eligible. In the event that we cannot identify mentors for all prospective mentees, first-time applicants will take priority. Please note that you should be highly motivated, willing to take responsibility for contacting and following up with your mentor, and willing to invest time in preparing for and reflecting on meetings with your mentor.

You can apply to participate in the program by completing the relevant (mentor or mentee) form, available below.

Applications close on Monday, April 27, 2026 at 21:00 UTC.

*Please login to complete the Mentee Survey. For members only.

Fellowship Program for research support to early career health economics researchers

A new Fellowship Program was launched by IHEA in 2025, made possible by funding from the Canadian Centre for Health Economics (CCHE/CCES) and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC/CRDI).

This Program pairs an early-career researcher (ECR) with an experienced researcher for support throughout a research project, over the period of a year to a maximum of 18 months. Support is provided from the phase of identifying a research question and developing a proposal, through data collection and analysis, to writing up and disseminating research findings. It is a research mentoring program for early career researchers who do not currently have senior support, and is envisaged as a collaborative relationship between the research mentor and mentee. It is distinct from IHEA’s professional development mentoring program. An award of USD5,000 will be provided for each Fellowship mentee-mentor pair.

The call for the next round of the Fellowship Program will be released in 2026.

About the Fellowship Program

Eligibility Criteria for Research Mentees
Eligibility Criteria for Research Mentors
Focus of the Research Project
Submission and Selection Process
Nature of the Fellowship Award and Expected Outputs
Fellowship Awards in 2025

The Program is particularly targeted at ECRs who are based in institutions that do not have experienced health economists who could provide such research support. Priority will be given to ECRs based in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Research mentees should either:

Have completed a Master’s degree in health economics, or economics, and plan to enroll for a doctoral program; or
Be a recent health economics Doctoral graduate (preferably within two years of graduating) and not holding a Post-Doctoral Fellowship.

Those currently registered for a master’s or doctoral program are not eligible to apply.

Mentors should have at least 5 years of independent research experience and must have research mentoring experience. Mentors should, in particular, be skilled in advising on identifying appropriate research questions.

Mentors should also have experience of collaborative research in countries and with institutions other than where they are based. As most mentees are likely to be from LMICs, experience of collaborative research with LMIC colleagues is important. Experienced researchers who do not have LMIC experience but are wanting to build ethical collaborative research relationships with LMIC colleagues, will be considered. Health economists from the diaspora are particularly encouraged to apply to be mentors, given their familiarity with the country and regional contexts from which mentees are likely to come.

Research undertaken as part of the Fellowship Program can be on any topic within the field of health economics. However, the research must be conducted in the country in which the mentee is based and must be relevant and of importance in that country’s context. Research of policy relevance is particularly encouraged.

Given the 12 to 18-month timeframe, the use of secondary data sources is encouraged. However, research projects that require limited primary data collection will be considered.

Applications for the first round of the program have now closed.

There is a two-stage application process. In the first stage, those interested in being a research mentee or mentor fill in an application form via this webpage when the call for new applications is issued. This information is used to screen applications against the criteria listed above and to identify appropriate mentor-mentee matches.

Where an appropriate mentor-mentee match of eligible applicants is identified, the pair will be requested to work together to develop a brief research proposal and work plan for the Fellowship within 4-6 weeks of being paired.

The draft proposal includes:
- Clear research question
- Motivation of the relevance of this research question in the country context and the expected contribution of the research
- Initial proposal on methodological approach, including data sources and analytical methods
The work plan includes:
- Gantt chart outlining activities and timeframe
- Outline of collaborative approach, including means of communicating, regularity of meetings, agreement on co-authorship of outputs, etc.
- Planned outputs, particularly publications and conference presentations
- Planned use of Fellowship financial Award (budget)

This second stage of the application process is used to select Fellowship Program participants.

The first six Fellowship Awards were made in 2025.

The Fellowship award is a fixed amount of USD5,000. The mentee and mentor will agree on how these funds would best be used, which may include a visit by the mentor to the mentee’s institution or vice versa to work intensively together on the research project, for the purchase of project related software or datasets, publication or conference expenses, etc. The funds may not be used for salary cover for either the mentee or mentor. The funds will be issued in tranches according to the timeline for different activities and when funds will be required. Administrative processes for these tranches will not be onerous.

In addition, mentors and mentees will be awarded complimentary registration for the next IHEA Congress. If the mentee is from an LMIC, additional financial support to attend the Congress may be feasible.

Mentees and mentors will indicate the outputs planned, which should include a financial report on how the Fellowship funds were used, at least one article in a peer-reviewed journal and presentation at the next IHEA Congress. A special session(s) will be organized at the Congress for the presentation of fellowship research findings. Mentees and mentors will also be asked to advise others attending the Congress who are interested in participating in the Fellowship Program.

IHEA congratulates the six early career researchers and their mentors who were selected for the 2025/26 Fellowship Program.

Fellow: Shabbir Ahmed, University of Engineering & Technology – Karachi, Pakistan

Mentor: Bruno Ventelou, Aix-Marseille School of Economics, France

The Impact of Devolution on Efficiency and Equity: Evidence from Pakistan’s Health Sector.

Fellow: Grace Armijos Bravo, Universidad de Especialidades Espíritu Santo, Ecuador

Mentor: Lei Si, Western Sydney University, Australia

Compulsory Contributions to Social Security and Health Care Use Among Female Domestic Workers: The Case of Ecuador.

Fellow: Lewoye Bantie Baylie, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia

Mentor: Femi Ayadi, University of Houston-Clear Lake, USA

The Effect of Education on Teenage Fertility and Child Health: Evidence from the 1994 Universal Primary Education Policy in Ethiopia.

Fellow: Chinelo Obi, University of Nigeria Enugu Campus

Mentor: Julie Abimanyi-Ochom, Deakin University, Australia

Modelling the Economic and Health System Implications of US HIV Funding Withdrawal from Nigeria: Implications and Mitigation Strategies.

Fellow: Robinson Oyando, KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kenya

Mentor: Stéphane Verguet, Harvard University, USA

The Distributional Consequences of Increasing Tobacco Excise Taxes in Kenya: An Extended Cost-Effectiveness Analysis.

Fellow: Olga Saweri, Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research

Mentor: Najmeh Moradi, Newcastle University, UK

Breast Cancer Screening in Papua New Guinea: An Investment Case for a Countrywide Screening Program

Funding, Publication and Other Opportunities

Information on requests for grant funding proposals, calls for special issue journal contributions and similar opportunities will be posted here and regularly updated. Please share information on such opportunities by emailing ihea@healtheconomics.org.

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Virtual Visitor Program:

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Melbourne Health Economics (MHE) has established a Virtual Visitor Program to support PhD students and early career researchers from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) to participate online, free of charge, in our academic activities.

The first round of the program (2023–2024) resulted in sustained research collaborations and multiple academic outputs. For example, a study on out-of-pocket costs and financial catastrophe of patients with cancer in Bangladesh, led by Dr Abdur Sarker at the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS), in collaboration with Associate Professor An Duy Tran at MHE, has been published in the International Journal of Equity in Health. Other collaborative projects focus on cost-effectiveness of automated insulin delivery systems for individuals with type 1 diabetes; catastrophic health expenditures and medical impoverishment; the costs of kidney dialysis; and the relationship between health-related quality of life and productivity loss.

Virtual visitors also reported substantial benefits from engaging with MHE, including improved research skills and the development of new research directions. Building on this success, we are launching the second round, focused on virtual visitors based in LMICs in Asia, for a six‑month period in 2026.

What the program offers

During engagement period, virtual visitors will be able to:

Attend workshops, seminars and online short courses delivered by the Melbourne Health Economics (MHE)
Meet the team and explore opportunities for mentoring and research collaboration
Present their work and receive feedback in our Work-in-Progress Seminar series
Receive guidance to apply for competitive PhD or early career scholarships at the University of Melbourne.

Eligibility

Applicants must:

Be an academic staff member with experience in doing health economic research at a university or not-for-profit research institute in a LMIC (defined by World Bank) in Asia
Hold a Master’s degree or higher in Economics, Health Economics, Health Care Management, Public Health, or Health Services Research
Have reliable internet access suitable for video meetings
Demonstrate fluency in English (for example, IELTS overall score 6.5+; internet-based TOEFL test score 81+, or having completed a full-time Master program where 100% of classes were English)

Application requirements

To apply, please submit the following:

Cover letter (maximum one page) describing your motivation to be a virtual visitor and your vision for future collaboration with Melbourne Health Economics
Curriculum vitae (maximum two pages)
One example of a research output related to health economics, such as an academic paper, a report or a thesis chapter that you have authored

Please combine all documents into a single PDF file named:

[FirstName]_[Surname]_Application

and email it to:

health-economics@unimelb.edu.au

with the subject line:

“Virtual Visitor Program Application”

by 30 April 2026

Applicants whose research interests and outputs align closely with Melbourne Health Economics’ research areas will be given priority (see the Melbourne Health Economics website for details of our current research).

Planned activities

While specific activities for this round will be confirmed closer to the start date, planned activities include:

Online workshop “Decision Analytic Modelling in R”, provided by Associate Professor An Duy Tran (June 2026).
Webinar “Methods for analysing healthcare resource use and costs”, provided by Dr Li Huang (August 2026)

Enquiries

For more information or inquiries, please contact:

Associate Professor An Duy Tran

Program Lead, Virtual Visitor Program

Email: an.tran@unimelb.edu.au

EDI Resources

Many universities and other institutions are seeking to promote equality, diversity and inclusion in their organizations and activities, and have developed policies and guidelines which may be helpful resources for others pursuing these goals. We provide links to a few such resources developed by some universities. We will update this list as more materials come to our attention (please send us information on useful resources), and will add ones developed specifically by and for IHEA.

Examples of EDI policies and strategies with links to practical implementation information

Diversity and inclusion in teaching

Organizing inclusive events

Fair Recruitment

University College London Guidance

Disability guidance

Macquarie University Access and Inclusion Strategy

Religion and belief guidance

LGBTQ+ resources

Detailed reports, blogs and related resources

Issues related to publishing

Statement of Principles from Health Economics Editorial Boards

Health Economics Training Programs

A wide range of health economics training programs are offered by a growing number of universities around the world. Those offered by IHEA University members are listed below (by region and country/territory in alphabetical order). Become an IHEA University member to include your course information in this listing.