Research Fellow – Health Economics

Job No.: 643149

Location: 553 St Kilda Road, Melbourne and Turning Point, 110 Church Street, Richmond

Employment Type: Full-time 

Duration: 2-year fixed-term appointment with the possibility of extension

Remuneration: $104,185 – $123,720 pa Level B (plus 17% employer superannuation)

• Be inspired, every day
• Drive your own learning at one of the world’s top 80 universities
• Take your career in exciting, rewarding directions

There’s a certain feeling you get from working at Monash University. It’s the feeling that you’re a part of something special. Something significant. So if you’re looking for the next chapter in your career, it’s here. You’ll be given the opportunity to challenge yourself, build on your skills, and make a significant contribution to a workplace that’s filled with energetic and inspiring people. Talent thrives here – and so do truly satisfying careers.

The School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine is committed to our vision of Health and wellbeing for all people and communities. We are one of the largest schools of public health in the Asia Pacific region. Through generating and synthesising impactful evidence, supporting the strengthening of our health systems and informing and transforming policy and practice, we can help overcome the health challenges being faced across Australia and more broadly. To learn more about the Faculty, please visit www.monash.edu/medicine .

The Opportunity

We are looking for a passionate and dedicated researcher to undertake economic analyses related to the economics of addiction and substance misuse as well as economic evaluation methods and analyses more generally. This fellowship is a joint venture between the Monash University Health Economics Group within the SPHPM and Turning Point, Australia’s leading national addiction treatment, training and research centre, and part of Eastern Health Clinical School.

The Research Fellow will lead and contribute to original research around economics, economic evaluation and priority setting. Including analyses related to service use and costs, trial based economic evaluation, modelled economic evaluations and burden of disease (cost of illness) research, with the potential to develop and advance the methods used in economic evaluations. 

About you:

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• A doctoral qualification in the relevant discipline (i.e., health economics or equivalent qualifications in health services research or epidemiology) or a closely related field
• A track record of refereed research publications, using advanced statistical analysis (including biostatistical techniques)
• Demonstrated project management skills with the ability to supervise, mentor and support the development of research staff and postgraduate students

This role is a full-time position; however, flexible working arrangements may be negotiated.

Your application must address the selection criteria. Please refer to  “How to apply for Monash Jobs “.

We encourage applications from First Nations people, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with disabilities, neurodiverse people, and people of all genders, sexualities and age groups.

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Enquiries

Professor Cathy Mihalopoulos, School of Public Health & Preventive Medicine, +61 3 9903 0920

Position Description

 Research Fellow – Health Economics

Closing Date

Sunday 4 December 2022, 11:55pm AEDT

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