Health Economist

Overview

In this Economist role at UKHSA, you will build the agency’s economic evidence base and capability to support evidence-based decision making on health priorities. You’ll work with epidemiologists and data scientists to assess costs and benefits of health threats and interventions, leveraging large-scale data and literature reviews. You will develop economic evaluations and contribute to policy-relevant analyses, using government standards like Green Book or Aqua Book, with opportunities to learn data analysis and programming. You’ll shape the organisation’s use of economics and its role in health security.

Pay / Benefits

• Hybrid working
• Flexible working opportunities
• Core HQ in London location
• Salary £46,310–£52,113 per year

Responsibilities

• Apply economic methods to estimate and communicate costs of interventions and health threats
• Lead a research programme and develop new approaches to health questions
• Produce cost-benefit, cost-effectiveness, and related economic outputs for policy decisions
• Develop the agency’s economic capacity and lead on economics within UKHSA
• Support risk assessments and planning for health threats and their economic impact
• Contribute to building an inclusive and collaborative economics community at UKHSA
• Engage with senior stakeholders and communicate high-quality analyses and recommendations
• Collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams (epidemiologists, data scientists, public health experts) to advance public health economics

Key requirements

• First or second class honours degree in economics or related field (or postgraduate degree in a numerate discipline)
• Ability to communicate analysis results to senior stakeholders
• Good interpersonal skills and stakeholder relationship management
• Excellent presentation skills

• Effective communication to senior audiences
• Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management
• Interdisciplinary collaboration
• Econometrics
• Cost-benefit analysis
• Cost-of-illness analysis

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