Applications are invited for a health economist to work across two projects focused on preventing the spread of infectious disease. The postholder will co-lead the design and application of economic evaluations of interventions aiming to bridge social, behavioural and health action. The postholder’s role will include co-designing and conducting an economic evaluation of an intervention to reduce health risks amongst people who use crack cocaine in the UK, and co-designing and conducting an economic evaluation of different approaches to screen for and treat sub-clinical tuberculosis in South Africa.

The postholder will be supervised by Dr Sedona Sweeney and will be part of the Global Health Economics Centre, a world-leading group of over 100
academics working on a diverse portfolio of health economics research. The postholder will also have the opportunity to affiliate with relevant centres at LSHTM (including the Tuberculosis Centre, the AMR Centre and the Centre for Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases).
The successful applicant will have a PhD (or Masters degree and good research experience) in health economics or health policy analysis/priority setting, with a strong quantitative background.