Researcher – Health Economics

The Health Economics and Epidemiology Research Office (HE2RO) of the University of the Witwatersrand, based at Helen Joseph Hospital, Johannesburg is an internationally recognised health research group with a focus on HIV and tuberculosis. HE2RO seeks a dynamic, enthusiastic and self-motivated quantitative researcher to be part of our Health Economics research portfolio.

Successful applicants will be part of a team of researchers working on cutting edge public health research questions that contribute to the evidence-­‐base for improving access to, and delivery of health services for HIV, TB and other health challenges. The position is based at the head office in Johannesburg, but may require travel within South Africa. Overtime/weekends hours and working in rural areas and/or under-resourced circumstances will be required from time to time.  This is a full time position.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Contribute to research development, design, and implementation
• Preparing ethics applications for ethic committee review and adhering to ethics guidelines and protocols.
• Data collection and management, including:
  1. developing standard operating procedures for data collection;
  2. creating data entry databases and working with data capturers to collect high quality data;
  3. organising and conducting data monitoring;  and
  4. creating analytical datasets.
• Analysing research data using standard health economics research methods (e.g. costing, effectiveness measures, cost effectiveness analysis, etc.).
• Working with senior researchers and principal investigators on  the development of original research manuscripts and abstracts for publication and presentation.
• Working in an interdisciplinary team environment with other health professionals.

Requirements:

• Masters degree in economics, health economics, public health or related quantitative field. Minimum 1 year research experience or comparable professional experience. Expertise with data  analysis software. Self-­‐motivated, able to work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team. Experience in using various research methodological designs. Good administrative  skills with working knowledge of Microsoft Office.

Applicants should email a cover letter and CV to vacancy@heroza.org.  HE2RO will only respond to short listed candidates. Candidates who have not been contacted within two weeks of the closing date can consider their applications unsuccessful. This position will remain open after the closing date if no suitable candidate has been found. Please visit the HE2RO website at to check whether this position is still vacant and to view other positions.

Closing Date: 22nd September 2014