Imperial College London

Job summary

We are seeking a motivated and experience health economist to join the team at the NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) within the Biomedical Engineering Theme. Biomedical Engineering exemplifies convergence science, spanning all stages of patient health from early diagnosis to clinical intervention, follow-up monitoring, and rehabilitation.

The Biomedical Engineering Theme is positioned at the interface between engineering innovations and clinical practice to drive the translation of original research, enhancing the efficiency, accuracy, and reach of healthcare technologies and devices. The Theme aims to enable less invasive, more cost-effective, and more equitable healthcare, ultimately realizing currently unavailable procedures and therapies.

Reporting to the BRC Biomedical Engineering Theme co-leads (Professor Anthony Bull and Professor George Hanna) and the Theme Manager (Dr Bohwon Kim), the Health Economist role is a full-time appointment to assess the cost-effectiveness of technologies developed within the Theme, analysing healthcare data and policies, and providing economic insights for projects within the Biomedical Engineering Theme portfolio.

The Health Economist will (i) perform a literature review of the existing clinical and health economic evidence, (ii) map pathways for embedding newly developed technologies and devices in clinical settings, and (iii) conduct appropriate health economic evaluations of specific medical devices and in vitro diagnostics to support translational research from bench to bedside.

The role will closely collaborate with colleagues at the NIHR Healthtech Research Centre in In-Vitro Diagnostics (HRC), which has a strong focus on in vitro diagnostics, especially point-of-care diagnostics.

Duties and responsibilities

The primary responsibility of this position is to evaluate all project profiles within the BRC Bioengineering Theme, focusing on health economics and health technology assessment. This role is intended to enhance the existing array of research methods employed by the core methodology team of the NIHR HRC. These methods encompass health economics, human factors, stakeholder analysis, clinical pathway mapping, adoption studies, and laboratory validation.

Research Duties: 

• Conduct research in health technology assessment within the BRC Biomedical Engineering Theme’s research portfolio. Participate actively in the assigned research projects.
• Conduct a comprehensive literature review of existing clinical and health economic evidence.
• Collate, analyse, and synthesize qualitative and quantitative evidence.
• Evaluate the validity and relevance of data from variety of sources.
• Conduct translational pathway mapping for integrating technologies into clinical settings.
• Support with developing economic modelling of potential comparators and the technology under scope.
• Select an appropriate health economic approach, design and develop economic models, such as budget impact models and cost-effectiveness models.
• Conduct interviews of focus groups and perform data analysis.

Report writing

• Contribute to reports for submission to research sponsors and industry partners.
• Provide a written guidance and assist in the supervision of undergraduate and postgraduate research students as required.
• Contribute to high-quality journals and present findings to colleagues and at conferences.
• Contribute to funding bids for research grants to secure external research findings.

Essential requirements

• Education to a minimum of a degree in science, engineering and medicine
• PhD in health economics, health innovation management, health technology assessment or a closely related discipline (desirable)
• Knowledge of health economics evaluation methods
• Knowledge of health technology assessment methods and qualitative research methods
• Practical experience within a research environment

Essential requirements

• Education to a minimum of a degree in science, engineering and medicine.
• PhD in health economics, health innovation management, health technology assessment or a closely related discipline (desirable).
• Knowledge of health economics evaluation methods.
• Knowledge of health technology assessment methods and qualitative research methods.
• Practical experience within a research environment.

Further information

This is a full time and fixed -term (24months ) based on Hammersmith Campus.

If you have any questions about the role, please contact: Dr Bohwon Kim, NIHR Imperial BRC Biomedical Engineering Theme Manager at b.kim@imperial.ac.uk

Hybrid working may be considered for this role. Staff working in roles that are suitable for hybrid working will normally be expected to work 60% of their time onsite. The opportunity for hybrid working will be discussed at interview.

More information is available on the following web page: Work Location Framework | Administration and support services | Imperial College London

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• Download: Job Description BRC Health Economist .pdf