Job Description
Job Vacancy Announcement
Position: Associate Researcher I – Health Economics
Project: MAMS4CL – Multi-arm, Multi-stage Clinical Trial on Cutaneous Leishmaniasis
Duty Station: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, with frequent travel to project sites in Ethiopia
Employment Type: Full-time, Contract
Reports to: Principal Investigator / Project Coordinator
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About Us
The Armauer Hansen Research Institute (AHRI) is one of Ethiopia's leading biomedical research institutions. Established in 1970, AHRI conducts high-quality biomedical, clinical, implementation, and public health research and works closely with national and international partners through competitive research grants, clinical trials, capacity-building initiatives, and postgraduate training programs.
About the Project
The MAMS4CL project is a multi-arm, multi-stage clinical trial investigating treatment approaches for cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) in selected hospitals in Ethiopia. The project brings together multidisciplinary teams including clinicians, biomedical scientists, epidemiologists, social scientists, health economists, and other researchers.
The project aims to generate evidence to support improved treatment and management of cutaneous leishmaniasis. In addition to clinical outcomes, the project will generate evidence on the economic burden of treatment and care, on affected person and their households, health system and societal. Moreover, the project will explore the economic value of different treatment approaches for treatment of cutaneous leishmaniasis.
Position Summary
The Associate Researcher I – Health Economics will support the design, implementation, analysis, and reporting of the health economics component of the MAMS4CL clinical trial.
The successful candidate will contribute to the development of costing data tools/ instruments, conduct interviews, collect health economics data and resource-use cost, conduct health economic analysis (including cost and cost effectiveness analysis), interpretation of findings, and preparation of reports, manuscripts and other scientific outputs.
The candidate will work closely with the MAMS4CL clinical, epidemiology, social science, data management, and other research teams to integrate health economic analyses with clinical trial outcomes.
Job Requirements
Required Qualifications
Master’s degree in Health Economics, Economics, Public Health, Health Services Management, Health Systems, Health Policy, or a closely related field.
Two publication points mandatory.
Demonstrated experience in health economics, economic evaluation, health systems research, health services research, or related areas.
Experience in quantitative and qualitative research and health economics data analysis.
Good understanding of health economics evaluation methods.
Experience with costing study on household, healthcare cost and resource-utilization data.
Experience in data management and statistical analysis.
Excellent written and spoken English.
Strong analytical, communication, and interpersonal skills.
Willingness to travel to MAMS4CL project sites in Ethiopia.
Desirable Qualifications
Experience in conducting cost-effectiveness, cost-utility, cost-of-illness, or other economic evaluations.
Experience of conducting economic evaluations, patient-l, household and healthcare resource-use cost measurement.
Experience with health economic modelling, sensitivity and uncertainty analyses.
Experience using Stata, R, Excel, and other statistical/economic evaluation software.
Previous experience in clinical trials, infectious disease research, implementation research, or health systems research.
Experience with scientific writing and publication in peer-reviewed journals.
Knowledge of research ethics and Good Clinical Practice (GCP).
Experience working in multidisciplinary and international research teams.
Experience working with health facilities or health-system data in Ethiopia.
Number of Positions: 1
Terms of Employment: One year, with the possibility of extension based on performance and budget availability.
Salary and Benefits: ETB 59,256.00 per month, plus housing and communication allowances and transportation service.
Key Responsibilities
Contribute to the design and implementation of the health economics component of the MAMS4CL clinical trial.
Support the development of health economics protocols, analysis plans, data collection tools, and standard operating procedures.
Develop and implement economic analysis approaches for collecting healthcare resource utilization and cost data from patients, households and from participating study sites.
Collect, manage, clean, and analyze health economics data generated through clinical trials.
Assess healthcare utilization and costs associated with cutaneous leishmaniasis treatment and care.
Estimate costs from relevant perspectives, including healthcare provider/health-system and patient perspectives, and from the societal perspectives as specified in the study protocol.
Conduct trial-based economic evaluations, including cost-effectiveness and/or cost-utility analyses, as appropriate to the study design and available outcomes.
Contribute to the development of health economics models where required.
Conduct sensitivity, scenario, and uncertainty analyses to assess the robustness of economic evaluation results.
Integrate clinical, resource-use, cost, and patient outcome data for economic evaluation.
Work closely with clinical, epidemiological, social science, and data management teams to ensure appropriate linkage and quality of economics data.
Support data quality assurance and monitoring of health economics data collection across project sites.
Maintain well-organized datasets, analysis files, documentation, and study records.
Contribute to statistical and economic analysis using appropriate software.
Interpret and communicate health economics findings to technical and non-technical audiences.
Contribute to preparation of technical reports, manuscripts, abstracts, conference presentations, and other scientific outputs.
Participate in project meetings, site visits, training activities, and stakeholder engagement activities.
Support dissemination of MAMS4CL findings to relevant research, health-system, stakeholders and policy makers.
Ensure compliance with the study protocol, research ethics requirements, good clinical practice (GCP), and institutional procedures.
Perform other research-related duties assigned by the Principal Investigator or Project Coordinator.
How To Apply
Apply through the following link: https://ethiojobs.net/job/T6qP4jxvQK-associate-researcher-i-health-economics
