Health Economist

The Role

AHADI is recruiting for Health Economist with strong quantitative and public health skills to support priority-setting and decision-making in countries with high disease burden. The role focuses on analyzing health impact, health financing and programmatic cost data in the context of national programmatic and health sector strategic planning, resource prioritization, and delivery. AHADI’s analytics team analyzes field, trial, survey, and routine health system data;

develops, configures, calibrates, and applies disease transmission and geospatial models; and designs and builds new data and analytics solutions to answer questions aimed at informing public health decision-making. The team supports training, educational, and skills development initiatives offered by AHADI or our partners and is actively engaged with the broader health analytics community. AHADI is a values-driven organization committed to enabling self-reliance in public health analytics in Africa, believing that analytics and systems thinking are essential for reducing disease burden and that we play a role in working for countries.

AHADI is committed to creating an open and collaborative workplace where all can learn and thrive.

We seek a Health Economist to analyze public health impact and health financing data using multiple quantitative methods to support priority-setting and analysis needs of the countries we serve. The Health Economist should be comfortable with the entire data analysis and policy translation pipeline, from data assembly and management to analysis, evaluation, and engaging effectively with public health practitioners to understand and deliver on their needs.

The Health Economist must be highly flexible and able to adapt methodological and communication approaches to meet different needs.

• Can perform statistical analysis and writes software code (in R and/or Stata) to manage, visualize, analyze, and model a variety of cost and economic data types
• Identifies and applies appropriate quantitative and statistical methods for the problem at hand
• Liaises between public health partners, financing partners, and analysis partners
• Prepares reports and presentations to effectively communicate methods and findings to stakeholders, including ministries of health and other partners
• Trains, supervises, and collaborates with partner individuals and institutions to support upskilling of local public health analytics talent

• Supports multiple AHADI initiatives as needed across the cost and economic data and analysis pipeline
• Supports, facilitates, and/or co-instructs in training initiatives offered by AHADI or its partners, as appropriate to the hire’s individual expertise
• Prepares manuscripts for publication in peer-reviewed scientific journals

• Ph.D. in health economics; alternatively, Ph.D. in a related quantitative field and 2+ years’ experience working in health economics, health financing, or econometrics
• Experience working in costing or cost-effectiveness analysis of health interventions
• Experience and skills in health financing assessments
• Experience in statistical analysis, including statistical tests and basic regressions

• Experience in econometrics and its application to the economics of health systems such as equity and efficiency analysis
• Experience in using modeling approaches in cost-effectiveness analysis, including decision trees and Markov models
• Experience working with ministries of health or public health departments
• Exposure to policy making processes and data-to-action frameworks
• Experience in analysis of epidemiological, public health, clinical trial, or other health data
• Publis…