CSAE, Department of Economics, Manor Road, Oxford
Grade 7: £29,249 - £35,938 p.a.
The Centre for the Study of African Economies at the Department of Economics, University of Oxford, is seeking to appoint a full-time postdoctoral researcher in health economics, specializing in the economics of HIV. The role is available for three years in the first instance. This post will be funded by the Rush Foundation, which has asked the Centre for the Study of African Economies to lead a three-year collaborative research programme aimed at developing a compelling policy framework to improve HIV resource allocation. The primary target for this research will be policy-makers in sub-Saharan Africa, especially finance ministries. The CSAE is ideally positioned to lead the integration of HIV economic research into a broader policy framework which reaches outside the existing, largely donor-based funding channels.
The successful applicant will work as the junior member of a team led by the CSAE Senior Researcher in the Economics of HIV, and by the CSAE Director Professor Paul Collier. The team will work to build a network of collaborative research into economic aspects of HIV, to which other institutions, such as the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the HIV Modelling Consortium led by Imperial College, London will also contribute.
The overall objective of this programme of research is to help develop economic approaches that will improve resource allocation for the more effective tackling of the challenges posed by HIV in sub-Saharan Africa, with a particular focus on the increasingly important area of the allocation of domestic resources and hence on decisions for which Finance as well as Health Ministries are responsible.
The CSAE approach is to conduct research that is potentially strategic, and to build networks which enable the ideas generated through this research to be seeded. By strategic, we mean research that has the potential for macro-significant economic change.
The closing date is 12.00 noon on 15 October 2012.
Grade 7: £29,249 - £35,938 p.a.
The Centre for the Study of African Economies at the Department of Economics, University of Oxford, is seeking to appoint a full-time postdoctoral researcher in health economics, specializing in the economics of HIV. The role is available for three years in the first instance. This post will be funded by the Rush Foundation, which has asked the Centre for the Study of African Economies to lead a three-year collaborative research programme aimed at developing a compelling policy framework to improve HIV resource allocation. The primary target for this research will be policy-makers in sub-Saharan Africa, especially finance ministries. The CSAE is ideally positioned to lead the integration of HIV economic research into a broader policy framework which reaches outside the existing, largely donor-based funding channels.
The successful applicant will work as the junior member of a team led by the CSAE Senior Researcher in the Economics of HIV, and by the CSAE Director Professor Paul Collier. The team will work to build a network of collaborative research into economic aspects of HIV, to which other institutions, such as the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the HIV Modelling Consortium led by Imperial College, London will also contribute.
The overall objective of this programme of research is to help develop economic approaches that will improve resource allocation for the more effective tackling of the challenges posed by HIV in sub-Saharan Africa, with a particular focus on the increasingly important area of the allocation of domestic resources and hence on decisions for which Finance as well as Health Ministries are responsible.
The CSAE approach is to conduct research that is potentially strategic, and to build networks which enable the ideas generated through this research to be seeded. By strategic, we mean research that has the potential for macro-significant economic change.
The closing date is 12.00 noon on 15 October 2012.
