A four-year PhD studentship in Health Economics is available at UCL’s Institute for Global Health

Research environment

Based within the Faculty of Population Health Sciences, the UCL Institute for Global Health (IGH) is the thriving research and teaching community at the heart of UCL’s Grand Challenge of Global Health. Drawing on the expertise our staff, we take a unique cross-disciplinary approach to global health in both our research and teaching, responding to the fact that health problems – and their solutions – are influenced by the social environment as well as medical innovation. IGH offers a range of high quality teaching programmes at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Experienced staff have created cutting edge programmes in global health and international child health, uniting traditional public health concerns with economics, law, philosophy, geography, anthropology and other disciplines. This four-year studentship offers candidates a unique opportunity to build both the research and teaching experience required for a future academic career, in a supportive environment.

Research areas

The awardee will be based within the Centre for Global Health Economics, a multi-faculty academic Centre based within the IGH. The Centre’s Fellows contribute world leading expertise in Behavioural and Development Economics, Decision Science, Statistics and Mathematical and Epidemiological Modelling. Examples of current research span the economic evaluation of complex trials to improve maternal and child health, exploratory work to identify scalable and sustainable service delivery mechanisms for early child development, and macroeconomic modelling of efficient spending on HIV and tuberculosis. The awardee may pursue their own PhD question or a question developed in partnership with the supervisory team, in all aspects of Economics applied to ‘health' in its broadest sense. This includes but is not limited to:

• Economic Evaluation of public health programmes / interventions / policies, specifically related to behaviour change interventions
• Public health policy analyses
• Measurement and valuation of health
• Research evaluation, including payback from research

In addition to supervision and mentoring from a supervisory team, support will be provided by UCL’s strong doctoral training programme which offers a comprehensive range of academic and other skills training.

How to apply

Further information about the PhD and the application process can be found here.

Closing date: 21 June 2021
Interviews: Week of 12 July 2021

Contact

For general enquiries, please contact: Dr Neha Batura (n.batura@ucl.ac.uk)

Funding Notes

Student fees will be paid at Home or International rate, with a stipend at £20k per annum.