# Health Economist

**Company**: UK Health Security Agency
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Job type**: Permanent
**Salary**: £46310.00 to £52113.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

As an economist in UKHSA, you will be building the economic evidence base for the agency as well as the organisation's economics capability.

You will work with other experts (epidemiologists, data scientists and public health experts) to assess current and future economic costs and benefits of preparing for and responding to health threats and hazards and to help build our understanding of how health security interacts with the wider economy.

You will develop these cost and benefit estimates often either through literature reviews or your own primary research, including research using large-scale data assets held by UKHSA such as hospital records or microbiology results.

Your main responsibilities will include:

- Leading thinking on how health interventions impact health security and the economy, how we should assess associated costs and benefits to society and developing the evidence base for informing policymaking.

- Producing cost-benefit, cost-effectiveness analysis and other economic outputs to guide UKHSA decision-making in policy-making, implementing interventions or supporting other bodies in their decision-making.

- Developing robust economic cases, using the latest evidence for key UKHSA projects and programmes.

- Building the agency's economic capacity.

Recent project examples for the team include:

- Estimating the burden and cost of infections and infectious diseases on NHS hospitals from routine administrative data.

- Supporting the Agency during Spending Review through developing evidence on the Agency's Value for Money.

- Preparing a business case for pandemic preparedness to support allocation of resources.

The ideal candidate will have:

- A first or second class honours degree in economics or related field (or equivalent qualification); or a postgraduate degree in a relevant numerate discipline (or equivalent qualification).

- Ability to effectively communicate the results of analysis to senior stakeholders and decision makers.

- Good interpersonal skills and the ability to develop and maintain key stakeholder relationships.

- Excellent presentation skills.

Desirable criteria include:

- Knowledge of health economics and experience in applying it to provide insight into health problems.

- Ability to work at pace to deadlines across multiple projects.

- Experience with developing Green Book-compliant business cases including knowledge of best practice.

- Experience in cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis, particularly relating to health interventions.

## Skills

### Required
- economics
- data analysis
- cost-benefit analysis
- cost-effectiveness analysis

### Nice to have
- health economics
- Green Book-compliant business cases

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