UK MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH COLLABORATION
FOUR-YEAR PhD STUDENTSHIPS IN HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH
START October 2005
Two studentships are now available with the MRC Health Services Research
Collaboration, based at the Centre for Health Economics, University of York.
PROJECT TITLES:
1. 'The Optimal Development and Efficient Regulation of Health Care
Technologies: The Role of Value of Information Analysis.' (CLA01-05)
2. 'Methods for Integrating Irreversibility and Uncertainty into the
Economic Evaluation of Health Care Technologies.'(PAL01-05)
YOU SHOULD HAVE:
* For either project - a masters degree in Economics, Health Economics or in
a quantitative discipline such as Statistics, Operations
Research or Epidemiology.
DESIRABLE, BUT NOT ESSENTIAL ARE:
* Skills in decision analysis and Bayesian statistics (1 and 2)
* Methods used in the economic evaluation of health care (1 and 2)
* Knowledge of clinical epidemiology (1 and 2)
* An understanding of alternative regimes for the regulation of health
technologies (1)
* Knowledge of the economics of industrial organisation / regulation (1)
* An understanding of investment theory and/or financial economics (2)
* Dynamic programming (2)
Funding is for four years and offers excellent opportunities for integrated
training and personal development.
Closing date for applications is 15 July 2005
For an informal discussion, please contact Karl Claxton [log in to unmask]
(CLA01-05) or Stephen Palmer [log in to unmask] (PAL01-05)
For further details / application form, please contact the HSRC office 0117
928 7262 or email:- [log in to unmask], quoting refs: CLA01-05 or
PAL01-05
All information and project details are available via our website:
www.hsrc.ac.uk
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