Overview
A part-time position is available for a Research Assistant in Health Economics. The successful applicant will work with Dr Christos Grigoroglou and Professor Katherine Payne on a programme of work quantifying costs of cancer care in England by stage of disease using routine data. There are increased research efforts to design strategies to prevent cancer and find cancer early in the disease process. This study aims to describe the different types of costs to the NHS to treat four exemplar cancer types (lung, breast, cervical, skin) by disease stage (one to four) to evaluate whether earlier detection or treatment incurs lower costs, and to feed into economic studies evaluating costs and benefits of prevention or early detection strategies.
There are three objectives: (i) To quantify the relevant costs associated with the treatment (e.g. prescription data) of people with lung and breast cancer by stage of disease using routine data. (ii) To identify whether socioeconomic status, defined by index of multiple deprivation, is associated with the cost of treating cancer by stage of disease. (iii) To inform how data can be assimilated for use in model-based cost-effectiveness analysis to estimate the expected incremental costs of adaptations to lung and breast cancer screening programmes. The research assistant will contribute to collecting, assimilating and analysing unit cost data from all available sources for UK health care to meet objectives (i) and (iii). This project is led by Katherine Payne, Professor of Health Economics at the Manchester Centre for Health Economics, The University of Manchester. It involves working with health economists, health services researchers, and data scientists.
Responsibilities
* Contribute to collecting, assimilating and analysing unit cost data from all available sources for UK health care.
* Quantify the relevant costs associated with treatment (e.g. prescription data) of people with lung and breast cancer by stage of disease using routine data.
* Assess whether socioeconomic status, defined by index of multiple deprivation, is associated with the cost of treating cancer by stage of disease.
* Inform how data can be assimilated to be suitable for model-based cost-effectiveness analysis to estimate the incremental costs of adaptations to lung and breast cancer screening programmes.
Benefits
* Fantastic market leading Pension scheme
* Excellent employee health and wellbeing services including an Employee Assistance Programme
* Exceptional starting annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays
* Additional paid closure over the Christmas period
* Local and national discounts at a range of major retailers
Additional information
As an equal opportunities employer we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of age, sex, gender (or gender identity), ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and transgender status. All appointments are made on merit. Our University is positive about flexible working – you can find out more here. Hybrid working arrangements may be considered.
Please note that due to the number of applications we unfortunately may not be able to provide individual feedback on your application. We are unable to respond to enquiries, or accept CVs or applications from Recruitment Agencies. Any recruitment enquiries should be directed to recruitmentservices.people@manchester.ac.uk. Any CVs submitted by a recruitment agency will be considered a gift.
Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting and interviews:
Name: Dr Christos Grigoroglou
Email: christos.grigoroglou@manchester.ac.uk
General enquiries:
Email: recruitmentservices.people@manchester.ac.uk
Technical support:
0161 850 2004
This vacancy will close for applications at midnight on the closing date.
Please see the link below for the Further Particulars document which contains the person specification criteria.
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