Early career fellowship in economics of health
MRC fellowships enable outstanding individuals to undertake challenging projects in excellent research and training environments. An MRC award is there to enable you to do something truly out of the ordinary in training and developing you as a potential research leader.
The MRC fellowship in Economics of Health extends the previous joint MRC/NIHR/ESRC fellowship. In funding a further competition, MRC aims to strengthen capacity in health economics by attracting early postdoctoral researchers trained in economics research methods to apply their skills to health economics problems.
The Award
The MRC Early Career Fellowship in economics of health is one of a number of qualitative and quantitative schemes supported by the MRC under the Strategic Skills Fellowships banner. Here, you can view the full range of schemes and their eligibility.
The MRC fellowship provides up to three years early-career support to help individuals begin to establish a research track record in the field and to undertake further training. As such the aim of the fellowship is to:
- Develop and execute a programme of challenging postdoctoral research, applying econometric methods to an important health question;
- Undertake specific, high quality training to gain the additional skills needed to deliver the research;
- Undertake a programme personal development towards rapidly becoming an independent research scientist in the field of economics of health;
- Publish and otherwise disseminate the research findings from their fellowship.
Who can apply?
The competition is open to applicants with some advanced training in any field of economics who can demonstrate the transferability of their research skills to the field of the economics of health. It is also open to applicants who have recently ‘transferred’ to health economics and require further advanced training. . Those with prior training in micro-economic theory, including econometric methods, industrial and labour economics relevant to health, and economic evaluation of health technology, are particularly encouraged to apply. In all cases, we expect applications to demonstrate that candidates have, or will have, strong links with established health economics groups.
Applicants must either have a PhD/DPhil or expect to do so by the time of take-up of the award, and must be early career and not have more than four years (full-time equivalent) post-doctoral experience. Applicants should hold a PhD or DPhil in either economics or one that combines training in economics with research in related areas (for example, statistics, and epidemiology).
Please see the schedule and deadlines for fellowships for closing dates.
Deadlines and submission details
Please apply for the MRC fellowship in Economics of Health using the RCUK Je-S application system. Please see the schedule and deadlines for fellowships for closing dates.
Your proposal must be submitted through the MRC Je-S system by 4pm on the relevant closing date.
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