Research Fellow
| Posting date: | 09 December 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £35,608 to £46,049 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 06 January 2026 |
| Location: | Warwick University, Coventry |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | University of Warwick |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 111056-1225 |
Summary
The 10-10-10 UNAIDS targets aim for “Less than 10% of countries have punitive legal and policy environments that deny access to justice; less than 10% of people living with HIV and key populations experience stigma and discrimination; less than 10% of women, girls, people living with HIV and key populations experience gender inequality and violence.” (UNAIDS 2021). However, there is a dearth of cost-effectiveness evidence to inform policies and interventions around the most effective and efficient approaches to achieving these targets. The TransformHIV project, which is funded through a Wellcome Trust Discovery Award and led by University of Bristol, aims to address this critical evidence gap. It includes systematic reviews, epidemiological analyses, community leadership, mathematical modelling and economics to inform cost effectiveness of addressing structural barriers to HIV.
Applications are invited for a health economist to work with the project’s health economics lead, Prof Fern Terris-Prestholt based within Warwick Applied Health at Warwick Medical School, and the broader multi-disciplinary team. The health economist (you) will build from different intervention scenarios to estimate the direct, indirect, and societal costs and benefits of addressing structural barriers to HIV and the cost of inaction. Your work will directly inform global and national policy and advocacy to address structural barriers to HIV, something that is critically important in these turbulent times where funding for the HIV response is shifting from international donors to domestic resources. While the current global health financing in the short run emphasises maintaining essential services, we must not lose sight that without addressing structural barriers, we cannot end AIDS as a public health threat.
There is significant scope for academic creativity in developing the best economic evaluation methods, for example, primary costing, cost modelling, econometrics, discrete choice experiments to inform these societal cost benefit analyses. Likely interventions to be evaluated include those aiming to address stigma and discrimination, violence, and criminalisation among all key populations and homelessness among people who inject drugs.
You will be encouraged to undertake ongoing training and develop skills to undertake high quality empirical and methodological research in health economics. You will be expected to contribute to a growing team of global health researchers and health economists across Warwick Medical School. There will also be opportunities to participate more broadly in the Medical School’s portfolio of health economics research and be a member of both Warwick Centre for Global Health and the Centre of Health Economics at Warwick.
Flexible Working
We will consider applications for employment on a part-time or other flexible working basis (e.g. job share), despite the position being advertised as full-time.
About You
The successful candidate will have a PhD in health economics, experience conducting economic evaluations and economic analyses, ideally in low- and middle-income settings. You will hold an in-depth academic and/or personal understanding of the structural drivers of HIV across the globe. You will have been lead author on health economics papers and have a track record of applying for research funding. They will have an enthusiasm and experience undertaking participatory research methods and value working with different stakeholders, including key and vulnerable populations, policymakers and fellow academics in other disciplines. You will have a track record of taking initiative and working independently to meet project objectives and deadlines. You will be familiar with and subscribe to principles of equitable partnerships (e.g. Equitable Partnerships Guide | NIHR).
Applications are invited for a health economist to work with the project’s health economics lead, Prof Fern Terris-Prestholt based within Warwick Applied Health at Warwick Medical School, and the broader multi-disciplinary team. The health economist (you) will build from different intervention scenarios to estimate the direct, indirect, and societal costs and benefits of addressing structural barriers to HIV and the cost of inaction. Your work will directly inform global and national policy and advocacy to address structural barriers to HIV, something that is critically important in these turbulent times where funding for the HIV response is shifting from international donors to domestic resources. While the current global health financing in the short run emphasises maintaining essential services, we must not lose sight that without addressing structural barriers, we cannot end AIDS as a public health threat.
There is significant scope for academic creativity in developing the best economic evaluation methods, for example, primary costing, cost modelling, econometrics, discrete choice experiments to inform these societal cost benefit analyses. Likely interventions to be evaluated include those aiming to address stigma and discrimination, violence, and criminalisation among all key populations and homelessness among people who inject drugs.
You will be encouraged to undertake ongoing training and develop skills to undertake high quality empirical and methodological research in health economics. You will be expected to contribute to a growing team of global health researchers and health economists across Warwick Medical School. There will also be opportunities to participate more broadly in the Medical School’s portfolio of health economics research and be a member of both Warwick Centre for Global Health and the Centre of Health Economics at Warwick.
Flexible Working
We will consider applications for employment on a part-time or other flexible working basis (e.g. job share), despite the position being advertised as full-time.
About You
The successful candidate will have a PhD in health economics, experience conducting economic evaluations and economic analyses, ideally in low- and middle-income settings. You will hold an in-depth academic and/or personal understanding of the structural drivers of HIV across the globe. You will have been lead author on health economics papers and have a track record of applying for research funding. They will have an enthusiasm and experience undertaking participatory research methods and value working with different stakeholders, including key and vulnerable populations, policymakers and fellow academics in other disciplines. You will have a track record of taking initiative and working independently to meet project objectives and deadlines. You will be familiar with and subscribe to principles of equitable partnerships (e.g. Equitable Partnerships Guide | NIHR).