[afro-nets] Opportunity : PhD in Health Economics

["Claudio Schuftan" <cschuftan@phmovement.org>]

From: hassan semlali <semlalihassan@gmail.com>

PhD in Health Economics
Location: Glasgow, UK
Submission deadline: August 29, 2011
Valuing the health and wellbeing aspects of community empowerment using economic evaluation techniques - PhD in Health Economics Neighbourhood regeneration processes can yield certain quantifiable outputs such as new housing, improved neighbourhood amenities and better facilities.

More challenging to identify and value however are the benefits arising from community empowerment and involvement in community development activities, including any benefits to individuals’ health and wellbeing. In order to provide evidence that regeneration investment is value for money an economic evaluation is required to identify and value the full spectrum of possible costs and outcomes.

This studentship will be nested within the GoWell programme http://www.gowellonline.com/, an ongoing project evaluating neighbourhood regeneration in Glasgow. The studentship is part of an exciting new initiative in ‘The Economics of Public Health’ between the University of Glasgow’s MRC/CSO Social & Public Health Sciences Unit http://www.sphsu.mrc.ac.uk/ and the Glasgow Centre for Population Health http://www.gcph.co.uk/. The studentship will involve the identification and valuation of proposed and actual benefits from community empowerment and community development activities within a small number of Glasgow communities. The use of economic evaluation methods will be employed to generate evidence on the value of these outcomes in the context of other regeneration outcomes.

You will be supervised by Dr Emma McIntosh, http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/medicine/staff/emmamcintosh/, of the Health Economics and Health technology Assessment (HEHTA) team at the Centre for Population Health Sciences http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/medicine/research/populationhealth/hehta/ with secondary supervision from Professor Carol Tannahill, http://www.gcph.co.uk/people/27_prof_carol_tannahill, Director of the Glasgow Centre for Population Health and Kenny Lawson, This three year studentship carries a stipend of £13,590 with an intended start date of 1st November 2011. The studentship will be of interest to graduates with a first- or upper-second-class honours degree or equivalent, particularly those with an MSc in Economics, Health Economics or a relevant social science degree. This studentship is available to UK and EU applicants.

Further information can be obtained from Dr Emma McIntosh Emma.McIntosh@glasgow.ac.uk to whom applications, including a CV and the names of two academic referees, should be submitted by the deadline of 29th August.

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Dr Emma McIntosh 
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