Research Assistant Professor, Health Economics and Resource Tracking

Successful applicant will lead research tracking resources used to finance health and health care, and analyses of how these resources impact health outcomes and health systems. The research undertaken will include analyses of implications of heterogeneous and dynamic financing patterns, with a key focus on domestic and international sources of health system financing. Methods used by the incumbent for resource tracking and impact assessments will include a broad suite of quantitative methods including econometric and statistical models that incorporate incomplete data, causal analysis, and prediction. Successful applicant is expected to contribute to the expansion of resource tracking research for the Institute as the organization pursues a research portfolio more comprehensive in scope, an increased focus on disease specific spending, and capture of subnational variation, when possible. Duties include use of data sources and quantitative methods for tracking development assistance for health and measuring health spending, and disease-specific health spending throughout the globe. The successful applicant will be expected to lead research on subjects such as health financing systems across the globe and development assistance for health sources, channels, and health focus areas.

Faculty members will also take on an important leadership role in mentoring predoctoral and postdoctoral fellows working in the field of health metrics. Salary and benefits are competitive and commensurate with experience.

Research Assistant Professors in the Department of Health Metrics Sciences have an annual service period of 12 months (July 1– June 30).

The successful applicants will have a PhD or foreign equivalent in economics, health economics, health policy, or a related field. The successful applicant will have demonstrated research involving financial, economic or statistical analysis with a focus in health, health systems, and/or health financing. Experience working on quantitative research linked directly to global health policy is required.

Applicants should submit a curriculum vitae, a brief statement outlining research interests, a diversity statement, and a minimum of two letters of recommendation through Interfolio : apply.interfolio.com/98371

Note that five letters of recommendation are required at the point at which a candidate advances to the final phase of consideration.

This position is open until filled.

University of Washington is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, gender identity or expression, age, disability, or protected veteran status.

The University of Washington is committed to building diversity among its faculty, librarian, staff, and student communities, and articulates that commitment in the UW Diversity Blueprint (http://www.washington.edu/diversity/diversity-blueprint/). Additionally, the University’s Faculty Code recognizes faculty efforts in research, teaching and/or service that address diversity and equal opportunity as important contributions to a faculty member’s academic profile and responsibilities (https://www.washington.edu/admin/rules/policies/FCG/FCCH24.html#2432).

Under Washington State Governor Inslee’s Proclamation 21-14.1, University of Washington (UW) workers must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and provide proof thereof, or receive a UW-approved medical or religious exemption. This requirement will be a condition of any offer associated with this recruitment. For more information, please visit https://www.washington.edu/coronavirus/vaccination-requirement/.