Background

As we continue our second 5-year phase (QQ2 running through 31 March 2028) we will continue to focus on our long-term mission to unite and improve health data to enable discoveries that improve people’s lives by powering-up the UK’s major research investments with large-scale, diverse health-related data that represent the whole population

Funding Opportunity

As we move into the 3rd year of QQ2 funding, there is a clear need for health economic approaches to contextualise the health data research outputs produced by the HDR UK Driver Programmes, quantify their potential impact for the health service and society, and deploy the data to influence health policy across the four UK nations. For example, health economics will be fundamental to understanding how inequalities across characteristics such as race, ethnicity, gender, and geography can contribute to differences in care/outcomes or to aid in understanding of social care requirements for those living with complex diseases and the associated costs.   

HDR UK and Queens University Belfast is launching a cross-Driver funding call for a Health Economics Fellow to work across the Driver Programmes’ research areas. A total of up to £250K is available to fund one Fellowship (maximum 3 years of funding from 1 April 2025 through 31 March 2028). The cross-Driver Health Economics Fellowship is designed to accelerate the career of a high potential early career researcher (ECR) who wishes to further establish their research in applying health economic analysis to gain data insights and evaluating its potential impacts on policy.

While the Fellow will be specifically aligned to the Big Data for Complex Disease Programme (Big Data for Complex Disease – HDR UK), they will work collaboratively across the Inflammation and Immunity Programme (Inflammation and Immunity – HDR UK), and other Driver Programmes, with a research focus in analyzing and deploying health data, medicines data, and other data types like social and environmental data, to investigate the cost/impact of data science for better prevention, diagnosis and treatment of complex diseases, including cardiovascular disease, cancer, lung and respiratory disease.

To apply

The call is now open for applications, so please complete the Fellowship application form highlighted below and return both the completed application form and your current CV to QQ2Programmes@hdruk.ac.uk

Timeline

  • Opening of Call: Late November 2024
  • Closing of Call: 5pm Monday 27th January 2025
  • Panel shortlisting of applications: early February 2025
  • Interviews: mid-February 2025
  • Start of Fellowship: April 2025

Further information and applications