Post-graduate Fellowship

**Additional information**:

- The SAMRC/Wits Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science (PRICELESS SA) is a research-to-policy unit that provides evidence, methodologies, and tools for effective decision-making in health
- PRICELESS SA is the leading Southern African institution for formal, degreed postgraduate teaching in health economics and decision science
- They engage policymakers, the public, and the media to strengthen insight and expertise for setting priorities for South African health
- The PRICELESS SA multidisciplinary team includes health economics, clinicians, lawyers, and researchers with backgrounds in sociology, anthropology, epidemiology, health services and law

**Main purpose of the Fellowship**:

- Health financing to achieve Universal Health Coverage

**Location**:

- **Wits School of Public Health, Parktown - Johannesburg**

**Fellowship Overview**:

- This is a highly exciting and important opportunity to build health financing and health economics capacity on the African continent and in South Africa in particular
- As countries strive to achieve universal health coverage, it is critical to understand how to raise money for health services and to understand what the right services to purchase would be to improve overall population health
- The National Institute for Healthcare Research (NIHR) UK has provided a multi-year grant to leading institutions in five middle-income countries (Brazil, Indonesia, India, and South Africa) to enhance understanding and promulgate new tools to improve health financing for universal health coverage
- The successful applicant will work on doctoral-level research under the supervision of PRICELESS staff, and with co-supervision from local and internationally renowned health economists to develop a research question that would help tackle the identified challenges to achieving universal health access in South Africa
- The student will be expected to become an expert in the use of health economic modeling techniques and in global health financing discussions unfolding worldwide
- Conference presentation opportunities and learning exchanges will be provided as part of this grant
- For technical information contact Dr Evelyn Thsehla

**Fellowship Start Date**:

- **February 2024**

**Required minimum education and training**:

- **Master’s Degree in Health Economics, Biostatistics, or related quantitative field**

**Desirable additional education, work experience, and personal abilities**:

- Meet the requirements for a PhD at Wits University
- Familiarity and knowledge of health financing would be an advantage
- Demonstrated writing and communication skills

**TO APPLY**:

- Only if you do meet the minimum job requirements and experience as mentioned above, you may submit a detailed updated CV.
- Please take note that the applicants who do not adhere to the above criteria will not be considered for the respective position.
- Note AJ Personnel is fully POPI compliant.
- Note WHC, in accordance with their Employment Equity goals and plan, will give preference to suitable applicants from designated groups as defined in the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998 and subsequent amendments thereto.

**Please note**:

- **AJ PERSONNEL is only responsible for the advertising of the advertisement on behalf of their client Wits Health Consortium.**:

- **AJ Personnel does not have any salary or other information regarding the position.