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Job Title: Research Fellow/ Senior Research Fellow (HSSR/SW)
Posting Start Date: 19/05/2025
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Duke-NUS embodies a strategic partnership between Duke University and the National University of Singapore. It works closely with the Singapore Health Services cluster, a network of national specialty disease centres, hospitals, and polyclinics, to advance medicine and improve lives through cutting-edge research and education.
The Signature Research Programme in Health Services and Systems Research (HSSR) at Duke-NUS is a centre of academic excellence for research and education on the organisation, funding, and delivery of health services. The programme focuses on public health and clinical service innovation in an increasingly complex and connected world.
The selected candidate will work in the Cardiovascular Health Research Services Unit established under the CArdiovascular DiseasE National Collaborative Enterprise (CADENCE) national clinical translational programme. He/she will assist a team of health economists and perform a variety of activities relevant to the planned economic evaluations for health interventions, including but not limited to:-

• Conduct literature reviews to evaluate the potential value of health innovations.
• Perform data cleaning, handling and analysis.
• Perform economic evaluations in healthcare (cost analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, cost-utility analysis or budget impact analysis)
• Assist in drafting research abstracts and manuscripts.
• Assist in preparation of PowerPoint presentations to various stakeholders.
• Assist in preparation of evaluation reports for the health economics team.
• Extract data from existing databases and published literature.
• Manage projects from start to end (i.e. develop research objectives and study design, ethics and governance application, perform data extraction and collation, conduct data modelling, perform statistical analysis and engage and collaborate with various stakeholders).
• Support secretariat and administrative functions of the health economics team at HSSR.

• PhD in Health economics, preferably with a coursework Masters in Health Economics
• Possess in-depth experience with Discrete Choice Experiments, evidenced with publications
• Experience with Health economics models, including Markov models
• Experience with systematic reviews
• Prior publication track record(s)
• Experience in a research related work
• Possess prior working experience with quantitative data. Adept at working with data, including processing raw data to visualise trends and decipher patterns, and able to handle large data sets.
• Prior experience in various quantitative research methods will be advantageous.
• Have experience with R programming language, or Python and a willingness to learn more applications.
• Possess excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills.
• Able to work in a team with dynamic reporting lines and multiple stakeholders.