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OVERVIEW
The Optima Consortium for Decision Science, Ltd. is an international leader in allocative efficiency decision science and disease modeling. The Consortium is comprised of a partnership of global leaders in epidemiology, mathematical modeling, cost-effectiveness, with experience applied to infectious diseases (such as HIV, TB, malaria, viral hepatitis), other areas in health (such as MNCH and UHC) and emerging in areas of global development. The Consortium consists of a network across multiple academic institutions including the Burnet Institute, University College of London, The University of Geneva and The University of Copenhagen.
The vision of the Consortium is to improve global health and development outcomes through better decision making in health resourcing and programmatic implementation choices. We achieve that goal by ensuring that decision makers have access to, and utilize, high quality decision-making tools and building the capacity of stakeholders to use the tools as a basis for decisions.
The Consortium works directly with international funding agencies, country governments and other key stakeholders to provide evidence-based recommendations on allocative and implementation efficiency across multiple health and development areas. The Optima approach has been used in over 50 countries across Africa, Europe, Asia and South America. We are looking to fill a number of positions within the Consortium for individuals to directly assist with the high demand of country applications and continued development of the Optima tools.
PURPOSE
Working with the World Bank, international health agencies, and country governments, the position holder will:
Lead a team of mathematical modelers, economists, computer scientists, epidemiologists, and health policy experts on the conceptual development of mathematical and economic models of epidemics of communicable and non-communicable diseases, and development sector models, predominantly in low- and middle-income countries.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Your responsibilities will include:
CRITERIA
You will have:
Some travel, up to 30%, may be required.
The Consortium is a geographically varied team and we are able to consider applications for individuals who wish to be based remotely from our geographic hubs.
APPLICATIONS
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