Do you want to have an impact on access to cost-effective and affordable innovations in healthcare? Do you like health economic modelling? If you want to be a part of the leading Health Technology Assessment (HTA) department at Erasmus University Rotterdam, then here is your chance. We are recruiting for:

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN HEALTH ECONOMIC MODELLING (1 FTE, permanent)

Job description
Join us as an Assistant Professor at the HTA department, a leading department at the forefront of HTA. In anticipation of the EU HTA-regulation taking effect in 2025, with a primary focus on cancer drugs and advanced therapeutic medicinal products, we are expanding our team to address the growing demands in health economic modelling. As an Assistant Professor, your primary responsibility will be to tackle methodological challenges that arise from the increasing number of regulatory approvals based on single-arm studies, the rise in potentially curative gene-therapies, the increasing personalization of treatments, and the increasing number of comparators.

Your role will involve delving into various health economic modelling challenges, such as modelling treatment-sequences, combining trial-data with real-world data, creating appropriate (synthetic) control groups, or optimizing managed-entry agreements. Innovative survival analyses will also be a key focus of your work.

Depending on your interests, there is an opportunity to explore the expansion of current reimbursement decision criteria by incorporating novel factors like equity, environmental sustainability, and workforce consequences. You may also contribute to resolving methodological challenges associated with modelling digital health technologies or medical AI applications.

Within our dynamic HTA department, you'll be engaged in assessments of innovative technologies, collaborating with technology developers, clinicians, and HTA bodies such as ZIN in the Netherlands, NICE in the UK, and CADTH in Canada. This environment ensures a steady stream of compelling case studies to enhance your research.

In this role, you'll dedicate 25% of your time to teaching and supervising both bachelor and master students, fostering the next generation of experts in the field. The remaining 75% will be devoted to cutting-edge research. Enjoy the academic freedom to shape and develop your own research agenda, contributing to the advancement of HTA methodologies.

We are seeking a candidate with a Ph.D. in health technology assessment, health economics, economics, statistics, operations research, or a closely related quantitative discipline. The ideal candidate will demonstrate:

• Proven expertise in applied and methodological health technology assessment (HTA) research, substantiated by relevant academic publications
• Proficiency in data preparation, analysis, and management.
• Competence in health-economic or decision-analytic modelling using R
• Experience in teaching, supported by a Basic Didactic Qualification
• Strong interpersonal skills and a collaborative mindset, with the ability to contribute effectively to team dynamics
• Capability to manage short-term deadlines efficiently
• Excellent verbal and writing skills in both Dutch and English

The position will be embedded in the HTA-department, a young, dynamic, international, and inclusive department with a team of around fifty researchers, where there is plenty of room for social activities, and personal and professional development. You will also become part of the Erasmus Centre for Health Economics Rotterdam (EsCHER) in which all health economic researchers of the EUR collaborate.

You will have opportunities for collaborating with Erasmus Medical Centre, the biggest academic hospital in The Netherlands and with TU-Delft in initiatives such as the ‘Convergence Health & Technology’ and ‘Medical Delta’.

You will work at campus Woudestein, a modern campus with innovative teaching facilities, sport facilities (e.g., gym and tennis courts), several restaurants, supermarket, and green spaces, all centrally located in the most cosmopolite city of the Netherlands.

The position we offer is a fulltime permanent position (conditional on a positive review after 12 months) at ESHPM with a competitive salary, depending on experience. Remuneration will be according to the scales set by the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities (CAO-NU). The start date of this position is March 1st 2024.

Everything else we offer you, you can find below!

• Everything you need for a good work-life balance: the option to work from home in consultation with your manager, 41 days of paid leave with a 40 hour contract, 8% holiday pay and an 8.3% end-of-year bonus, and a significant discount on a subscription for our on-campus sports centre!
• Sustainable, inclusive and diverse work environment with an open culture, where you can be yourself and we pay attention to each other and to the world around us. Make the most of our bicycle budget, or join networks such as Young@EUR, FAME or QuEUR.
• Time and space for your development in the broadest sense: development days and a personal career budget, foreign exchange opportunities with most costs paid by EUR, and free access to our university library.
• Good pension with ABP that EUR contributes 2/3rds towards, discounts on various collective insurances with Zilveren Kruis Achmea, Loyalis, and Allianz, and compensation for travel, working from home and home internet use.
• Are you currently combining your job with parenthood, or do you want to do so in the future? EUR offers partially paid parental leave and fully paid additional birth leave for partners, and our campus features a daycare.
• Moving to the Netherlands for your job with EUR? Then you may be eligible for the 30%-ruling if you meet the requirements of the Belastingdienst (Dutch tax agency), and with our Dual Career Programme we will also help your partner find the right job for them.

Erasmus University Rotterdam

Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) is an internationally oriented university with a strong social orientation in its education and research, as expressed in our mission ‘Creating positive societal impact’. EUR is home to 3.700 academics and professionals and almost 33.000 students from more than 140 countries. Everything we do, we do under the credo The Erasmian Way – Making Minds Matter. We’re global citizens, connecting, entrepreneurial, open-minded, and socially involved. These Erasmian Values function as our internal compass and create EUR’s distinctive and recognizable profile. From these values, with a broad perspective and with an eye for diversity, different backgrounds and opinions, our employees work closely together to solve societal challenges from the dynamic and cosmopolitan city of Rotterdam. Thanks to the high quality and positive societal impact of our research and education, EUR can compete with the top European universities. www.eur.nl.

Erasmus School of Health Policy and Management (ESHPM)
As a multidisciplinary faculty of the Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), ESHPM internationally has a strong presence in health technology assessment, health economics, health services & health systems research, healthcare governance, and health insurance https://www.eur.nl/en/eshpm/research. The most recent international research audit has assessed ESHPM’s research as excellent (20 out of 20 points). ESHPM values empirical, multidisciplinary research with high impact. It is firmly rooted in the world’s leading Dutch healthcare system and actively participates in international research projects, in particular EU funded projects. ESHPM also is a core Faculty in the ‘Convergence Alliance’ (TU Delft, EUR, and Erasmus MC) as well as ‘Medical Delta’ (LUMC, TU Delft, EUR, and Erasmus MC) and Leiden-Delft-Erasmus (LDE), with cross-cutting research programs in Health & Technology, Resilient Cities, Pandemic Preparedness and Healthy Society.

ESHPM is responsible for a bachelor, pre-master and three (international) master programs on healthcare management, policy, and economics, serving more than 1500 students.

HTA department

ESHPM is home to seven distinguished research departments, among which the HTA department. The HTA department is renowned for its impactful contributions to methodological advancements in HTA research. The department takes pride in its achievements, having authored the Dutch guideline for costing studies in HTA and currently updating the Dutch reference prices, essential for use in HTA. Notably, it has pioneered the development of various questionnaires facilitating comprehensive cost estimation from a societal perspective—examples include the iPCQ, iMCQ, CarerQol, and iVICQ. Additionally, the department is credited as the originator of the Friction Cost Approach and the Cost-Effectiveness Acceptability Curve, solidifying its leadership in HTA methodology. In the modelling domain, the department has published Tech-Ver, a checklist to improve model credibility, and AdViSHE, a tool to assess model-validation. The ambitious trajectory of the HTA department is to maintain its forefront position in shaping HTA methodologies.

The HTA department has strong relations to iMTA b.v. (https://www.imta.nl/) a private entity of EUR Holding with world-leading expertise in Health Technology Assessment, collaborating with many health technology developers, clinicians, HTA-bodies, payers, and policy-makers.