Research Associate in Behavioural Economic Modelling

at  Imperial College London

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ABOUT THE ROLE

The successful candidate will be based within the Economics & Public Policy Department and Centre for Health Economics & Policy Innovation at Imperial College Business School. They will work on the world’s first initiative to integrate the epidemiological and economic modelling of pandemic preparedness. The initiative will use pioneering techniques to provide critical data and analysis to inform public health decisions related to pandemic preparedness and disease outbreaks around the world.

WHAT YOU WOULD BE DOING

You will:

• Work closely with the Economics of Pandemic Preparedness (EPPI) team to integrate behavioural insights into mathematical infectious diseases transmission models, for example via micro-economic utility models.
• Model the cost and benefits of behavioural interventions to contain infections and reduce economic and educational losses, and the return-on-investment to pandemic preparedness.
• Analyse the drivers of economic and health behaviours during pandemics.
• Support the design and evaluation of behaviour interventions that drive socially desirable behaviours (e.g. vaccination, compliance to isolation measures).
• Work closely with the EPPI team to project the societal costs of past and potential future pandemics, considering behavioural insights.
• Work closely with the EPPI team to advise on the return-on-investment to pandemic preparedness, and support outbreak response with behavioural insights.