Come join us! Lecturer in Demography Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science Sociology at Oxford 70% of your time dedicated to research and 30% to teaching in the wonderful undergraduate interdisciplinary degree Human Sciences Deadline 7 June noon! demographicscience.ox.ac.uk/post/lecturer-…

In addition to the Research Fellow vacancy below, we are also recruitment for two Research Officers in #socialcare #economics and/or projections to join Jose Luis Fernandez 🇪🇺 and colleagues on the #ASCRUProject and NIHR ESHCRU at #LSE. 📅 Apply for 6 July 2022 ➡ jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/25…

📣Job opportunity - 3 LSE Fellow positions We are seeking to appoint Fellows that have completed or are close to completing a PhD in #HealthEconomics, #HealthPolicy or #HealthServices research. ➡️More details here bit.ly/399aKcX ⏰Applications close Sunday 26 June

📣Job opportunity - LSE Fellows - Applications close this week⏰ We are seeking to appoint 3 Fellows with relevant teaching experience and that have completed or are close to completing a PhD in #HealthEconomics, #HealthPolicy or #HealthServices rsh. ➡️bit.ly/399aKcX⬅️

Join the Bennett Institute for Public Policy team! We have two Research Assistant positions available - one for our sectoral productivity programme & one for the range of our research projects - working with Diane Coyle & Michael Kenny Apply by: 17 Aug 2022 bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/about-us/caree…

All this happened in Finland this week. A thread. 1/10

The minimum UKRI PhD stipend is £16,062 for 2022/23. Although PhDs are training and do not legally require minimum wage, a comparison is worthwhile: National minimum wage (age 21-23) is £19,094 (40h/week). After tax that's £16,836. Living wage is £19,760 (£17,280 after tax).

1/ Drug companies often claim high prices are needed to recoup R&D spending. But is that true? In our new JAMA Network Open study, we found that high drug prices don’t necessarily correspond to higher R&D spending. jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman… Inmaculada (Inma) Hernández Lucas Berenbrok @UCSDSkaggsSOP

*Job opportunity* Applications are invited for one Research Assistant position at the El Erian Institute for Behavioural Economics & Public Policy. Find out more & apply by 18 Dec. jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/38514/

On Mon 12 Dec will be hosting a seminar at University of Sydney. Bad Idea Ai, Wolfgang Alschner, Pepita Barlow will be speaking about the interface of intl investment agreements, health and insights from the Latin American region. Sign up and find out more here: eventbrite.com.au/e/safeguarding…

"Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale" (Virchow, 1848)⬇️

🚨New paper in PLOS Medicine w Luke Allen 🚨 We find that US & EU trade agreement participation associates with reduced implementation of select tobacco and child food marketing restrictions dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…

Take-home messages: - Implementation should have increased following #covid (NCDs, tobacco, alcohol, junk foods etc are all risk factors) - But NCD policy implementation has stagnated - These policies are extremely cost effective and save lives - Urgent action is required

📣If a priority of the government is to 'do no harm', a commitment it made during Brexit negotiations, then it should take account of the health impacts of its trade policies🚨new paper 🚨 with Liz Green Pepita Barlow Mark Bellis

Job Opportunity in the LSE Health Policy Department Assistant Professor of Health Policy. Joining great colleagues including 🌈 Andrew Street 🇪🇺 Clare Wenham Dr. Mylene Lagarde Elias Mossialos Ranjeeta Thomas George Wharton Emilie Courtin Rocco Friebel Panos Kanavos jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/18…