Associate Professor/Professor

Child Policy Research Center,

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

Institute for the Study of Health, University of Cincinnati

The Child Policy Research Center, Department of Pediatrics and the Institute for the Study of Health are seeking a mid/senior level health economics faculty member interested in a research career in the study of the intersection of costs and quality in the delivery of care to children and adolescents. The successful applicant would hold a joint appointment in the Child Policy Research Center (CPRC), joining six research faculty and a multi-disciplinary staff, as well as the Institute for the Study of Health (ISH), a multi-disciplinary research unit at the academic health center with approximately 50 faculty, affiliated faculty, fellows and research support staff. The CPRC, directed by Lisa Simpson, MB, BCh, MPH, is dedicated to providing policy-makers, public health leaders and health care managers with information, ideas and strategies to improve the quality of health care for children and families. The ISH is dedicated to the discovery of innovative solutions to contemporary health care challenges.

The position of health economist is to provide health economic expertise to the faculty within the Center and Institute, and to develop an independent portfolio of extramurally supported research consistent with the goals of the CPRC and ISH. Responsibilities may also include teaching one or more health economics courses at the academic health center, and collaborating, as appropriate, in the mentoring clinical research faculty and fellows.

Candidates must possess a doctoral degree in economics or health economics, and have an established record of scholarly achievement, publication and external grant funding in health services research, preferably in the areas of the impact of market forces and/or public policy on the quality of care, the intersection of costs and quality, econometric modeling, as well as cost benefit, and/or cost-effectiveness analyses. The candidate should also understand the business of health care and be able to foster collaboration in a multi-disciplinary group between academic and clinical departments and across the medical center, university, private health systems and public health institutions.

Interested candidates should send their curriculum vitae and letter of interest to:

Teresa L. Nangle

Director, Physician and Faculty Recruitment

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

3333 Burnet Avenue ML 9008

Cincinnati, Ohio 45229-3039

Phone: (513) 636-0503

Cell: (513) 706-6219

E-mail: Teresa.Nangle@cchmc.org