Health innovations such as AI algorithms for predicting presence of disease, e-Health apps for monitoring personal health conditions, and 3D printing for constructing personalized bone implants are revolutionizing healthcare, and the way health is perceived. However, traditional innovation development and evaluation frameworks are still limited in scope and provide insights only from single disciplinary perspectives! To better understand the ongoing revolution in health and healthcare, its impacts, and how these may benefit society, we strive to:
Investigate how different forms of medical and social empirical evidence can be combined (and weighted) in health economic analyses, and how “responsible” model-based decision-making can be supported, for example with the best validation practices;
Account for (end user) values in the early design stages of health innovations, by integrating, for example, Value Sensitive Design and Anticipatory Ethics, with formal expert elicitation, stakeholder analysis, and early modelling, to increase their value to society;
Investigate the underlying ethical and value presuppositions governing different current approaches for Health Technology Assessment (HTA) to identify and correct for biases if required;
Identify how the health economic decision framework, focusing on health outcomes and costs, may be updated with insights from the bio-ethics field or a philosophy of health and medicine field. These insights may be related to, for example, public acceptability, quality and equity of resource allocation decisions in healthcare, and aspects of health system sustainability.
Can you integrate HTA perspectives and philosophical perspectives? Then together we can improve the design and development, the formal evaluation based on evidence, the successful innovation implementation in practice, and the broader decision making processes of innovations in healthcare.
YOUR PROFILE
A PhD in HTA/health economics or related field with quantitative components, for example in industrial engineering, econometrics, technical medicine, health sciences, computer science;
Experience with collaborating across disciplinary boundaries, and preferably with partners in healthcare;
Affinity with simulation modeling, mixed methods, expert elicitation is considered an advantage;
Excellent teaching skills and possession of a University Teaching Qualification (UTQ) or willing to acquire this. Ability to educate students in health programmes (and potentially in philosophy as well). Envisioned balance between teaching and research is 50%:50%;
Proficient in English (C2 level). Speaking Dutch is an advantage, as is willingness to learn this within a short time frame (for research purposes).
Perhaps you are the candidate we are looking for!
OUR OFFER
We offer an appointment as Assistant Professor for 1 year, after which your position can become permanent, subject to a successful evaluation. The starting salary, depending on your experience, ranges between € 3.821 to € 5.943 gross per month (in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities). In addition, the University of Twente offers additional attractive employment conditions (8% holiday allowance, 8.3% end-of-year bonus, solid pension scheme, sabbatical leave, professional and personal development programs, etc.).
INFORMATION AND APPLICATION
We encourage you to discuss your ideas about this position with prof. dr.ir. H. Koffijberg of the HTSR section: h.koffijberg@utwente.nl
You can submit your application, including a recent CV and your vision statement on teaching and research, along with the names of two referees before the 9th of May.
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