Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Study Details: MSc 1 year full-time
2/3 years part-time
We tackle some of the world’s greatest health challenges to improve the health and care of people across the globe.
On this course you’ll study a growing area with a worldwide demand for qualified specialists.
The importance and use of health technology assessment and health economic modelling is rapidly increasing. This course helps you to become highly employable by developing the analytical skills required to evaluate the clinical outcomes and cost-effectiveness of health technologies such as new drugs, public health initiatives, screening programmes and diagnostic tools.
Sheffield has nine professors of health economics and decision sciences, including the world-renowned Prof John Brazier and in Professors Alan Brennan, Jim Chilcott and Matt Stevenson who are some of the most experienced health economic modelling experts in the country. You’ll develop the transferable skills and knowledge to work anywhere in the world as a professional decision-analytic modeller or health economist.
2:1 honours degree in a numerate subject such as economics, operational research, mathematics, statistics, pharmacy, industrial engineering, management science, physics, pharmacy or systems control.
For fees please see our website.
We have a number of funding options including scholarships. Please visit https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/postgraduate/taught/funding
You will find career opportunities exist around the world (including the UK, Europe, USA, Australia, Africa, and Canada) in:
Outside of the field of health economics and health technology assessment, graduates will be well equipped with quantitative and modelling skills sought for jobs within government agencies such as the Government Operational Research Service (GORS) and quantitative or modelling roles within the commercial sector.
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