Resources and Opportunities

Career Opportunities
Mentoring Program
Fellowship Program
Funding, Publication
and Other Opportunities
EDI Resources
Health Economics
Training Programs

Career Opportunities

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Mentoring Program

IHEA initiated a mentoring program in 2019 to support early- and mid-career health economists in their professional development and personal wellbeing. Every year, there is a call for experienced health economists to volunteer to be mentors and for applications from IHEA members who would like to be mentees. As many mentee applicants as possible are matched with a mentor, based on common research interests and other preferences. The program consists of at least four meetings, usually via video call, over a one-year period.

The call for mentors and mentees is issued in November of each year. Applications for the 2025 program should be submitted here by January 21, 2025.

We are very grateful to all mentors for giving their time to support the next generation of health economists and health economics leaders. Please find a list of all who have contributed as mentors here.

Fellowship Program for research support to early career health economics researchers

IHEA is excited to announce the launch of a new Fellowship Program, which has been made possible by funding from the Canadian Centre for Health Economics (CCHE/CCES) and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC/CRDI).

This Program will pair an early-career researcher (ECR) with an experienced researcher for support throughout a research project, over the period of a year to a maximum of 18 months. Support will be provided from the phase of identifying a research question and developing a proposal, through data collection and analysis, to writing up and disseminating research findings. It is a research mentoring program for early career researchers who do not currently have senior support, and is envisaged as a collaborative relationship between the research mentor and mentee. It is distinct from IHEA’s professional development mentoring program. An award of USD5,000 will be provided for each Fellowship mentee-mentor pair.

Application deadline: February 17, 2025

About the Fellowship Program

Eligibility Criteria for Research Mentees
Eligibility Criteria for Research Mentors
Focus of the Research Project
Submission and Selection Process
Nature of the Fellowship Award and Expected Outputs

The Program is particularly targeted at ECRs who are based in institutions that do not have experienced health economists who could provide such research support. Priority will be given to ECRs based in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Research mentees should either:

Have completed a Master’s degree in health economics, or economics, and plan to enroll for a doctoral program; or
Be a recent health economics Doctoral graduate (preferably within two years of graduating) and not holding a Post-Doctoral Fellowship.

Those currently registered for a doctoral program are not eligible to apply. In exceptional cases, someone enrolled in a Master’s program who has completed or is nearing completion of their course work component, may be eligible for this program for the research component of their degree, if there are no experienced health economists within the institution in which they are studying who could support their research.

Mentors should have at least 5 years of independent research experience and must have research mentoring experience. Mentors should, in particular, be skilled in advising on identifying appropriate research questions.

Mentors should also have experience of collaborative research in countries and with institutions other than where they are based. As most mentees are likely to be from LMICs, experience of collaborative research with LMIC colleagues is important. Experienced researchers who do not have LMIC experience but are wanting to build ethical collaborative research relationships with LMIC colleagues, will be considered. Health economists from the diaspora are particularly encouraged to apply to be mentors, given their familiarity with the country and regional contexts from which mentees are likely to come.

Research undertaken as part of the Fellowship Program can be on any topic within the field of health economics. However, the research must be conducted in the country in which the mentee is based and must be relevant and of importance in that country’s context. Research of policy relevance is particularly encouraged.

Given the 12 to 18-month timeframe, the use of secondary data sources is encouraged. However, research projects that require limited primary data collection will be considered.

Applications have now closed.

There is a two-stage application process. In the first stage, those interested in being a research mentee or mentor should fill in the relevant application form at the bottom of this webpage. This information will be used to screen applications against the criteria listed above and to identify appropriate mentor-mentee matches. The deadline for Stage 1 applications is February 17, 2025.

Where an appropriate mentor-mentee match of eligible applicants is identified, the pair will be requested to work together to develop a brief research proposal and work plan for the Fellowship within 4-6 weeks of being paired.

The draft proposal is expected to include:
- Clear research question
- Motivation of the relevance of this research question in the country context and the expected contribution of the research
- Initial proposal on methodological approach, including data sources and analytical methods
The work plan would include:
- Gantt chart outlining activities and timeframe
- Outline of collaborative approach, including means of communicating, regularity of meetings, agreement on co-authorship of outputs, etc.
- Planned outputs, particularly publications and conference presentations
- Planned use of Fellowship financial Award (budget)

This second stage of the application process will be used to select Fellowship Program participants.

It is intended to make up to six Fellowship Awards in 2025.

The Fellowship award is a fixed amount of USD5,000. The mentee and mentor will agree on how these funds would best be used, which may include a visit by the mentor to the mentee’s institution or vice versa to work intensively together on the research project, for the purchase of project related software or datasets, publication or conference expenses, etc. The funds may not be used for salary cover for either the mentee or mentor. The funds will be issued in tranches according to the timeline for different activities and when funds will be required. Administrative processes for these tranches will not be onerous.

In addition, mentors and mentees will be awarded complimentary registration for the next IHEA Congress. If the mentee is from an LMIC, additional financial support to attend the Congress may be feasible.

Mentees and mentors will indicate the outputs planned, which should include a financial report on how the Fellowship funds were used, at least one article in a peer-reviewed journal and presentation at the next IHEA Congress. A special session(s) will be organized at the Congress for the presentation of fellowship research findings. Mentees and mentors will also be asked to advise others attending the Congress who are interested in participating in the Fellowship Program.

Funding, Publication and Other Opportunities

Information on requests for grant funding proposals, calls for special issue journal contributions and similar opportunities will be posted here and regularly updated. Please share information on such opportunities by emailing ihea@healtheconomics.org.

Call for papers:

EDI Resources

Many universities and other institutions are seeking to promote equality, diversity and inclusion in their organizations and activities, and have developed policies and guidelines which may be helpful resources for others pursuing these goals. We provide links to a few such resources developed by some universities. We will update this list as more materials come to our attention (please send us information on useful resources), and will add ones developed specifically by and for IHEA.

Examples of EDI policies and strategies with links to practical implementation information

Diversity and inclusion in teaching

Organizing inclusive events

Fair Recruitment

University College London Guidance

Disability guidance

Macquarie University Access and Inclusion Strategy

Religion and belief guidance

LGBTQ+ resources

Detailed reports, blogs and related resources

Health Economics Training Programs

A wide range of health economics training programs are offered by a growing number of universities around the world. Those offered by IHEA University members are listed below (by region and country/territory in alphabetical order). Become an IHEA University member to include your course information in this listing.