Career interviews

¨C  My job is quite varied. I handle everything from responding to simple inquiries from individuals to conducting more extensive research work aimed at finding optimal solutions for our health services. This involves assessing benefits against costs, considering the legal framework, and political feasibility, says Steinar Riksaasen.

Eduardo Alberto Ramirez Lizardi's research focuses on analyzing how parents' health impacts their adult children's labour market outcomes. ¨C In my research, I use data from Norwegian health registries and econometric tools to answer this question. 

Rachel Hasting current job is a PhD in occupational health, studying the effects of a national intervention on health-related outcomes such as sickness absence and work disability.

¨C I use knowledge from the masterprogram in Health Economics, Policy and Management every day, and I would not have gotten this job without it. Dakota Pritchard works with everything from Health Technology Assessment applications and pricing strategy, to business analytics, sales, and marketing.

The master program has provided Benedicte Sofie Eilertsen with a broad set of theoretical perspectives. This enable her to better understand the wider context she is working in and participate in fruitful discussions with colleagues coming from different academic backgrounds.

Kine Pedersen has a PhD position related to cervical cancer screening and economic evaluation. The project is related to her master thesis and within a field she finds especially interesting.

Accenture har ikke noe trainee program, men som nyansatt f?r man de f?rste ?rene pr?ve seg innenfor mange ulike felt. Det har gitt Ida Iren Eriksen mulighet til ? gj?re seg opp en mening om hva hun ?nsker ? spesialisere seg innenfor.

Erfaring fra sykepleien og samfunnsvitenskapelig kunnskap fra masterstudiet er et godt utgangspunkt n?r Ragnhild Storstein Spilker kombinerer studiet med deltidsjobb i Nasjonal kompetanseenhet for minoritetshelse.

Since most of my work revolves around assessing the cost effectiveness of different pharmaceuticals, all the courses on economic evaluation, economic modelling, statistics and decision making have been extremely important, David Ngaruiya Mwaura says.

The purpose of the Junior Professional Associates program of the World Bank is to provide advanced students and recent graduates with the opportunity to gain entry-level professional experience, on a two-year, non-renewable contract with benefits.

Gudrun Waaler er i en stipendiatstilling ved Nasjonalt Folkehelseintstitutt (FHI). FHI er en nasjonal kompetanseinstitusjon for myndigheter, helsetjeneste, media og publikum.

Som r?dgiver i Helse- og omsorgsdepartementet steller Iselin Syversen med sentrale sp?rsm?l som oppf?lging av budsjett for spesialisthelsetjenesten og utvikling av finansieringssystemet

Search term "Health Economics" on international job agencies on the web pointed Kun Kim to an interesting and relevant job in Stockholm.

"I don't just do things, but analyze how they can be done more effectively" is how Nadine N?lte describes her tasks in a private Rehabilitation Company.

Back in his own country Yinhe Li has found a position as a young researcher in Health Policy