The Health Economics Blog is published by EuropeanHealthEconomics.com, the specialised job board for health economists. It covers job market analysis, career guidance, and employer resources for the global health economics and HEOR community.
For health economists: job market reviews across Europe, North America, and Asia; practical guidance on HEOR roles in pharma and consulting; HTA career trends; and advice on navigating the health economics job search.
For managers of health economics teams: guidance on sourcing qualified health economists and working with freelance health economics professionals.
Stay up to date with the free weekly Health Economics Jobs Newsletter.
Most health economics, HEOR and market access vacancies are posted first to employer career pages, not to general job boards. LinkedIn and sites like Indeed carry only a fraction of these roles, and much of what they do show under “health economics” is keyword-matched noise from unrelated fields. A specialised job board that monitors employer career pages directly, EuropeanHealthEconomics.com, currently … Read more
Please use the original job ads in English when applying for roles. I asked our AI translation tool to translate one page, but it went rogue and translated all 400 job ads into 8 languages instead. While it can be great to have the job ads in your native language, there are likely translation mistakes, especially in technical health economics … Read more
Pro Members of EuropeanHealthEconomics.com had access to 401 job postings during August 2026. The split across continents was Europe at 114 roles, North America at 221 roles, Asia at 54 roles, and Other regions at 26 roles. Top Countries in Europe Health economics hiring in Europe during August was concentrated in a few key markets. United Kingdom led with 41 … Read more
Health economics is a specialist niche with a small professional community. Qualified health economists are concentrated in pharmaceutical companies, HEOR consultancies, HTA bodies, and academia, and they do not reliably respond to postings on general job boards. The most direct channel for reaching active health economist job seekers is a specialist platform built for this audience. Why General Recruitment Channels … Read more
Pro Members of EuropeanHealthEconomics.com had access to 471 jobs posted in July 2026. The split across continents was Europe 178 roles, North America 220 roles, Asia 75 roles, and Other 20 roles. Top Countries in Europe Within Europe, hiring activity concentrated in a few key markets. United Kingdom led with 46 positions, followed by Switzerland at 31. Spain accounted for … Read more
Pro Members of EuropeanHealthEconomics.com had access to 477 jobs posted during June 2026. The split across continents was Europe 171 roles, North America 234 roles, Asia 74 roles, and Other 25 roles. Top Countries in Europe Germany led the European market with 35 postings, followed by the United Kingdom at 30 and Switzerland at 28. Spain and Ireland each recorded … Read more
What is Actually Different? If you are exploring Health Economics and Outcomes Research (HEOR) roles, you have probably noticed that job postings from pharmaceutical companies look quite different from those at consultancies. That is not a coincidence. A review of recent HEOR job postings reveals a distinct structural divide between the two sectors. Understanding this divide helps you judge where … Read more
HR closes the openings faster than you expect Think HR wants to collect as many CVs as possible? Think they’ll keep the job ad running for weeks to find the perfect candidate? Not quite. Hiring managers are pushing them. HR is under pressure from managers who want the vacancy filled as soon as possible. Their job is to deliver strong … Read more
Value and access is one of the newer function categories in health economics, and the scope of these roles is not always clear, even to people working in the field. They sit at the intersection of health economics, market access, pricing and reimbursement, and the job titles and descriptions vary widely across companies and sectors. To get a clearer picture … Read more
If you’re an experienced health economist searching for your next role, you probably haven’t told anyone yet. Your activity on EuropeanHealthEconomics.com is never sold or shared. Your employer won’t know you’re looking. Unlike many general job boards, we don’t sell your data to advertisers or recruiters. Pro Membership gives you 3x more health economics roles than the free board. You … Read more
If you’re working in Health Technology Assessment (HTA) or planning your next move into it, the job descriptions being posted right now tell a clear story about how the function is changing. We analysed roles with HTA explicitly in the title, posted in the Pro membership of EuropeanHealthEconomics.com. These are a subset: only roles where HTA is in the job … Read more
You have a recruitment gap in your health economics team. Or a project that needs extra support: an HTA submission, a cost-effectiveness model, a country-specific dossier. You need a freelance health economist, and you need one soon. You’ve probably already tried the obvious routes You asked colleagues and your professional network for recommendations. Sometimes that works. Often it doesn’t. The … Read more
Search “health economist” on LinkedIn or Indeed and the results look promising at first glance. Dozens of listings. Plenty of activity. But start reading and the picture changes quickly. Half the results are not health economics roles. They are health advisors, public health consultants or general economist positions with “health” or “economics” loosely attached to the job description. Health economics … Read more
Casual browsing and a serious job search aren’t the same thing. The free board covers about 30% of open health economics roles. That’s fine if you’re not actively looking. But if you’re genuinely considering your next move, you’re making decisions with incomplete information. You can’t apply for roles you don’t know exist. Pro Membership gives you the full picture. Every … Read more
Do You Really Need a PhD in Health Economics? I reviewed over 600 health economics job postings to find out what employers actually require, and the answer is more nuanced than most people assume. It’s a question I hear regularly. And one I’ve thought about myself. I have a PhD in health economics. I work as a health economics consultant. … Read more
The Health Economics Blog is published by EuropeanHealthEconomics.com, the specialised job board for health economists. It covers job market analysis, career guidance, and employer resources for the global health economics and HEOR community.
For health economists: job market reviews across Europe, North America, and Asia; practical guidance on HEOR roles in pharma and consulting; HTA career trends; and advice on navigating the health economics job search.
For managers of health economics teams: guidance on sourcing qualified health economists and working with freelance health economics professionals.
Stay up to date with the free weekly Health Economics Jobs Newsletter.
