What sorts of job prospects are there for health economists?
Apart from health care delivery organisations such as hospitals, potential employers of health economists include: academic centres and universities, health insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, governments, regulators, consultancy firms as well as local or international organisations with a health agenda (such as lobby groups, community organisations, the World Health Organisation (WHO), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and World Bank). All of these provide interesting and challenging places to work
You could work in:
Private Industry
Government
Research
Consulting
Non-Government Organisations(NGOs)