The Agency for Care Effectiveness (ACE) is a Health Technology Assessment (HTA) in Singapore. The role of ACE is to provide independent evidence-based evaluations of health technologies (e.g. drugs, vaccines, medical technologies) to inform funding decisions and produces technology guidances on their appropriate use.
The Economic Modelling team in ACE performs technical appraisal of health technologies including economic modelling and budget impact analysis. The team also builds internal technical capabilities and robustness through methodology development and research, and builds external capabilities through knowledge transfer.
Key responsibilities
Technical assessment, data analysis and reporting
- Conduct or appraise economic evaluation and budget impact analysis as part of health technology assessment (HTA) for drugs, vaccines and medical technologies to inform funding decision-making by the Drug Advisory Committee (DAC) and Medical Technology Advisory Committee (MTAC)
- Assist in the identification and prioritization of topics for technical assessments
Communcation and engagement
- Work closely with stakeholders to understand data needs and expected timelines
- Engage healthcare institutions or providers to gather inputs on the scope, inputs and outputs of the technology assessment
- Work closely with cross functional teams to effectively communicate findings internally and to external stakeholders
Data gathering and management
- Understand various datasets available and acquire health technology related data (not routinely available in MOH) from healthcare institutions or providers or other relevant parties
- Prepare and participate in meetings such as clinician interviews and engagements
Training and development
- Undertake continuing personal and professional development, and keep up to date to scientific and methodological developments to meet changing demands of the job and to satisfy the required technical competencies
Educational requirements:
Education relating to healthcare and postgraduate qualifications in health economics, public health, statistics or epidemiology preferred
Relevant experience:
No prior experience required for analyst, and at least 1 year and 3 years of experience in relevant fields for senior analyst and principal analyst, respectively.
State other requirements/qualities such as personality traits, interests or skills required for the job:
- Familiarity and experience with clinical and cost-effectiveness analyses
- Proficiency in software for data management or building cost-effectiveness models e.g. Microsoft Excel, TreeAge, R, Stata, SPSS, SQL etc preferred
- A commitment to excellence in quality of research and outputs
- Excellent time management and discipline in meeting deadlines
- Good communication and interpersonal skills and ability to work well with others and build networks
