Graduate Research Associate, Clinical Outcomes

Job Description Overview

Hearst Health is seeking a part-time Graduate Research Associate, Clinical Outcomes to help quantify and communicate the clinical impact of our software, data, and decision-support solutions.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Chief Medical Officers, clinical leaders, product teams, and other stakeholders across Hearst Health businesses to identify high-value questions about the clinical impact of our solutions.
• Translate business and clinical questions into testable hypotheses, measurable outcomes, and well-defined research designs.
• Develop appropriate observational, quasi-experimental, or other analytical approaches to assess whether and how clinical outcomes change following adoption or use of Hearst Health solutions.
• Identify relevant endpoints, comparison populations, time periods, covariates, and potential confounding factors.
• Assess the strengths and limitations of available data and recommend pragmatic study designs that balance methodological rigor with real-world constraints.
• Analyze clinical, operational, utilization, or other relevant healthcare data to evaluate outcomes associated with Hearst Health solutions.
• Apply appropriate statistical and epidemiological methods to distinguish meaningful effects from correlation, selection effects, and other sources of bias.
• Conduct sensitivity analyses and other validation work to assess the robustness of findings.
• Document methodology, assumptions, limitations, and results so analyses can withstand scrutiny from clinical, analytical, and customer audiences.
• Translate complex analytical findings into clear conclusions for clinical and business audiences.
• Develop charts, exhibits, research summaries, and other materials that explain study methodology and findings accurately and accessibly.
• Partner with marketing, sales, product, and clinical teams to determine how validated findings can appropriately support customer conversations, case studies, thought leadership, and other external communications.
• Help ensure that claims about clinical impact remain consistent with the underlying evidence and appropriately reflect study limitations.
• Help establish a repeatable framework for measuring clinical impact across Hearst Health businesses and products.
• Identify opportunities to extend initial analyses into deeper research, customer-specific studies, conference submissions, white papers, or peer-reviewed research where appropriate.
• Monitor relevant academic literature and emerging methodologies for evaluating digital health, clinical decision support, healthcare software, and data products.

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing an advanced degree—such as an MPH, MS, DrPH, PhD, or comparable graduate degree—in public health, epidemiology, biostatistics, health services research, health informatics, outcomes research, or a related quantitative field.
• Strong grounding in research methodology, epidemiology, biostatistics, or causal inference.
• Experience designing and conducting quantitative analyses using healthcare, clinical, claims, EHR, or other complex real-world datasets.
• Proficiency with at least one statistical or analytical programming environment.
• Ability to move from an open-ended clinical question to a structured research plan and analytical approach.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical findings to non-technical audiences.
• Intellectual curiosity and comfort working across clinical, analytical, product, and commercial perspectives.