Health Services Researcher - Senior

About the role

The Health Services Researcher serves as a key contributor to research programs spanning Internal Medicine and OB/GYN, evaluating healthcare quality, access, outcomes, and disparities across diverse patient populations. Through collaboration with physician investigators and interdisciplinary teams, this position develops and executes research projects that inform clinical decision-making, policy development, and healthcare innovation.

Responsibilities

• Contributes data analysis support to ongoing hospital quality improvement initiatives.
• Prepares study reports, graphs, and disease-specific scorecards and disseminates results.
• Performs critical analyses of outcomes, methods, and processes, utilizing data collected from primary and secondary sources.
• Collaborates with multi-disciplinary team of healthcare practitioners, researchers, and outcome specialists, as well as with federal, state, and local agencies when needed.
• Conducts computer-based searches in support of evaluation and quality initiatives.
• Maintains and manipulates large databases to produce information suitable for analysis.
• Provides the supporting institutional data necessary for the preparation of grants for outside funding, and assists as appropriate with the preparation of proposals.
• Assists in the development of databases and scorecards related to quality improvement initiatives.
• Assists in the development and implementation of evaluation plans directed towards the assessment of efficacy, safety, and cost-effectiveness, and/or outcomes in a variety of healthcare communities and systems.
• Writes and/or interprets methods sections for grant proposals and research studies.

Requirements

• Master's Degree in Health Policy, Survey Research, Epidemiology, Sociology, or other health-related research field required.
• 5 years professional experience in public health or healthcare related field required.
• Experience working in observational research and utilizing computers and databases to conduct analyses and interpretation of evaluation and outcome studies required.

Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Health Policy, Survey Research, Epidemiology, Sociology, or other health-related research field required.
• 5 years professional experience in public health or healthcare related field required.
• Experience working in observational research and utilizing computers and databases to conduct analyses and interpretation of evaluation and outcome studies required.

Skills

• Data analysis and reporting
• Collaboration with interdisciplinary teams
• Research project development
• Database manipulation and management
• Grant proposal writing and interpretation

Benefits

Advocate Health offers a comprehensive suite of Total Rewards: benefits and well-being programs, competitive compensation, generous retirement offerings, programs that invest in your career development and so much more – so you can live fully at and away from work, including:

• Compensation
• Premium pay
• Incentive pay
• Paid time off programs
• Health and welfare benefits
• Short- and Long-Term Disability
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Family benefits
• Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs
• Education Assistance Program

Pay

$41.10 - $61.65 based on qualifications, skills, relevant experience, and/or training.

Schedule

Standard M-F salaried position.