Research Assistant (Health Policy and Management)

About the role

The Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is seeking a Research Assistant to support the Johns Hopkins Drug Access and Affordability Initiative. This initiative develops policy-relevant research and bipartisan policy recommendations to improve pharmaceutical affordability and access in the United States.

Responsibilities

• Run routine and ad hoc reports.
• Use standard tools and computer programs to review data.
• Absorb and clean data to ensure accuracy and prepare tables.
• Lead basic activities such as data collection and data entry.
• May lead specific tasks and develop processes to ensure study activities occur effectively and efficiently.
• Conduct literature searches to support faculty in research efforts.
• Design and format papers/publications.
• Assist PIs in writing summaries of papers for release as policy briefs or other channels.
• Support research and policy analysis related to prescription drug affordability, pharmaceutical access, drug pricing, and health care financing.
• Conduct background research on specialty drugs, biologics, biosimilars, complex generics, PBM practices, formularies, rebates, generic substitution, and employer-sponsored insurance.
• Support literature reviews, FDA database review, NDC identification, and documentation of relevant pharmaceutical market dynamics.
• Clean, harmonize, and analyze prescription drug spending, rebate, claims, utilization, formulary, cost-sharing, and out-of-pocket cost data.
• Support economic and policy modeling to estimate potential savings for plan sponsors, beneficiaries, and the broader health care system under alternative formulary or utilization scenarios.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in a related field.
• Additional education may substitute for required experience and additional related experience may substitute for required education beyond a high school diploma/graduation equivalent, to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.

Qualifications

• Masters Degree in Public Health or a related field.
• Two years in relevant quantitative research and analytics.
• Experience with R, Stata or similar data analysis tools.
• Familiarity with health policy, pharmaceutical markets, prescription drug spending, PBMs.

Skills

• Analytical Skills - Awareness
• Attention to Detail - Awareness
• Data Management and Analysis - Awareness
• Formatting and Layout Proficiency - Awareness
• Information Gathering - Awareness
• Oral and Written Communications - Awareness
• Organizational Skills - Awareness