Researcher Senior (Health Services)

About the role

The Researcher Senior (Health Services) is responsible for prospective and retrospective health services, economic and epidemiologic research activities for Elevance Health, Carelon and external clients. The focus area includes implementation sciences, population health, evidence-based care (drug, procedures, vaccine& and medical device) and policy research.

Responsibilities

• Lead or support scientific aspects of research activities in the following areas: proposal development, research designs, methodologies, analytical techniques, data analyses, and reporting.
• Use subject matter expertise in leading or supporting the development of protocols, statistical analysis plans, analyses, reports, and publications.
• Lead or support the development of detailed specifications for study databases and analysis files, consistency checks, tables, and figures and communicates requirements to the programming group.
• Conduct analyses of administrative claims/electronic medical records/survey data and review of statistical output to ensure the superior quality of research activities and client deliverables.
• Responsible for the final quality and accuracy of study deliverables, presentation of study deliverables and facilitation of the collaboration among project team members towards development.
• Manage relationships with study champions, communicates scientific decisions, and presents key study insights to the champions, including Elevance Health senior leadership team, internal decision makers, and other external stakeholders/clients.

Requirements

Requires a MS, MPH or PharmD in epidemiology or health sciences or related field; minimum 3 years of experience in health service research, epidemiology, biostatistics, or a related field; or any combination of education and experience which would provide an equivalent background.

Skills

• Ph.D. is strongly preferred.
• Postgraduate or post-doctoral training or relevant experience in conducting observational and/or prospective research studies strongly preferred.
• Understanding of the U.S. health care system, population health, and social determinants of health/health related social needs strongly preferred.
• Proficient in statistical software, including SAS, STATA, R, and/or Python strongly preferred.
• Proficient in data management tools, including SQL strongly preferred.
• Experience with large healthcare datasets, such as claims data, the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), or the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) is strongly preferred.