TITLE: Research Analyst – healthcare delivery
LOCATION: Bellevue, WA, USA
LOCATION: Bellevue, WA, USA
The Institute for Disease Modeling (IDM) team is composed of
research scientists and software professionals who focus on creating powerful
and innovative disease modeling and data analysis tools to help researchers and
policy makers understand diseases, their causes, the way they spread, and the
best types of interventions to use for the particular situation faced. IDM
partners with selected universities, NGOs, government ministries, and other
research and public health institutions focused on researching new ways to
understand and combat diseases both locally and globally.
We seek a full-time Research Analyst to work as part of the IDM
analysis and model usage center and to gather, analyze, and model data about
healthcare delivery in countries with a high burden of communicable diseases.
The analyst will focus on data related to the impact, effectiveness, and
efficiency of healthcare delivery systems, e.g., multi-cluster health and
demographic surveys, epidemiological studies, clinical trials, and administrative
data reported by routine healthcare systems and other disease control campaign
efforts. As part of their work, the analyst will learn about different types of
healthcare technologies and interventions, e.g., drugs, vaccines, diagnostics,
medical devices, cold chain systems, etc. Using these multiple sources, the
analyst will identify important features (trends, anomalies, patterns) through
data mining, visualization, and analytics. They will also build models for
healthcare efficiency and effectiveness based on their findings. The analyst
will further inform and refine their models by consulting the scientific
literature, and working closely with modelers, programmers, and statisticians
on the team. The analyst will write summaries of their results. The analyst
will also present to key stakeholders, at conferences, and assist in the
preparation research articles.
The IDM team architects advanced models of disease transmission,
develops computational tools to inform global disease eradication policy, conducts
innovative analysis of epidemiologically- and policy-relevant data
(programmatic data, financial data, clinical trials data, and cluster surveys
data), and identifies epidemiologically critical knowledge gaps. As part of our
work, we collaborate with groups at the World Health Organization, the Center
for Disease Control, PATH, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, ministries of
health in the developing world, as well as universities and research
institutes.
Joining our group provides unique opportunities to interact with
global-health policymakers, to collaborate with world-class research
laboratories and non-profit organizations, and to contribute to global and
national disease-eradication strategies.
Responsibilities:
● Gathers data about public health interventions
and the delivery of drugs, vaccines, and medical devices in countries of
interest, e.g., maternal and child health, nutrition, and family planning.
These data can take the form of multi-cluster surveys, geographic information
(e.g., GPS coordinates of health centers, maps of population and roads), or
administrative data collected by health delivery programs
● Analyzes the gathered health delivery data to
discover relevant features, e.g., trends in time, by region, anomalies, and
correlations between important quantities
● Models the efficiency and effectiveness of
primary health care delivery and other health interventions based on the data
gathered and related analyses.
● Reviews the scientific literature on the
delivery of primary healthcare and other health interventions, uses past
research to inform what new analyses to perform and to set the context for
current research
● Works closely with the modelers, programmers,
and statisticians on the team to refine the models and use them to conduct sensitivity
analyses, explore tradeoffs among possible interventions, and optimize the
delivery of health care
● Write summaries of his/her results to be used in
policy recommendations, white papers, and scientific publications
● Assists in the preparation of research articles
and conference presentations communicating the project and its results to the
scientific community.
Key Qualifications
and Required Skills:
● Masters in science or in a quantitative field
(e.g. Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Physics)
● Proficiency in at least one data-analysis or
scripting language (e.g. MATLAB, python, R)
● Advanced proficiency with Excel, and ability to
connect and query a database (e.g., Access, SQL)
● Ability to read and summarize research articles.
● Attention to detail and high standard for
quality of work product
● Must be a clear and effective communicator
● Work extended hours to meet a deadline, and a
demonstrated ability to work productively as part of a team.
● Knowledge of issues of public health in developing
world settings is a plus
● Experience working with a software development
team is a plus
● Having published articles in peer-reviewed
scientific journals is a plus.
● Fluency in French, Spanish, or Portuguese is a
plus
