What are the responsibilities and job description for the Researcher Senior - Safety and Epidemiology Research position at Elevance Health?
Location: This position will work a hybrid model (remote and in office one day per week). Ideal candidates will live within 50 miles of one of our Pulse Point locations in Wilmington, DE, Newton, MA, Indianapolis, IN, Chicago, IL, Cary, NC, Norfolk, VA, Mason, OH, Portland, ME, St. Louis, MO, Wallingford, CT or Louisville, KY.
The Researcher Senior - Safety and Epidemiology Research is responsible for prospective and retrospective epidemiologic research activities for Carelon Research clients or Public Policy Institute (PPI).
How You Will Make An Impact
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.
Preferred Skills, Capabilities, And Experiences
The Researcher Senior - Safety and Epidemiology Research is responsible for prospective and retrospective epidemiologic research activities for Carelon Research clients or Public Policy Institute (PPI).
How You Will Make An Impact
- Lead and support the design and execution of pharmacoepidemiology research, including post-authorization safety, risk mitigation, and active monitoring studies.
- Provide epidemiology subject matter expertise and lead or support research activities related to scientific study design, application of appropriate statistical methods, interpretation of results, reporting, and communication of results.
- Lead and contribute to the development of protocols, statistical analysis plans, 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 review of administrative claims data and statistical output to ensure the superior quality of research activities and client deliverables.
- Lead or support initiatives that leverage and enhance the research environment.
- Publish research findings and present at professional scientific meetings.
- Present the company’s epidemiology expertise to prospective clients and support business development activities, including proposal development.
- Accountable to the final quality and accuracy of these study deliverables and presentation of such and facilitates collaboration among project team members towards their development.
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.
Preferred Skills, Capabilities, And Experiences
- Expert knowledge of epidemiology study design and statistical methodology strongly preferred.
- Experience leading research teams in the design and execution of pharmacoepidemiology studies strongly preferred.
- Experience with healthcare claims data and knowledge of advanced statistical methods used in the evaluation of healthcare claims data strongly preferred.
- Experience with consulting for the life sciences industry strongly preferred.
- Proficiency in SAS statistical software strongly preferred.
- Proficiency in R statistical software strongly preferred.
- Proficiency using the Panalgo Instant Health Data (IHD) tool strongly preferred.
- Innovative in conducting statistical analysis strongly preferred.
- Experience managing and prioritizing multiple projects to ensure their quality and on-time delivery strongly preferred.
- Ph.D. or MD strongly preferred.
- Clinical or therapeutic area knowledge, familiarity with clinical practice guidelines, and/or understanding of the U.S. health care system strongly preferred.
- Strong attention to detail preferred.
- Adaptable to changing priorities preferred.
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