RESEARCH DATA ANALYST, School of Public Health, Health Policy & Management

Job Description:

Boston University School of Public Health Department of Health Law Policy and Management supports a wide range of faculty-driven research. This position will support a multidisciplinary research team aimed at studying the health social and economic effects of sports wagering and casino gaming. This position has a defined end date of September 30 2028 subject to the availability of funding.

The Data Analyst willsupport a variety of research activities under the supervision of the teams investigators. Activities will include extracting merging and cleaning data from numerous survey administrative and other data sources performing statistical analyses on primary and secondary datasets and communicating about data and analytical issues orally and in writing.

The analyst will independently conduct analytic work using the statistical programs Stata and R and the position requires familiarity with biostatistical and/or econometric techniques. This work involves cleaning and organizing large data sets conducting regression analyses and creating tables and reports describing the results.

Essential Functions

1. Participate in the development and coordination of analytic activities including project development and design data analyses and planning for current and future research proposals.
2. Build analytical datasets using survey casino and administrative (e.g. employment and wages municipal revenue and expenditures) data sources.
3. Clean and transform the data; conduct statistical/econometric analyses.
4. Participate in meetings and briefings prepare report summaries follow up with project staff and experts to gather additional information and identify the themes for next steps in data collection and analysis.
5. Monitor summarize and distribute to project staff the relevant literature and information produced by researchers policy makers sites and other experts in the field.
6. Prepare presentations manuscripts methodological descriptions proposals IRB applications data use agreements and required reports in collaboration with project staff.

Required Skills:

• Bachelors Degree required with 2-3 years of experience masters degree preferred. Degree in Public Health Statistics Economics Public Policy Health Services Research Social Sciences Epidemiology or a related field requiring an understanding of statistics and research methodology.
• 1-5 years experience conducting data analyses.
• Requires an understanding of Stata and R; comfort using Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
• Field experience may include program evaluation survey research experience in authoring publications and presentations and in database management and statistical modeling.

Position is located in Boston MA with a flexible hybrid in-person and remote work schedule. Position is availability immediately with a desired start date of on or before January 31 2026.