Senior Research Associate

Minimum Requirements:

Ph.D. with two years of experience; or a combination of education and related experience.

Preferred Hiring Qualifications

Masters or doctoral degree in public health health policy public administration health economics social science or a related field and two to three years of prior experience in a full-time analytic position.

Prior use of Medicaid claims data and understanding of managed care and fee-for-service health care policy.

To be fully considered for this position all candidates at the time of submission must provide the following documents:

• A complete and accurate GSU application

• Resume

• Cover Letter

• Three professional references.

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Senior Research Associate Senior Data Analyst

Georgia Health Policy Center

Andrew Young School of Policy Studies

Georgia State University

At the Georgia Health Policy Center (GHPC) we approach our work with a passion for being excellent to positively impact peoples lives and to find creative and innovative ways to learn and fulfill our goals. We are growing and we are thrilled that you are interested in being a part of our team. We are surrounded by individuals empowered to use their expertise and talents to achieve our mission to integrate research policy and programs to advance health and well-being.

Are you ready for us Are you seeking an opportunity with purpose and direction If you are we have the perfect opportunity for you! We hire great people from a wide variety of educational career and personal backgrounds not just because it is the right thing to do but because it makes our team stronger.

WHAT MAKES GHPC A GREAT PLACE

A knowledge-sharing organization that collaborates with diverse partners.

Professional development opportunities and mentorship

Competitive base salary

Generous benefits including health dental vision tuition assistance retirement etc.

A rapidly growing center within an academic setting

The centers current scope of work includes behavioral health health & health care financing health in all policies health systems transformation long-term services & support maternal health & child well-being population & global health and rural health. The center conducts analyzes and disseminates qualitative and quantitative data to connect decisionmakers with the objective research and guidance needed to make informed decisions about health policy and programs. The center is at work locally nationally and internationally with public and private partners to improve health and well-being.

JOB DESCRIPTION

The successful candidate will lead advanced analysis of large-scale administrative health care claims databases and will oversee prospective survey-based data collection. Our work involves analyzing real-world administrative health care data evaluating public health programs and policy impacts and translating findings for diverse audiences including policymakers and health care systems. This position is suited to an experienced analyst who brings deep expertise in claims data and a strong interest in both academic and applied research within a public-sector and academic environment.

This is an Atlanta-based in-office position.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Contribute to designing conducting and managing complex long-term health services research and evaluation studies.

Assess the implementation effectiveness and impact of public health programs and complex health policy changes.

Lead analyses of administrative health care claims data including medical pharmacy and eligibility files.

Lead prospective survey-based data collection and analysis efforts.

Conduct data cleaning linkage validation and documentation to support high-quality research and evaluation.

Translate and communicate research and evaluation results for various audiences including policymakers academic audiences community-based organizations lay people health care providers and health care systems.

Contribute to report writing including reports to high-stakes clients and manuscripts submitted to peer-reviewed journals and conferences.

ESSENTIAL SKIILS AND ABILITIES

Deep expertise in administrative health care data including claims data (e.g. Medicaid Medicare commercial insurance or allpayer claims databases) hospital discharge data (e.g. HCUP data) commercially available electronic health care databases (e.g. IQVIA or Epic).

Knowledge of health care coding systems including ICD-10 CPT/HCPCS DRG CCS NDC NPPES and SNOWMED.

Demonstrated understanding of parametric and non-parametric bivariate and multivariate statistical analyses including descriptive and inferential statistics. Experience conducting both cross-sectional and longitudinal statistical analyses.

Expertise in prospective survey creation dissemination and analysis using Qualtrics software.

Ability to independently assess model assumptions conduct sensitivity analyses and interpret results in the context of policyrelevant research questions.

Highly technical programming skills in SAS (especially PROC SQL). Additional knowledge of R or Python is desirable.

Strong communication and interpersonal skills for both technical and non-technical audiences.

Ability to lead the writing of methods and results sections for project reports and peer-reviewed academic publications.

Technical mastery of the following data practices:

Relational data management including merging multiple variable types aggregation and disaggregation of data deduplicating data and summarizing data by groups (e.g. counting averaging summing).

Macro variable processing creating macros and user-defined functions array processing and data-driven dynamic programming.

Lagging and leading functions finding the first and last observation by identifiers.

Iterative processing including looping and nested looping.

Working with dates and calculating time differences between observations filtering datasets and observations by dates for reporting/analysis purposes.

Reshaping data from wide to long and long to wide.

Working with both cross-sectional and longitudinal data.