We are hiring a Biostatistician (Full-time) to join the UTHealth Houston School of Public Health in Houston, Texas. In this role, you will query large administrative claims databases to create analytical tables that the individual will use for statistical analysis in public reports or peer-reviewed journal publications. An ideal candidate should be proficient with statistical packages, databases, and programming languages for data preparation, storage, transformation, analysis, or visualization. Examples include R, SAS, STATA, SPSS, Matlab, SQL, Python, Hadoop, Pig, Hive, MapReduce, Java, Tableau, Excel or other big data frameworks.
Position Summary:The Center for Health Care Data is the largest research accessible, healthcare data repository in Texas. The Center uses data to support improvements in health practice and policy. This position provides an opportunity for a recent graduate or early career professional to apply statistical analysis to this goal. The role requires using large administrative, clinical and social service datasets. The individual will be an integral member of teams of researchers, programmers, analysts and public policy experts tasked with producing evidence-based research on a variety of challenging and impactful projects.
Position Key Accountabilities:- Collaborates with investigators to determine study design, contribute to protocol development, and write statistical analysis plans.
- Performs statistical analysis and inference, and writes and presents reports summarizing findings including publications in peer-reviewed journals.
- May write program code to analyze data using statistical analysis software.
- Ensures high-quality statistical support is provided for investigational studies, projects, registries and basic research using advanced statistical skills and knowledge of clinical research.
- Maintains expertise in state-of-the-art data manipulation and statistical methodology.
- May conduct ad hoc analyses.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Certification/Skills:- Demonstrates proficiency with statistical methods and applications in clinical or population research.
- Experience in data analysis of large administrative datasets (claims, registries, EMR) and observational studies.
- Proficient in SQL.
- Experience with additional statistical packages, databases and programming languages for data preparation, storage, transformation, analysis or visualization is preferred. Examples include R, SAS, STATA, SPSS, Python, Java, Tableau, Excel.
Minimum Education:- Master's Degree in related health science required Doctorate Degree - PhD preferred
Minimum Experience:- 2 years of statistician experience required Experience in data analysis of large administrative datasets (claims, registries, EMR) and observational studies required SAS experienced preferred
Physical Requirements:Exerts up to 50 pounds of force occasionally and/or up to 20 pounds frequently and/or up to 10 pounds constantly to move objects.
Security Sensitive:This position is a security-sensitive position pursuant to Texas Education Code §51.215 and Texas Government Code §411.094. To the extent that a position requires the holder to research, work on, or have access to critical infrastructure as defined in Texas Business and Commerce Code §117.001(2), the ability to maintain the security or integrity of the infrastructure is a minimum qualification to be hired for and to continue to be employed in that position. Personnel in such positions, and similarly situated state contractors, will be routinely reviewed to determine whether things such as criminal history or continuous connections to the government or political apparatus of a foreign adversary might prevent the applicant, employee, or contractor from being able to maintain the security or integrity of the infrastructure. A foreign adversary is a nation listed in 15 C.F.R. §791.4.
Residency Requirement:Employees must permanently reside and work in the State of Texas.
