Biostatistician - School of Public Health
About The Position
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. What we do here changes the world. UTHealth Houston is Texas’ resource for healthcare education, innovation, scientific discovery, and excellence in patient care. That’s where you come in. Once you join us you won't want to leave. It’s because we reward our team for the excellent service they provide. Our total rewards package includes the benefits you’d expect from a top healthcare organization (benefits, insurance, etc.), plus: 100% paid medical premiums for our full-time employees Generous time off (holidays, preventative leave day, both vacation and sick time – all of which equates to around 37-38 days per year) The longer you stay, the more vacation you’ll accrue! Longevity Pay (Monthly payments after two years of service) Build your future with our awesome retirement/pension plan! We take care of our employees! As a world-renowned institution, our employees’ wellbeing is important to us. We offer work/life services such as... Free financial and legal counseling Free mental health counseling services Gym membership discounts and access to wellness programs Other employee discounts including entertainment, car rentals, cell phones, etc. Resources for child and elder care Plus many more! 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.
Requirements
- 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.
- 2 years of statistician experience required
- Experience in data analysis of large administrative datasets (claims, registries, EMR) and observational studies required
Nice To Haves
- 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.
- SAS experienced preferred
Responsibilities
- 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.
Benefits
- 100% paid medical premiums for our full-time employees
- Generous time off (holidays, preventative leave day, both vacation and sick time – all of which equates to around 37-38 days per year)
- The longer you stay, the more vacation you’ll accrue!
- Longevity Pay (Monthly payments after two years of service)
- Retirement/pension plan
- Free financial and legal counseling
- Free mental health counseling services
- Gym membership discounts and access to wellness programs
- Other employee discounts including entertainment, car rentals, cell phones, etc.
- Resources for child and elder care
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
