Research Scientist

Folia Health•Boston, MA

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

Folia Health was founded to address the difficulty in receiving personalized, data-driven healthcare. Folia enables users to track their experiences (fatigue, symptom flares, pain) alongside their treatments to understand the best way forward. Many users also share their data through Research Programs, which provides Data Dividends and fuels the business model. Folia has developed and validated Home Reported Outcomes (HROs), a new type of health data that digitizes personal health knowledge through personalized multiple-choice questions. HROs are now a valued part of research methods for leading life sciences companies. The company name, Folia, is inspired by the power of individual contributions, likening users to leaves on a tree that strengthen the whole healthcare tree. Folia is female-founded and led, focused on making healthcare understandable, has been in business for 10 years, is backed by top venture funds, and is supported by a growing user community, particularly in rare conditions.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree required
3+ years of experience in research design or scientific roles within clinical, health outcomes, or life-sciences research.
Demonstrated ability to author study protocols, interview guides, data specifications, or equivalent scientific documentation.
First principles thinking and a knack for insights generation
Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills.

Nice To Haves

advanced degree in a relevant field (MPH, MS, PhD) preferred.
Experience engaging clinicians, researchers, or KOLs with scientific credibility, and previous publication experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Own program science end to end: apply therapeutic-area depth to translate research questions into sound, feasible study designs that generate rigorous, decision-useful insights on real-world therapeutic impact and condition experience.
Build relationships with clinicians and life science researchers to inform study design and ground it in the lived patient experience.
Support the scientific interpretation of longitudinal data, framing what the data means and translating it into insights for scientific and sponsor audiences; contribute to publication planning.
Partner with Data Science to advance Folia's Home Reported Outcomes methodology across the design and execution of research programs, ensuring data collection faithfully captures the patient experience and supports sound scientific interpretation.