Research Scientist

Folia Health•Boston, MA

14h•$98,000 - $125,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Folia Health was founded to provide 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 is the business model that supports Folia. Folia has developed and validated a new type of health data called home-reported outcomes (HROs), which digitize personal health knowledge through user responses to personalized questions. HROs are now a valued part of research methods used by life sciences companies to understand therapy impact in the real world. Folia, named for the power of individual contributions, is a female-founded and led company with a mission to make healthcare make sense. They have been in business for 10 years, are backed by top venture funds, and have a fast-growing user community.

Requirements

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

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.