Health Data Analyst - Dept. of Health Policy

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Position Summary:

The Department of Health Policy is actively recruiting a Health Data Analyst. The purpose of this role is to support research focusing on health care outcomes using claims and survey data. The ideal candidate will have strong quantitative data analysis skills, experience working with SAS and SQL in large databases, and experience and/or interest in public health or health policy.

Special Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide database development & management as well as statistical programming and analyses for health policy research projects and ad-hoc requests
• Extract and transform data from an external secure database using SQL and SAS at the request of stakeholders and PI (Principal Investigator)
• Work closely with PI and research staff to develop and carry out data analysis plans for health policy research projects using large health insurance claims and administrative databases
• Implement best practices in data management to ensure data quality and integrity
• Provide statistical results in tables, plots, and graphs for publications and grant submissions
• Document and maintain analytic files
• Perform database storage utilization audits