Health Economic Research Scientist, Department of Global Pediatric Medicine

Overview

The Department of Global Pediatric Medicine (GPM) is a growing department looking for professionals who are eager to help implement the St. Jude Global (SJG) mission by training the clinical workforce, developing and strengthening health systems and patient-centered initiatives, and advancing knowledge to sustain continuous improvement through research.

Summary

The Health Economics Research Scientist leads the design, implementation, and oversight of projects and initiatives for the Department of Global Pediatric Medicine (GPM) and St. Jude Global (SJG). Under the GPM director's supervision and as assigned. Acts as a liaison with other members of GPM and SJG and its collaborators, to ensure coordination and success of departmental, regional, and/or global initiatives and departmental requirements. GPM is seeking a detail-oriented Health Economics Research Scientist to assist in the design, management, implementation, and oversight of projects and initiatives within and for the Department of Global Pediatric Medicine (GPM) and St. Jude Global (SJG). This pivotal role serves as a section/project team lead for a rapidly growing epidemiology and health economics unit focused on applying decision science and cost-effectiveness analyses methods to inform decision-making at the individual and population levels, in different disease areas including childhood malignancies and other catastrophic diseases. A unique aspect of this program is the opportunity to integrate real-world data collection into applied research. This is a unique opportunity to learn new content in many different disciplines, as well as to develop and conduct new research projects that will be implemented around the world and published in high-impact scientific journals.

Responsibilities

The Health Economics Research Scientist will be responsible for:

• Guide strategic planning efforts for program development and integration with GPM and SJCRH strategic initiatives, as well as help the team prioritize projects in the pipeline based on urgency and readiness.

• Construct costing and cost-effectiveness models to compare costs and clinical outcomes of several interventions and their comparators.

• Conceptualize and create novel costing, budgeting and forecasting tools to address health economics questions for a wide range of topics.

• Design and lead literature reviews to map out and summarize already published materials about different health economics and finance topics.

• Conduct descriptive and basic statistical data analyses to support project and early manuscript development.

• Coordinate visualization development with web development teams.

• Process large amounts of observed and processed data for economic analyses and parameter estimation for decision-models.

• Ensure the integrity of datasets used in analyses through development of essential data cleaning, checks, and data back-ups.

• Design and support implementation of primary data collection tools among global partners.

• Apply economic insights in interpreting results.

• Draft and edit materials for publication and presentations.

• Present research at national, regional and international conferences.

• Organize and facilitate collaborative meetings within St. Jude and with global partners.

• Create data visualization tools for stakeholders, including cost tracking, budget allocations, and auditing reports, to facilitate informed decision-making.

• Coordinate education, capacity building, patient-centered care, and research efforts in LMICs, managing projects involving research, quality improvement, and education/training.

• Utilize healthcare and LMIC experience to serve as a liaison between St. Jude and collaborators, coordinating partner sites

• Lead centralized efforts to evaluate grant opportunities and coordinate grant applications.

• Oversee award budgets and processes for the programs and projects within the region.

• Mentor less experienced team members.

• Act as a liaison with other members of the department and collaborators to facilitate cross-departmental research activities and ensure coordination and success of departmental, regional, and/or global initiatives and departmental requirements.

• Travel to and engage with global collaborators (travel estimate 15% time).

***All candidates must submit a cover letter to be considered for the position.

Minimum Education

• Bachelor's degree in any clinical or pharmaceutical discipline. Alternatively, a bachelor's degree in mathematics or economics preferred.

• Master's degree or PhD in Health Economics preferred.

Minimum Experience:

• Minimum Requirement: Bachelor's degree with 6+ years of relevant post-degree work in health economics preferred.

• Experience Exception: Master's degree with 4+ years of relevant post-degree experience (OR) PhD with no experience.

• Experience in at least one programming or scripting language and at least one statistical package, with R and TreeAge preferred.

Compensation

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