Research Scientist 2

🔥 10 minutes ago

🏈 North America – Remote

💵 $78.4k - $107.8k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟢 Junior

🟡 Mid-level

🧬 Research Scientist

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Humana

10,000+ employees

Founded 1961

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Humana is a healthcare company dedicated to making a positive impact on the health of individuals, communities, and the healthcare system as a whole. With a focus on putting health first, Humana serves a diverse range of populations, including seniors and the military, providing Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS plans. Humana is committed to fostering a culture of belonging and mutual respect, offering competitive and flexible benefits to ensure the financial security of its employees and their families. The company prides itself on creating an inclusive workplace where everyone has the opportunity to succeed.

📋 Description

• Do exploratory analysis on populations, trends, and clinical conditions to inform potential opportunities for trend savings and clinical outcomes improvement for our members. • Collaborate with clinicians and clinical informaticists to define various clinical concepts and extract clinical information from medical, pharmacy, and lab claims for analytics and modeling purposes • Leverage a wide range of analytics methods from descriptive analysis to epidemiological methods • Design outcomes studies and perform program evaluation using randomized controlled trials, propensity matching, difference-in-difference models, or other experimental/quasi-experimental methods. • Conduct literature reviews and intervention research to assess engagement rates and treatment effect sizes of interventions that are in the early stages of design and implementation. • Write code in SQL, SAS, and Python to assemble data, create analytic variables/features, design visuals and charts, and statistical models for research/science use-cases. • Translate analytic results into key takeaways with actionable insights and communicate to business partners • Understand department, segment, and organizational strategy and operating objectives, including their linkages to related areas • Make decisions regarding research methods, occasionally in ambiguous situations with general guidance

🎯 Requirements

• Master's Degree in a quantitative discipline such as Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Economics, Statistics, Clinical Informatics, Engineering, and/or related fields • 2+ years of experience that includes: Skills to create datasets and analytical variables from large and complex data environments by writing code in SQL, SAS, and Python. • Applying research methods to transform high volumes of complex data into actionable insights. • Experience with experimental and quasi-experimental methods such as randomized controlled trials, propensity matching, or difference-in-difference models. • Strong interest in healthcare and desire to make a positive impact on health outcomes. • Ability to work collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team, to deliver quality analytical work, and communicate results and insights clearly to business partners.

🏖️ Benefits

• medical, dental and vision benefits • 401(k) retirement savings plan • time off (including paid time off, company and personal holidays, paid parental and caregiver leave) • short-term and long-term disability • life insurance

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