Senior Population Health Data Analyst-Policy & Projections

Department of Statistics; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

The Department of Statistics in Singapore is seeking a Senior Data Analyst/Data Analyst to join the Population Health Analytics team. You will apply statistical and data science methods to analyse population health trends, disease burden, and projections to inform policy and resource planning.

Collaborate with policymakers, clinicians, researchers, and data engineers to deliver robust analyses and clear data stories for national and international stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Strong background in statistics or quantitative disciplines.
• Experience applying statistical modelling to policy or population health.
• Proficiency in R, Python, or Stata and SQL.
• Experience designing analytical studies and stakeholder engagement.
• Excellent communication and ability to translate findings to non-technical audiences.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and stakeholders in a fast-paced environment.
• Preferred: public health or epidemiology experience; forecasting or projection models.
• Experience with large healthcare datasets; data visualization is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Wrangle and link large, complex datasets from multiple sources, and develop reproducible data pipelines and well-documented analytical workflows to support robust, consistent and reliable analysis and reporting.
• Apply statistical, epidemiological, econometric and data science methodologies to analyse population health trends, disease burden and health outcomes.
• Develop, validate and maintain disease burden and projection models to forecast future population health needs, disease prevalence, healthcare demand and associated outcomes.
• Independently scope analytical problems, formulate study designs, assess data requirements and develop appropriate analytical methodologies.
• Interpret and translate complex analytical findings into clear and compelling presentations, reports and recommendations for senior management, policymakers and other stakeholders.
• Conduct disease surveillance and monitoring of key health conditions and risk factors, identifying emerging trends.
• Develop, maintain and validate health indicators and statistical estimates used for monitoring population health, and reported to stakeholders across Government and international organisations.

Skills

Statistics

Data Analytics

Data Science

Epidemiology

Biostatistics

Public Health

SQL

R/Python

Databricks

Data wrangling

Tools

Databricks

Tableau

Job description

The Department of Statistics in Singapore is seeking a Senior Data Analyst/Data Analyst to join the Population Health Analytics team. You will apply statistical and data science methods to analyse population health trends, disease burden, and projections to inform policy and resource planning.

Collaborate with policymakers, clinicians, researchers, and data engineers to deliver robust analyses and clear data stories for national and international stakeholders.