Post Doctoral Fellow - PREMIER Center - (496766 )

University of Houston; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 49,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Houston's PREMIER Center invites applications for a postdoctoral fellow in health economics and modeling. This 12-month fellowship offers training in health economic evaluation and decision modeling from multidisciplinary faculty.

The fellow will develop research ideas with support from PREMIER Center faculty, including opportunities for career development grants. Responsibilities include literature reviews, building and validating cost-effectiveness models, analyzing large

Qualifications

• Doctoral degree in health economics, decision science, epidemiology, public health, or related field.
• Experience in health decision science, biostatistics, simulation modeling, or large real-world database analysis is desirable.
• Working knowledge of statistical software (Stata, SAS, or R) and disease modeling software (TreeAge, AnyLogic, etc.) is required.

Responsibilities

• Conduct literature reviews and meta-analyses.
• Design, develop, and validate decision-analytic simulation models (e.g., decision trees, Markov models, microsimulation, and agent-based models) to conduct cost-effectiveness analyses.
• Program using disease modeling software.
• Lead analyses of economic, healthcare utilization, and large real-world data.
• Perform biostatistical and/or econometric analyses.
• Draft reports, abstracts, and manuscripts, and present research findings at scientific conferences.
• Assist in grant-writing activities.

Skills

Health decision science

Biostatistics

Simulation modeling

Real-world data analysis

Stata

SAS

R

TreeAge

AnyLogic

Education

Doctoral degree in health economics/decision science/epidemiology/public health

Tools

Stata

SAS

R

TreeAge

AnyLogic

Job description

Department: Premier Center Salary: $49,400 - $56,200

Description:

Possesses, understands, and applies a comprehensive knowledge inarea of specialization. Develops understanding and skills to allowfor completion of assignments that cross fields of specialization.Develops leadership and management skills.

• 1. Receives/Reviews progress and evaluates results of experimentsor projects under control or supervisory responsibility.
• 2. Recommends changes in research, testing or experimentalprocedures.
• 3. May be responsible for a single highly technical and complexpiece of research equipment.
• 4. May review and evaluate the effectiveness of personnel.
• 5. May plan for and assign personnel to projects undercontrol.
• 6. Operates with latitude for unreviewed action.
• 7. May receive general supervision conferring with higher levelsonly in unusual situations.
• 8. Performs other job-related duties as required.

Additional Job Posting Information:

Position Summary:

The Prescription Drug Misuse Education and Research (PREMIER)Center at the University of Houston College of Pharmacy invitesapplications for a postdoctoral fellow in health economics andmodeling. During this 12-month position, the successfulpostdoctoral fellow will have the opportunity to receivecomprehensive training and unique research experience in healtheconomic evaluation and decision modeling from ourmultidisciplinary faculty. The fellow is encouraged to develophis/her own research ideas and career development grant applicationduring the fellowship with support from the PREMIER Center faculty.Responsibilities include:

• Conduct literature reviews and meta-analyses.
• Design, develop, and validate decision-analytic simulationmodels (e.g., decision trees, Markov models, microsimulation, andagent-based models) to conduct cost-effectiveness analyses.
• Program using disease modeling software.
• Lead analyses of economic, healthcare utilization, and largereal-world data.
• Perform biostatistical and/or econometric analyses.
• Draft reports, abstracts, and manuscripts, and present researchfindings at scientific conferences.
• Assist in grant-writing activities.

By the start of the fellowship, the candidate should have adoctoral degree in health economics, decision science,epidemiology, public health, or a related field. Experience inhealth decision science, biostatistics, simulation modeling, orlarge real-world database analysis is desirable. Working knowledgeof statistical software (Stata, SAS, or R) and disease modelingsoftware (TreeAge, AnyLogic, etc.) is required.

The PREMIER Center is a multi-disciplinary research center thathas active funded projects that span multiple stages of thetranslational research continuum. This fellowship is housed in the PREMIER Center, but we have strong collaboration with the Pharmaceutical Health Outcomes & Policy, Pharmacy Practice & Translational Research, and Department of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences. Applicants with experience in clinical and/or translational research are strongly encouraged to apply. Experience in research topics related to the mission of the PREMIER Center is preferred.

PREMIER Center Website: https://uh.edu/pharmacy/research/centers-and-institutes/the-premier-center/

MQ: Requires singular knowledge of a specialized advancedprofessional discipline or the highest level of general businessknowledge, normally acquired through attainment of a directlyjob-related terminal degree or equivalent formal training in arecognized field of specialization that is directly related to thetype of work being performed. No experience is required.

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The University of Houston System and its universities are EqualOpportunity Institutions. Everyone is encouraged to apply.