Remote Director, Real World Data & Outcomes

American Diabetes Association; United States; On-site; USD 90,000 - 104,000; Full time

Job summary

The American Diabetes Association (ADA) is seeking a strategic, collaborative Director of Real World Data to advance the organization’s ability to assess diabetes and obesity care in real world clinical settings. The Director will lead the development of the ADA’s real world data strategy and support the creation of a centralized, governed data repository focused on core conditions.

The role involves leading observational studies using EHRs, claims, registries, and patient-generated data,

Qualifications

• Master’s or doctoral degree in epidemiology, biostatistics, health informatics, public health, health services research, or related field.
• At least 7 years of progressively responsible experience working with real-world data, observational research, epidemiology, health services research, or outcomes analytics.
• Demonstrated experience in designing and executing observational studies using electronic health records, administrative claims, registry, or other real-world data sources.
• Strong knowledge of epidemiologic principles and statistical methods, including regression modeling, longitudinal analysis, survival analysis, causal inference, and methods for addressing bias and confounding.
• Hands-on proficiency in SAS, R, Python, SQL, or comparable analytic and data-management tools.
• Experience developing analytic datasets, statistical analysis plans, data specifications and technical documentation.
• Experience managing complex projects involving multiple internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience assessing the quality, completeness, suitability and limitations of real-world data.
• Experience managing complex projects, involving multiple internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills, including the ability to communicate technical findings to nontechnical audiences.
• Demonstrated record of research dissemination through peer-reviewed publications, scientific presentations, technical reports, or similar products.
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a cross-functional, fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and implementation of the ADA’s real world data strategy in alignment with organizational priorities.
• Identify and evaluate real-world data sources for their quality, relevance, representativeness, and suitability for ADA research and evidence-generation needs.
• Partner with Clinical Registry leadership, Information Technology and Services, and other ADA teams by contributing data and analytic expertise to repository development, data integration, and related infrastructure.
• Develop and promote consistent practices for data quality, standardization, documentation, reproducibility, privacy, security, and appropriate data use.
• Lead the design, execution, analysis, and reporting of observational, epidemiologic, health services, and outcomes research studies.
• Collaborate with Quality Improvement, Health Access, Clinical Registry, Evaluation and Evidence Synthesis, and other ADA teams to identify evidence needs and translate programmatic questions into feasible study designs.
• Conduct feasibility assessments to determine whether available data sources are appropriate for specific research and evaluation objectives.
• Develop study protocols, statistical analysis plans, data specifications, analytic datasets, table shells, and final reports.
• Apply rigorous epidemiologic and statistical methods to address confounding, selection bias, missing data, measurement limitations, and other challenges associated with real-world data.
• Use real-world data to examine how diabetes and obesity are identified, treated, and managed across primary care settings, including alignment with relevant recommendations in the ADA Standards of Care.
• Analyze treatment patterns, clinical outcomes, healthcare utilization and variations in care across populations, geographic areas, and healthcare settings.
• Examine social, structural, and healthcare system factors associated with differences in access, treatment, and outcomes.
• Translate findings into actionable evidence that inform strategies led by Quality Improvement, Health Access, and Primary Care, and other ADA teams while complementing existing programmatic and evaluation activities.
• Provide technical oversight of internal analyses and work performed by external data, research and analytic partners.
• Ensure studies adhere to applicable scientific, ethical, privacy, documentation, and reporting standards.

Skills

SAS

R

Python

SQL

Epidemiology

Data Visualization

Education

Master’s or doctoral degree in epidemiology/biostatistics/health informatics/public health/health services research

Tools

SAS

SQL databases

Job description

The American Diabetes Association (ADA) is seeking a strategic, collaborative Director of Real World Data to advance the organization’s ability to assess diabetes and obesity care in real world clinical settings. The Director will lead the development of the ADA’s real world data strategy and support the creation of a centralized, governed data repository focused on core conditions.

The role involves leading observational studies using EHRs, claims, registries, and patient-generated data,