Research Data Analyst II - Healthcare Data & Stats

UCLA Health; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 49,000 - 101,000; Full time

Job summary

UCLA Health is seeking a detail-oriented Data Analyst to support high-impact research using large healthcare datasets, including UCLA/VA EHRs, Medicare, and other complex clinical databases.

The role involves building and managing research datasets, data cleaning, and applying advanced statistical analyses to drive meaningful healthcare insights. It offers a 5% FTE limited position with potential conversion to career.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Statistics / Computer Science / Bioinformatics / Data Specification / Data Science / Computational and/or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Knowledge of basic and multivariable statistics.
• Experience with a range of statistical modeling (e.g., hierarchical/multilevel modeling, GLM and GEE modeling, two-stage models, survival models).
• Knowledge of research design.
• Competency in statistical software applications (e.g., STATA, R, SAS).
• Experience with database management via SQL to run queries and extract data.
• Ability to conceptualize and construct tables and graphs.
• Working knowledge of statistical terminology.
• Ability to summarize statistical analyses for collaborators.
• Ability to manage and merge large dataset and data tables from different sources to develop analytic datasets as a single file.
• Ability to produce visual tools that highlight the essential information from a project or study.
• Ability to learn new statistical techniques and to adapt existing code to customize statistical analysis strategies.

Responsibilities

• Construct, manage, and clean large, complex datasets (UCLA/VA EHR, Medicare, and others).
• Collaborate with faculty and research staff on data quality control and database design.
• Develop and apply statistical models to support clinical and health services research.
• Summarize results in clear graphical and tabular formats for reports, publications, and presentations.
• Partner with research teams to ensure accurate, reproducible, and well documented analyses.

Skills

Statistical modeling

Data cleaning

SQL queries

Data visualization

R

SAS

STATA

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Statistics / Computer Science / Bioinformatics / Data Specification / Data Science / Computational and/or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Tools

Python

Jupyter Notebook

Job description

UCLA Health is seeking a detail-oriented Data Analyst to support high-impact research using large healthcare datasets, including UCLA/VA EHRs, Medicare, and other complex clinical databases.

The role involves building and managing research datasets, data cleaning, and applying advanced statistical analyses to drive meaningful healthcare insights. It offers a 5% FTE limited position with potential conversion to career.