Biostatistician - School of Public Health

Biostatistician (Full-time)

We are hiring a Biostatistician to join the UTHealth Houston School of Public Health in Houston, Texas. In this role, you will query large administrative claims databases to create analytical tables that the individual will use for statistical analysis in public reports or peer-reviewed journal publications.

What we do here changes the world. UTHealth Houston is Texas' resource for healthcare education, innovation, scientific discovery, and excellence in patient care. That's where you come in.

Once you join us you won't want to leave. It's because we reward our team for the excellent service they provide. Our total rewards package includes the benefits you'd expect from a top healthcare organization (benefits, insurance, etc.), plus:

• 100% paid medical premiums for our full-time employees
• Generous time off (holidays, preventative leave day, both vacation and sick time – all of which equates to around 37-38 days per year)
• The longer you stay, the more vacation you'll accrue!
• Longevity Pay (Monthly payments after two years of service)
• Build your future with our awesome retirement/pension plan!

We take care of our employees! As a world-renowned institution, our employees' wellbeing is important to us. We offer work/life services such as...

• Free financial and legal counseling
• Free mental health counseling services
• Gym membership discounts and access to wellness programs
• Other employee discounts including entertainment, car rentals, cell phones, etc.
• Resources for child and elder care
• Plus many more!

Position Summary: The Center for Health Care Data is the largest research accessible, healthcare data repository in Texas. The Center uses data to support improvements in health practice and policy. This position provides an opportunity for a recent graduate or early career professional to apply statistical analysis to this goal. The role requires using large administrative, clinical and social service datasets. The individual will be an integral member of teams of researchers, programmers, analysts and public policy experts tasked with producing evidence-based research on a variety of challenging and impactful projects.

Position Key Accountabilities:

• Collaborates with investigators to determine study design, contribute to protocol development, and write statistical analysis plans.
• Performs statistical analysis and inference, and writes and presents reports summarizing findings including publications in peer-reviewed journals.
• May write program code to analyze data using statistical analysis software.
• Ensures high-quality statistical support is provided for investigational studies, projects, registries and basic research using advanced statistical skills and knowledge of clinical research.
• Maintains expertise in state-of-the-art data manipulation and statistical methodology.
• May conduct ad hoc analyses.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Certification/Skills:

• Demonstrates proficiency with statistical methods and applications in clinical or population research.
• Experience in data analysis of large administrative datasets (claims, registries, EMR) and observational studies.
• Proficient in SQL.
• Experience with additional statistical packages, databases and programming languages for data preparation, storage, transformation, analysis or visualization is preferred. Examples include R, SAS, STATA, SPSS, Python, Java, Tableau, Excel.

Minimum Education:

• Master's Degree in related health science required Doctorate Degree - PhD preferred

Minimum Experience:

• 2 years of statistician experience required Experience in data analysis of large administrative datasets (claims, registries, EMR) and observational studies required SAS experienced preferred

Physical Requirements: Exerts up to 50 pounds of force occasionally and/or up to 20 pounds frequently and/or up to 10 pounds constantly to move objects.

Security Sensitive: This position is a security-sensitive position pursuant to Texas Education Code §51.215 and Texas Government Code §411.094. To the extent that a position requires the holder to research, work on, or have access to critical infrastructure as defined in Texas Business and Commerce Code §117.001(2), the ability to maintain the security or integrity of the infrastructure is a minimum qualification to be hired for and to continue to be employed in that position. Personnel in such positions, and similarly situated state contractors, will be routinely reviewed to determine whether things such as criminal history or continuous connections to the government or political apparatus of a foreign adversary might prevent the applicant, employee, or contractor from being able to maintain the security or integrity of the infrastructure. A foreign adversary is a nation listed in 15 C.F.R. §791.4.

Residency Requirement: Employees must permanently reside and work in the State of Texas.