The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) is an independent research center at the University of Washington. Its mission is to deliver to the world timely, relevant, and scientifically valid evidence to improve health policy and practice. IHME carries out its mission through a range of projects within different research areas including the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors; Future Health Scenarios; Cost Effectiveness and Efficiency; Resource Tracking; and Impact Evaluations. Our vision is to provide policymakers, donors, and researchers with the highest-quality quantitative evidence base so all people live long lives in full health.
IHME is committed to providing the evidence base necessary to help solve the world’s most important health problems. This requires creativity and innovation, which is cultivated by an inclusive, diverse, and equitable environment that respects and appreciates differences, embraces collaboration, and invites the voices of all IHME team members.
IHME has an exciting opportunity for a Data Analyst on the Simulation Science team. The Simulation Science team models the impact and cost-effectiveness of health care interventions for a variety of stakeholders. The scope of our work is wide. We produce models to compare interventions on maternal and child health, to evaluate new drugs for the treatment of non-communicable diseases, and to gauge the impact of public policy interventions on disease dynamics. This modeling work is done using a flexible, open-source simulation framework run on IHME’s 20,000-core high-performance computing cluster.
The main purpose of this Data Analyst position is to provide support to key research projects, working independently and alongside a dynamic team of researchers, software engineers, and staff at all levels. This work will require background research into health interventions, risk factors, and diseases to understand current knowledge about their impacts and pathways, as well as data extraction and analysis to understand current baseline intervention coverage, cost, and effectiveness/efficacy. It will also require Python programming to implement and test modular components for specific health interventions. We are looking for an individual who is able to independently translate requests into actionable results through interactions with research databases and scientific literature, formulation of displays of results, and development of complex code to be applied to a variety of quantitative data. The role calls for dexterity in working with varying types of data sources and the ability to assess, transform, and quality control results, and utilize quantitative data using Python to ensure that other team members have exactly what they need to incorporate the data and results into their own components of the analytic process, presentations, and papers.
This position will additionally work alongside other research staff on complementary projects and will require knowledge and skill sharing and collective problem solving. Overall, the Data Analyst will be a critical member of an agile, dynamic research team. This position is contingent on project funding availability.
Responsibilities:
Research command
Data management and analytics
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As a UW employee, you will enjoy generous benefits and work/life programs. For a complete description of our benefits for this position, please visit our website, click here.
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Additional Requirements:
Equivalent education/experience will substitute for all minimum qualifications except when there are legal requirements, such as a license/certification/registration.
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The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) is an independent population health research center at UW Medicine, part of the University of Washington, that provides rigorous and comparable measurement of the world's most important health problems and evaluates the strategies used to address them. IHME makes this information freely available so that policymakers have the evidence they need to make informed decisions about how to allocate resources to best improve population health.