Post-Doctoral Fellow

New Jersey's academic health center, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences ( RBHS) takes an integrated approach to educating students, providing clinical care, and conducting research, all with the goal of improving human health. Aligned with Rutgers University-New Brunswick and collaborating university wide, RBHS includes eight schools, a behavioral health network, and five centers and institutes that focus on cancer treatment and research, neuroscience, advanced biotechnology and medicine, environmental and occupational health, and health care policy and aging research.

Our faculty are teachers, clinicians, and scientists with unparalleled experience who advance medical innovation and provide patient care informed by the latest research findings. We offer an outstanding education in medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, public health, nursing, biomedical research, and the full spectrum of allied health careers.

Our clinical and academic facilities are located throughout the state-at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, including Piscataway; and at locations in Newark, Scotch Plains, Somerset, Stratford, and other locations. Clinical partners include Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, Newark's University Hospital in Newark, and other affiliates.

Through this community of healers, scientists, and scholars, Rutgers is equipped as never before to transform lives.

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey is seeking a Post-Doctoral Fellow within the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research.

Under the direction of the Director, Associate Director, Principal Investigators, and/or senior Research Project Managers, the Post-Doctoral Fellow will implement complex statistical analyses of health care claims data including millions of Medicare and Medicaid claims and other research data; interface with scientific collaborators and their teams at other institutions, and draft reports of analytic results. The Fellow will participate in the writing of research papers and contribute to the development of study progress/final reports as appropriate. Mentoring will be provided in the further development of advanced expertise in healthcare data analysis, longitudinal modeling, advanced statistical programming techniques, and high-level analysis of healthcare claims data. Opportunities will be provided to complement the job training experience with selected coursework in statistical analysis, research methods, and related topics, as mutually agreed upon between the candidate and the center director.

Among the key duties of this position are the following:

Rutgers offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees. For details, please go to http://uhr.rutgers.edu/benefits/benefits-overview.
Rutgers also offers a benefit program to eligible full-time postdoctoral fellow students. For details, please go to https://finance.rutgers.edu/healthcare-risk/insurance/postdoctoral-health-insurance.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: Position primarily involves desk/computer work. Must have the ability to communicate with other researchers and staff in person, and via virtual meeting software (Zoom, Teams, WebEx, etc), phone, and email.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:
No significant exposures or noise levels. Office environment.

The position requires high-level skills in statistical analysis and research methodology including epidemiological and health services research methodology, statistical programming, longitudinal analysis of healthcare claims data, developing and testing statistical models of healthcare utilization and outcomes, methods for analysis of "big data" in healthcare encompassing billions to trillions of records, statistical testing,
survival analysis, machine learning, and other data science and statistical techniques in support of large observational healthcare studies.