Research Specialist

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey is seeking a Research Specialist for the Center for State Health Policy (CSHP) within the Rutgers Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research (IFH). The Research Specialist will be responsible for working with investigators and senior staff to implement statistical programming and data analyses for population health research work in New Jersey and Pennsylvania policy. 

CSHP focuses on research using Medicaid and Medicare claims, national administrative databases and surveys, and primary data collection. An emphasis for this position is on developing skills in programming (flexibility in preferred coding software/program/language) and the use of statistical methodology. The Research Specialist will provide data-analytic support to a large program of research and will construct statistically advanced programs in SAS and other software to allow analysis of data from large and sensitive healthcare administrative datasets and population-based surveys.