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Data Scientist - Medicaid

Position Focus

The Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) catalyzes health for all through innovative and collaborative science, learning and action. A portfolio of work, led by Chima Ndumele and Jacob Wallace, focuses on how vulnerable populations connect with and access health care resources with a particular focus on the Medicaid program. This portfolio has two components: 1) research on how the organization of the social safety-net and how its’ design influences access to care and health outcomes; and 2) optimizing the delivery of services in State Medicaid programs, including Connecticut.

This group is seeking a Data Scientist. This is an exciting opportunity for a skilled programmer who is motivated by the opportunity to produce rigorous, empirical evidence to improve public policy. The ideal candidate is an expert programmer who is fluent in either R or Python and other programming languages such Stata, has experience with large and complex health care datasets, knowledge of causal inference, and believes in YSPH’s mission. The individual will be responsible for: working with faculty and the Director of Data Science and Analytics to explore, process, and analyze data to solve specific research questions cleaning, merging, and implementing linkages of data across multiple sources and projects to facilitate research across the group building traditional statistical models and machine learning algorithms for a variety of research projects using data science, econometric, and machine learning methods to extract meaning from data and identify causal relationships creating   clear and impactful visualizations of research results for papers/reports, website, memos, and presentations targeting academic researchers and policy-makers writing and reviewing code and documenting best practices sharing coding best practices with incoming pre-doctoral research fellows opportunity to contribute to analysis plans, executing on those plans with regular guidance from the Director of Data Science and Analytics opportunity to make substantive contributions to publications.

The Position Focus most accurately describes this role, while the Essential Duties provides general context for all Data Scientist roles at Yale.

Essential Duties

  • Develop and execute new and/or highly complex algorithms and statistical predictive models and determine analytical approaches and modeling techniques to evaluate potential future outcomes.

  • Establish analytical rigor and statistical methods to analyze large amount of data, using advanced statistical techniques and mathematical analyses. 

  • Manage analytical projects from data exploration, model building, performance evaluation, through implementation.

  • Develop work plans and monitor progress and project timelines.

  • Document coding and changes to work plans using established work group methods in GitHub.

  • Interact with a multidisciplinary team of internal and external peers to regularly, effectively, and openly communicate progress and outcomes of planned work.

  • Attend weekly team meetings to discuss team and project-related activities, issues, change, communications, and updates.

Required Education and Experience

Master’s Degree in computer science, applied/computational mathematics, engineering, biostatistics, statistics, or a quantitative field such as astronomy or geology, economics, health policy, health services research, public policy, or a related field and two years of experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Required Skills

  • Demonstrated ability working with large and complex datasets.

  • Fluency in multiple programming languages including either R or Python.

  • Knowledge of social science or econometric research methods.

  • Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to prioritize and manage multiple assignments simultaneously.

  • Strong interpersonal skills, communication skills, and the ability to interact well with faculty, staff, and research partners internally and externally.

Preferred Education, Experience, and Skills

Graduate Degree in in computer science, data science, statistics, economics, or related field and at least two years of related data analysis experience. Health policy research experience. Experience working with Medicaid and health data.

To Apply

Search for job number 85910BR on Yale University's STARS Career Opportunities website and follow the instructions.