NYU Langone Health
is hiring
Data Analyst
About Our Company
NYU Grossman School of Medicine is one of the nation's top-ranked medical schools. For 175 years, NYU Grossman School of Medicine has trained thousands of physicians and scientists who have helped to shape the course of medical history and enrich the lives of countless people. An integral part of NYU Langone Health, the Grossman School of Medicine at its core is committed to improving the human condition through medical education, scientific research, and direct patient care. For more information, go to med.nyu.edu, and interact with us on LinkedIn, Glassdoor, Indeed, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Job Description & Responsibilities
We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Data Analyst.
The Department of Population Health at NYU School of Medicine seeks a Data Analyst to work in close concert with the City Health Dashboard leadership team to support and grow a national interactive website to track health and health-related metrics at the city level, the City Health Dashboard (www.cityhealthdashboard.com) and the Congressional Districts Health Dashboard (in development). This will involve working with data at the federal, congressional district, county city, census tract, and census block levels; evaluating emerging data sets for creating novel health metrics; aggregating geographic data; and calculating robust health metrics that align with administrative boundaries.
The analyst should have R and SQL programming skills and knowledge and experience in geospatial analysis. SAS skills are also preferred. The employee must have strong organizational skills with the ability to carry out a variety of directed tasks.
Job Responsibilities
- Retrieving and evaluating data parsed to various geographic boundaries for use in Dashboard initiative websites with attention to issues of sample size, bias, and timeliness
- Assist in the development, calculation, and validation of new health metrics
- Documenting work flows and methodological challenges to generating health metric estimates across numerous geographies
- Regular presentation of analytic processes and results to other team members
- Assisting in preparing journal articles, reports, and policy briefs
- Other analytic or research tasks as necessary
Requirements
Minimum Qualifications
To qualify you must have a A masters degree in a quantitative field (biostatistics, epidemiology, public health) required
Familiarity with commonly used community health metrics
Familiarity with U.S. administrative geographies (counties, congressional districts, Consolidated and Incorporated places, census tracts etc.) and geospatial analysis
Skill and experience in R statistical software and SQL
Preferred Qualifications
2-3 years' experience in an analytics role with database management experience
Skill and experience in SAS statistical software
Skill and experience with statistical analysis, including measures of uncertainty, validation, and regression analysis
Qualified candidates must be able to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization.
What we offer
NYU Langone Health provides a salary range to comply with the New York City Law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements.
The salary range for the role is $58,500.00 - $64,000.00 Annually.
Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, specialty, education, and hospital need. The salary range or contractual rate listed does not include bonuses/incentive, differential pay or other forms of compensation or benefits.
