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Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology

Senior Healthcare Analytics Research Coordinator

This critical position serves as the lead healthcare data analyst within the Health Analytics Office of Hawaii’s Medicaid Agency (i.e. Med-QUEST Division), responsible for all analytic, reporting, quality measurement, and evaluation functions.

Key Functions:

1. Create and implement managed care reporting requirements; develop and
design report templates that help the Medicaid agency assure contract
compliance and support performance evaluation of contracted managed care
plans.

2. Design and implement quality-based pay for performance programs to
reflect the priorities of the agency.

3. Conduct or oversee program evaluation for various initiatives.

4. Create and disseminate standardized and ad hoc data reports in various
formats to multiple stakeholders and fulfill data requests from external
agencies.

5. Oversee analytics and reporting from the state’s All Payer Claims
Database.

6. Provide consultation, technical assistance, and training on data
analytics as needed to internal and external stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications:

1. A master’s or doctorate degree in Biostatistics, Health Economics, Health Analytics, Health Informatics, Epidemiology/Clinical Epidemiology, or Health Services Research or equivalent education.

2. At least four years of professional work experience in health analytics, health informatics, epidemiology, health services research, biostatistics, health economics, or healthcare actuarial studies with substantial experience in working with clinical, population-based health, or healthcare claims data and in appropriately using the findings of these studies to develop recommendations is expected. Proficiency in using statistical software programs such as SAS and deploying statistical models on large
healthcare analytic datasets.

3. Two years of work experience in the field of quantitative analysis which involved supervising others in conducting research projects.

Salary Range: $90,000-$125,000 per year, negotiable based on education and experience.

Incumbents will be employees of the State of Hawaii, and must demonstrate proof of residency in Hawaii within thirty (30) days from the start date of employment.

Application:

To guarantee consideration of your application, please send your cover letter and resume by January 10, 2021.  Applications will continue to be accepted on a rolling basis after January 10th until position is filled. Please send applications or any questions to: Ms. Nicole Galapia at ngalapia@dhs.hawaii.gov.

CSDE Welcomes Four More Faculty Affiliates!

CSDE’s Executive Committee is pleased to introduce four of our new UW Faculty Affiliates:

  • Abraham Flaxman – Associate Professor, Health Metrics Science and Global Health. Flaxman is currently leading the development of new methods for cost effective analysis with microsimulation and is engaged in methodological and operational research on verbal autopsy. He has previously designed software tools such as DisMod-MR that IHME uses to estimate the Global Burden of Disease, and the Bednet Stock-and-Flow Model, which has produced estimates of insecticide-treated net coverage in sub-Saharan Africa.
  • Laina Mercer – Sr. Program Officer – Statistician, PATH.  Mercer handles design, analysis, and statistical oversight of Phase I-IV studies supporting vaccine development, and provides technical assistance and statistical consulting to groups across PATH including Medical Devices and Health Technologies, Noncommunicable Diseases, Malaria Elimination, and others.
  • Julie Morris – Director of the Center for Social Science Instruction, Sociology
    Western Washington University.     Morris’ research interests are in statistics, demography, and social determinants of health and medicalization; specifically as they relate to stress, health behaviors, and mental health outcomes.
  • Sarah Stone – Executive Director, eScience Institute, University of Washington. Stone handles eScience operations and planning, develops research and training programs, participates in strategic planning, and serves as the primary contact for university and industry partners, funding agencies and the public. Stone also serves on CSDE’s Executive Committee.

These affiliates bring a wealth of knowledge and unique approaches that enhances our community of demographers and collectively advances population science. We look forward to supporting each of them as they pursue their research. You can learn more about their individual research interests by visiting their affiliate pages, linked above.

If you are interested in becoming an affiliate or you know of someone who should become one, you can invite them to do so by directing them to this page.  Affiliate applications are reviewed quarterly, by CSDE’s Executive Committee.

Cesarean Birth and Infant Health and Breastfeeding Outcomes in a Marginalized Indigenous Community in Argentina: Risk Pathways and Local Context

In the first CSDE seminar of this year, Dr. Melanie Martin will present “Cesarean Birth and Infant Health and Breastfeeding Outcomes in a Marginalized Indigenous Community in Argentina: Risk Pathways and Local Context”. The talk will discuss findings from research on cesarean delivery and infant infectious morbidity and breastfeeding outcomes in a peri-urban Indigenous Qom community of rural Argentina, using birth records and longitudinal observations collected from 91 Qom mother-infant dyads between 2011-2014. Dr. Martin is an Assistant Professor of Biological Anthropology at the University of Washington and Co-Director of the Chaco Area Reproductive Ecology Program in northern Argentina. Her research examines biocultural influences on growth, development, and reproduction, as well as maternal-infant COVID-19 risks and immune responses with Seattle-area families.

Register for Dr. Martin’s Zoom seminar here. This quarter, CSDE is recording the seminar series and posting the links on its website. Visit our site here.