Health Scientist Job Description
Health scientist
provides scientific regulatory knowledge and consultation regarding drugs, biologics and/or devices with a special emphasis on bioterrorism-related and other public health emergency preparedness and response by maintaining working knowledge on relevant policy, regulations and science through independent research, team activities and continuing education.
Health Scientist Duties & Responsibilities
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Evaluate and interpret findings and clearly communicate them to the senior level to peer software development teams
Formulate, develop, and implement the scientific goals and activities of the epilepsy program
Formulate and recommend program goals and objectives for developing the resources needed to support the nation's potential to support research on the epilepsies
Serve as a Health Scientist Administrator with scientific and administrative responsibility for the program to award and monitor grants and other funding mechanisms to support research goals of the epilepsy research community
Work across NIH, other federal agencies, and foundations to promote scientific research and discovery in areas related to this program
Attend study section review meetings for research applications assigned to the portfolio under purview
Work across the NIH and other government and non-government agencies to promote and coordinate scientific research and discovery in areas related to this program
Drive client engagements focused on Big Data and Advanced Business Analytics, in the Health Care space (Claims Data, Payor/Provider Data, Clinical Data etc)
Drive client engagements focused on Big Data and Advanced Business Analytics, in the health care space (claims data, payor/provider data, clinical outcomes)
Lead proposals and grant applications
Health Scientist Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Health Scientist
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: POCT, NCA, ASCP, CPR, EIT, MLT, RAC, ITIL
Education for Health Scientist
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the health scientist job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Collage Degree in Health Sciences, Sciences, Medical, Graduate, Department of Education, Public Health, Conducting, Health, Management, Administration
Skills for Health Scientist
Desired skills for health scientist include:
Biologics and devices with respect to public health preparedness and emergency response
Diseases resulting from CBRN threats
Exclusively available through CDC that are intended to diagnose
FDA regulations regarding drugs
Medical products
Prevent
Provide clinical
Treat conditions
Operational processes and procedures used by CDC Programs
Scientific regulatory
Desired experience for health scientist includes:
Plan, organize, execute, analyze, and perform technical work
Provide technical advice and assistance
At least 1 year of experience with data/statistics tools, such as Python, R, SPSS, Perl
3 years of experience with data/statistics tools such as Python, R, SPSS
PhD AND 5+ years of applicable experience, Masters Degree AND 8+ years of applicable experience, Bachelor's Degree AND 10+ years of applicable experience
Experience leading projects that involve literature reviews/environmental scans, syndicated market research data, research and evaluation design, sampling, focus groups, cognitive interviews, key informant interviews, copy tests, survey data collection, analysis, and reporting
Health Scientist Examples
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Health Scientist Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is looking to fill the role of health scientist. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for health scientist
- Leads development of new healthcare planning products, leveraging large claims and clinical data sets
- Engages in analysis, validation and critiquing of existing and future Planning Product models to spur continuous improvement
- Works with product management, other research scientists and Applied Analytics staff
- Assists in analytics for client-paid engagements and client presentations
- Ensures that research upholds highest scientific standards
- Presents finding at conferences, publishes paper, authors patents
- Works across different scientific disciplines and integrates knowledge from a variety of sources
- Operates on specific assignments which may be of short duration
- Thinks innovatively for better, more efficient ways of doing things
- Create a solid scientific basis for the development of Nestlé products with credible and consumer-relevant Brain Health benefits through the conduct of fit-for-purpose clinical and pre-clinical research activities, taking into account scientific considerations business guidance
Qualifications for health scientist
- Strong background in Statistical Modeling/Machine Learning and Visualization Tools
- Working knowledge of Big Data Technologies (MapReduce, Hadoop stack, Graph techniques, Deep Learning)
- Strong working knowledge of MATLAB, Scripting languages/tools, Databases
- Enthusiasm for fitness and health tracking technology
- MA with 9 years of experience or PhD with 6 years of experience in Public Health, Healthcare administration and management, organizational sociology or related field
- Experience working with common SLCD (Software Lifecycle Development) tools and processes
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Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a health scientist. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for health scientist
- Propose new Nestlé R&D roadmaps in the area of Brain Health that are based on the state of the art internal and external science knowledge and that target viable commercial opportunity areas, with an emphasis on focused and accelerated applicability
- Ensure coordination and cross-fertilization of project research activities across Nestlé R&D entities and drive appropriate information sharing across Nestlé entities involved in Brain Health
- Support the Strategic Business Units and Markets to clearly communicate about Brain Health Benefits by creation of claims and support marketing communication to consumer/ customer/ patient
- Work collaboratively with Methodologists, Clinicians, and other team members to deliver value through advanced analytic and modeling techniques
- Produce innovative solutions driven by exploratory data analysis from complex and disparate healthcare datasets
- Provide demonstrations and presentations of analytic solutions to colleagues, customers and management
- PhD or higher degree in computer science or engineering or equivalent
- Demonstrated experience in the implementation of HL7/FHIR or other health related standards
- Demonstrated experience leading small research projects to successful completion including negotiation of resource requirements
- Establishes and conducts active, complex scientific research as an independent researcher
Qualifications for health scientist
- Must have analytical ability to solve routine business and technical problems
- Expertise with technologies such as R, SAS, SPSS, Tableau, Excel, Minitab, Power Insight, Qlikview, is preferred
- Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline AND 5-8 years of relevant experience
- Experience with various methods of data collection from human subjects, including focus groups, key informant interviews, cognitive interviews, and survey data collection
- Experience in supervising and training staff, including various types of data collection staff
- Proficient in MS Office (particularly Outlook, Word, Excel)
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Our growing company is hiring for a health scientist. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for health scientist
- Exercises judgment in selecting methods and technologies to obtain results
- May collaborate with external researchers and/or receive external project funding support
- Presents results and prepares publications
- Assesses information to ensure data sufficiency and completeness of results
- Write experimental reports, summaries and protocols for supervisors, project needs, and other teams as appropriate
- Contribute to the overall success of the project
- Serve as a scientist in the evaluation of public health issues or health hazards
- Conduct a systematic assessment of a program or project's inputs, activities and outputs to determine its value or worth and to improve the program
- Design, oversee, implement, and conduct major scientific surveys/studies or projects to identify and solve public health programs
- Search, synthesizes and interpret information relevant to public health
Qualifications for health scientist
- Excellent communication (verbal and writing) skills strong interpersonal skills
- Execute research projects with respect to seed health and seed pathology in the Operations Technology team in order to contribute scientifically to the development of innovative competitive products
- Initiate and participate in external collaboration initiatives and research projects with other companies and universities and monitor activities of competitors in order to ensure a good competitive position
- Ensure having key state of the art technologies, procedures and products available keep up-to-date with respect to fast changing scientific developments in the fields of plant pathology, seed technology and seed health testing
- Collaborate closely with the Crop Technology Lead on the development and implementation of an X-crop technology strategy for Operations
- Work experience in related area (>3 years (PhD), >5 years, MSc)
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Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of health scientist. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for health scientist
- Develops new lab-based methods to characterize exposure from different types of substances of abuse
- Prepares and presents advanced technical reports and presentations to clients, both formal and informal
- Assists with the preparation of grant and contract proposals
- Achieves high technical quality in project activities
- Mentors/trains more junior staff to improve technical development and resolve analytical problems
- Coordinates and provides day-to-day work direction to project staff to support overall project goals, where appropriate
- Lead or conduct scientific research on the principles and mechanisms related to food science and/or nutrition, particularly in the areas of food carbohydrate/lipid research or diet/lifestyle relevant chronic diseases, and apply the knowledge and expertise to develop innovative technologies and solutions
- Lead or carry on industrial research on food science and nutrition related topics and delivers contributions to projects as required
- Contributes to new initiatives on research directions related to nutrition and health
- Serve as task leader with budget responsibilities on complex scientific and or technical components of large projects or a series of smaller projects
Qualifications for health scientist
- Strong comprehension of industry issues and problems, and demonstrated ability to relate them to clients needs, and propose appropriate solutions
- Proven history of ability to capture the attention and respect of key payer decision makers, especially senior actuarial/financial leaders in the client environment by providing new and useful ways of thinking about managing healthcare cost/quality and strategy
- Demonstrated skill in mentoring senior analytic staff
- Advanced degree in statistics, epidemiology, or related field
- Minimum of 5 years experience in healthcare analytics
- Significant analytic experience working with claims, administrative and large-scale clinical databases
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Our company is looking to fill the role of health scientist. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for health scientist
- Author sections of analysis reports, technical reports, OMB clearance packages, and other documentary deliverables
- Assist with quantitative and qualitative analysis
- Engage in business development activities including authoring various sections of the technical proposal
- Monitor task budget and schedule
- Supervise staff involved for specific tasks and projects
- A leader of the RWD-S Disease Area Team
- Contributes to regulatory submissions and Health Technology Assessments (HTA) in collaboration with global cross-functional teams
- Participates in the Health Authority and HTA meetings
- Influences clinical development plans and global medical affairs plans
- Able to explain methodological strengths and work to minimize the impact of limitations of RWD
Qualifications for health scientist
- Experience of Python Software is strongly preferred
- Track record of coaching and mentoring peers and other staff
- Competency to lead large, complex, global teams with track record of on time delivery of multiple initiatives
- Expertise with key technologies and industry norms and applies to different areas of responsibilities as required
- Creative and imaginative in approaching diverse R&D projects
- PhD in cognitive sciences, psychology, neuropsychology, psychopharmacology or related field