Epidemiologist

Work closely with clients and other internal functional groups by providing epidemiology leadership for global public health research programs, under the supervision of senior staff.  Design methodologically sound studies to meet project objectives of global public health stakeholders. Provide input on and design real world studies, which include but are not limited to burden of disease studies, surveillance studies, infectious disease modeling, and comparative safety and effectiveness of treatments and vaccines. Conduct and review analyses, evaluate and provide reporting of studies. 
May contribute to new business development (as appropriate) to maintain and strengthen client base. Provides input and feedback on the development of best practices in infectious disease epidemiology and global public health research and other internal initiatives
Essential Functions

• Leads design and implementation of epidemiology methods in public health studies using real world data, including (but not limited to) drug safety and effectiveness studies, infectious disease modeling, and other observational or low intervention studies using real world data and/or methodology.
• Support senior staff on specific research initiatives as needed. 
• Serves as project lead on smaller projects or in support of project lead on larger client facing or internal projects.
• Authors of protocols, reports and other study documents with independent, critical thinking to ensure quality and completeness of output
• Reviews and provides relevant epidemiological input to statistical analysis plans and analysis output.
• Interacts with clients and involves senior staff as needed.
• Identifies client-related, budget-related and internal issues that may require attention or escalation.
• Use best efforts to complete work with available budget.
• Contributes to intra- and interdepartmental process improvement to achieve "best practices" and to support effective delivery and quality of deliverables.
• May generate content and direction for business development proposals on smaller projects with input and oversight from senior staff.
• May represent IQVIA externally through conference presentations.
• May oversee or conduct statistical analysis as needed.
• May contribute to the development of high quality proposals for new projects. 
• May contribute to the development of best practices in global public health epidemiology and infectious disease research and other internal initiatives. 

Qualifications

• Master's Degree: Graduate education in epidemiology, pharmacoepidemiology, public health with concentration in epidemiology, or relevant scientific field and 5 years relevant experience (required) or,
• Ph.D. with 2 years relevant experience (required)
• Sound methodological training in epidemiology, pharmacoepidemiology, infectious disease epidemiology, public health with concentration in epidemiology, or related area relevant to global public  health research.
• An understanding of the Global Public Health challenges and needs and how Epidemiological methods can be used to address these
• Ability to design, plan and conduct observational studies appropriate for a variety of global health contexts.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, medical writing experience beneficial.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with coworkers, managers and clients in a global and interdisciplinary environment.
• Exceptional attention to detail and the ability to effectively prioritize and manage multiple tasks.
• Ability to work collaboratively with diverse team members.
• Ability to perform analyses and statistical programming in SAS, R or other programming languages.
• Must be highly organized and self-motivated with ability to determine and meet objectives.