Post Doctoral Fellow - PREMIER Center

Department
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Premier Center Salary
: $49,400 - $56,200

Possesses, understands, and applies a comprehensive knowledge inarea of specialization. Develops understanding and skills to allowfor completion of assignments that cross fields of specialization.

Develops leadership and management skills.

• 1. Receives/Reviews progress and evaluates results of experimentsor projects under control or supervisory responsibility.
• 2. Recommends changes in research, testing or experimentalprocedures.
• 3. May be responsible for a single highly technical and complexpiece of research equipment.
• 4. May review and evaluate the effectiveness of personnel.
• 5. May plan for and assign personnel to projects under control.
• 6. Operates with latitude for unreviewed action.
• 7. May receive general supervision conferring with higher levelsonly in unusual situations.
• 8. Performs other job-related duties as required.

The Prescription Drug Misuse Education and Research (PREMIER)
Center at the University of Houston College of Pharmacy invites applications for a postdoctoral fellow in health economics and modeling. During this 12-month position, the successfulpostdoctoral fellow will have the opportunity to receive comprehensive training and unique research experience in healtheconomic evaluation and decision modeling from ourmultidisciplinary faculty. The fellow is encouraged to develophis/her own research ideas and career development grant applicationduring the fellowship with support from the PREMIER Center faculty.

Responsibilities include:

• Conduct literature reviews and meta-analyses.
• Design, develop, and validate decision-analytic simulationmodels (e.g., decision trees, Markov models, microsimulation, andagent-based models) to conduct cost-effectiveness analyses.
• Program using disease modeling software.
• Lead analyses of economic, healthcare utilization, and largereal-world data.
• Perform biostatistical and/or econometric analyses.
• Draft reports, abstracts, and manuscripts, and present research findings at scientific conferences.
• Assist in grant-writing activities.

By the start of the fellowship, the candidate should have adoctoral degree in health economics, decision science,epidemiology, public health, or a related field. Experience inhealth decision science, biostatistics, simulation modeling, orlarge real-world database analysis is desirable. Working knowledge of statistical software (Stata, SAS, or R) and disease modelingsoftware (Tree Age, Any Logic, etc.) is required.

The PREMIER Center is a multi-disciplinary research center thathas active funded projects that span multiple stages of thetranslational research continuum. This fellowship is housed in the PREMIER Center, but we have strong collaboration with the Pharmaceutical Health Outcomes & Policy, Pharmacy Practice & Translational Research, and Department of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences. Applicants with experience in clinical and/or translational research are strongly encouraged to apply.

Experience in research topics related to the mission of the PREMIER Center is preferred.

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MQ:
Requires singular knowledge of a specialized advancedprofessional discipline or the highest level of general business knowledge, normally acquired through attainment of a directlyjob-related terminal degree or equivalent formal training in arecognized field of specialization that is directly related to thetype of work being performed. No experience is required.

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