Senior Consultant, Epidemiology, Government Solutions

Senior Consultant, Epidemiology, Government Solutions

About IQVIA Government Solutions

IQVIA Government Solutions is dedicated to helping government clients enhance the quality of healthcare throughout the world. We support public health leaders and practitioners by delivering health care data and by providing in-depth insights that can be translated into executable actions, programs and/or policies. Our guiding principle is to provide solutions that are scientifically sound and actionable. We value transparency and approach each project with a collaborative mindset that allows us to provide the best and tailored solutions to our clients across various domain expertise. With direct access to the world’s most comprehensive data assets, healthcare intelligence tools and consulting/research resources, our team delivers deep insights into population health, emerging public health threats, drug safety analyses, effectiveness of healthcare interventions. We manage one of the most versatile project portfolios with the potential to have significant impact on improving public health practice.

Overview of Position Description

Senior Consultants support the development, design, and delivery of public health, population health and high-quality research studies across Federal, State and Local government clients. A Senior Consultant supports assignments ranging in complexity from pre-sales, proposal development, developing study protocols, to data management, conducting statistical analysis, ensuring data quality, dissemination, and scientific rigor across all facets of epidemiology projects. The Senior Consultant will serve as a key supporting role on all client research projects, assists in refining key objectives and approaches, answers client questions, and contribute to the analyses, writing and synthesis or research questions and reports. The Senior Consultant will also support client engagement and contracts by utilizing scientific expertise to gain a good understanding of research questions and provide evidence-based consulting to turn healthcare data into insights and solutions. He/she will help drive new business by supporting the development and publication of abstracts, white papers, peer-reviewed publications, and conference presentations that facilitate further client engagements and to represent IQVIA.

Responsibilities

• Provides scientific consulting and guidance to support clients in scoping projects and shaping research questions and methods by reviewing and providing relevant epidemiological and project-specific comments to guide study designs, statistical analysis plans and analysis output.
• Utilizes epidemiological knowledge and review of the literature to synthesize, design and deliver sound observational research studies.
• Conducts literature review and synthesize key gaps in research areas of interest to support proposal development, address client questions and assist synthesizing and in writing research reports to support key deliverables.
• Applies epidemiologic principles throughout the life cycle of observational Real-world Data (RWD) studies from study concept until final study report delivery; develops other scientific communications such as abstracts and manuscripts; and contributes expertise to study planning, study delivery, and study results interpretation.
• Collaborates with team members to design and write protocols, supports the Real-World Insights (RWI) team in compiling and developing clients query management, study data specifications, analytical and statistical plans, and report preparation, and in any publications that may arise from the study.
• Uses data science and epidemiology expertise to impart understanding of IQVIA’s data coverage and caveats, design of analyses and studies, and interpretation of findings.
• Acts as trusted partner to government clients to evaluate emerging public health and population health issues; understands the impact of various exposures on health outcomes to enable evidence-based practice within health care settings and improve overall patient health outcomes.
• Reviews and analyzes client requirements and develops insightful, value add proposals; communicates with clients to develop and present client- and project-specific solutions and recommendations.
• Helps develop and/or elevate new business opportunities through the identification of follow-on work and new leads.
• Conducts data extraction, data cleaning and editing including maintaining data formatting and statistical programs for repeat analyses.
• Responsible for producing data tables, figures, and results from statistical analyses to support client-fa