# Senior Associate Epidemiologist / Senior Decision Scientist

**Company**: CVS Health
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $101,970.00 - $203,940.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We're building a world of health around every individual , shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience.

CVS Healthspire Life Sciences Solutions organisation provides analytical and advisory services to pharmaceutical, biotech, and device companies.

The Safety Surveillance & Collaboration (SS&C) team within CVS Healthspire Life Sciences Solutions (LSS) conducts descriptive research, medical chart review validations, and pragmatic research using Real-World Data tools.

The Senior Associate Epidemiologist / Senior Decision Scientist will play a strategic role in advancing research programs, expanding collaborative scientific initiatives, and identifying partnerships with academic institutions and research organisations.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Identify and advance collaborative research opportunities with academic investigators, research networks, government agencies, and public health organisations

- Establish and maintain strategic partnerships to support joint publications, grant proposals, and scientific initiatives

- Proactively monitor federal, state, foundation, and other grant opportunities relevant to epidemiology, public health, health outcomes research, and real-world evidence

- Assess where LSS capabilities can address research gaps and serve as a subcontractor or research partner on externally funded projects

- Develop research concepts and contribute to statements of work, study protocols, and other scientific deliverables

- Lead or support scientific dissemination efforts, including manuscripts, abstracts, conference presentations, and collaborative publications

- Support acquisition, transformation, and analysis of large and complex healthcare datasets

- Generate and review analytical outputs, identify quality issues, conduct root cause analyses, and document findings to ensure scientific rigor and compliance

- Utilise SAS, SQL, Python, GCP and other analytical tools to manage data and generate insights

- Collaborate effectively across multidisciplinary teams including epidemiologists, data scientists, clinicians, and external research partners

**Required Qualifications**

- Demonstrated experience identifying, developing, or supporting externally funded research opportunities and collaborations

- Experience working with academic investigators, research institutions, or public health organisations

- 8+ years of experience in epidemiology, pharmacoepidemiology, health outcomes research, or real-world evidence generation

- Strong understanding of observational study design, epidemiologic methods, and healthcare data sources

- 5+ years of experience using SAS, SQL, and/or Python

- Strong scientific writing, presentation, and communication skills

- Experience preparing research protocols, analytical plans, and scientific documentation

- Excellent organisational skills and ability to manage multiple research initiatives simultaneously

- Strong critical thinking, collaboration, and relationship-building skills

- Self-directed with a passion for advancing public health and scientific research

**Preferred Qualifications**

- PhD in Epidemiology or related field

- Demonstrated success contributing to grant applications, cooperative agreements, or externally funded research programs

- Experience identifying funding opportunities from NIH, FDA, CDC, PCORI, AHRQ, foundations, or other research sponsors

- Strong publication record in peer-reviewed scientific journals

- Experience with pharmacoepidemiology, and real-world evidence

- Experience developing academic-industry collaborations and multi-stakeholder research partnerships

**Benefits**

This full-time position is eligible for a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the physical, emotional, and financial well-being of colleagues and their families. The benefits for this position include medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other resources, based on eligibility.

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## Skills

### Required
- SAS
- SQL
- Python
- GCP
- Epidemiology
- Pharmacoepidemiology
- Health Outcomes Research
- Real-World Evidence Generation

### Nice to have
- PhD in Epidemiology
- Grant applications
- Cooperative agreements
- Externally funded research programs
- NIH
- FDA
- CDC
- PCORI
- AHRQ
- Foundations

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