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Associate, Evidence Synthesis
Medicus Economics | Boston, MA (preferred) or remote | Full Time
Medicus Economics is seeking a highly skilled Associate to support the design, development, and implementation of clinical evidence synthesis and indirect treatment comparisons for leading biopharmaceutical clients. This role is ideal for candidates who enjoy technically challenging quantitative work and want to contribute to projects that are published in high-quality health economics and pharmacoeconomics journals and inform global HTA submissions, pricing, reimbursement, and patient access.
What You’ll Do
- Implement and interpret HTA validated meta-analytic methods and indirect treatment comparisons, including network meta-analysis, matching-adjusted indirect comparison, simulated treatment comparison and related methods.
- Program analytic components in R and other statistical programming languages.
- Qualitatively and quantitatively evaluate the epidemiologic and clinical evidence base from systematic literature reviews to identify inferences, methods, key limitations and potential biases.
- Integrate and translate evidence synthesis into economic models.
- Contribute to client deliverables describing indirect treatment comparison methods and research, including technical documentation, project reports, presentations, abstracts, posters and manuscripts.
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and communicate results to internal and external stakeholders.
Qualifications
- Doctorate (preferred), Master’s (preferred) or Bachelor’ degree in epidemiology, biostatistics, public health, health economics, or a related quantitative field.
- Hands-on experience with indirect treatment comparisons (required) and integrating evidence synthesis into economic models.
- Proficiency in R (required); experience in JAGS/WinBUGS/Stan (preferred); exposure to SAS, Microsoft VBA.
- Strong quantitative reasoning and ability to assess evidence quality.
- Excellent writing, communication, and attention to detail.
- Ability to manage multiple complex tasks independently.
Why Medicus?
We are a small, nimble, and highly collaborative consulting firm that values flexibility, creativity, and mentorship. Associates work on diverse projects, gain early responsibility, and contribute meaningfully to research used in global HTA submissions and peer-reviewed publications.
Applicants for employment must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States and with Medicus Economics.
Application Instructions
Please apply online at http://medicuseconomics.com/careers/ with:
- A cover letter describing your interest in the role, relevant experience and earliest start date
- A current resume