Associate Research Economist

Overview

RTI Health Solutions (RTI-HS), a wholly owned subsidiary of RTI International, is an independent and internationally recognized research organization. We provide healthcare consulting and research expertise to optimize decision-making for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device products across the development and marketing life cycle. Clients rely on our expertise, quality standards, and integrity to guide their product development and regulatory and market access strategies.

Our service groupings include Value, Access, and HEOR;
Patient-Centered and Outcomes Research;
Epidemiology and Biostatistics;
Medical Communications;
Global Business Operations; and Strategic Consulting and Growth. RTI-HS has office locations in the US, UK, Spain, France, and Sweden.

We are currently seeking an Associate Research Economist to join the Health Preference Assessment (HPA) program. HPA has a reputation for conducting high-quality preference research in a collegial working environment. The HPA Group specializes in developing surveys to elicit and quantify preferences of patients, physicians, and other health‑care stakeholders for features and outcomes of medical and pharmaceutical interventions using rigorous stated‑preference methods.

HPA studies apply discrete‑choice experiments, threshold technique, best‑worst scaling, contingent behaviour, and contingent‑valuation methods. HPA staff members are internationally recognized thought leaders in this research area, and their work is published in high‑level clinical and health‑economic journals.

• Designing, pretesting, and fielding stated‑preference surveys
• Constructing data sets for model estimation
• Analyzing data using advanced limited‑dependent‑variable econometric methods
• Writing reports and manuscripts
• Preparing presentations

Please include a cover letter highlighting your analytical capabilities as they relate to the Associate Research Economist role.

• Bachelor’s degree in economics or a related field
• Demonstrated aptitude and experience in empirical research and econometrics
• Proficiency in statistical software packages such as SAS, Stata, Gauss and/or R
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
• Demonstrated ability to write clearly and concisely
• Demonstrated aptitude for independent thinking and team collaboration