Epidemiologist
Alphanumeric Systems | Long-term Pharmaceutical Client
Alphanumeric is hiring an Epidemiologist to support our global pharmaceutical client of 20+ years, dedicated to advancing innovative therapies and improving patient outcomes worldwide.
Pay Rate: $55-$61/hour (W2)
No third-party candidates or agencies. Must be eligible to work on Alphanumeric W2.
Key Responsibilities:
- Advance disease understanding to support drug development, including:
- Incidence, prevalence, risk factors, and natural history.
- Treatment patterns, comorbidities, and co-medications.
- Outcomes, phenotypes, biomarkers, and unmet medical needs.
- Variations across demographics and geographic regions.
- Support clinical development by:
- Defining target populations.
- Contributing to protocol design.
- Supporting patient recruitment strategies.
Ensuring accurate patient medical history data collection.
- Contribute to safety and risk evaluation, including:
- Background event rate estimation.
- Evidence synthesis (including meta-analyses).
- Identification of high-risk patient populations.
- Support post-marketing surveillance, including:
- Risk evaluation and mitigation strategies (REMS).
- Signal detection and epidemiologic investigations.
- Post-authorization safety and effectiveness studies.
- Generate and interpret real-world evidence by:
- Designing and executing epidemiologic research plans and protocols.
- Analyzing large healthcare databases.
- Critically evaluating published literature and internal data.
Required Qualifications:
- 5+ years of epidemiology experience in:
- Pharmaceutical/biotech industry.
- Academic or government research setting.
- Proven experience applying epidemiologic methods to support:
- Drug safety and effectiveness.
- Natural history of disease.
- Clinical development programs.
- Demonstrated success leading pharmacoepidemiology research initiatives.
- Strong ability to communicate complex scientific findings clearly to:
- Cross-functional teams.
- Senior stakeholders.
- Scientific audiences (publications, conferences).
Education:
- PhD in Epidemiology (preferred) or related field:
- Public Health.
- Health Outcomes Research.
- Health Services Research.
- Biostatistics or Pharmaceutical Sciences.