Biostatistician

About the job

About us: Ahmedabad University is a private, non-profit University that offers students a liberal education with a focus on research-driven and project-based learning. https://www.ahduni.edu.in About the School:The Bagchi School of Public Health at Ahmedabad University is inviting applications for a Biostatistician position. Successful candidates will contribute to health research projects that utilise data from large administrative databases, ongoing/planned cohort studies and electronic health records. Visit the link School of Public Health to learn more about the school.

Responsibilities

• Help with data management and preliminary analyses for pilot projects.
• Set up electronic and paper forms for data collection or data abstraction.
• Support research and implementation projects on power calculations, population-based sampling strategies, data management and analyses, and project management in research as prioritised by the Dean.
• Contribute to drafting analysis plans and methods for proposals.
• Data management analyses of data from large public access databases, electronic health records, as well as an array of different types of studies.
• Occasional presentations and manuscript writing as first / co-author
• Clean and compile data, document, and maintain data repositories with data dictionaries and metadata. Create data subsets for students and faculty.
• Prepare reports.
• Contribute to tracking health outcomes and risk factors and synthesising data visualisation for website and other dissemination (e.g., Annual State of the Nation).
• Contribute questions and solutions for the PhD entrance quantitative components.
• Give occasional lectures or support statistical aspects in some courses (e.g. data management, sampling, sample size calculations, conducting analyses), including contributing to preparing assignments and exams, and teaching sessions or a basic statistics course if needed.
• Provide special sessions/tutoring) to students on programming, statistical software (R, STATA) and statistics, and contribute to workshops and executive education.

Qualification & Experience:

• MS/PhD in Statistics / Biostatistics from a reputed university with 2+ years of experience (preferred)

Key Skills:

• Demonstrated ability in organisation, documentation, and maintenance of large research project datasets.