Ariadne Labs is a joint center for health systems innovation at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. Our goal is to drive scalable solutions for better care at critical moments in people’s lives everywhere. Better care means better health outcomes, lower costs, and more actual caring. Critical means solving health systems failures that have major impact, typically touching people by the millions.
The Atlas Initiative is a program focused on supporting healthcare organizations in the acceleration of identifying and addressing their contextual strengths and challenges in order to successfully implement and sustain improvement projects. The Atlas Initiative includes a set of assessment tools, focusing on factors that organizations can act on and efficiently triangulating 360° input to address differences in perceptions and experiences between leadership and frontline staff.
The Delivery Decisions Initiative (DDI) is a research and social impact program focused on transforming childbirth care around the world so that every person can start or grow their family with dignity. Our solutions are developed and implemented through collaborations with health systems and communities to design systems that are capable of producing safe, supportive, and empowering care for every birthing person everywhere. One of the DDI projects, TeamBirth, has embedded the use of Atlas in their implementation.
This is an unpaid position for a credit-seeking Practicum student. Qualified candidates must have experience working with large quantitative datasets and an interest in applying their skill set to help explore the association of performance on context assessment surveys with patient-reported outcomes in maternal and child health. This is an excellent opportunity to drive forward the creation of analysis plans, independently run analyses, make analytic decisions, and propose new research questions, with the flexibility to grow as a researcher, data scientist, and designer. If you’re excited about the position but don’t meet all the preferred qualifications listed above, please apply anyway!
Principal Duties and Responsibilities
- Design and conduct survey data-based quantitative analyses, including developing data analysis plan and code. A Senior Statistical Analyst is available to provide limited support.
- Clean and prepare datasets for analysis.
- Contribute to results interpretation and collaborate on manuscript writing. Authorship opportunities are available if interested.
- Ensure data integrity by adhering to best practices in data analysis and reporting.
- Research and document project requirements and processes.
- Develop collegial relationships with collaborators, program leaders, and internal and external stakeholders.
Required Qualifications and Skills
A cover letter is required.
- Master’s candidate required. Doctoral candidate (DrPH, PhD, ScD, DNP, etc) preferred.
- Demonstrated previous experience using advanced statistical methods to conduct quantitative analyses with large datasets, including development of analysis plan.
- Experience using a programming language (R, STATA, SAS) for data analysis.
- Strong critical thinking skills and exceptional attention to detail.
- Analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to translate complex statistical concepts into non-technical language for other audiences.
- Ability to work independently and proactively drive projects forward with minimal direction.
- Ability to assess project requirements, ask questions, and effectively navigate ambiguity.
Preferred Qualifications and Skills
- Proficiency with analyzing survey data
- Service oriented mindset with a passion for delivering high quality work
- Ability to think creatively and advance outside-the-box solutions
- Interest in health or scientific systems research
- Experience with data visualization and user-centered design
- Experience working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams
Our Core Values
- Respect for the Ariadne Labs mission, our community, each other, and ourselves
- Stewardship of our work and resources
- Pursuit of excellence, with a focus on continual improvement
- A belief in a collaborative, multidisciplinary approach to our work
- A commitment to meaningful diversity and inclusion in our work and in the Ariadne Labs community
If you’re excited about the position but don’t meet all the preferred qualifications listed above, please apply anyway! Ariadne Labs is committed to fostering an environment founded in principles of diversity, equity and inclusion. We are always looking for candidates who will bring new ideas and a fresh perspective to the organization.