Health Economics

**Health Economics & Clinical Research Specialist**:
- Remote Eligible: Hybrid- Onsite Location(s): São Paulo, SP, SP, BR**Additional Locations**: N/A
**Diversity - Innovation - Caring - Global Collaboration - Winning Spirit - High Performance**
At Boston Scientific, we'll give you the opportunity to harness all that's within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we'll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you'll be supported in progressing - whatever your ambitions.
The health economics & clinical research specialist is responsible for the Integration of clinical and economic impact of a technology to help how demonstrate value to government bodies, private insurers and patients through two distinct work streams. The first involves acting in
analysis on clinical research proposals, including ISRs (Investigator Sponsored Research), supporting protocol development and research monitoring. The second consists in Health Technology Assessments, including searching for primary evidence in the literature and generation of secondary evidence with synthesis of evidence in Rapid Reviews and Systematic Reviews, including economic analysis such as cost-effectivenessand budget impact.
**Main Activities**
- Interface with academic and research experts on model conceptualization, scope, and definition of clinical research.
- Review and edit key documents such as proposals of clinical research, research protocols, cost estimations, preliminary and final presentations, draft and final reports, attendance of internal and external committee meetings and responses to stakeholders.
- Literature review, critically appraise, and summarize prior studies and health-economic data relevant to the project.
- Follow-up and monitoring activities related all supported clinical researches.
- High quality research of literature and databases about scientific and economic data for
structural development of decision-analytic models and/or adaptation of existing models.- Identification and estimation of all model parameters and data sources.
- Model simulations and analyses, including specification and conduct of one-way, multi-way,
and probabilistic sensitivity analyses.- Preparation and delivery of presentations and reports with synthesis of evidence and
economic models, including cost-effectiveness and cost-utility analysis.- Assess to market size, procedural costs, budget impact, quality of life and economic outcomes
of a specific product versus alternatives.- Demonstrate the clinical and economic value of the technology with relevant data, such as
resource use, change in patient outcomes, quality-of-life improvement and cost reductions.- Interaction with Government Affairs area to integrate methods and strategies with the current
legal framework applied to Anvisa, Cep-Conep, ANS and Conitec processes.**Minimum Educational Requirements**
- Minimum graduation required in health sciences disciplines, health economics, biomedical
- engineering, biostatistics, epidemiology, or other related science fields.
- Knowledge in HTA - Health Technology Assessment and Health Economics analyses are required.
**Additional Qualifications**
- Excellent organizational as well as written and oral communication skills.
- English language domain.
- The highest levels of personal initiative, collaboration spirit, attention to detail, independent
work and commitment.- Experience using tools about risk of bias and quality of evidence assessment (e.g., GRADE, RoB,
ROBIS, QUADAS-2, AMSTAR, Cochrane, etc.) - very helpful- Experience developing health-focused economic models using decision-analysis software (e.g.,
TreeAge, advanced Excel) and other general programming languages useful in decision analysis
- (e.g., R, RevMan, Stata) - very helpful**Requisition ID**:
**Job Segment**:Clinical Research, Medical Research, Biomedical Engineering, Engineer, Healthcare, Research, Engineering

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