SAS Programmer

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Job Summary:

The Department of Epidemiology, at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, studies the frequency, distribution, and determinants of disease in humans, a fundamental science of public health. In addition to pursuing ground-breaking global research initiatives, we educate and prepare future medical leaders and practitioners as part of our mission to ignite positive changes in the quality of health across the world.

CAUSALab (within the Department of Epidemiology) conducts cutting edge research using large health care databases to determine what works. The investigators within the CAUSALab have obtained uninterrupted funding for their teams for more than 20 years. Currently this includes projects in HIV, cancer, cardiovascular diseases, COVID-19, pregnancy and methodological applications of causal inference and artificial intelligence. Results from studies have informed guidelines for the treatment and prevention of multiple diseases, and contributed to the innovation of methods to generate valid evidence from real world data. The candidate will join a core team comprised of another Senior Programmer and two Programmers.

CAUSALab is seeking a full-time SAS Programmer to support a research team of faculty members (principal investigators Alejandro Szmulewicz, Sara Lodi and Miguel Hernán), postdoctoral researchers, students, and external collaborators. The Programmer will be responsible for the management of healthcare databases and other complex databases, as well as for the documentation of code.