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The Ohio State University College of Medicine and the Wexner Medical Center seeks a Director of Research and Analytics to join the Department of Biomedical Informatics and the Ohio Colleges of Medicine Government Resource Center (GRC). Academic rank and track will be commensurate with academic record and experience.

The Ohio Colleges of Medicine Government Resource Center (GRC) seeks a dynamic and experienced leader to serve as our next Director of Research and Analytics. The Director of Research and Analytics will lead a large team with thirty staff under their direct supervision, maintaining a portfolio of 15 state and federal research grants. In addition, the organization includes twenty-five principal investigators who look to the Director of Research and Analytics for mentorship. The candidate should be an accomplished senior academic researcher with strong experience interacting with state health and human services agencies. This role requires executive‑level performance in managing, mentoring, and leading multiple research agendas while providing a high level of service to executive‑level health and human services state agency leadership.

• Initiate research with a focus on engaging with state government leaders to identify policy needs best fulfilled through state university partnerships. Foster investigator‑initiated research in alignment with the GRC’s strategic goals, generating growth in research budgets and reinvesting funds from research facilities and administrative rates.
• Guide and oversee research, ensuring high‑quality, rigorous, and policy‑relevant initiatives that comply with federal and state regulations, ethical standards, and institutional policies.
• Execute strategies for research dissemination, including publications, reports, and presentations to policymakers and stakeholders. Demonstrate individual scholarly productivity by publishing in peer‑reviewed higher impact academic publications, serving on national‑level professional functions associated with the GRC’s mission, and expanding the GRC’s network of scholarly collaborators.
• Engage with academic partners in the Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) to encourage novel collaborative research partnerships between the GRC and the university.

• Develop research leaders such as GRC and DBMI principal investigators and early‑career faculty through mentorship.
• Act as an executive in the organization: set strategy, build infrastructure, secure finances, and foster excellent organizational culture.
• Increase organizational effectiveness through internally focused efforts such as enhancing research processes, integrating projects, improving research communications, or stewarding professional development.
• Build strong relationships with state health agencies, academic institutions, and other research partners so that the GRC’s reputation advances as a thought leader.
• Collaborate with the GRC Director and senior leadership to align research priorities with organizational goals and policy needs.
• Represent GRC in external forums, advisory groups, and research collaborations at the state and national levels.
• Collaborate with the DBMI Chair to identify shared areas of research innovation between the GRC and DBMI.

• Direct one DBMI graduate‑level course per year on a topic determined in collaboration with the DBMI Chair.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Doctoral degree (PhD, DrPH, MD, or equivalent) in public health, health services research, health administration, policy analysis, or a related field.
• At least 10 years of experience in research leadership within academic, government, or a related nonprofit sector, characterized by designing and implementing large‑scale health services research projects.
• Experience collaborating with state Medicaid agencies, public health departments, or mental health agencies.
• Experience providing analytic support involving claims data, using advanced statistical and mathematical concepts to direct complex, high‑volume data‑set initiatives.
• Excellent record of leadership and management of research teams.

• 15 years of experience in research leadership within academic, government, or related nonprofit sector.
• Proven ability to grow and manage multi‑million‑dollar research portfolios.
• Prior public service experience such as leadership roles in governmental agencies.
• Experience collaborating with state Medicaid agencies, public health departments, or mental health agencies.
• Strong record of organizational effectiveness, leadership, and development.
• Teaching experience in graduate‑level courses.

Founded in 2008 and housed at The Ohio State University, the GRC is a public university‑based center for applied health policy research and technical assistance. It is one of the largest and most successful public university‑based health services research centers in the nation, focusing primarily on a partnership with the Ohio Department of Medicaid and other state health and human service agencies.

With a budget of $42 million in 2024 and over 200 faculty affiliations with Ohio’s seven medical schools and 13 universities, the GRC provides unbiased, evidence‑based applied health services research to support government health policy decision‑making. The GRC’s mission is to identify, research, and spread innovative practices to improve access to quality health care for all Ohioans through partnerships with health care, state, and academic leaders. The GRC’s growing portfolio of work addresses critical public health and health services challenges, including maternal and infant mortality, the opioid crisis, chronic disease management, health equity, and health system payment innovation.

The portfolio is organized in four main capabilities:

• Program Development, Implementation, and Evaluation
• Quality Improvement and Implementation Science
• Applied Research and Data Analysis
• Health Informatics and Data‑Driven Decision Making

As part of the College of Medicine at the Ohio State Wexner Medical Center (OSUWMC) and the Department of Biomedical Informatics (BMI) and the Center for Biostatistics (CFB), the GRC provides an academic home for informatics and biostatistics research, development and training at Ohio State. The Department of BMI and CFB have one of the most comprehensive academic programs in the nation, featuring clinical informatics, AI in digital health, implementation science, bioinformatics, and biostatistics. They maintain a robust training curriculum for PhD, Masters, and Certificate programs, and offer significant resources in clinical data, high‑performance computing, and data storage.