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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).

Position Overview

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 leads 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 Director of Research and Analytics should be an accomplished senior academic researcher who has strong experience interacting with state health and human services agencies. This role requires executive level performance with regard to managing, mentoring, and leading multiple research agendas while providing a high level of service to executive-level health and human services state agency leadership.

Duties and Responsibilities
Research excellence

• Initiates research with focus on engaging with state government leaders to identify policy needs that are best fulfilled through state university partnerships. In addition, fosters investigator-initiated research in alignment with the GRC's strategic goals. This initiation should generate growth in research budgets and offers the Director an opportunity to reinvest funds generated by dollars associated with research facilities and administrative rates.
• Guides and oversees research, ensuring high-quality, rigorous, and policy-relevant research initiatives that comply with federal and state regulations, ethical standards, and institutional policies.
• Executes strategies for research dissemination, including publications, reports, and presentations to policymakers and stakeholders.
• Demonstrates 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.
• Engages with academic partners in the Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) to encourage novel collaborative research partnerships between the GRC and the university.

Leadership and management

• Develop research leaders such as GRC and DBMI principal investigators and early career faculty through mentorship.
• Function as an executive in the organization: setting strategy, building infrastructure, securing finances, and fostering 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.
• Represents GRC in external forums, advisory groups, and research collaborations at the state and national levels.
• Collaborate with DBMI Chair to identify shared areas of research innovation between the GRC and DBMI.

Teaching

• Direct one DBMI Graduate level course per year in a topic to be determined based on discussion with DBMI Chair.

Other duties as assigned.

Requirements
Minimum Qualifications:

• Doctoral degree (PhD, DrPH, MD, or equivalent) in public health, health services research, health administration, policy analysis, or a related field
• 10 years of experience in research leadership within academic, government, or a related nonprofit sector. This leadership should be 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

Preferred Qualifications:

• 15 years of experience in research leadership within academic, government or related non-profit 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

Department/Division Overview

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. The GRC 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. When linking expert faculty and university staff with health and human service policymakers, this portfolio is organized in four main capabilities:

Program design, implementation, and evaluation Quality improvement science Applied research and analysis Informatics

As part of the College of Medicine at the Ohio State Wexner Medical Center (OSUWMC, http://medicalcenter.osu.edu), the Department of Biomedical Informatics (BMI, http://bmi.osu.edu) and the Center for Biostatistics (CFB, https://medicine.osu.edu/departments/biostatistics) provide 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, including clinical informatics, AI in digital health, implementation science, bioinformatics, and biostatistics. They have a strong diversity, equity, inclusive culture for faculty who develop careers in both innovative research and collaborative research. Faculty in the Department of BMI have access to resources to assist in grant writing, management, and to stimulate collaboration. The department has a robust training curriculum for PhD, Masters, and Certificate programs. The department has also established a significant amount of resources in clinical data and high-performance computing and data storage. The Ohio State University is one of the nation's largest integrated health sciences campuses, with access to a CTSA-funded Center for Clinical and Translational Science and a state-of-the-art 1 million square foot, NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center. Faculty and staff in the Department of BMI can leverage an advanced information systems environment including inpatient and outpatient electronic health records, data warehousing platforms, and a variety of enterprise research information systems

How to Apply
To be considered, please submit your application electronically via Workday. Application materials must include cover letter detailing academic research, public health policy and research experience, and a Curriculum Vita. All inquiries and nominations should be directed in confidence to: Anna Godwin, Research Faculty Recruiter, Anna.Godwin@osumc.edu
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Tenure-Track faculty (regardless of rank)- Persons with the titles of assistant professor, associate professor, orprofessor who are eligible for tenure or who have obtained tenure. These faculty will have earned a doctorate(PhD), Doctor of Medicine (MD) or other terminal degree in the relevant field of study. Their primary careerfocus centers on research, service, and teaching.Tenure-track faculty with MD or MD/PhD degrees may also beinvolved in clinical care.
Research Faculty (regardless of rank)- Persons with the titles of research assistant professor, research associateprofessor, or research professor. These faculty will have earned a doctorate(PhD) or other terminal degree inthe relevant field of study.Research faculty members are not eligible for tenure and areappointed for terms ofone to five years. Their principal careerfocus is research.

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