Working Student position at the Chair of Health Economics, Policy, and Management (m/w/d)
Publication date:
30 November 2024Workload:
100%- Place of work:St.Gallen
The School of Medicine and the Chair of Health Economics, Policy and Management were founded in 2020 and are the latest stage of the growth path of the University of St. Gallen. We offer the opportunity to conduct innovative research in an international, multidisciplinary team with high leadership involvement and in a dynamic environment. With our research, we inform health policy makers, payers, as well as clinicians and other providers. We derive implications in the fields of health economics, health care management, health systems, and health policy research – always with the goal in mind to improve the quality of care for patients.
Your tasks
This position is part of the research project “ICURE – ICU Readmission Reduction- with Machine Learning”, funded by a HSG Stepping Stone grant.
As a working student, you will:
- Have the opportunity to contribute to a research project with potential real-world impact
- Support experienced researchers in data cleaning and preparation, descriptive statistics, and data analysis using a large dataset from a hospital
- Contribute to project dissemination (data visualization)
- Show initiative and drive your tasks with high motivation
- Optional: Write a Bachelor/Master Thesis in the field of health economics or management science/ operations research
What you will learn:
- How patients “flow” through the different parts of a hospital
- How clinical data is structured
- How to preprocess high-dimensional health data
- About the current state of causal machine learning methods
Your profile
We are looking for highly qualified and motivated candidates:
- Master or Bachelor student in a later semester in an economics program or management program with a quantitative focus
- Solid quantitative skills including working knowledge of the programming language R (additionally python, stata, matlab would be a plus) and a motivation to improve your technical skillset
- Experience with Ubuntu (Server) is a plus
- Result-oriented working style with a high degree of initiative, creativity, and team spirit
- Fluent in English, both written and spoken; German is a plus.
"A place where knowledge is created" - As one of Europe's leading universities of economics and business administration, the University of St.Gallen (HSG), Switzerland, is committed to the education of over 9800 students. The HSG is one of the largest employers in the region and provides an attractive and innovative environment for more than 3300 researchers, educators and professional staff.
