Job Description

General Information

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Work Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA
Onsite or Remote
Fully On-Site
Work Schedule
Monday-Friday, 9:00am-6:00pm
Posted Date
05/15/2026
Salary Range $31.23 - 50.24 Hourly
Employment Type
2 - Staff: Career
Duration
Indefinite
Job #
30585

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

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The Department of Medicine is seeking a highly motivated Staff Research Associate 2 to join the Pharmaceutical Policy & Outcomes Lab. This position offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to impactful research focused on FDA regulation, pharmaceutical pricing, intellectual property, and the use of real-world evidence to evaluate clinical and health policy outcomes.

Responsibilities include data extraction and analysis, coding, statistical analysis, data visualization, literature reviews, manuscript preparation, and coordination with external research collaborators. The ideal candidate will have strong analytical and organizational skills, an interest in healthcare policy or outcomes research, and a desire to work in a collaborative academic research environment. This role is an excellent opportunity for recent graduates or early-career professionals preparing for future training in medicine, law, public health, or health policy research.

Hourly range: $31.23-$50.24

Job Qualifications

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Required:

• Bachelor's Degree and/or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Demonstrated ability to set and meet internal deadlines, work independently, use judgment and make decisions
• Ability to organize and update paperwork with supervision
• Ability to accomplish work cooperatively with other team members.
• Ability to extract data in a timely manner with careful attention to detail.
• Ability to synthesize and interpret data.
• Ability to balance one’s time in completing multiple tasks related to different projects.
• Ability to help draft and edit academic manuscripts.

Preferred:

• Master's Degree Master’s in Public Health or Epidemiology
• Ability to use basic statistical software programs (e.g., R or STATA).

As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts an offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of substantiated misconduct with a previous employer.
Current/former UC employees are subject to a personnel file review.