Staff Scientist - Behavioral Insights Team

**Location:** Work from home (Pennsylvania) **Shift:** Days (United States of America) **Scheduled Weekly Hours:** 40 **Worker Type:** Regular **Exemption Status:** Yes **Job Summary:** Geisinger seeks an outstanding behavioral scientist to serve as a Staff Scientist for its Behavioral Insights Team (BIT). The BIT was created in 2018 to apply behavioral science methods to the design, implementation, and experimental evaluation of “nudges” and other lightweight behavioral interventions intended to improve outcomes and experiences for patients, clinicians, employees, and other stakeholders of the Geisinger Health System and beyond. In addition to internal colleagues, the BIT collaborates closely with external leading behavioral scientists and research partners, including those at the National Bureau of Economic Research, Harvard, and MIT via the NBER Roybal Center for Behavior Change in Health by executing 1 or 2 NIH-funded field experiments per year at Geisinger. BIT field experiments often involve tens of thousands of patients and successful interventions are expected to become standard practice at Geisinger. Project areas include encouraging vaccination, increasing health and wellness, improving clinician decision-making, and helping patients make better choices about their health. The Staff Scientist will support the BIT in developing, executing, and analyzing data (preferably in R) and reporting for the team’s projects, including taking the lead on BIT projects as appropriate and first- or co-authoring scientific publications. BIT projects have been published or are forthcoming in high-impact journals, including PNAS, Nature Human Behaviour, JAMA Network Open, The Journal of Pediatrics, and JAMIA Open. The Staff Scientist will also be responsible for sharing findings at scientific conferences and with lay audiences (e.g., non-scientist teams at Geisinger), and for engaging in open-science best practices (e.g., preregistering projects, preparing and sharing de-identified data and code). The Staff Scientist will report to Gail Rosenbaum, PhD, the BIT Program Director, with oversight and mentorship by Professors Michelle Meyer, PhD, JD, and Christopher Chabris, PhD, the founding Faculty Co-Directors of the BIT. The Staff Scientist will also support program evaluations that the BIT conducts as part of the greater Geisinger Program Evaluation (GPE) team (led by Amir Goren, PhD, GPE Director), whose purpose is to conduct rigorous evaluations of high-cost and potentially high-impact interventions intended to improve patient health, or efficiency at Geisinger. This is an indefinite position, but past BIT Staff Scientists have gone on to work at Google, Lirio, MDRC, and ideas42. **Job Duties:** **Major duties and responsibilities:** - Assisting the Program Director in day-to-day operations and development of the BIT - Liaising, initiating, and coordinating execution of projects with internal and external stakeholders; this includes Geisinger groups such as clinical departments, the IRB, and the compliance, quality, and legal functions, “nudge units” at other institutions, and leading researchers at collaborating institutions - Conducting literature searches and reviewing the literature to inform the team’s projects - Contributing to or leading manuscript drafting and submission for existing unpublished BIT studies, and for new studies led by the staff scientist (first-author opportunities available) - Helping to write grants to support the team’s work, as well as helping identify and initiate funded programs and projects - Participating in the design of nudges for implementation at Geisinger - Participating in data management, analysis, and visualization to assess the effects of implemented nudges, including their effects on patient outcomes, other outcomes, and their economic value - Engaging in open science best practices (e.g., preregistration, preparing and sharing de-identified data and code) - Assisting other groups at Geisin…