Look into Policy Research Programming! (Score 1)

I am a healthcare research programmer at a policy research institute. I work as part of a research team to help improve the public well-being via data acquisition, processing, and analysis. The data I work with is big (think up to billions of records), messy, and incredibly complex; the work I do is challenging and rewarding. On a given day, for example, I might analyze quality of life data for individuals who participate in a program that allows them to move out of an institutional care setting and into the community; wrangle hundreds of millions of Medicare claims records into a coherent whole to allow us to study the possibility of a bundled payment initiative; or crunch school meal data as part of a project analyzing children’s access to nutritious food. Policy research programming is a booming field and we can hardly find enough qualified people to hire. For us, qualified might mean as little as six months of solid programming experience in any industry plus a genuine interest in working in a research environment serving the public good. If you feel that you might be qualified, definitely feel free to apply to any of the openings at Mathematica Policy Research here: https://careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/client_mathematica/external/search.do.