RTI International

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RTI International’s Department of Health Care Systems Research has an opening for a Research Economist to serve as a task and project leader for evaluation, analysis, design, and implementation of innovative health care delivery policies, programs, and models.

As a Research Economist, you will provide cutting-edge analyses that will influence health care policy and health care system innovation, particularly within the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Using large health care datasets, you will design, evaluate, and support policies related to health care insurance, payment, and delivery models; managed care; health care financing, costs, utilization, and quality; health insurance coverage and access; prescription drugs; and risk and case-mix adjustment through statistical analysis, including advanced micro-econometric and simulation methods for program evaluation. You will lead analytic projects as an integral part of a team, apply an in-depth understanding of critical health policy issues and methods, contribute to and lead proposals to funding entities, and publish and present on findings for scientific audiences. (see: https://www.rti.org/focus-area/health).

Opportunities exist for new and experienced Ph.D.’s and Masters, and economists and policy analysts with relevant experience in academia, government, industry, or consulting. This position will start Spring or Summer 2026.