Working Student Position at The Chair of Health
vor 2 Wochen
**Working Student position at the Chair of Health Economics, Policy, and Management (m/w/d)**:
20 % (limited by 01.01.2025 until 31.07.2025)
**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**:
- 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.
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.
**Inspirational Work Environment**:
**Executive Education**:
**Network**:
**Family & Career**:
**Equal Opportunities**:
**Fit and Healthy**:
Further information on working at the HSG can be found here.
**For job-related questions**:
Prof. Dr. Alexander Geissler
Full Professor of Health Economics, Policy and Management
Dr. Justus Vogel
PostDoc/Scientific Project Leader
**Your place of work**:
**University of St.Gallen**: «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.
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