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Health Researcher/Data Scientist

Min Experience

3 years

Location

Toronto, ON

JobType

contract

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About the role

Live Assets | IT Staffing Solutions is hiring a Health Researcher/Data Scientist for one of its Clients from Healthcare Industry. Key Responsibilities Design, build, and maintain individual-level microsimulation models representing patient trajectories through long-term care and other health services settings. Use open-source simulation frameworks (e.g., SimPy, mesa, simpyLC in Python; OpenM++, SimYouLate, SimPaths in R) to support discrete-event, agent-based, or hybrid simulations. Incorporate demographic, health status, equity stratifiers and care pathway data to model the life-course transitions of older adults through home care, community-based care, inpatient and/or institutional LTC settings. Apply model validation, calibration, and sensitivity analysis techniques to ensure internal validity and policy relevance. Conduct scenario analyses to evaluate the impact of alternative seniors' home care or LTC policies, programs, or resource allocation strategies. Translate simulation outputs into actionable insights for stakeholders by producing clear visualizations, reports, or briefings. Maintain documentation and version control of model architecture, parameters, and code.

About the company

Live Assets is a premier IT agency dedicated to delivering excellence in tech solutions across various industries. Our agency is renowned for its expertise in engineering, and we take pride in our track record of delivering outstanding IT projects with precision and innovation. With a wide spectrum of clients spanning different industries, we cater to both permanent and contract IT opportunities.

Skills

sql
python
r
data-science
health-research
data-modeling
simulation