Ali Shajarizadeh, Health Information Analyst

Ali Shajarizadeh

Health Information Analyst

BC Public Services

Location
Canada - Vancouver
Education
Doctorate, Health Economics
Experience
9 years, 7 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :9 years, 7 Months

Health Information Analyst at BC Public Services
  • Canada - Vancouver
  • My current job since December 2023

• Designs and implements data analysis methodologies, tools, and simulations.
• Conducts statistical surveys, analyses, and economic evaluations to ascertain impacts and risks.
• Constructs research plans integrating valid statistical and mathematical models.
• Collaborates in executive planning sessions to devise research projects aligning with program and policy objectives.
• Guides project teams, consultants, and staf in executing research endeavors and provides performance feedback.
• Delivers briefings to senior executives, engages in stakeholder representation, and provides methodological advice for research and evaluation processes.

Senior Research Consultant, Health Economics at Cytel, Canada Health Inc.
  • Canada - Vancouver
  • May 2022 to December 2023

• Produced high quality statistical and economic analysis and reporting.
• Used resourceful utilization of primary and secondary market research to solve challenging business or public health issue.
• Developed economics models such as budget impact models, cost-efectiveness models, cost-consequence models, etc.
• Statistical modelling in health economics such as survival analysis, epidemiology, etc.
• Modelling in comparative efectiveness such as indirect treatment comparison, comparative efectiveness framework, etc.
• Advance comparative efectiveness such as STC, MIAC, complex matchings, and cross over analysis.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of British Columbi
  • Canada - Vancouver
  • July 2019 to June 2021

• Searched and reviewed pertinent literature, as well as policies relevant to health economics research projects, and provided advice regarding pertinent policies
• Developed and implemented decision analytic models (i.e. Markov models; simulation) to projects assessing the cost-efectiveness and budget impact of health interventions
• Conducted health economic analysis based on real-world evidence such as large administrative and survey data
• Prepared conference presentations, academic manuscripts, technical reports, and grant applications
• Worked in multidisciplinary teams and built relationship with people in governmental agencies and health information technology companies

Postdoctoral Fellow in Global Health at Wilfried Laurier University
  • Canada - Waterloo
  • September 2018 to June 2019

• Facilitated projects investigating the role of external shocks on the healthcare systems in international contexts
• Acquired and prepared various household survey and administrative datasets for data analysis and management
• Analyzed datasets to identify the causal efects of interventions using appropriate analytical methods
• Conducted literature reviews, and the authorship of academic publications
• Conducted evaluation studies using household survey and administrative datasets

PhD Student at University of Calgary
  • Canada - Calgary
  • September 2011 to August 2016

• Processed over four million data on generic and patented drugs prices, productions, and distribution by using statistical software programs such as STATA and R
• Conducted case-studies of cost-efectiveness analysis, cost-utility analysis and budget impact analysis
• Built theoretical and econometrics models, such as OLS, panel data analysis, and survival analysis
• Analyzed and estimated pharmaceutical industry trends and evaluated pricing policy impacts on pharmaceutical companies behavior by conducting data cleaning, validating and modeling
• Interpreted statistical results and wrote reports summarizing over 100 regressions on four research topics and projects
• Prepared deadline-driven research proposals by determining proposal concepts, searching and summarizing existing literature, collecting data from data portals (such as IMS, IQVIA, Health Canada, FDA, CADTH, WHO, etc), and conducting preliminary research
• Presented papers at department and academic conferences

Education

Doctorate, Health Economics
  • at University of Calgary
  • August 2016
Master's degree, Economics
  • at Carleton University
  • August 2009
Bachelor's degree, Economics
  • at Shiraz Unviersity
  • February 2002

Specialties & Skills

Data Science
Economic evaluation
Health Economics
Econometrics
Economics
RESEARCH
SURVIVAL ANALYSIS
DATA ANALYSIS
HEALTH ECONOMICS
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
ECONOMICS
EPIDEMIOLOGY
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
MARKET RESEARCH
PRESENTATIONS

Languages

English
Expert
Persian
Native Speaker