Notice ID: HHS-AHRQ-SBSS-23-10010
Description
Social determinants of health (SDOH) represent the social, economic, and environmental factors – where people, live, learn, play, and work – that impact health, health outcomes, and overall population health. Small-area (community or sub-county level) SDOH data, along with similar data at other geographic levels, are therefore an integral part of a robust data infrastructure for patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR). PCOR researchers need access to high-quality SDOH data on relevant individual, community, and geographic variables to generate actionable evidence that informs decisions and improves health outcomes. In response to this need, the AHRQ SDOH database processes and standardizes data from a variety of publicly available data sources, incorporates additional variables developed from disaggregated data, and enables linkages with other data sources by geography…
Capabilities necessary to fulfill this requirement include:
- Project manager with experience managing the development and analysis of large databases used in health outcomes research and managing budget and task priorities for a large, visible project.
- Experience with data production and analysis, including programming languages relevant to large scale data manipulation, such as SAS, R, and additional similar products; data manipulation, data cleaning, data linkage, data file construction, and data harmonization including transforming data to multiple geographic levels; quality control testing; and statistical analysis.
- Ability to produce comprehensive, high-quality technical documentation for both internal and public consumption.
- Staff with experience using one or more of health care claims, electronic health records, or SDOH data for analytic or research purposes.
- Experience conducting thorough and extensive quality control testing on data products.
- Experience with iterative assessment and improvement of data products.
- Ability to create clear and concise public-facing resources (e.g., presentations, videos, infographics, etc.) on data products.
- Expertise in Section 508 compliance.
