National Institute on Aging

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This Program Officer will support the development and management of a portfolio of research grants on the connections between health systems and healthy aging, with emphases on the Medicare and Medicaid programs as well as long-term care. Topics covered by this position include the influence of payment models on utilization, access, disparities and health; trajectories of care across acute care systems, short stay and long-term care services in different settings, and consequences for health outcomes; models of care and care delivery to improve quality of care including models informed by behavioral economics approaches; health services and health care financing for older people with multiple chronic conditions; estimating the costs of formal and informal care for people with dementia and the influence of demographic, economic and health care changes on dementia care costs; cross-national studies of the impact of different health and LTC systems on outcomes at older ages. The ideal applicant will have demonstrated experience with large research data sets (e.g., Medicare data, electronic health record data, economic and health survey data, etc.) and quasi-experimental methods. Experience with pragmatic trials, demonstration projects and field experiments are highly valued but not required.