Duke-Margolis Career Opportunities
Do you want to be part of health policy in action? Do you want to work on the leading health policy issues confronting cities, states, the nation, and the globe? Do you want to work for a historic, world renowned university that values its faculty, educators and students? How about a competitive salary with robust benefits? The Duke-Margolis team is a dynamic, high impact national leader in leveraging policy to ensure high quality, affordable care for all.
In our work, Duke-Margolis addresses critical health policy challenges and delivers practical, innovative, and evidence-based solutions to improve health and the value of health care. The interdisciplinary nature of Duke-Margolis brings together policy experts, researchers, health care professionals, and students from across Duke’s schools of medicine, nursing, law, public policy, business, and engineering, and fosters extensive relationships with and engagement of key stakeholders. These relationships span foundations, private sector organizations, state and federal governments, and global entities. The Institute fosters excellence, leadership, and scholarship at every level.
A complete list of open positions can be found below. Is today the day you take your first step toward joining the Duke-Margolis team? We are waiting for you…
Duke-Margolis is recruiting for the following positions:
Focus Area: Health Care Transformation
Location: Hybrid (Durham, NC or Washington, DC)
This position leads the strategic design, management, and direction of a health policy program area within Duke-Margolis. The Research Director is responsible for oversight and direction of a portfolio of projects within this area that are managed either personally or by staff supervised by the individual in this role. The Research Director is a subject matter expert, and interacts regularly with an array of external project sponsors and collaborators including government agencies, academic centers, advocacy organizations, medical product manufacturers, and health care organizations. The individual collaborates with Duke-Margolis executive leadership and manages implementation of research and policy objectives to contribute to successful execution of the Institute’s strategic goals. The Research Director has significant responsibility for cultivation of funding opportunities and management of program area personnel.
Focus Area: Biomedical Innovation
Location: Hybrid (Durham, NC, or Washington, DC)
This position will support projects focused on pricing, payment, and coverage for medical products, including drugs, cell and gene therapies, and medical devices. Individuals in this position will contribute to projects aimed at improving strategies for ensuring access to innovative medical products while balancing affordability and sustainability. Areas of focus may include designing pricing and payment models, exploring value-based payment approaches, and analyzing various policies that impact the adoption and use of pharmaceuticals and other medical technologies. In addition, they will contribute to researching, planning, and executing meetings (e.g. conferences, workshops, and roundtables), and synthesizing those findings for a broad range of issues related to medical product pricing, payment, and coverage.
Focus Area: Health Care Delivery & Payment Reform
Location: Hybrid (Durham, NC, or Washington, DC)
This position will support Duke-Margolis projects with a variety of complex activities in research, writing, and analysis of quantitative and/or qualitative data within the scope of research and policy projects at Duke University. Primary responsibilities include conducting health policy-focused background research, drafting summary documents, performing literature reviews, contributing to a range of written deliverable types (e.g., policy briefs, white papers, blog posts, peer-reviewed publications), and supporting Institute events and convening. This will include support for project activities through coordination and logistics management.
Focus Area: Biomedical Innovation
Location: Hybrid (Washington, DC, or Durham, NC)
This position manages and performs a variety of complex activities in research, writing, and analysis of quantitative and/or qualitative data within the scope of research and policy projects at Duke University. While the senior policy analyst may be assigned to projects across the Institute as needed, we anticipate work will generally be within the biomedical innovation portfolio This includes topics within the scope of real-world evidence artificial intelligence and digital health, regulatory policy. Primary responsibilities include conducting health policy-focused research and analysis (including literature reviews and informational interviews), extensive writing for a range of deliverable types (e.g., policy briefs, white papers, blog posts, peer-reviewed publications), and project management of team activities and deliverables. Project activities may include management and/or coordination of Institute events and public or private stakeholder convenings that require considerable skill in external communication, as well as engagement with high-level government, academic, and private-sector entities.
