Principal PH Intelligence Analyst

As Principal Analyst in Public Health Intelligence, you will lead the analytics function to turn linked health and care data into actionable insights. You will steer projects that inform strategy, commissioning, and service transformation across Newham and North East London. You’ll lead a team to analyse health trends and inequalities, supporting decision-making to improve population health. This role offers influence across the Integrated Care System and opportunities to raise analytic standards and capability.

• Lead the Public Health Intelligence service to produce actionable insight for decision-making to improve population health and reduce inequity
• Shape strategy, commissioning, and service transformation across Newham and North East London
• Lead projects to understand health and care needs, address inequalities, and guide commissioning decisions
• Design, implement, and assure quality of the intelligence function with a continuous improvement mindset
• Provide expert advice on advanced data science techniques (e.g., risk stratification, modelling, segmentation, forecasting)
• Raise standards in population health analytics and train staff in tools and interpretation of epidemiological information
• Guide others in decision-making with sound public health knowledge and evidence
• Analyse diverse data sources to produce high-quality information for operational and strategic use
• Provide statistical and epidemiological advice to the organisation and Integrated Care System
• Undertake research to support public health intelligence objectives
• Report to the Public Health Consultant Lead and manage a team of Public Health Analysts

• Postgraduate qualification in health, public health, epidemiology, statistics, social and behavioural sciences, health data science or similar numerate discipline
• Strong understanding of public health principles, health inequalities, and wider determinants of health
• Excellent knowledge of health and care datasets, their strengths/weaknesses, and methods to answer public health questions
• Proven health data science and population health analytics experience
• Leadership experience managing analysts and raising standards
• Experience influencing decision-making and working with cross-sector health partners
• Ability to guide decision-making with public health knowledge and evidence

• Excellent communication (oral and written) across audiences
• Ability to influence and motivate teams
• Mentoring, coaching, and developing others
• Advanced health data science and epidemiological analysis
• Risk stratification, modelling, regression, segmentation, forecasting
• Data visualization and storytelling to non-technical audiences