Remote | Healthcare Market Research & Survey Methodology Consultant — Up to $130/hour

We are sharing a specialised part-time consulting opportunity for experienced healthcare market research, pharmaceutical insights, and survey methodology professionals with hands-on experience designing and evaluating physician, patient, and healthcare research surveys.

This role focuses on developing and reviewing rigorous healthcare survey instruments used in pharmaceutical and life-sciences research. Selected professionals will translate research objectives into effective questionnaires, evaluate survey methodology and respondent experience, and collaborate with therapeutic-area experts to ensure instruments produce reliable and decision-useful data.

Key Responsibilities

Healthcare Survey Design

• Design, review, and refine physician and patient research surveys
• Translate research objectives into clear, methodologically sound questionnaires
• Develop survey structures appropriate for healthcare and pharmaceutical research
• Evaluate whether instruments effectively address intended research questions
• Apply established healthcare market-research conventions throughout the survey-development process

Questionnaire Methodology

• Review question wording, response scales, survey flow, and overall instrument structure
• Identify leading, ambiguous, overly technical, or otherwise problematic questions
• Evaluate ordering effects and potential sources of measurement bias
• Assess recall requirements and whether questions place unreasonable demands on respondents
• Recommend methodological improvements that strengthen data quality and interpretability

Screening & Survey Logic

• Review screeners and eligibility criteria for physician, patient, and HCP research
• Evaluate branching and skip logic
• Assess speciality screening and respondent qualification criteria
• Review patient-volume and treatment-behaviour qualification requirements where relevant
• Identify inconsistencies or logic issues that may affect survey completion or sample quality

Physician & HCP Research

• Ensure questionnaires are appropriately constructed for physicians, specialists, primary care professionals, and other healthcare professionals
• Evaluate research involving prescribing behaviour, treatment pathways, and clinical decision-making
• Assess whether terminology and response options are appropriate for professional audiences
• Review patient-volume qualification and speciality criteria
• Identify questions that may produce unclear or misleading responses

Patient Research

• Review surveys covering diagnosis history, symptoms, treatment experience, adherence, and patient journeys
• Assess questions involving quality of life and treatment burden
• Evaluate whether wording and response options are understandable and appropriate for patient audiences
• Review respondent burden and survey length
• Identify methodological issues that may affect the reliability of patient-reported information

Pharmaceutical & Life Sciences Insights

• Apply knowledge of pharmaceutical primary market research and commercial insights
• Review surveys designed to inform treatment, market, patient, or healthcare strategy
• Incorporate relevant life-sciences research practices into questionnaire design
• Evaluate whether survey outputs will generate meaningful and actionable information
• Support research involving medical affairs, commercial insights, and related healthcare functions

Therapeutic-Area Collaboration

• Collaborate with clinical and therapeutic-area experts to ensure survey content is appropriately framed
• Integrate methodological and clinical feedback into revised instruments
• Independently assess both methodology and therapeutic content where professional expertise supports doing so
• Identify clinical assumptions requiring specialist review
• Ensure research questions remain methodologically rigorous while reflecting real-world healthcare contexts

Therapeutic-Area Research

• Contribute to surveys involving areas such as:
  • Oncology, particularly prostate cancer
  • Gastroenterology, particularly ulcerative colitis and inflammatory bowel disease
  • Neurology, particularly migraine and headache disorders
  • Pulmonology and respiratory medicine, particularly COPD
• Additional pharmaceutical therapeutic-area expertise is valuable for future research initiatives

Research Quality & Recommendations

• Assess whether surveys will generate reliable, interpretable, and decision-useful data
• Identify weaknesses in questionnaire construction or research methodology
• Provide precise written explanations of methodological concerns
• Recommend practical revisions to improve survey quality
• Distinguish substantive research issues from minor stylistic preferences

Ideal Profile

• 3+ years of professional experience in healthcare, pharmaceutical, life-sciences, or medically focused research
• Hands-on experience designing, programming, fielding, reviewing, or advising on surveys involving physicians, patients, HCPs, or other healthcare stakeholders
• Strong knowledge of questionnaire design and survey methodology
• Relevant backgrounds may include:
  • Healthcare or pharmaceutical market research
  • Pharmaceutical primary market research
  • Healthcare consumer or patient insights
  • Survey methodology
  • Quantitative healthcare research
  • Behavioural science
  • Healthcare consulting
  • Life-sciences insights and analytics
  • Medical communications or research
• Experience with physician research involving speciality screening, prescribing patterns, treatment pathways, or treatment behaviour is valuable
• Experience with patient research involving diagnosis, symptoms, treatment experience, adherence, quality of life, or patient journeys is valuable
• Familiarity with pharmaceutical market research, commercial insights, or medical affairs research
• Therapeutic-area expertise in oncology, gastroenterology, neurology, pulmonology, or respiratory medicine is particularly valuable
• Experience with platforms such as Qualtrics, Decipher/Forsta, Alchemer, SurveyMonkey, or comparable survey tools is helpful but not required
• Excellent written reasoning and ability to provide precise methodological feedback
• Professionals capable of evaluating both survey methodology and therapeutic-area content are particularly valuable, although deep survey-methodology expertise alone is highly relevant

Engagement Details

• Part-time independent contractor engagement
• Fully remote
• Flexible scheduling based on project requirements
• Compensation: Up to $130/hour
• Work focuses on healthcare survey design, pharmaceutical market research, physician and patient research, and methodological review
• Initial research areas include prostate cancer, ulcerative colitis, and migraine, with COPD and additional indications expected over time
• Opportunities may continue across multiple therapeutic areas and research initiatives
• Projects may be extended, shortened, or concluded based on project needs and performance
• Work must be completed without using confidential or proprietary information belonging to any employer, client, institution, or other third party
• H1-B and STEM OPT support is unavailable for this engagement

About the Platform

This opportunity is available through 24-MAG LLC. We connect experienced professionals with remote consulting opportunities across technical, evaluation, and project-based workstreams.

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