Humana Healthcare Research Internship - Spring 2025

Become a part of our caring community and help us put health first
 

The HHR Spring Internship is a 12-to-16-week immersive, professional research learning experience for students or recent graduates interested in pursuing a career in quantitative healthcare research. This intern position is tailored to support pharmacy-oriented health outcomes research. The intern will gain experience with real-world evidence generation through the design and conduct of research studies including comparative effectiveness, disease characterization, treatment patterns analysis, cost and healthcare utilization analysis. The intern will participate in synthesizing, communicating, and presenting research findings to Humana stakeholders. 

This is a part-time, remote position starting in March through May/June. Interns will have the opportunity to apply and strengthen their research skills in a supportive environment among a multi-disciplinary team of research experts. Those seeking a career in epidemiology, pharmacoepidemiology, health economics, outcomes research, and health policy are strongly encouraged to apply.

The HHR Intern will participate in study team(s) and support research activities. Responsibilities will include some or all of the following:

• Contributing to study conceptualization, literature reviews, proposal writing.
• Study protocol development.
• Executing statistical analysis per specifications in study protocol and under supervision of experienced research scientists.
• Reporting and interpretation of results.
• Contributing to manuscript development.

By the completion of the internship, the student can expect to have:

• Gain experience with real-world evidence generation through the design and conduct of a variety of research studies including comparative effectiveness, disease characterization, treatment patterns analysis, cost and healthcare utilization.
• Gain experience synthesizing, communicating, and presenting research findings to various audiences.
• Gain experience using a large claims database.

Use your skills to make an impact 
 

Position Qualifications

Required:

• Currently pursuing (final-year student) or recently completed PhD in pharmacy, outcomes research, epidemiology, pharmacoepidemiology, health economics, public health or health services research.
• Knowledge in quantitative health outcomes research, analytics, and statistical techniques.
• Knowledge of causal inference methods or completion of relevant course work on quasi-experimental methods (e.g., propensity score analysis, inverse probability treatment weighting, interrupted time series analysis, regression discontinuity designs, instrumental variable analysis, and/or causal mediation analysis).
• Ability to commit to at least part-time employment for 12 to 16 weeks beginning in March 2025.
• Experience working collaboratively on research teams.
• Proficiency in at least one statistical coding language.
• Interest in a career in healthcare research.

Preferred:

• Enthusiastic to continue to learn and develop research methods skills.
• Experience working in SAS and conducting analysis using a regression framework.
• Experience in utilizing real-world data sources, such as claims databases and electronic health records, for observational studies and RWE generation.
• Experience in scientific writing and/or manuscript authorship.

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40

Pay Range

The compensation range below reflects a good faith estimate of starting base pay for full time (40 hours per week) employment at the time of posting. The pay range may be higher or lower based on geographic location and individual pay will vary based on demonstrated job related skills, knowledge, experience, education, certifications, etc.
 

$37,440 - $87,500 per year