About the role
Become a part of our caring community and help us put health first
The HHR Summer Intern Program is a 10-week immersive, professional research learning experience for students or recent graduates interested in pursuing a career in quantitative healthcare research. This is a part time, remote position starting in June through mid-August. Interns will have the opportunity to apply and strengthen their research skills in a supportive environment among a multi-disciplinary team of research experts. The HHR Intern will support research activities with the Health Services Research team. Responsibilities will include contributing to study conceptualization and design, literature reviews, proposal writing, and may also include executing statistical analyses under supervision of experienced research scientists, and reporting and interpretation of results.
Through the design and implementation of various types of research studies and the strategic interpretation of data, the mission of Humana Healthcare Research (HHR) is to produce high-quality, actionable evidence and rigorous, peer-reviewed research to improve health outcomes, guide Humana's strategy, and advance the body of knowledge for the scientific community and society at large. Areas of focus include, but are not limited to, internal pharmacy comparative effectiveness research; policy, payment and care delivery; and health equity and the impact of social determinants of health on health outcomes. HHR also maintains external partnerships with industry, government, academia and others to produce research important to internal and external stakeholders. We're a team of research professionals passionate about combining and analyzing diverse types of primary and secondary data to extract new, actionable discoveries about our members and their health-related behaviors.
The HHR Summer Intern Program is a 10-week immersive, professional research learning experience for students or recent graduates interested in pursuing a career in quantitative healthcare research. This is a part time, remote position starting in June through mid-August. Interns will have the opportunity to apply and strengthen their research skills in a supportive environment among a multi-disciplinary team of research experts.
About the company
Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is committed to putting health first – for our teammates, our customers and our company. Through our Humana insurance services and CenterWell healthcare services, we make it easier for the millions of people we serve to achieve their best health – delivering the care and service they need, when they need it. These efforts are leading to a better quality of life for people with Medicare, Medicaid, families, individuals, military service personnel, and communities at large.