2026 Summer Health Equity Internship

Blue Shield of California • Oakland, CA

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About The Position

The Healthcare Quality & Affordability (HQA) Research & Development team sits within Blue Shield of California’s Strategy & Health Solutions organization, which leads health transformation, innovation, provider partnerships, and affordability initiatives. This internship supports an applied research project examining the evidence base for AI-enabled clinical tools, with a primary focus on AI-assisted mammography and breast cancer screening. The intern will work with Blue Shield’s R&D and innovation teams to assess the current state of evidence and identify gaps relevant to payer decision-making. Our leadership model is about developing great leaders at all levels and creating opportunities for our people to grow – personally, professionally, and financially. We are looking for leaders that are energized by creative and critical thinking, building and sustaining high-performing teams, getting results the right way, and fostering continuous learning.

Requirements

• Requires actively pursuing a bachelor’s or master’s degree
• Requires strong research and writing skills
• Proactive, solution focused mindset with demonstrated creative, problem-solving skills
• Passionate about changing healthcare and challenging the status quo to advance health equity

Nice To Haves

• Interest in AI, digital health, or health policy is a plus

Responsibilities

• Conduct a structured literature review of peer-reviewed studies, clinical trials, and policy analyses related to AI-supported mammography
• Synthesize findings across diagnostic accuracy, patient outcomes, workflow efficiency, and cost implications
• Identify areas of strong, mixed, or insufficient evidence
• Support development of an analytical framework for coverage with evidence
• Contribute to a short paper, policy brief, or internal briefing
• Participate in impactful projects during a 10-week internship program
• Undertake a 10-week curriculum designed to familiarize interns with BSC, leadership development, exposure to the healthcare industry, and more
• Be invited to participate in BSC employee events and networking opportunities such as Employee Resource Groups, employee volunteer activities, and more

Benefits

• Our paid internship program is thoughtfully curated to provide students with experience and exposure to the health professional industry.
• Interns will be given the opportunity to get hands-on experience with real work projects, build meaningful relationships and connections within the organization, and experience our mission and enterprise goals through our program curriculum centered on our leadership model (Personal, People, Thought, and Results Leadership).
• Participate in impactful projects during a 10-week internship program
• Undertake a 10-week curriculum designed to familiarize interns with BSC, leadership development, exposure to the healthcare industry, and more
• Be invited to participate in BSC employee events and networking opportunities such as Employee Resource Groups, employee volunteer activities, and more

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Intern
• Number of Employees: 1-10 employees