Public Health Intern (Summer 2027)
About The Position
Battelle is seeking a Public Health Research Intern to join our Public Health Research Group for summer 2027. This internship offers hands-on learning and challenging projects, allowing interns to make an impact and feel like valued team members. The role involves supporting social, behavioral, clinical, and survey operations research. The intern will assist with study-related tasks, including developing materials, conducting literature reviews, supporting data entry, verification, management, and analysis, and contributing to scientific writing and other technical activities. Familiarity with research methodology and a detail-oriented approach are crucial for success.
Requirements
- Currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in public health, epidemiology, biology/chemistry, psychology, behavioral medicine, sociology, communications or a related field.
- Proficiency in MS Office (particularly Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
- Conscientious work ethic, extreme attention to detail and reliability.
- Excellent communication (verbal and writing) skills as well as strong interpersonal skills.
- Ability to support multiple tasks simultaneously.
- Must be a US Person as defined by US export laws.
Nice To Haves
- Statistical software (e.g., SAS, SPSS, STATA, NVivo) experience preferred.
Responsibilities
- Support various methods of data collection from human subjects, which might include, conduct of focus groups or cognitive interviews.
- Handling and tracking of respondent incentives; distribution of study progress reports to project management staff and/or clients.
- Enter study data and provide independent verification of other staff’s entry work to ensure a high level of data quality.
- Provide support for data management.
- Conduct literature reviews and environment scans (e.g., review articles and documents, abstract information, summarize findings).
- Contribute to meeting facilitation, meeting support and coordination
- Organize and maintain data and materials related to complex public health and healthcare quality tasks
- Contribute discrete sections of writing for use in scientific publications and presentations, under the direction and guidance of senior staff.
- Perform assigned technical tasks in a timely manner, as requested.
- Perform job duties with discretion and professionalism.
- Ability to treat as highly confidential all data and information collected as part of day-to-day operations.
Benefits
- Flexible work schedules
- Hybrid work arrangement
- Employee Resource Groups
- Social and professional networking events
- Opportunities for philanthropic involvement
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Intern
