Value and Implementation Healthcare Quality Improvement Internship (Jun 2025)

Job Description

The Future Talent Program features internships that last up to 12 weeks and will include one or more projects. These opportunities can provide you with great development and a chance to see if we are the right company for your long-term goals.

This assignment is in the Healthcare Quality Improvement (HQI) team within Global Medical Proficiency and External Affairs (GMPEA). GMPEA serves as the Center of Excellence for HQI strategy, professional relations, and external affairs, independent medical education (IME), and our Research & Development Division Grants worldwide. This function exists within the broader Value and Implementation (V&I) organization, which is part of our Research & Development Division.

The HQI team supports the development and implementation of strategic plans to address healthcare quality gaps and clinical practice implementation barriers across priority therapeutic areas (TAs). The HQI team also collaborates with key healthcare quality organizations and engages with medical and professional societies on ways to improve healthcare quality and guideline-concordant care to improve patient outcomes.

Key Activities:

The intern in this assignment may be responsible for:

• Supporting the execution of healthcare quality and implementation science landscape assessment projects for TAs.
• Developing TA quality measure reports and identifying gaps in healthcare quality and performance.
• Assisting with TA medical and outcomes research team consultations on healthcare quality and implementation science.
• Cataloging medical and professional society strategic priorities and initiatives related to healthcare quality and implementation science.
• Supporting the execution of HQI strategic priorities. 

Education/Qualifications:

• Candidates must be a college student with a major in a Business, Medical, or Science field. Candidates enrolled in an advanced degree program (MPH, PharmD, PhD) are preferred.
• Candidates must have excellent verbal and written communication skills and be highly motivated to work independently.
• Candidates must have demonstrated leadership skills, self-motivation, flexibility, adaptability, and willingness to learn.

Timeline:

• Candidates must be able to commit to full-time onsite (or hybrid if applicable) employment for 10 - 12 weeks beginning June 2025

U.S. Hybrid Work Model

Effective September 5, 2023, employees in office-based positions in the U.S. will be working a Hybrid work consisting of three total days on-site per week, generally Tuesday, Wednesday, and either Monday or Thursday, although the specific days may vary by site or organization, with Friday designated as a remote-working day unless business-critical tasks require an on-site presence.  This Hybrid work model does not apply to, and daily in-person attendance is required for, field-based positions; facility-based, manufacturing-based, or research-based positions where the work to be performed is located at a Company site; positions covered by a collective-bargaining agreement (unless the agreement provides for hybrid work); or any other position for which the Company has determined the job requirements cannot be reasonably met working remotely. Please note, that this Hybrid work model guidance also does not apply to roles that have been designated as “remote”.

Other Details:

• Expected salary range: $39,600.00 - $105,500.00
• Relocation: No relocation
• VISA Sponsorship: No
• Travel Requirements: No Travel Required
• Flexible Work Arrangements: Hybrid
• Shift: 1st - Day
• Valid Driving License: No
• Hazardous Material(s): n/a