Remote Healthcare Research Internship - Pharmacoepidemiology

Humana Inc; Olympia (WA); Remote; USD 37,000 - 97,000; Part time

Job summary

Humana Inc. invites students and recent graduates to join Humana Healthcare Research as a part-time remote internship focused on quantitative pharmacy outcomes and policy.

You will contribute to real-world evidence studies across comparative effectiveness, medication access, utilization and costs. The Fall Internship is 16–20 weeks, starting in November 2026, with responsibilities including study conceptualization, protocol development, statistical analysis, and presenting findings to Humana

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing final-year 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 coursework 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 16 to 20 weeks beginning in November 2026.
• Experience working collaboratively on research teams.
• Proficiency in at least one statistical coding language.
• Interest in a career in healthcare research.
• Enthusiastic to continue to learn and develop research methods skills.
• Experience using R and/or SAS for data management and statistical analyses.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Quantitative health outcomes research

Statistical analysis

Causal inference methods

Collaboration / teamwork

Statistical coding language

Education

PhD in pharmacy/outcomes research/epidemiology/health economics/public health

Tools

R

SAS

Job description

Humana Inc. invites students and recent graduates to join Humana Healthcare Research as a part-time remote internship focused on quantitative pharmacy outcomes and policy.

You will contribute to real-world evidence studies across comparative effectiveness, medication access, utilization and costs. The Fall Internship is 16–20 weeks, starting in November 2026, with responsibilities including study conceptualization, protocol development, statistical analysis, and presenting findings to Humana