Job Description

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.

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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.  

Use your skills to make an impact
 

Responsibilities

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 analysis per specifications in study protocol and under supervision of experienced research scientists

• Reporting and interpretation of results

Qualifications

Required:

• Completed or in-progress master’s degree or doctoral candidate in a healthcare/research-oriented field (e.g., pharmacy, public health, epidemiology, economics, public policy, outcomes research, biostatistics, health services research, psychology)

• Experience conducting observational or prospective health-related research

• Experience working collaboratively on research teams

• Proficiency in at least one statistical coding language

• Interest in a career in healthcare research

Preferred:

• Experience working in SAS and conducting analysis using a regression framework

• Experience with claims data research

Scheduled Weekly Hours

20

Pay Range

The compensation range below reflects a good faith estimate of starting base pay for full time (40 hours per week) employment at the time of posting. The pay range may be higher or lower based on geographic location and individual pay will vary based on demonstrated job related skills, knowledge, experience, education, certifications, etc.

 

$37,440 - $87,500 per year

 

Description of Benefits

Humana, Inc. and its affiliated subsidiaries (collectively, “Humana”) offers benefits for limited term, variable schedule and per diem associates which are designed to support whole-person well-being. Among these benefits, Humana provides paid time off, 401(k) retirement savings plan, employee assistance program, business travel and accident.

Application Deadline: 04-17-2025

About us
 

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.

Equal Opportunity Employer

It is the policy of Humana not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or veteran status. It is also the policy of Humana to take affirmative action to employ and to advance in employment, all persons regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status, and to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements. This policy shall apply to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, upgrading, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, recall, termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation and selection for training, including apprenticeship, at all levels of employment.