Global Health Internship

Costello Medical

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16d ago

🚀 Off-cycle

London

Rolling basis

Description

We will share our skills and knowledge in evidence-based medicine, medical communication and health economics through working together on a specific health problem from your community. Past projects have included:

Developing a costing model on antimicrobial stewardship in primary care for urinary tract infections in Tunisia
Conducting a systematic literature review of interventions to improve referral processes for women seeking childbirth care in Sub-Saharan Africa
Assessing youth-friendly reproductive health services in Malawi

The LSHTM- Costello Medical Global Health Internship will also support your professional development, which we hope will allow you to train other local practitioners in evidence-based medicine after successful completion of the internship. We will provide technical expertise in evidence-based medicine and desk-based research so that you can learn and take these skills back to your community. Specifically, you will gain experience in research, the design and presentation of deliverables and quality control.

You will need to identify and work on a project exploring and tackling a health-related issue relevant to your community; this may involve performing systematic searches of medical literature, assimilating clinical and cost effectiveness evidence, and analysing and creatively presenting data in a variety of formats.

The internship is a fixed-term position, usually for 3 months, which starts in September 2023 at our London Office.

Area of Responsibilities

Healthcare

Responsibilities

You will have the opportunity to identify and work on a project exploring and tackling a health-related issue relevant to your community; this may involve performing systematic searches of medical literature, assimilating clinical and cost-effectiveness evidence, and analysing and creatively presenting data in a variety of formats

Requirements

Be a national of a low- or middle- income country, working or studying in a health-related profession, who will be able to use the skills gained during their placement to benefit their work and their own community. This could include early-career health practitioners, health-related charity or NGO workers, health researchers or other health professionals
Have recently completed a degree at LSHTM
Be educated in a health or science-related subject
Be fluent in written and spoken English and have good numeracy skills
Be able to prioritise own tasks and workload
Have a “can do” approach, and initiative, positivity and creativity
Be able to work in a team and with an excellent level of productivity
Have permission to work in the UK by the proposed start date of the placement
Have a developed project plan to tackle during their internship. The candidate will be required to explain:
Why they think their project topic is important
Their proposed project approach
What their project will produce at the end of the internship, for example, a manuscript, policy paper, newspaper article, educational leaflet, economic model
The anticipated implications of their project for their community after the internship

Benefits

A stipend of £1,950 per month for the duration of the internship
Full technical support with the project and mentorship from a line manager
A desk and IT equipment for the duration of the internship
Further opportunities for cultural exchange, such as giving presentations to those at Costello Medical and full integration into company life i.e. 2-week induction training sessions, attendance at company social events
Paid Annual Leave
Critical Illness Cover, Income Protection Cover and Life Assurance
Access to Employee Assistance Programmes