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Global Health Internship (LSHTM)

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Costello Medical

Apr 9

Applications are closed

  • Internship
    Full-time
    Starts on Sep 23
    Off-cycle Internship
  • Healthcare
    Science
  • £2.1K
  • London

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

Responsibilities

  • 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.

Costello Medical

Science & Healthcare
Industry
201-500
Employees
2008
Founded Year

Mission & Purpose

At Costello Medical, we enjoy building lasting partnerships in the healthcare sector by providing an exceptional service. Our vision is to be a community of the very best people, constantly challenging ourselves to make meaningful and outstanding contributions to improving healthcare. Our experts support the healthcare sector in the analysis, interpretation, and communication of clinical and health economic data; our service offerings include evidence development, statistics, health economics, HTA, real-world evidence, market access, medical affairs, publications, and design. We are one of the most established independent agencies delivering medical communications and health economic services. We have grown organically since foundation in 2008 to a team of over 400 based in Cambridge, London, Manchester and Bristol in the UK and internationally in Singapore, China and the US. Our talented team has experience with a variety of leading pharmaceutical and device companies across an extensive range of therapy areas and geographies, including Europe, Asia Pacific, and North America. We are proud to have achieved a 3-star accreditation with Best Companies™ for a sixth consecutive year, and have achieved B Corp certification, showing that we meet the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance.

Benefits

  • 4% Employer pension contributions

  • Comprehensive travel insurance for our colleagues and their families

  • Flexible benefits scheme offering additional holiday, cash payments and pension contributions

  • Flexible Working Hours

  • 25 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays

  • Competitive Starting Salary