Job Summary:
Lay the groundwork for a dynamic future with an industry leader. At Kaiser Permanente, you'll forge lasting relationships with colleagues across the organization while enjoying the opportunity to grow your experience and hone your expertise on assignments that have real impact. Our interns have worked on everything from analyzing financial software and developing new marketing strategies, to designing mobile apps and helping clinicians improve care delivery. We want you to get the most out of your time here and will give you projects that challenge you to think freely, question thoroughly, and explore deeply.
Location:Flexible
Department Description:Institute for Health Research
The Kaiser Permanente Colorado Institute for Health Research (IHR) is an integrated department that conducts, publishes, and disseminates epidemiologic, behavioral, health services, implementation, and clinical research. The organization has a specific focus on conducting research that can be translated into clinical practice, health promotion, and policies to influence the health of individuals and populations.- The goals of this project are to improve control of cardiovascular (CV) disease risk factors by engaging patients experiencing health disparities in a tech- based self-management intervention. The intervention includes text messages and chatbots, in combination with connecting patients with health system providers. We will aim to improve the American Heart Association’s Life’s Essential 8 (LE8) lifestyle factors (blood glucose, cholesterol, blood pressure, physical activity, weight, sleep, diet, and smoking), that when uncontrolled lead to common co- existing chronic conditions (e.g., hypertension, diabetes), morbidity, health care costs and death. Patients disproportionately affected by these risk factors (e.g., Black, Hispanic/Latino), have worse disease control with greater adverse effects.
Intern Project(s): The summer intern will be responsible for making phone calls and potentially sending letters, email and text communication for recruitment of patients into the study.The intern may also be asked to help with other activities involved in executing the study such as data management, data analysis, or writing reports.
Target Majors:Computer Science, Math/Statistics, Public Health, Healthcare Administration, Data Science
Target Skills: Some interest in public health and experience recruiting people into studies. Preference for bilingual in Spanish.
Essential Responsibilities:
Contributing to a designated project or initiative to meet a KP business objective.
Report development and analytics.
Project management - planning, execution, and measurement.
Learning new applications needed to complete assignments or support the execution of business objectives.
Job shadowing in other functional areas.
Performing additional duties as required.
The union and the company are currently investigating the bargaining unit status of this position. If it is determined that this is a bargaining unit position, bargaining unit status (seniority dates, dues payments etc.) will be applied on a retroactive basis based on the employment commencement date.
Basic Qualifications:
Experience
N/A.
Education
High School Diploma or General Education Development (GED) required.
Pursuing a bachelors degree or have graduated with a Bachelors degree from an accredited university within the last year.
3.0 GPA or above.
License, Certification, Registration
N/A
Additional Requirements:
Aptitude to perform data and process analytics and formulating solutions.
Proven ability to build effective working relationships.
Intermediate knowledge of MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
Must be a US Citizen or Permanent Resident.
Preferred Qualifications:
Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills
Proven ability to build effective working relationships as well as strong interpersonal skills
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Ability to learn quickly and experience producing high quality work in short periods of time.
Pursuing a bachelors degree or have graduated with a Bachelors degree from an accredited Colorado university within the last year.
Desired Majors: Computer Science, Math/Statistics, Public Health, Healthcare Administration, Data Science.