Public Health Master's Intern
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2025 Summer Internship Program
Location:
This role is scheduled to be 100% remote. While remote, finalists MUST reside in one of the following states to be eligible for employment with Kaiser Permanente: CA, OR, WA, HI, CO, GA, MD, VA, CT, DC, or IL.
Department Description:
Thriving Schools is Kaiser Permanente’s commitment to partnering with schools and districts across the country, helping to ensure that teachers, staff, and students have the support they need to thrive — in learning and in health. Thriving Schools is an innovative, dynamic team that solves complex challenges in public education to ensure our members, families and communities have equitable access to learning opportunities that support their long-term health and well-being. We lead national initiatives that focus on delivering resources, tools and strategies that support the physical, social and mental health of teachers, staff and students and their families across our KP markets. An emerging priority within the team's portfolio of work is supporting implementation of new legal and regulatory requirements to cover and coordinate care with schools in California. This will be one of the primary focus areas of the intern's time with the Thriving Schools team.
Intern Project(s):
1. Conducting a landscape analysis to document best practices and recommendations for supporting care coordination and data sharing between schools and health systems.
2. Supporting the development of a new dashboard to track and report on school behavioral health services delivered to KP members in schools.
3. Supporting KP's to engage national health and education leaders in efforts to advance efforts to address the health-related causes of chronic absence.
Target Majors:
Education; Public Health
Target Skills:
Strong verbal and written communication and presentation skills
Experience conducting landscape analyses and literature reviews
Knowledge of health plans and care delivery systems; knowledge of school health and/or public schools is strongly preferred
Knowledge Microsoft Office Suite: PPT, Outlook, Doc, Excel, Teams
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.
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.
- N/A
- Pursuing a graduate degree or have completed a graduate program from an accredited university within the last year.
- Bachelors degree required.
- N/A
- Aptitude to perform data and process analytics and formulating solutions.
- Working knowledge of MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
- 3.0 GPA or above
- 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.
Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), age, sexual orientation, national origin, marital status, parental status, ancestry, disability, gender identity, veteran status, genetic information, other distinguishing characteristics of diversity and inclusion, or any other protected status. Submit Interest
