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Medical Editing/Library Intern

Organization

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international humanitarian organization that delivers impartial medical care to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from health care in over 70 countries.
We welcome candidates who bring a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences to join us in working toward MSF’s common mission.
 
Department
 
The Programs Department at MSF-USA supports the MSF Social Mission and consists of multiple units including advocacy, representation, and research arms of both MSF-USA and the international offices of MSF. Units served and/or supported by the Program Department include the Humanitarian Representation Team (HRT), Access Campaign, Epicentre, MSF-USA domestic projects and other special projects related to medical and operational priorities of MSF.
 
Project
 
Every year MSF conducts many hundreds of research studies, resulting in hundreds of peer-reviewed journal articles, medical conference presentations, and advocacy initiatives--all aimed at improving the quality of patient care and the policies that help shape this care.
 
The Scientific Editorial Director works to help increase the visibility of MSF research within the global health and medical aid communities. Currently the main initiative is to maintain and continue developing the MSF Science Portal—a new online ‘one-stop-shop’ for MSF’s public research content—and to help raise awareness of this platform within and outside MSF.
 
The Medical Editing/Library Intern will work with the Scientific Editorial Director on keeping the site updated regularly, polishing data, preparing curated collections of content on timely topics, and supporting preparation of communications content (including for social media) and outreach initiatives. The intern will also help update the ‘medical issues’ pages of the MSF-USA website with content from the Science Portal. A graduate student or advanced undergrduate in epidemiology, global health, or medical library science, and with strong interests in medical humanitarian aid and global health publishing, would best suit this position.
 
 
Tasks
 
  • Support weekly updating of Science Portal with new MSF-authored publications and conference presentations;
  • Help improve metadata attached to this content as new functionality is added to the still-developing platform;
  • Support polishing/quality control of data in the Science Portal;
  • Participate in working with organizers of MSF Scientific Days conferences to collect and incorporate conference content into the Science Portal;
  • Support communications around raising awareness of the new platform.
 
Qualifications
 
Required
  • High level of proficiency in reading and understanding scientific literature in global health;
  • High level of proficiency in doing medical literature searches via bibliographic databases, especially PubMed;
  • Excellent research and writing skills;
  • Good understanding of scientific/medical publication practices;
  • Strong interest in medical/scientific publishing, humanitarian medicine, and research;
  • High level of proficiency with Microsoft Word and Excel. 
 
 
Preferred
  • College or graduate coursework on diseases and issues that most impact global health;
  • Experience maintaining an institutional repository in an academic or research setting;
  • Experience in developing content for social media.
 
 
No phone calls or emails please. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
 
Please note that neither relocation assistance nor visa sponsorship will be offered for this position. 
 
 
Hybrid work opportunity/working remote is possible.
 
 
 
Equal Employment Opportunity and Non-Discrimination:
 
MSF-USA is committed to building a diverse, unbiased, and inclusive workforce. MSF-USA is an equal opportunity employer; we recruit, hire, train, promote, develop, and provide other conditions of employment without regard to a person’s gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, disability, marital status, pregnancy status, veteran status, genetic information, or any other differences consistent with applicable laws. This includes providing reasonable accommodation for disabilities, or religious beliefs and practices. Members of communities historically underrepresented in the Humanitarian Aid sector are encouraged to apply.
 
If you have a disability of some kind and are interested in applying for employment and need special accommodations to use our website to apply for a position, please contact Human Resources by emailing us: employment.msfusa@newyork.msf.org. Reasonable accommodation requests are considered on a case-by-case basis.