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Role Overview 

As part of our humanitarian mission, MSF conducts hundreds of research studies every year to help us improve patient care and advocate in an evidence-based way for better global health programs and policies. The MSF Science Portal is an online repository where you can find the outcomes of this work—in peer-reviewed medical publications, MSF Scientific Days conference presentations, and other content.

 

The Research Publication Intern will work with the Project Manager on keeping the platform updated regularly and implement data quality improvements across the front end of the website within the content management system, and to the database directly. Primary, regular duties include data entry, data cleaning/manipulation, and descriptive analysis. The intern will also support other discrete, long-term projects that can range from website development support, dashboard development, research ethics support, and communications planning and support. A diverse student profile will be considered, with an emphasis on coding abilities, experience with relational databases, and knowledge of medical sciences and scholarly publications.

 

This internship will start in June and last 3 months, with the possibility to extend the role for an additional 3 months. This role is part-time at 20 hours/week and is hybrid, with in-office attendance on either Tuesdays or Wednesdays in one of our offices (Oakland, NYC, or DC).

 

Role Specific Outcomes 

Publications support

Create a weekly list of new MSF-authored publications based on reviewing PubMed, Google Scholar alerts, and other data sources, and add them to the Science Portal using its content management system 

Data cleaning support 

Support the Portal team in improving data cleanliness, requiring direct queries to the database and updating data using code to conduct bulk updates or manual cleaning 

Communications and website visibility 

Support communications and raising awareness of the Science Portal, including but not limited to implementing SEO improvements and monitoring website analytics 

Additional projects

  • The team has various needs across data analytics/visualization, data management, and leadership projects that the intern can work on, depending on their strengths and interests

 

Desired Qualifications & Experience 

  • Advanced undergraduate or graduate student, or recent graduate
  • A variety of backgrounds will be considered with database and coding experience as the most important qualification
  • Ability to identify and use appropriate data management and analytic software and languages, e.g., R, Python, etc
  • Experience using SQL and querying relational databases
  • Experience working with large data volumes, including collection, aggregation and manipulation
  • Understanding of data management and related policies and procedures
  • Interest in global health and in MSF’s mission
  • Experience with or keen interest in medical topics that MSF conducts research in
  • Experience with scientific/medical publications
  • Familiarity with scientific research review process (ERB, journal submission, etc) is preferred