Humana Healthcare Research Fall 2026 Internship

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 This part-time, remote internship offers students and recent graduates hands-on experience conducting quantitative healthcare research focused on pharmacy outcomes and policy. Interns will contribute to real-world evidence studies across areas such as comparative effectiveness, medication access and affordability, healthcare utilization and costs, benefit design, and pharmacy policy, while gaining experience communicating findings to Humana stakeholders.

Humana Healthcare Research: The mission of Humana Healthcare Research (HHR) is to produce high-quality, actionable evidence through the design and execution of research studies, as well as strategic interpretation of findings. HHR aims to produce research that informs how to improve health outcomes, guides Humana’s strategy, and advances the body of knowledge for both the scientific community and society at large.

Areas of focus include pharmacy comparative effectiveness research; health policy, payment and care delivery; and access to care. HHR maintains external partnerships with industry, government, and academia to produce research that is relevant to ongoing problems. We’re a team of research professionals passionate about combining and analyzing diverse types of primary and secondary data.

The Fall Internship is a 16–20-week immersive, professional research learning experience for students or recent graduates interested in pursuing a career in quantitative healthcare research. This intern position is tailored to support pharmacy-oriented health outcomes and pharmacy policy research. The intern will gain experience with real-world evidence generation through the design and conduct of research studies including comparative effectiveness, disease characterization, treatment patterns analysis, cost and healthcare utilization analysis, medication access and affordability, pharmacy benefit design, utilization management, and pharmacy policy evaluation. The intern will participate in synthesizing, communicating, and presenting research findings to Humana stakeholders.

This is a part-time, remote position starting in November through Feb/March. Interns will have the opportunity to apply and strengthen their research skills in a supportive environment among a multi-disciplinary team of research experts. Those seeking a career in pharmacoepidemiology, health economics, outcomes research, pharmacy and health policy are strongly encouraged to apply.

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Position Responsibilities

The HHR Intern will participate in study team(s) and support research activities. Responsibilities will include some or all of the following:

• Contributing to study conceptualization, literature reviews, proposal writing.
• Study protocol development.
• Executing statistical analysis per specifications in study protocol and under supervision of experienced research scientists.
• Reporting and interpretation of results.
• Contributing to manuscript development.

 

Position Qualifications

 Required:

• Currently pursuing (final-year student) or recently completed PhD in pharmacy, outcomes research, epidemiology, pharmacoepidemiology, health economics, public health or health services research.
• Knowledge in quantitative health outcomes research, analytics, and statistical techniques.
• Knowledge of causal inference methods or completion of relevant course work on quasi-experimental methods (e.g., propensity score analysis, inverse probability treatment weighting, interrupted time series analysis, regression discontinuity designs, instrumental variable analysis, and/or causal mediation analysis).
• Ability to commit to at least part-time employment for 16 to 20 weeks beginning in November 2026.
• Experience working collaboratively on research teams.
• Proficiency in at least one statistical coding language.
• Interest in a career in healthcare research.

Preferred:

• Enthusiastic to continue to learn and develop research methods skills.
• Experience using R and/or SAS for data management and statistical analyses.
• Experience in utilizing real-world data sources, such as claims databases and electronic health records, for observational studies and RWE generation.
• Experience in scientific writing and/or manuscript authorship.

Work at Home Requirements: To ensure Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees’ ability to work effectively, the self-provided internet service of Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees must meet the following criteria: At minimum, a download speed of 25 Mbps and an upload speed of 10 Mbps is required; wireless, wired cable or DSL connection is suggested. In certain roles, the minimum recommended internet speed required by Humana may not be sufficient for business needs. Humana reserves the right to require associates to upgrade their internet service if necessary. Work from a dedicated space lacking ongoing interruptions to protect member PHI / HIPAA information.

 

Travel: While this is a remote position, occasional travel to Humana's offices for training or meetings may be required.

 

Scheduled Weekly Hours

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Pay Range

The compensation range below reflects a good faith estimate of starting base pay for full time (40 hours per week) employment at the time of posting. The pay range may be higher or lower based on geographic location and individual pay will vary based on demonstrated job related skills, knowledge, experience, education, certifications, etc.

 

$37,440 - $96,800 per year

 

Description of Benefits

Humana, Inc. and its affiliated subsidiaries (collectively, “Humana”) offers benefits for limited term, variable schedule and per diem associates which are designed to support whole-person well-being. Among these benefits, Humana provides paid time off, 401(k) retirement savings plan, employee assistance program, business travel and accident.

Application Deadline: 10-15-2026
About us
 About Humana: Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is a leading U.S. healthcare company. Through our Humana insurance services and our CenterWell healthcare services, we make it easier for the millions of people we serve to achieve their best health – delivering the care and service they need, when they need it. These efforts are leading to a better quality of life for people with Medicare and Medicaid, families, individuals, military service personnel, and communities at large. Learn more about what we offer at Humana.com and at CenterWell.com.

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