Strategic Information Intern (Remote)
MSH is a nonprofit international health organization with nearly 2,500 people from over 74 nationalities working in over 40 countries. Our mission: Saving lives and improving the health of the world's poorest and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health. Together with our partners, we are helping managers and leaders in developing countries to create stronger management systems that improve health services for the greatest health impact.
The Healthy Mothers and Babies (Utz’ Na’n) project in Guatemala aims to strengthen local capacity to provide high-quality, culturally respectful antenatal care (ANC) and to improve indigenous women and adolescents’ use of timely and quality ANC in order to improve their health and the health of their newborns. This three year project is implemented by MSH, together with local partners Asociación PIES de Occidente (PIES) and the Sexual and Reproductive Health Observatory (OSAR) in 11 districts of Quetzaltenango and 13 districts of San Marcos, in the Highlands region of Guatemala.
Please note:
- Internship candidates must be full-time or part-time students earning academic credit for their internship.
- This is an unpaid internship and candidates are responsible for their own housing, transportation, and other related costs.
- This internship can be fully remote
Responsibilities:
- Attending necessary team meetings related to scope of work (5%).
- Collaborate with the Strategic Information (SI) liaison/MEL advisor to support data cleaning, analysis and visualizations to track project performance, data gaps and identify opportunities for progress.
- Contribute to documentation of data processes and incorporation of quantitative data into stories of most significant change and lessons learned
What are the student takeaways:
- Gain experience in handling real-time maternal health data and conducting statistical analysis on large datasets
- Develop and apply data analytics and research skills, including presentation and write-up of findings for online publication
- Deepen understanding of antenatal care accesses in indigenous populations of rural Guatemala.
- Build relationships with global health professionals and organizations
Qualifications:
- Undergraduate or graduate student in Epidemiology, Public Health, Statistics or Demography programs.
- Experience in the use of statistical software, such as R, STATA or SPSS. Familiarity with Tableau and PowerBi is required.
- Experience in the use of Microsoft applications to include MS Word, PowerPoint, and Excel as well as Outlook is required.
- Foundational understanding of health statistics (measure of effect, association, etc.), handling of missing values, standard methods of testing and estimation and simple categorical statistics is highly desirable.
- Familiarity with handling large longitudinal datasets and dealing with recurrent outcomes in regression models is preferred.
- Basic knowledge of Spanish is preferred.