Role Summary

• Responsibilities: You will have the opportunity to identify and work on a project exploring and tackling a health-related issue relevant to your community; this may involve performing systematic searches of medical literature, assimilating clinical and cost-effectiveness evidence, and analysing and creatively presenting data in a variety of formats
• Salary: A monthly stipend of £2,150
• Benefits: Paid Annual Leave, Critical Illness Cover, Income Protection Cover, Life Assurance, Access to Employee Assistance Programmes and more
• Role Type: Full-time, temporary internship
• Start Date: Tuesday 24th September 2024
• Location: This role is available in our London office

Your Opportunity to Bring Evidence-Based Medicine to the Developing World

Costello Medical provides scientific support to the healthcare industry in the analysis, interpretation and communication of clinical and health economic data. Through both commercial and charitable projects, we are dedicated to the improvement of health and healthcare globally.

In our unique Global Health Internship, in partnership with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), we are offering a student from a low- or middle- income country the opportunity to gain skills in evidence-based medicine by working on a healthcare problem relevant to their community.

About the Role

We will share our skills and knowledge in evidence-based medicine, medical communication and health economics through working together on a specific health problem from your community. Past projects have included:

• Developing a costing model on antimicrobial stewardship in primary care for urinary tract infections in Tunisia
• Conducting a systematic literature review of interventions to improve referral processes for women seeking childbirth care in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Assessing youth-friendly reproductive health services in Malawi

The LSHTM- Costello Medical Global Health Internship will also support your professional development, which we hope will allow you to train other local practitioners in evidence-based medicine after successful completion of the internship. We will provide technical expertise in evidence-based medicine and desk-based research so that you can learn and take these skills back to your community. Specifically, you will gain experience in research, the design and presentation of deliverables and quality control.

You will need to identify and work on a project exploring and tackling a health-related issue relevant to your community; this may involve performing systematic searches of medical literature, assimilating clinical and cost effectiveness evidence, and analysing and creatively presenting data in a variety of formats.

This internship is a full-time, fixed-term position, that will typically run for 13 weeks in duration, depending on your availability. The start date is Tuesday 24th September 2024 and the successful candidate will be based in our London office. You can learn more about our London office here: (url removed)

Requirements

About You

The successful candidate should:

• Be a national of a low- or middle- income country, working or studying in a health-related profession, who will be able to use the skills gained during their placement to benefit their work and their own community. This could include early-career health practitioners, health-related charity or NGO workers, health researchers or other health professionals
• Have recently completed a degree at LSHTM
• Be educated in a health or science-related subject
• Be fluent in written and spoken English and have good numeracy skills
• Be able to prioritise own tasks and workload
• Have a “can do” approach, and initiative, positivity and creativity
• Be able to work in a team and with an excellent level of productivity
• Have permission to work in the UK by the proposed start date of the placement
• Have a developed project plan to tackle during their internship. The candidate will be required to explain:
• Why they think their project topic is important
• Their proposed project approach
• What their project will produce at the end of the internship, for example, a manuscript, policy paper, newspaper article, educational leaflet, economic model
• The anticipated implications of their project for their community after the internship

It should be noted that the internship is not intended as a means to gain experience at a UK company with a view to gaining full-time employment at Costello Medical.

Benefits

What We Offer

• A stipend of £2,150 per month for the duration of the internship
• Full technical support with the project and mentorship from a line manager
• A desk and IT equipment for the duration of the internship
• Further opportunities for cultural exchange, such as giving presentations to those at Costello Medical and full integration into company life i.e. 2-week induction training sessions, attendance at company social events
• Paid Annual Leave
• Critical Illness Cover, Income Protection Cover and Life Assurance
• Access to Employee Assistance Programmes

The Recruitment Process

The deadline for applications is Sunday 23rd June 2024. After applications have closed, you will be provided with an update on your application.

If successful, you will be invited to the next round of the recruitment process which will consist of a telephone interview with a member of our Global Health Internship team. The final round of the recruitment process will require you to prepare a short presentation in advance based on your project proposal, followed by an interview with the team. Interviews will be arranged according to your availability over Microsoft Teams and will take place from the week commencing Monday 19th August 2024.

The internship will begin on Tuesday 24th September 2024, with a duration of typically 13 weeks, depending on your availability.

How to Apply

You will need to upload your CV, along with a cover letter explaining why you are interested in this opportunity and how you fulfil the requirements outlined above. You should also include details of the specific project(s) that you would like to work on with us during your placement and answer some questions about your project(s) using our online application form.

For more information:

Please visit our website (url removed)/careers or contact Claudia Casciano (People Team Administrator) at (url removed).