Internships at OptumLabs.

If you want an intern experience that will dramatically shape your career, consider a company that’s dramatically shaping our entire health care system. OptumLabs is a center for collaborative research, clinical and policy translation, and innovation within UnitedHealth Group--one of the largest health care companies in the world.

In your internship you’ll work side by side with some of the smartest people in health care—taking the results of recently completed research by OptumLabs partners and modeling the impact on patients, population health and the health care system.

Here’s the idea. We built focused businesses, inside UnitedHealth Group, organized around one giant objective; make health care work better for everyone. Through our two business platforms, UnitedHealthcare and Optum, we work to improve the health care system and advance the health and well-being of individuals and communities so that they can enjoy better, fuller lives. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges. It’s a culture of optimism that’s not like any place you’ve ever worked. Many incredible ideas in one incredible company.

We’re doing everything in our power to make health care work better for everyone. That includes the entire spectrum of health care participants: individual consumers and employers, commercial payers and intermediaries, physicians, hospitals, pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers, and more. So here we are. You have a lot to learn. We have a lot to do. It’s the perfect storm. And even better? Join us and you may end up staying for a career in which you can do your life’s best work.

Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:

• Work with leading clinicians and academics to design and build health economic models of clinical and policy interventions based upon recently completed research at OptumLabs.
• Read and synthesize literature regarding a specific disease, medical, or policy intervention
• Gather data on clinical and economic parameters from the literature to populate the parameters in the model
• Use SAS, R, or other tools to analyze one of the largest integrated claims and electronic medical record databases in the world
• Design models of care pathways, natural history of disease, and costs of care to evaluate the impacts of clinical or policy interventions on patient outcomes, population health, and health care system costs
• Work with leading clinicians and academics to publish your findings in peer-reviewed journals and/or the popular press.

Required Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree required
• Currently pursuing an advanced degree (MBA, MS)
• Minimum 3.00 cumulative GPA
• Knowledge of health economics modeling tools such as TreeAge or Microsoft Excel
• Must be eligible to work in the U.S. without company sponsorship, now or in the future, for employment-based work authorization (F-1 students with practical training and candidates requiring H-1Bs, TNs, etc. will not be considered)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong statistical knowledge, including at least 2 graduate level classes in statistics or epidemiological methods
• At least one graduate level course in health economic modeling
• Able to gather and synthesize clinical and health economics data
• Knowledge of SAS, R, or other statistical programming software
• Knowledge of research design and statistical methods sufficient to understand published literature in peer-reviewed journals
• Communication skills to interact with senior investigators and researchers
• Strong organization skills with ability to prioritize and multi-task

A Fortune 6 company, we're focused on helping people live healthier lives while making the health system work better for everyone. Here, we seek to empower people with the information, guidance and tools to make personal health choices. We work harder and we aim higher. We expect more from ourselves and each other. And, at the end of the day, we’re doing a lot of good for more than 142 million people worldwide.