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Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières - USA · 1 day ago

Research Publications Intern

Washington, DC

Internship

Hybrid

Intern

$18/hr - $18/hr

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an independent international organization providing medical care to those in need globally. The Research Publications Intern will assist in updating the MSF Science Portal, focusing on data entry, cleaning, and supporting various projects to enhance research visibility and data quality.

Non-profit Organization Management

No H1B

Responsibilities

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

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

Support communications and raising awareness of the Science Portal via social media platforms and internal platforms

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

Qualification

Data managementSQLData visualizationPublic healthMedical literatureCommunicationCollaborationProblem-solving

Required

Current or recent graduate of a Master's level or higher program in public health

A variety of backgrounds will be considered with data entry experience and familiarity with scholarly publications as the most important qualifications

Ability to identify and use appropriate data management and analytic software and languages, e.g., R, SQL, etc

Experience using SQL and querying relational databases

Experience working with published medical literature and scientific journals

Understanding of database organization and experience with database querying tools

Experience with or keen interest in medical topics that MSF conducts research in

Experience with scientific/medical publications

Company

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières - USA

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian organization that helps people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from health care in more than 70 countries.

Founded in 1971