Care Pathway DevelopmentPart-Time / Fellowship / Practicum Position OverviewTrans Health HQ is seeking passionate builders looking to craft structured care plans to support the trans community’s access to quality gender-affirming care.Ready to facilitate the expansion of our enterprise digital care navigator and give more structured, trans-affirming care pathways for gender-affirming treatments and procedures to the community?This role focuses on researching, mapping, and structuring patient journeys so they can be translated into digital tools that support both trans patients and care teams. You will help break down complex healthcare processes into clear stages, identify key decision points and barriers, and contribute to tools that improve shared decision-making and care coordination.This is an excellent role for a graduate student, medical trainee, public health student, or early-career professional interested in digital health, care delivery innovation, and gender-affirming medicine.You will work directly with the CEO and product team and gain hands-on experience building clinical infrastructure within a mission-driven health technology startup. What You’ll Do- Map Patient Journeys: Research and outline end-to-end care pathways for new gender-affirming and preventative services. Identify stages of care, required documentation, referral processes, insurance considerations, and typical delays.- Review Community Wisdom, Clinical Guidelines, Evidence: Analyze community discussions, community perspectives on care, clinical standards (e.g., WPATH, specialty guidelines), peer-reviewed literature, and emerging best practices. Summarize findings into structured, actionable insights.- Identify Key Decision Points: Break down where patients and providers face important decisions, trade-offs, or uncertainty. Clarify risks, benefits, prerequisites, and eligibility considerations.- Analyze Structural Barriers: Document common obstacles such as insurance denials, prior authorization requirements, provider shortages, and misinformation, and identify opportunities for digital intervention.- Support Decision-Support Tool Development: Translate research findings into draft content and logic for digital tools within the enterprise navigator that clarify next steps, align patients and providers, surface relevant clinical information, and help resolve common bottlenecks.- Track Evolving Information: Monitor updates in guidelines, policies, and research relevant to assigned care areas. Help maintain version control and ensure pathways remain current. What We’re Looking For- Strong Research Skills: Experience reviewing academic literature, clinical guidelines, or policy documents and synthesizing findings clearly.- Structured Thinking: Ability to break down complex healthcare systems into clear, step-by-step pathways.- Clear Writing: Ability to translate clinical language into structured, understandable formats.- Attention to Detail: Careful with clinical nuance, documentation requirements, and decision logic.- Intellectual Curiosity: Interest in how care systems function and how digital tools can reduce barriers.- Commitment to Health Equity: Motivated by improving access to gender-affirming care. Ideal Backgrounds- MPH, MPP, MS, or MD candidate- Medical, nursing, or PA student- Health services research or health policy background- Experience in care coordination, clinical research, or patient navigation What Success Looks Like- Completion of structured pathway maps for new care areas (e.g., fertility preservation, preventative screenings)- Clear documentation of key decision points and common barriers- Draft content and structured logic integrated into the enterprise navigator- Regular updates reflecting evolving clinical standards About Trans Health HQTrans Health HQ is a digital care navigation platform that accelerates the transgender community's access to quality gender-affirming care. 18,000+ people around the world use the largest free resource hub for trans health and wellness to understand their options for gender affirmation, and Trans Health HQ also provides enterprise solutions for care teams to best support their trans patients every step of the care journey.Trans Health HQ was launched out of HSPH in 2024, with the support of the HBS's New Venture Competition (2nd Place), the Harvard Innovation Lab's President's Innovation Challenge (Finalist) and Social Impact Fellowship Fund, HKS's Social Innovation + Change Initiative, Blue Cross Blue Shield MA, the MA Department of Public Health, StartOut, Google, and more. How to ApplySend your resume and a brief statement of interest to ivan@thhq.org. If you have prior experience with clinical care mapping, or health systems analysis, feel free to include relevant examples.