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Summer Academic Research Intern (Health Policy Division)

Urban Institute

Urban Institute

Washington, DC, USA
Posted on Mar 13, 2025
About Urban Institute:

The Urban Institute is a research-to-impact institution founded on one simple idea: To improve lives and strengthen communities, we need practices and policies that work. From advancing well-being to fostering shared prosperity, leaders across sectors are working every day to create brighter futures for all people and communities. For more than 50 years, Urban has delivered evidence and solutions that drive meaningful change, and this remains our charge today.

Our Mission

To drive impact by equipping changemakers with evidence and solutions.

Our Values

Collaboration, Fairness, Inclusivity, Independence, and Integrity. For more information on the Urban Institute, please visit https://www.urban.org.

The Opportunity:

Central to Urban’s mission is fostering a truly collaborative environment that ensures ongoing relevance to a changing world. The Urban Institute’s Health Policy Center seeks an intern to support research studies related to the health policy division's work.

What You’ll Do:

  • Conduct background research, literature review, and annotated bibliographies to compile evidence on emerging topics

  • Identify, interpret, and synthesize both quantitative (statistical and survey data) and qualitative information (literature scans, review of relevant federal/local policies)

  • Support senior staff in synthesizing research findings and articulating key evidence-based findings to identify and recommend best practices in program or policy interventions

  • Support planning and development of talking points, background memos, PowerPoint presentations, and other materials to be delivered by Urban senior staff for practitioners, policymakers, and other external audiences

Who You Are:

The successful candidate will:

  • Be a current undergraduate or graduate student in public policy, social sciences, economics, or a related field with substantial research and/or policy experience

  • Demonstrate strong written and oral communication skills

  • Enjoy working in a team-oriented environment

  • Have experience with research methods, including conducting literature reviews, using statistical analysis to test hypotheses, and drawing conclusions from data

  • Be able to apply emerging understanding of local and federal policies, programs, agencies, and ecosystems to assess the application, outcomes, and impacts of policy proposals and programmatic interventions

  • Demonstrate proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

  • Experience with Stata and/or R is a plus (not required)

Candidates are required to provide documentation that they will receive internship academic credit from their college or university.

Program Highlights:

  • 10-week internship; full-time preferred but strong candidates will be considered for part-time positions

  • Internship program designed to provide students interested in research, public policy issues and organizational operations with rewarding and substantive work assignments that contribute to Urban’s mission

  • Intern Program Dates: June 9-August 15

  • Network with operations staff, senior professionals, and others who will support your professional growth and career interests

  • Receive informal feedback and mentoring from your intern manager

What you’ll experience:

No matter your role with Urban, you will contribute to meaningful work that makes a difference for people and communities across the country. We are committed to working in a manner defined by our mission and values.

Urban’s greatest asset is our people.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by the people assigned. This posting is not an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and requirements. Urban management reserves the right to amend and change duties, responsibilities, and requirements to meet business and organizational needs as necessary.

The Urban Institute is an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender or gender identity, age, marital status, personal appearance, sexual orientation, veteran status, pregnancy or family responsibilities, matriculation, disability, political affiliation, or any other protected status under applicable law.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you have a physical and/or mental disability and are interested in applying for employment and need special accommodations to use our website to apply for a position, please contact Human Resources at humanresources@urban.org. Reasonable accommodation requests are considered on a case-by-case basis.