For Undergraduates and Master’s Students

The Policy Lab Student Interns, School of Public Health

We recruit and mentor a cohort of 5-6 paid student interns every fall, spring, and summer semester! Interns at The Lab are an integral part of our operations -- no coffee runs here! We hire for three different internship tracks: Applied Policy Research, Communications and Events, and Data Science.

Past intern projects include:

Applied Policy Research

• Conducting literature reviews and research on English Language (EL) Learner programs
• Categorizing/coding semi-structured interview transcripts and cross-referencing against field work and survey data to understand User Experiences with State-Supported public health infrastructure.
• Performing a comparative analysis of state agency personnel through cross-tabulation of data covering the entire United States

Communications and Events

• Maintaining The Policy Lab’s social media presence
• Drafting content for the newsletter and website
• Brainstorming event/podcast ideas and contributing to event planning and marketing

Data Science

• Gathering publicly available datasets which might help answer policy relevant questions
• Cleaning and standardizing datasets from different sources
• Performing statistical analyses on merged data sets
• Simulating the effects of different policies using, e.g., time series models, Markov chain Monte Carlo, and Bayesian modeling

More information can be found at https://thepolicylab.brown.edu/about/working-with-us