Job Opportunity - Public Health Intern, Temporary - Carebook

Public Health Intern, Temporary; Stagiaire en santé publique; temporaire

Health and Wellness · Montreal, Quebec

*** Important: The entire Carebook team is working from home and our offices are temporarily closed (with limited access) due to COVID-19.   ***

*** Il est important de noter que en raison de la COVID toute notre équipe travaille à distance et nos bureaux sont temporairement fermés (avec un accès limité). ***

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About Carebook

Our core is science. Our solutions are accessible. Our mission is to empower people.

We care. A lot. We care about the quality of our work, about our customers, and about each other!

At Carebook, we're on a mission to create a connected world of health that empowers individuals and engages organizations in a proactive, lifelong commitment to wellness. Headquartered in Montreal, we're looking for new champions to join our growing team. We work hard, move quickly, and often wear multiple hats. Our environment inspires new ideas, facilitates personal growth, and fosters collaboration. We are on the lookout for an awesome human to join our team as a Public Health Intern.

Built on a powerful health platform, Carebook creates highly engaging, customer-centric digital solutions for pharmacies, insurance providers, and employers. Based in Montreal and led by a world-class team and Board with extensive global business and healthcare industry experience, Carebook’s core is science and technology, its philosophy is people-first, and its goal is accessible, connected health for everyone. Learn more at www.carebook.com

About the project 

Carebook is looking for a Public Health Intern to join our Health & Wellness research team. The successful candidate will work on analyzing and presenting data collected from employers' global dataset of employee population demographics and health risks collected through employer wellness programs. 

As the data scientist on the Health & Wellness research team, you will play a central role in identifying global patterns and correlations in a database accumulated over 20 years, responding to business questions and priorities of our multinational clients, feeding research questions to the team, and presenting identified trends in BI reports. You will work with the various proprietary analysis and reporting tools that provide direct and interactive access to the broad scope of data (lifestyle, physical health (biometrics, pre-disease predictors, disease conditions), psychological factors (stress, depression, anxiety, financial concerns) and organizational factors that impact health and productivity in the context of personal demographics, geographic, industry and other client-specific business relevant demographics.  You will support the Client Services team by identifying key insights for presentation to their clients and identify opportunities to expand on the analysis capability through use of external statistical analysis packages and services.

Additionally, you will compare companies' results to peer group benchmarks.  Finally, you will look for trends to identify underlying drivers of risk and opportunities for actionable interventions and business relevant considerations that would have the highest impact on risk mitigation and potential value on investment (VOI).  

You will also support elaboration of white papers that will be published on the company website and presented in webinars and at conferences among key actors of the employer health industry. 

You Will

• Be responsible for analyzing the company’s global benchmark resource to identify & recognize patterns and variances by industry, geography, demographic and business related criteria. 
• Be responsible for analyzing client data in support of Client Services including annual data reviews, responding to client’s business questions and priorities to support date-driven informed business decisions
• Access public health data repositories of global data on physical and mental health from sources like WHO, PAHO and Statistics Canada
• Access research databases on mental health, psychological well-being, resilience and associated psychosocial factors from longitudinal studies like the MIDUS, HRS and the Canadian Community Mental Health Survey
• Use predictive models and statistical algorithms for more comprehensive statistical analysis as required;·   
• Be responsible for combining models through ensemble modeling and present information using data visualization techniques;
• Be responsible for elaborating BI reports and overall data visualization;
• Contribute to the implementation of procedures and streamlining current practices pertaining to data analysis for use in client support as well as for future research projects 
• Collaborate with the research team on the redaction of white papers as well as the product development team on the preparation of business cases if Carebook's products need certain updates based on the findings of the research.

You Have

• Master’s degree (ideally in Public Health, Health Economics or Epidemiology)
• Deep understanding of the health risk, risk reduction, disease prevention and health promotion, postgraduate degree in Public Health, Epidemiology or Health Economics is an asset, backgrounds in occupational health are welcomed to apply but need demonstrated strong statistical skills;
• Demonstrated experience in data mining;
• Strong statistical and research skills;
• Excellent knowledge of statistical analysis and modelling tools (e.g. R and SPSS);
• Exceptional proficiency advanced features of Office 365 (in particular PowerPoint, Excel and Word) 
• Analytical mind, business acumen and curiosity to drive learning;
• Detail oriented and possess a practical problem-solving approach;
• Excellent communication and presentation skills;
• Excellent organizational skills, ability to establish priorities and meet deadlines.

Location

Remote work. Headoffice is located in Montreal, QC and the project supervisor is located in Winnipeg, MB

Duration

6 months (24 weeks), 37.5 hours/week  

Start Date 

06/30/2021

Career Launcher 

The funding for this internship is provided by a Canadian government Career Launcher program. The selected intern will have to meet the following eligibility criteria of the grant: 

• Post-secondary graduates
• Underemployed (employed below their level of education or work part-time)
• Between 15 and 30 years of age at the start of the internship
• Internship must start before June 30, 2021 
• Canadian citizens, permanent residents or persons granted refugee status in Canada
• Legally allowed to work according to the relevant provincial and Canadian legislation and regulations
• Not previous participants of the Digital Skills for Youth (DS4Y) program
• Not employees of the hiring employer prior to the start of their internship (does not apply to previous coop students or student interns, although this must be clearly identified by the employer)

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