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Summer Intern 2025 (UG only): State Health and Social Care Transformation Intern

About the Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy

The Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy is committed to improving health, health equity, and the value of health care through practical, innovative, and evidence-based policy solutions. Through its health policy analysis and development, the Institute advances actionable and effective solutions to address the most daunting health care challenges. 

About the Duke-Margolis Summer Experience Internship Program 

The Duke- Margolis Summer Experience Program is a 10week summer internship program that offers students opportunities to contribute to a variety of health policy projects through a collaborative and mentored summer research experience.

 

Project Job Description 

Focus Topic: Health Care Payment, Delivery System Transformation, Social Drivers of Health, State Health Care Transformation, Value-based Payment, Whole-Person Care

The mission of the Duke-Margolis Health Care transformation portfolio draws on Duke’s clinical and research expertise to identify care delivery and payment transformation strategies that have an impact in real-world settings; cultivate stakeholder engagement; and develop quantitative and qualitative evidence for supporting major payment and care delivery reforms at the practice, state, and national level. Anticipated projects for summer 2025 will focus on state-based health reform efforts, including payment model design and stakeholder engagement for integrating whole person health, including social drivers of health; and strategic and technical recommendations for Medicaid value-based payment design including design considerations for safety net providers.

 

Qualifications and experience that would be most useful: 

  • Experience working with teams or group projects
  • Enthusiasm to learn and work in new topics
  • Experience in literature reviews, conducting qualitative or quantitative research –

Interest in project specific topics: 

  1. Policy levers focusing on transforming how the US health system pays for and delivers health care, including value-based payment
  2. Whole-person care, including addressing health-related social needs through new payment and delivery models
  3. Health care affordability, especially through accountable, flexible value-based care
  4. Equity considerations to improve health care access, quality, and payment model design
  5. State innovation in health equity, quality, and access, especially through Medicaid and public health programs

Project deliverables could include: 

  • Conducting literature reviews and synthesis of literature related to health care payment and delivery transformation, especially through value-based payment reforms
  • Assisting with primary qualitative and quantitative research, such as identifying expert interview candidates, developing interview guides, and participating in and analyzing research interviews; or performing descriptive analyses on health policy program data
  • Helping write impactful, practical publications for policy-focused audiences, such as issue briefs, white papers, fact sheets, or health policy journal blog posts

Additional projects could encompass:

  • Analyzing federal regulatory actions and developing actionable summaries for staff, and
  • Performing a variety of other health care transformation team tasks, such as designing slides for policy audiences, assisting with dissemination of work, planning policy convenings, and more

Undergraduate students with interests as well as coursework and/or experiences in health policy, especially health care payment and delivery models. 

Education Level: UG students- rising sophomores, juniors, and seniors 

Program Dates: May 19- July 25, 2025

Instructions/Other information:

  • For the Statement of Interest: in no more than 500 words, please answer the question: Why are you interested in the project that you applied for and how does the internship align with your professional goals?