PhD Innovation Internships: A New Digital Health Evidence Hub

Hosted by DigitalHealth.London and Zinc

The DigitalHealth.London Generator and Zinc are looking for talented and ambitious PhD students to join us for fixed-term Innovation Internships of approximately three months. Internships will focus particularly on supporting work by the Generator to develop a new national evidence hub for digital health. Interns will, in addition, work directly with digital health start-ups at Zinc, both to strengthen understanding of and practices relating to digital health evidence within those companies, and to feed insights into the evidence requirements of early-stage companies back into the development of the Hub.

Students may apply from a range of academic backgrounds including (but not being limited to): computer sciences; data science; health economics; health policy; health systems research; mathematical modelling; medical or health statistics; and methodology. Whatever their background, applicants should have a demonstrable interest in understanding and using evidence for the efficacy of digital health interventions to enhance healthcare and improve patient outcomes.

Internships will be available from 1^st July 2021. We will normally expect placements to be full-time but will accommodate part-time working wherever possible, if visa or other constraints limit students’ ability to undertake full-time work.

Please note: We are only able to host interns whose funding arrangements will cover the costs of their involvement in this placement (e.g. Research Council placements funding).

Closing date: Friday 1 October 2021