Internship Epidemiology

**Rare Disease Epicenter, Internship Epidemiology**

**Time commitment**:100% for 4 months

**Start date**:May 1st, 2024 (or by arrangement)

**Location**:Basel Campus, Allschwil, Switzerland

**Johnson & Johnson**

At Johnson & Johnson, we use technology and the power of teamwork to discover new ways to prevent and overcome the world’s most significant healthcare challenges. Our Corporate, Consumer Health, Medical Devices, and Pharmaceutical teams leverage data, real-world insights, and creative minds to make life-changing healthcare products and medicines. We're disrupting outdated healthcare ecosystems and infusing them with transformative ideas to help people thrive throughout every stage of their lives. With a reach of more than a billion people every day, there’s no limit to the impact you can make here. Are you ready to reimagine healthcare?

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**Rare Disease Epicenter**

The Rare Disease Epicenter sits within the Global Epidemiology Organization and is set up to support Real-World Evidence (RWE) generation for safety, regulatory and payor filings, and medical publications. This requires both innovation and focus, whilst working across the internal RWE groups and the external environment. The Epicenter focuses on rare diseases and special populations where the database landscape is scarce and geographically scattered, and RWE generation is challenging. Federated data networks, such as the Johnson&Johnson-initiated Pulmonary Hypertension Network PHederation, allow performing analyses simultaneously and collaboratively across several interconnected harmonized databases, while patient-level data remain firewall-protected.

**Responsibilities**:
The Epidemiology Intern will support Rare Disease Epicenter with

A) designing the analysis plan and writing programming code for the first PHederation network study.

B) updating PHederation Dashboards, i.e., interactive visualizations of database content for study feasibility assessments.

C) reviewing and updating quality check guidance for data harmonization (harmonized versus original data).

The intern will be in contact with other interns and colleagues in the Epidemiology department and collaborate closely with internal and external PHederation partners.

**Qualifications**:
Holder of a Master’s degree or PhD, or student enrolled in an academic program pursuing a PhD in epidemiology, public health, statistics, or a related field.

Proven experience in health data analysis, preferably including network (meta-)analysis.

Proven experience in statistical programming using R and SQL; knowledge of Python is a plus.

Experience in data visualization, e.g., via Shiny Apps or Dash.

Good communication, collaboration, and networking skills.

Good presentation skills; fluent oral and written English.

Permit to work in Switzerland.

**Other preferred qualifications**

Experience in clinical research or pharmaceutical industry.

Knowledge of the OMOP Common Data Model (big plus).

Experience in designing epidemiological studies and analysis plans.

Experience in analyzing clinical registry data.

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