Location: Remote
Duration: 3–6 months (part-time or full-time)
Start Date: TBA (based on student team availability in the summer)
Now entering its third year, the Polygon Health Analytics LaunchPad Program is a train-to-hire internship designed to help recent graduates and mid-career professionals transition into the fast-growing fields of Real-World Data (RWD), Real-World Evidence (RWE), and Health Economics and Outcomes Research (HEOR).
This immersive program offers hands-on project experience, individualized mentorship, and a potential pathway to full-time employment at Polygon Health Analytics.
🧪 Highlights from Past Cohorts
Previous LaunchPad participants have contributed to impactful, real-world initiatives, including:
- Building interactive dashboards for vaccine clinical trials
👉 https://atlas.polygonhealthanalytics.com/ - Developing a comprehensive white paper on U.S. real-world data sources
👉 https://polygonhealthanalytics.com/blog-and-news/ - Optimizing Vaccine Vibes, our LLM-powered vaccine newsletter
👉 https://polygonhealthanalytics.com/vaccine-vibes/ - Creating short educational videos on RWD/RWE and HEOR
👉 https://www.youtube.com/@PolygonHealthAnalytics - Co-authoring a peer-reviewed publication:
A Large Language Model Approach for Evaluating Real-World Evidence in FDA Approvals👉 https://www.valueinhealthjournal.com/article/S1098-3015(25)01764-4/fulltext
🎓 Who Should Apply?
We invite applications from graduate students (Master’s or PhD) in:
- Computer Science
- Statistics
- Data Science
- Information Systems
- Epidemiology
- Public Health
- Related quantitative or health sciences fields
Exceptional undergraduate candidates in the same disciplines may be considered on a competitive basis.
📌 Featured Projects for 2026
1. AI-Powered Website Chatbot
Help us design and build an intelligent chatbot that enhances how users interact with the company website. You will:
- Develop conversational flows and NLP pipelines
- Integrate AI-driven Q&A and guided navigation
- Build real-time, personalized user interaction features
An ideal project for candidates interested in LLMs, full-stack development, and UI/UX.
2. Clinical Trial Atlas Expansion
Extend the current Vaccine Trial Atlas into a comprehensive Drug Trial Atlas covering the broader clinical trial landscape. You will:
- Build an end-to-end data pipeline (extraction → curation → database integration)
- Design scalable data structures for trial analytics
- Create intuitive interfaces for filtering, visualization, and stakeholder insights
Perfect for candidates interested in data engineering, biostatistics, and health informatics.
3. AI-Assisted Cancer Diagnosis
Join our effort to develop an AI-based diagnostic support tool for oncology leveraging LLMs fine-tuning and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). You will:
- Systematically collect and curate clinical guidelines and rare case reports
- Structure evidence into a searchable knowledge base
- Build a RAG pipeline for clinically grounded diagnostic suggestions
- Evaluate performance with expert-reviewed diagnostic queries
Ideal for those passionate about AI, software development, and applied clinical research.
🛠️ What You’ll Gain
- Mentorship from experienced industry professionals
- Collaboration in a multidisciplinary, mission-driven team
- Exposure to real-world healthcare analytics and AI projects
- Practical training in communication, workflow management, and professional etiquette
- A strong foundation for careers in RWD/RWE, HEOR, or healthcare data science
📬 How to Apply
Send your resume and a brief statement of interest to: job@polygonhealthanalytics.com with the subject line: “LaunchPad Internship Application – [Your Name]”
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