New 
Internship, BetterBirth Program, Ariadne Labs
 Brigham and Women's Hospital | |
$24.28 - $39.43
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 United States, Massachusetts, Somerville | |
| 399 Revolution Drive (Show on map) | |
 Jul 02, 2026 | |
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Ariadne Labs is a joint center for health systems innovation at Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. Our goal is to drive scalable solutions for better care at critical moments in people's lives everywhere. Better care means better health outcomes, lower costs, and more actual caring. Critical means solving health systems failures that have major impact, typically touching people by the millions. Ariadne Labs currently has research programs in the areas of childbirth, surgery, and palliative care.
BetterBirth Program Overview The BetterBirth Program is focused on ensuring better health and wellbeing for women, newborns, and infants by improving quality and standards of care, minimizing complications, and ending preventable deaths. By generating evidence and working with impacted communities to co-design effective and actionable tools, information, and resources, we aim to equip providers with the support they need to provide safe, compassionate care. We do this through the effective implementation of scalable, evidence-based solutions that work in the real world, both at the frontline of care and in communities. The BetterBirth Program began with the goal of evaluating the World Health Organization's (WHO) Safe Childbirth Checklist and identifying opportunities and strategies to support its successful implementation. Since that time, our work has grown to address the complexities across the ecosystem of maternal, newborn, and infant health. One area of focus of the BetterBirth Program's Portfolio of work is improving the quality of care around the time of childbirth. This summer practicum is designed to support a newer area of our portfolio, Extreme Heat and Childbirth, which is focused on developing an understanding of how extreme heat negatively affects maternal and perinatal health outcomes. By building an improved understanding of a potentially modifiable determinant of maternal and perinatal outcomes, we can look to potential solutions for reducing risk and preventing potential negative outcomes. This is a practicum opportunity which will enable a student to collaborate on an active global health research project. The student will collaborate with the BetterBirth Team, and potentially with partners in India, to build on and add to a large and complex data set (the data set merged from the landmark BetterBirth Trial that contains outcomes from 160,000+ mother-baby dyads), preparing it for merge with heat exposure data. Project needs for the practicum may include the following set of activities: Data set cleaning and preparation, Assignment of GSP coordinates, Engagement with study/project partners; Literature reviews.(Exact activities may depend on start date, project progress and amount of available time to commit to the practicum). This research is conducted independently under the supervision of the principal investigator on projects focused on transplantation immunology. Research projects will prepare the incumbent to work fully independently on department level and original research in the future. The research conducted and work performed is at least partially in fulfillment of their degree program requirements. Essential Functions *Designs experiments and modifies techniques as necessary to meet research and/or experimental needs. *Collects and records study data, as well as maintains laboratory notebooks. *Designs, as well as executes research projects, and participates in large animal experiments and laboratory research. *Synthesizes and interprets information obtained from the experiments, performs data analysis using advanced statistical techniques. *In collaboration with the PIs, drafts manuscripts and serves as a co-author on publications in journals and presentations at professional conferences and scientific meetings. *Interprets results, develops new investigative techniques and in collaboration with the PI, determines the most appropriate direction of research. *Participates and presents in Lab meetings and research seminars. *Provides functional guidance to technical and animal care personnel involved in projects. *Works safely within the laboratory environment and in performing work duties. *Wears personal protective equipment as required. Education Qualifications - Experience working with data sets - Interest in quality of care and/or maternal and neonatal health - Familiarity with quantitative research methodologies (preferred) - Experience with literature reviews and basic quantitative analyses (preferred) - Familiarity with health systems outside the US (preferred) - Organized and detail oriented - Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively and effectively in partnership with colleagues of varying backgrounds and expertise The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. By embracing diverse skills, perspectives and ideas, we choose to lead. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, sex, age, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, military service, genetic information, and/or other status protected under law. We will ensure that all individuals with a disability are provided a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. | |