Company Overview:

Founded in 1996, Royalty Pharma is the largest buyer of biopharmaceutical royalties and a leading funder of innovation across the biopharmaceutical industry, collaborating with innovators from academic institutions, research hospitals and not-for-profits to biotechnology companies and leading global pharmaceutical companies. Royalty Pharma has assembled a portfolio of royalties which entitles it to payments based directly on the top-line sales of many of the industry’s leading therapies. Royalty Pharma funds innovation in the biopharmaceutical industry both directly and indirectly – directly when it partners with companies to co-fund late-stage clinical trials and new product launches in exchange for future royalties, and indirectly when it acquires existing royalties from the original innovators. Royalty Pharma’s current portfolio includes royalties on more than 45 commercial products and four development-stage product candidates.


Job Title: Strategy and Analytics Intern – Health Equity Real World Evidence
Work Location: Hybrid based in New York, NY or Cambridge, MA.
Work Duration: Summer 2023 – 8-10 weeks.
Reports to: SVP Strategy and Analytics


Job Duties and Responsibilities:

Royalty Pharma is deeply committed to equity in healthcare, recognizing the critical importance of ensuring access to life-changing therapies for all individuals. Using RP’s vast store of administrative claims data, the Health Equity Real World Evidence intern will collaborate with members of the Strategy and Analytics team working on testing health equity hypotheses posed by top researchers from institutions such as Mt. Sinai and the Lymphoma and Leukemia Society.  The two-month internship will include tutorials on healthcare claims data, basic coding, performing literature searches, and developing and testing data-driven hypotheses.  The internship output will include detailed code and a write-up or poster to be shared with our research collaborators.  You will do this in a vibrant research environment, with a strong innovative culture, and at one of the top funders of innovation across the biopharmaceutical industry.

  • Learn and explore how real-world data can be used to identify health inequities at scale.
  • Serve as a research analyst on real-world health equity issues being explored by researchers at academic institutions.
  • Research issues surrounding equity in healthcare and how real-world data can be used to identify disparities.
  • Provide well-documented code and summarizing write-up or poster on finders.
  • Effectively communicate findings and methodological approaches to internal and external researchers

Work and Education Requirements:

Coursework in data science, statistics, computer science, engineering, or a related field
Familiarity with R, Python, SQL or other programming language
Interest in equity in healthcare

To apply, please send your resume and cover letter to pinar_kilicci-kret@hms.harvard.edu by June 1st, 2023,