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Economics Internship, Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

Posted: 05 Aug 2020 07:03 AM PDT

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) invites undergraduate juniors or seniors, or master's students majoring in Economics, Information Systems, Public Health, or other Statistics-related fields to apply for an internship with the Economics Staff in the Office of the Commissioner. Selected interns will assist members of the Economics Staff in setting up processes to improve workflow and conducting economic analyses of major FDA policies and regulations related to food, human drugs, medical devices, biological products, tobacco products, and animal drugs
and feed.

Internships will be for one academic semester and require a minimum commitment of 16 hours per week. Intern positions are unpaid; however, students may be able to earn college credit. U.S. citizenship is required. Candidates must have at least Junior Standing and have completed classes in econometrics and intermediate microeconomics or similar classes on computational methods for data analysis. Candidates should be detail focused, have strong communication and writing skills, and be able to work independently. We encourage candidates to apply who have experience with Microsoft 365 including Access, Excel, Word and SharePoint Online, and analytical software such as STATA and R, and applications such as Python.

To be considered for this internship, please send a statement of interest and resume that includes a list of relevant courses to ECONInternship@fda.hhs.gov with the subject 'Fall 2020 FDA Econ Internship." Applications for fall internships should be submitted by August 21, 2020.

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