[Hiring] Healthy Housing Research & Policy Intern @Habitat for Humanity Europe & Middle East

Role Description

Habitat for Humanity's Terwilliger Center for Innovation in Shelter seeks a graduate-level intern — MPH or MSc — to support Habitat's thematic work around healthy housing during the academic year, between 6-8 months. The intern will contribute directly to an evidence base and a technical framework, bolstering the growing body of evidence that housing conditions are among the most powerful and modifiable social determinants of health outcomes.

• Conduct an evidence review across housing and health domains — synthesizing peer-reviewed literature and program learnings.
• Produce an annotated evidence map linking housing conditions to health outcomes.
• Map the landscape of organizations working at the housing-health nexus.
• Support the development of the theory of change with the evidence base and indicators for mapping change — how housing improvements lead to health outcomes, for whom, through what mechanisms.
• Draft language that will consolidate into an organizational technical framework.
• Produce a final learning product — a structured policy brief or evidence synthesis — in consultation with academic supervisor and the organization.

Qualifications

• Current enrollment as a student at an accredited college or university; pursuing a degree at the intersection of public health evidence and practice.
• Candidates pursuing their MPH (Master of Public Health); MSc Public Health; Health Policy; Environmental Health; Global Health; Urban Health and Implementation Science.

Requirements

• Understands social determinants of health and population health frameworks.
• Can read, evaluate, and synthesize peer-reviewed public health literature.
• Understands evidence grading and can distinguish strong from weak claims.
• Comfort with qualitative research methods — key informant interviews, surveys, synthesis.
• Comfortable with the use of AI in supporting research gathering and data analysis.
• Can turn academic evidence into clear, accessible practitioner language in English.
• Writes well for non-academic audiences — development practitioners, donors, NGO leaders.
• Experience in communicating across cultures.

Benefits

• For paid interns in the US, the rate of pay is $17.00 per hour (undergraduate student) or $19.00 per hour (graduate student).
• HFHI offers its paid interns in the US with limited benefits, including retirement plan contributions.