Internship in Innovation & Sustainability - Decentralized Digital Health Ecosystems

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The Position

Our Global Internship Programme in Innovation & Sustainability (#IP2TIS) offers a unique opportunity for passionate individuals to gain hands-on experience in the pharmaceutical industry while making a positive impact on the world.

Are you ready to join a global network spanning 20+ countries, where bright minds collaborate to tackle real-world challenges in Innovation & Sustainability? Do you want to work on impactful projects, shape the future, and drive change from within?

As an intern, you will contribute to a project focused on improving access to specialized care in rural Paraguay through a decentralized digital health ecosystem. The project aims to connect rural Primary Healthcare Units with specialized centers, reduce time-to-diagnosis for oncology, and create a more active, digitally enabled referral model for underserved communities. Within your first 3 months, you are expected to help identify patient leakage points in pilot regions, develop a digital literacy and adoption plan, design a remote referral service blueprint, assess interoperability needs, and contribute to a value-based business case and scalability roadmap. Your work will support Roche’s Access to Innovation priority by helping reduce geographic and systemic barriers to diagnosis while strengthening the long-term sustainability of the health system. This internship offers a unique opportunity to help shape a scalable model that can transform patient outcomes in underserved settings.

The Opportunity

• Analyze the current rural patient journey to identify key leakage points and operational barriers in 2–3 pilot departments

• Develop a digital literacy and adoption framework for rural Family Health Units, targeting both clinical and administrative staff

• Design a service blueprint for remote referrals from local clinics to specialist centers

• Assess technical requirements and propose pathways for integrating tele-expertise tools with the national Health Information System

• Build a value-based business case quantifying potential cost savings for the State and improved access outcomes

• Support the development of a 12-month scalability roadmap for a potential public-private partnership model

• Translate qualitative and quantitative field insights into structured reports, strategic recommendations, and presentation materials

• Collaborate with healthcare,, and Roche stakeholders to support a practical and sustainable implementation approach

Who You Are

You are currently enrolled in a Bachelor’s, Master’s, or MBA program—preferably in Biomedical Engineering, Healthcare-focused Industrial Engineering, Medicine, Nursing, Health Informatics, Digital Health, or Public Health Management—and are highly motivated to apply your academic knowledge in a modern work environment during a minimum 3-month internship.

Furthermore you are

• Familiar with health informatics, interoperability standards, service design, or digital health implementation

• Comfortable with data analysis, business intelligence, and translating complex information into clear insights and recommendations

• Interested in digital literacy, change management, and healthcare workflow improvement in resource-constrained settings

• A structured and resilient problem solver with strong cultural empathy and the ability to work independently in complex environments

• Fluent in Spanish and English

If you meet most but not all qualifications, we still encourage you to apply.

Additional information

The internship is expected to start between 1 and 16 July 2026 and will last at least 3 months.

For more information about IP2TIS and to explore other opportunities within the programme, please visit go.roche.com/ip2tis_26.

*Relocation benefits are not available for this posting.

Who we are

A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.

Let’s build a healthier future, together.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.