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Healthcare Data Scientist Intern

Turn African health data into life-saving insights

Nairobi, Kenya (Hybrid)InternshipIntern

THE TERMS, UP FRONTUnpaid internship

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Build the data infrastructure that powers Pawanax. You'll design clinical data pipelines, build analytics dashboards, and work with HL7/FHIR health data standards — helping us understand disease patterns across 14 African countries at scale.

What you’ll work on

  • Design and maintain ETL pipelines for healthcare data from clinics across Africa
  • Build analytics dashboards for clinical outcomes and usage patterns
  • Work with HL7/FHIR health data standards and EHR integrations
  • Develop predictive models for disease surveillance and outbreak detection
  • Ensure data privacy compliance (HIPAA, GDPR, Kenya Data Protection Act)
  • Create data documentation and maintain data dictionaries

What you bring

  • Strong Python skills (Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn)
  • Proficiency in SQL (PostgreSQL preferred)
  • Experience building data visualizations (Matplotlib, Plotly, or similar)
  • Understanding of statistical analysis and machine learning basics
  • Attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy

A little extra, if you have it

  • Experience with health informatics or clinical data
  • Knowledge of HL7/FHIR standards or EHR systems
  • Familiarity with dbt, Apache Airflow, or similar data tools
  • Experience with African health datasets (DHS, DHIS2, etc.)

What the role offers

  • Exposure to real clinical data pipelines
  • Impact measurement across 3.8M+ patients
  • Mentorship from senior data engineers
  • Health informatics certification support

Tools & skills

PythonSQLPostgreSQLPandasHL7/FHIRDHIS2Data Pipelines

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