Social Determinants of Health Data Scientist (Remote)
*This is an Unpaid, time flexible, and remote Internship Position*
Description
Life Singularity offers a breakthrough predictive health platform delivering personalized, geospatial monitoring with a strong focus on “prospective” virtual care for prevention of health events. The Life Singularity virtual health assistant combines empathy with innovative avatar-based technology, advanced sensing of emotions, behaviors and lifestyles, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) that generates actionable, real-time data and intelligent analytics, enabling clinicians to make better, timelier and “predictive” care decisions, catching the disease ahead of time.
Life Singularity is looking for a program manager for our Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) department to work with our team to innovate, develop, test, and deploy our platform. The candidate will focus mainly on working on projects related to Life Singularity and SDOH.
Here, at Life Singularity, chasing your passion will no longer be a side goal, but rather, our number one priority.
As a potential applicant, you may be confused as to why applying for an unpaid internship can be beneficial. While Life Singularity may be a small start-up, we hope to make your internship as valuable as possible. We want to utilize your skills to build advanced systems and help grow not only our company, but your portfolio. For many interns at Life Singularity, this sole experience has benefited them in the job market as we are an extremely well-connected company that is continuing to redefine the AI/Medical sector.
*We are very flexible at Life Singularity – We can work together to figure out which days/hours/schedule works best for you*
WHAT YOU WILL DO
- Act as the subject matter expert in navigation of Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) agencies and interventions
- Partner with Life Singularity’s analytics department to identify community partners who can provide SDOH data that can be incorporated into our core systems
- In partnership with Life Singularity, develop a strategic plan to seamlessly incorporate SDOH into various programs and department operations
- Network with other community agencies and coalitions
- Analyze SDOH policy trends as relevant to Life Singularity members; update team on relevant developments
- Develop relationships with homeless service providers
- Cultivate relationships with key community agencies
- Develop and maintain policies and procedures addressing SDOH as needed
- Regular communication, both written and oral, to relevant internal and external parties
- Provide consultations with Community Coordinators on pathways to connecting to strategic community agencies that address SDOH options and track barriers to access
- Outreach to community groups, policy experts, legislators, realtors, landlords, housing developers and other service providers to identify new and existing opportunities and build strong relationships to better assist clients
- Actively participate as a member of Life Singularity’s team, providing input and creative strategies to address health issues and promote wellness; advises on social determinants of health
- Positively represent the program to internal and external customers
WHAT YOU WILL BRING
- Minimum one year experience in community based outreach
- Bachelor’s Degree (preferred) in related field or equivalent work experience with community organizations
- Experience working with people with mental illness, addiction issues, and/or homelessness; cultural knowledge and sensitivity to the population being served
- Experience with Medi-Cal and/or Department of Health Care Services regulations and standards preferred
- Experience with policy development and/or implementation
- Knowledge of and experience with state and federal insurance programs a plus
- Basic medical knowledge including the ability to recognize social and medical risk factors, mental illness and addiction issues
- Knowledge of trauma symptoms and behaviors, and chronic disease conditions
- Excellent communication skills
- Proficient use of common Microsoft Word applications such as Word, Excel, Outlook and Access
- Experience with automated charting/case management system a plus
- Strong organization skills
- Excellent customer service skills and ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from our members or providers
- Ability to engage and work collaboratively with others, clinical team members and community resources
The interns will be required to work 20 hours per week on a flexible schedule during Fall and Spring Semesters and 40 hours per week during summer. Individual exceptions for less than 20 hours (for example, for PhD interns) can be discussed on a case-by-case basis. The interns will be reporting to a senior resource with multiple years of experience in their requisite domains of AI, Data Science, Social Determinants, Regulatory standards, Epidemiology, Data Standardization, Visualization, NLP, Human-Centered Design, AR/VR and Quantum technologies.