Intern - M-Care Project

APHRC are seeking a sharp intern to join our M-Care project, where you’ll dive into stakeholder engagements, data analysis, and contribute to impactful reports. If you have a background in Health or Biostatistics and Data Science, this is your chance to codesign an integrated care model for patients in sub-Saharan Africa. Ready to make a difference? Apply now and let’s shape the future of healthcare together.

The African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) is a premier research-to-policy institution, generating evidence, strengthening research and related capacity in the African research and development ecosystem, and engaging policy to inform action on health and development.

The Center, through its Research and Related Capacity Strengthening (RRCS) Division, seeks to strengthen individual and institutional research capacity to enable African researchers to fully participate in defining and implementing priority population and health programs on   the continent. As part of individual capacity strengthening efforts, APHRC has, over the years, been running a demand-driven research internship program whose objective seeks to nurture talented young Africans to become future scholars and research leaders.

For the 2026 period, the Research and Related Capacity Strengthening (RRCS) Division has opened internship opportunities in the following projects for 3-6 months, starting May 2026.

Project 4– Codesign, Implementation and Evaluation of an Integrated Care Model for Patients with Multiple Cardiometabolic and Mental Health Conditions in sub-Saharan Africa (M- Care): a Cluster Randomized Hybrid Type III Trial in Kenya – (1 intern)

Project Description

The primary care systems in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) remain fragmented, with limited capacity to provide integrated care for these conditions. This gap results in poor health outcomes, delayed treatment, and increased healthcare costs. The project will address this challenge by developing, implementing, and evaluating a context-appropriate, integrated primary care model for managing both non-communicable diseases and mental health conditions in Ghana, Kenya, and Uganda. Using a hybrid Type III effectiveness-implementation design and a cluster randomized controlled trial, the study will test evidence-based strategies and tools for integrated care in real-world settings. The goal is to strengthen primary healthcare delivery, improve patient outcomes, and generate scalable evidence to inform policy and practice in similar contexts.

Internship Activities

• Stakeholder engagements.
• Data collection.
• Data analysis.
• Contributing to reports and manuscripts.

Preferred Background & Skills

• Bachelors or Master’s in Health related field or Biostatistics and Data Science.