2026 Summer Health Equity Internship

Your Role

The Health Qualify and Affordability team is a part of our larger Strategy & Health Solutions team which oversees provider partnerships & network management, health transformation acceleration, innovation, healthcare services, strategy, planning, and operations functions and responsibilities at Blue Shield.

Health Equity team leads the strategy and development of health equity initiatives across the organization. The Health Equity portfolio includes integrating health equity principles and community-based solutions to design data-driven initiatives to reduce inequities and improve the health and care of our members and communities. The health equity intern will report to a Principal Program Manager within the business. In this role he/she/they will work cross-functionally to support a variety of health equity initiatives aimed at preventive screening for inequities and healthcare outcomes, birthing equity, and getting and using meaningful data.

Your Knowledge and Experience

• Currently pursuing a bachelor's or master's degree in public health, business, health care or related field
• Must reside in the state of California
• Requires at least 1 year of related professional experience, project, or coursework
• Strong communication skills required, particularly writing for publication
• Proactive, solution focused mindset with demonstrated creative, problem-solving skills
• Knowledge of the key synergies necessary among practices, payers, community, populations, and policy leaders to better align health care transformation efforts
• Passionate about changing healthcare and challenging the status quo to advance health equity

Pay

$25.00 per hour for Undergraduate

$30.00 per hour for Graduate

About Our Internships

Our paid internship program is thoughtfully curated to provide students experience and exposure to the health professional industry. Interns will be given the opportunity to get hands-on experience with real work projects, build meaningful relationship and connections within the organization, and experience our mission and enterprise goals through our program curriculum centered on our leadership model (Personal, People, Thought, and Results Leadership). To see more about our internship program, check out this video.

Our Summer 2026 Internship is June 8th or June 15th through August 14th, 2026.

Application Process and Timeline:

• Now: Actively accepting applications
• November: If you meet the requirements, you will receive an invitation to complete Pre-Recorded Video Interview
• November - January: 2nd round interviews & offers extended

As an intern at Blue Shield of California, you will:

• Participate in impactful projects during a 10-week internship program
• Undertake a 10-week curriculum designed to familiarize interns with BSC, leadership development, exposure to the healthcare industry, and more
• Be invited to participate in BSC employee events and networking opportunities such as Employee Resource Groups, employee volunteer activities, and more