Internships

Duration: February - June 2026
Location: Sacramento / Bay Area / Remote 

The opportunity is for students with backgrounds in programming, public health, business development and program management.

• The student(s) will work closely with the CEO and key research partners to understand and refine their business needs. This will be used to develop new software features on the Wehealth platform (phone, tablet, web, sms, api) as well as to build and train Wehealth’s AI models to solve for those use cases.
• The student(s) may also travel to conferences and help build relationships and generate leads with hundreds of existing and potential customers and partners.
• There will also be academic research projects for students to get involved in or drive new research themselves if it aligns with their research goals and Wehealth's mission.
• There will also be projects around market research and business development involving direct outreach to potential customers to generate leads and build a sales pipeline.

To Apply: Please reach out to your institution's point of contact or tap on [Get in Touch] above and choose "Apply for Internship".

Duration: Jun - Sep 2026
Location: Sacramento / Bay Area / Remote 

Wehealth is excited to welcome interns to join us in support of the California Consortium for Public Health Informatics and Technology (CCPHIT) program. Wehealth is a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC) with a mission to build digital infrastructure to enhance global preparedness and resilience. Wehealth connects communities with public agencies, scientists, medical professionals, research labs and domain experts through an iterative process of co-development that improves outcomes and ensures that the solutions benefit all. Wehealth is active nationwide and supports all 3,000+ local, territorial and state health departments. At Wehealth, interns are part of the team, with clearly defined projects that contribute to our core mission. You will report to the CEO and work with our collaborators and research partners that span federal, state and local government agencies nationwide.

Wehealth’s platform helps make geocoded data actionable and useful to public health experts as well as end users. The information is made available via Wehealth Portal designed for local agencies and PHapp, designed for the public. This project involves curating and visualizing new geospatial data–e.g. municipal boundaries, evacuation zones, location-based incident reports, community resources–and prepare it for provisioning it within the Wehealth platform. This data will be cross-referenced with other sources including US census, USGS etc. to derive new insights and benchmarks. This will be used to create new AI-driven risk forecasts to help educate the public about issues that may impact their communities and help them prepare.

We seek interns to support the following activities, including, but not limited to the following:

• Identify and evaluate new data sources for inclusion on the Wehealth platform
• Prepare data for mapping using Excel and/or R, or import from existing sources on ArcGIS online
• Create map layers in QGIS and merge with all existing Wehealth data
• Map layers in web application using custom Google maps to deliver
• Automate data processing using scripts and bespoke algorithms for our use cases

As part of this internship opportunity, Interns will be provided with the following professional development opportunities:

• Working in a fast-paced startup environment with high ambiguity and high impact
• Fast feedback loops, the outcome of your work can potentially be available to millions nationwide within months
• Access to the Wehealth Forum, an invite-only list of public health agencies nationwide, to get direct feedback on your work
• Mentorship by core team members at Wehealth
• Networking opportunities with Wehealth partners via Forum meetings and other events that occur during your internship.

To Apply: Please reach out to your institution's point of contact or tap on [Get in Touch] above and choose "Apply for Internship".

Internships are only available for students already funded via the partner institutions that we work with.  Your institution's point of contact can guide you on your eligibility.

Wehealth operates virtually with as-needed access to co-working spaces. Depending on your specific situation you may be provided membership access to a WeWork which provides unlimited access to any WeWork in any area. At the start of the internship we will confirm the full schedule including travel dates. In person meetings will most likely be in the Bay Area and/or Sacramento.

Typically, interns get a transit credit as well as flights and accommodation for business travel covered related to their internship at Wehealth.

 Your institution's point of contact will reach out to you with next steps. You can also use the contact form to get in touch.

Reach out to your institution's point of contact to learn more. You can also use the contact form to get in touch with Wehealth. Accepted interns also receive the Wehealth Internship Handbook which has more exhaustive information built by interns before you.