2026 Office of Health Literacy Intern (PhD/PharmD)

Company Description

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Job Description

Office of Health Literacy Intern Overview

Envision spending your summer working with energetic colleagues and inspirational leaders, all while gaining world-class experience in one of the most dynamic organizations in the pharmaceutical industry. This is a reality for AbbVie Interns.

The Office of Health Literacy (OHL) Intern at AbbVie will engage with energetic colleagues and inspirational leaders, gaining world-class experience within one of the most dynamic organizations in the pharmaceutical industry.

The OHL intern will assist in developing health literate patient education materials and conducting user testing to ensure their effectiveness. As part of AbbVie’s commitment to improving health literacy on a global scale, the intern will also collaborate with other scientists on the application of health literacy research to improve patient safety within the Global Patient Safety (GPS) organization.

The GPS organization works collaboratively and strategically with colleagues across the product lifecycle to identify, evaluate, understand, and communicate the safety profile of AbbVie products to protect patients worldwide. The team plays a critical role in evaluating safety data relevant to AbbVie for both pharmaceutical and medical device products.

OHL applies plain language principles to ensure health information is simple, understandable and actionable. The OHL team partners with various departments in the organization to create patient and provider facing tools, including plain language summaries of clinical trial results, patient information leaflets, medication guides, and digital health tools. The OHL team ensures that the health materials they create are easily understandable