The internship will focus on supporting the monitoring and evaluation of the PHF, helping to track progress, understand what is working, and generate insights that guide future delivery and decision-making. This will involve building an understanding of current conditions and how actions are being implemented and received, monitoring trends and changes in population health, assessing the effectiveness of interventions, and supporting evidence-based decision-making to inform future policy.  
 
The specific tasks and projects will be tailored to current priorities and the intern’s interests and strengths, but are likely to include a combination of reviewing and synthesising existing evidence, analysing qualitative and quantitative data to understand patterns, trends and early impacts, producing clear, concise reports that highlight key findings, and supporting policymakers in applying evidence to improve delivery and outcomes. 
 
The intern will be based within the Health, Attitudes, Behaviours and Inequalities Team (HABIT) which provides analytical support across a range of population health areas including alcohol and tobacco harm prevention, diet and healthy weight, physical activity, and health inequalities. The role will involve close collaboration with policy colleagues delivering the PHF, as well as analysts and other policy teams across the Health and Social Care Analysis division.  
 
Interns will gain insight into policy development and the use of evidence within the Scottish Government, working in a busy, multi-disciplinary analytical team supporting a wide range of public health challenges. They will have the opportunity to contribute to foundational work shaping how Scotland monitors and evaluates population health initiatives.