Global Health

Choose Wisely, Apply Confidently

To maximise your opportunities at securing an Industrial Placement with us this year, we strongly advise that you apply to no more than 3 adverts. (For clarity, multiple roles within a single advert are considered one application.)

We encourage you to concentrate your efforts on the roles that best align with your skills, interests and university experience, as this will strengthen your application and give you the best chance of success.

Roles Available in Location: GSK HQ

Education required:  To apply for this placement, you must be:

Currently studying an Undergraduate Degree in Economics, Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Life Sciences, Engineering, STEM Degrees

Please read the degree requirements for each role carefully before applying.

Other requirements:  You will have completed a minimum of 2 years of your undergraduate degree but will not have graduated at the start of your placement. You must be enrolled at a UK (United Kingdom) or ROI (Republic of Ireland) University for the duration of your placement.

If you have already graduated with a Bachelor's Degree and are currently studying a postgraduate Masters, you are not eligible for this programme.

Language requirement: Written and spoken fluency in English

Expected Start date: July 2026

Duration: 1 year (approximately)

Salary:  A salary of £27,100 plus a bonus.

Workplace Arrangements: Please read the workplace arrangements for each role carefully before applying.

Application Closing: Early applications are encouraged as candidates will be reviewed regularly, and the advert may close at any point.

Are you looking to gain valuable real world work experience and help positively impact the lives of others?

A GSK internship offers you the opportunity to kickstart your career – to take on a real role with genuine impact. You'll take on challenging tasks within live projects or assignments.  You'll also get to learn from others in your team and other parts of GSK whilst developing your skills and gaining valuable experience for wherever the future takes you.

What do we offer you?

• A competitive salary, with an annual bonus based on company performance.

• Employee recognition programs, which reward exceptional achievements.

• Access to our cutting-edge wellbeing platform: personalise your experience, help reduce stress, increase focus, build connections and resilience. You will also have access to a confidential helpline 24/7, mindfulness, health screenings and financial wellbeing support. 

• Access to Private Healthcare Insurance, including 24-hour access to an online GP.

• Optional Support: Includes identity protection, long-term care insurance, home, auto, and pet insurance

• Opportunities to work with Employee Resource Groups, providing opportunities to network, gain mentorship, and develop personally and professionally.

• Access to IPUnite which is a community of Early Careers programme participants offering development, networking and social connections to help you make the best of your programme. You will also be invited to join LinkedIn groups and pre-joining webinars, to enable you to connect and network with new students.

• 2 volunteering days per year

Typical skills you can expect to learn on this placement will include:

• Teamworking through working with multidisciplinary teams

• Communication (written & verbal)

• Time management

• Problem-solving

• Networking

• Data analysis and management

• Technical skills (detailed within each role description)

The Roles (4 available)

This advert contains multiple roles. Please read each description carefully before applying.

Role 1 – ViiV Global Health Outcomes

Degree requirements – Economics, Health Economics, Biomedical Sciences, Life-Sciences, Engineering

Workplace Arrangements: Full time on site required

Overview of the Department

ViiV Healthcare Global Health Outcomes is primarily responsible for health economics and research activities across the business. The team is positioned within Global Medical Sciences and works collaboratively across R&D, Global Medical and Commercial to support product launches from target selection, through launch and all the way to the integration into clinical practice. There are 15 people in the team whose focuses differ for medicines, pipeline/R&D, and the regions.

Key Placement Learnings

• Internal stakeholder mapping and networking.

• Project managing health economics and outcomes research projects.

• Feasibility assessment of research projects.

• Systematic, targeted, and rapid literature reviewing.

• Analysis of economic models and data.

• Team engagement, including Workplace posts, intranet site development and maintenance, and drafting and distributing team newsletter.

Role 2 – Global Health Access

Degree requirements – open to any degree

Workplace Arrangements - Flexible working via performance with choice (office & home working may be available)

Overview of the Department

The Global Health Access team works to secure access, for populations in low and lower middle-income countries, to Global Health innovations that are developed via GSK's Global Health R&D pipeline. These innovations address significant needs within these countries and are focused on the management of Malaria, Tuberculosis and anti-microbial resistance. Bringing new innovations to these populations and securing access is achieved by working across the product lifecycle. This work supports planning and decision making for R&D activities and later in development, working with our external partners to support adoption of innovations in target markets and populations. The complex nature of developing new innovations and providing access means the Global Health Access team serves a number or different roles including planning, partnerships, supply, scientific affairs & public health and policy & advocacy

Key Placement Learnings

• Project Management: Support the design and implementation of projects to assist in planning for and creating access to Global Health medicines and vaccines in low-income countries.

• Data Analysis: internal and external insights and evidence to inform decision making to support planning, launch and continued adoption of Global Health innovations.

• Content Generation and Curation: creating proposals, presentations and other content to enhance the engagement with and impact of GSK's Global Health business critical outcomes.

• Collaboration: partner with a diverse range of internal and external Global Health stakeholders to support the identification, design and execution of optimal tactics to support access to Global Health innovations

• Analysis: using internal and external insight and evidence to support strategic and operation planning, influencing organisational decision making and delivery

• Planning: Project management and planning to support the implementation of strategic and operational product/access plans  

• Communication: opportunity to further develop communication skills within a range of different business situations/contexts. 

• Teamwork: working within different project, functional and organisational teams to support the delivery of the Global Health organisational objectives Interpersonal - working with a diverse range of stakeholders from across the organisation. 

• Technical skills: opportunity to learn about and experience the range of different roles within Global Health and the pharmaceutical industry. 

• Leadership skills: the opportunity to lead project delivery and develop personal leadership capability

Role 3 – Global Health Africa Open Lab

Degree requirements – Biomedical Science

Workplace Arrangements - Flexible working via performance with choice (office & home working may be available)

Overview of Department

The GSK-Africa Open Lab works with multiple partners, including academic and research institutions globally. The aim is to share GSK's expertise and resources to conduct research aligned to our Global Health strategy focused on infectious diseases of particular relevance to Africa. The role sits within our Global Health Impact Partnerships Team which aims to establish and manage a portfolio of partnerships to build local capacity and capabilities for maximum impact, including partnerships and initiatives to strengthen local research & development capabilities. The industrial placement student will primarily support the activities of the GSK-Africa Open Lab's capability building program in Africa, focused on early career African researchers and additionally contribute to the successful delivery of other initiatives and programmes within the Impact partnerships team and the wider Global Health business unit.

Key Placement Learnings

• Content generation of materials and documents, including creating of scope documents presentations, adverts, blog posts, advocacy materials etc for Calls for proposals, team presentations and meetings

• Sharing of information and presentations to internal and external stakeholders across geographic boundaries

• Conduct literature searches and desk-based research

• Contribute to the organisation of meetings, internships, trainings, workshops, and conferences that promote scientific engagement between researchers, academics and GSK and supports the wider Global Health team

Role 4 – Global Health Medicines R&D (non-lab)

Degree requirements – STEM degrees – Biological Sciences preferred.

Workplace Arrangements - Flexible working via performance with choice (office & home working may be available)

Overview of the Department

In the Global Health Medicines team at GSK, the role is centred on addressing the most pressing health needs in underserved populations, particularly in low and middle-income countries. This placement focuses on developing and delivering innovative, high-quality medicines for priority diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, and neglected tropical diseases, which collectively impact millions of lives worldwide. By leveraging GSK's scientific expertise and partnerships, the team works to advance equitable access to treatments, ensuring that life-saving medicines reach those who need them most. This role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to GSK's mission of improving global health by tackling diseases that perpetuate cycles of poverty and inequity.

Key Placement Learnings

• Support the Global Health Medicines R&D Clinical Development team to deliver medicines to patients through early phase clinical studies.

• Working with GSK colleagues and partners, such as the Gates Foundation, Wellcome Trust, WHO to deliver documents and plans that support new medicines for malaria and tuberculosis. This will include development of protocols, study reports, and publications.

• Creating proposals and presentations to support the delivery of business-critical outcomes.

• Undertaking literature searches and support the design and outcome of clinical studies or future proposals.

Apply now

These placement opportunities have the following recruitment stages – you must successfully pass each stage to be offered a placement year with GSK for 2026:

Eligibility Form

GSK Digital Assessment

Virtual Assessment Centre or Virtual Interview

You can find hints and tips on our recruitment process and get guidance from real GSK mentors on our Early Careers Hub here.

We're 100% open to all talent. We want to recruit the right people for GSK from the widest possible backgrounds, so we can better serve the inclusion of our patients and because it's the right thing to do. You can learn more about Inclusion at GSK here.

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Dlaczego GSK?
Łączymy naukę, technologię i umiejętności, aby razem pokonywać choroby.

GSK to globalna firma biofarmaceutyczna, której celem jest łączenie nauki, technologii i talentów, aby razem pokonywać choroby. Jako odnosząca sukcesy, rozwijająca się firma, w której ludzie mogą realizować swój potencjał, dążymy do pozytywnego wpływu na zdrowie 2,5 miliarda ludzi do końca dekady.

Priorytetem są dla nas innowacyjne rozwiązania w obszarze szczepionek i leków specjalistycznych, które maksymalizują rosnące możliwości w zakresie zapobiegania chorobom i ich leczenia. 

Skupiamy się na czterech obszarach terapeutycznych: układzie oddechowym, immunologii; onkologii; HIV; oraz chorobach zakaźnych – aby wpływać na zdrowie na dużą skalę.

Ludzie i pacjenci na całym świecie polegają na lekach i szczepionkach, które produkujemy, dlatego zobowiązujemy się do tworzenia środowiska, w którym nasi pracownicy mogą się rozwijać i koncentrować na tym, co najważniejsze. Nasza kultura bycia ambitnym dla pacjentów, odpowiedzialnym za wpływ i postępowania właściwie jest fundamentem, na którym wspólnie dostarczamy rezultaty dla pacjentów, akcjonariuszy i naszych pracowników.

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