Make Your Mark
Avalere’s unique, inclusive culture nurtures close collaboration and relies on candid and constructive feedback. We foster and environment of open communication that respects every person. We prize curiosity, resilience, a positive attitude, and an enthusiasm to embrace new challenges. Join us and get ready to make your mark on healthcare.
Your New
Career
“Every day at Avalere, smart, passionate people come together as a team to solve the toughest problems in healthcare.”
Sarah Alwardt
President (Interim)
Advisory Services
The best path toward impactful results is partnering internally across our expert areas and externally with our clients. Tackling the toughest business challenges with rigor, we design actionable solutions. Each engagement is an opportunity to broaden and deepen your knowledge and skills. Whether bridging internal expertise or leading a long-term client team, no two projects are ever the same. Guaranteed, working at Avalere is exciting, your work is appreciated, and your voice will be heard.
“We use and analyze big data as the basis of our actionable solutions. ”
Melissa Morley
Managing Director
Advanced Data Analytics
Business and policy decisions that shape healthcare depend on actionable, data-driven analysis. Informed by a wealth of data sources, our analysts have strong modeling and rigorous predictive analytical skills to produce findings that serve as the foundation of our advisory services approach. We attract business intelligence experts who specialize in financial, economic, and scenario modeling as well as actuarial science and predictive analytics.
“As a summer intern, I experienced firsthand how academic theory applies to real-world practice, giving me a strong foundation to launch my career.”
Danielle Wright
Associate Principal
Internships
We look for interns who want to bridge the gap between higher education and practical experience by offering flexible programs that range from 10–12-week summer programs to full-semester programs. Assigned to a Practice area, you will gain exposure to a variety of client work. Collaboration is our signature, which ensures that you get to work with all levels of Avalere professionals. Surrounded by subject matter experts across all healthcare sectors, you will benefit daily from their deep knowledge and experience. Our internship opportunities are as varied as our business, and allow a student to better understand the breadth of Avalere’s work.
“My 6 months were packed with developing content knowledge and building skills. I was surrounded by experts who took the time to teach and mentor.”
Eric Levine
Associate Principal
Associate Immersion
Want to start your career working with some of the most impressive minds in healthcare and have an active role? Our 6-month Associate Immersion Program gives you the opportunity to discover your interests through substantive, rigorous work combined with content training, mentors, and career guidance from many colleagues with varying backgrounds. While solving problems on a challenging project, you’ll be honing your research, writing, and project management skills. After your 6 months are up, together, we determine a career path for you to specialize and grow.
“Our FDA Fellows bridge science and policy in an intensive program working directly with our experts and industry.”
Kelly L. George
Principal
FDA Fellowship Program
Avalere’s FDA Fellowship Program invites applications from advanced-degree professionals who have strong backgrounds in science and technology and are looking to transition their scientific background into the policy environment. Small and highly selective, our FDA Fellows spend 6 months immersed in healthcare regulatory policy and strategy issues. In this full-time, paid fellowship, you will collaborate with experts across a wide range of projects related to product development and approval. You will also have the opportunity to work across Avalere practices to support our pharmaceutical, biotech, and device clients.
Working at Avalere
Excellence Is the Minimum.
“We take pride in our work and ability to partner with clients to solve
their business challenges. Throughout each project, we constructively challenge and encourage each other to evaluate the issue from every perspective in the industry. Our focus on excellence results in clients returning for multiple engagements year after year.”
Brigit Kyei-Baffour
Principal
It’s About Teamwork.
“We work in teams of knowledgeable, passionate people sharing ideas freely to bring our collective expertise, skills, and perspectives to exceed clients’ needs and—ultimately—improve healthcare.”
Massey Whorley
Principal
Highest Integrity.
“The industry counts on our guidance to make important decisions that impact lives. As the essential voice in improving healthcare, we take great care and pride in digging deep into the facts as the foundation of our insights and analysis.”
Megan West (Olsen)
Managing Director
Our Office Is Pure Energy.
“We have a fun community at Avalere, which enhances our level of work. Whether we are gathering for birthdays or our highly anticipated parties, we get to know each other quite well. The vibe around our office is pure energy.”
Matthew Allen
Practice Director
Growth Is Planned.
“Avalere’s commitment to an intellectually stimulating workplace means regular training and professional development opportunities designed to grow expertise and talent. For example, we introduced Lunch and Learns to promote knowledge transfer, where individuals share information about new developments in their field. In addition, virtual socials with Avalere leaders continue to promote employee engagement and provide internal mentorship as we advance in our professional careers.”
Shruthi Donthi
Senior Research Scientist
Think. Feel. Community.
“We take building our community seriously by getting to know each other through teamwork inside and outside the office. Avalere’s philanthropic partnership with Bread for the City, an organization providing vital services to DC residents, gives us a chance to make a difference in the community with hands-on volunteer work. I take great pride in working side by side with my colleagues to help make DC a better place to live.”
Jennifer Berenholz
Executive Assistant
Creativity Rules.
“Avalere’s culture encourages independent curiosity and forward thinking. I am surrounded by experts who share their knowledge and years of hands-on experience from every aspect of the industry. Avalere is a culture filled with continuous learning and exploration.”
Lauren Cricchi
Associate Principal
Every Day Is Different.
“There is no typical day here. As our customers respond to new challenges and opportunities in the market, so do we. We are client centered at our core, which keeps us on our toes and makes every day different. Our deeply immersed work focused on improving healthcare is intellectually challenging and relevant.”