Healthcare Content – Population Health Strategist

Overview

Essen Health Care is a growing community healthcare network that provides high quality, compassionate, and accessible medical care to some of the most vulnerable and under-served residents of New York State. Guided by a ‘population health’ model of care, Essen has five integrated clinical divisions offering services in primary & specialty offices, urgent care centers, and nursing homes, as well as house calls for home bound patients; all clinical services are also offered via telehealth. Our Care Management division supports patient-centered care through care coordination, complex care management and helping address health-related social needs.

Founded in 1999, Essen provides care in all five boroughs of New York City, with a primary focus in the Bronx. Staffed by over 300 primary and specialty care physicians and advanced clinicians, Essen Health Care is one of the largest, most comprehensive private medical groups in New York City. Essen maintains a Clinical Information Services team that maintains our enterprise-wide electronic medical record system, data repository, clinical analytics and population health capabilities. Our Community Services teams creates and sustains relationship with community organizations and agencies and health plans.

Essen is dedicated to ensuring the quality of care for all patients and has been designated ‘Level 3 Patient Centered Medical Home’ by the National Committee for Quality Assurance. Essen has won awards for its patient care innovations and recently launched Intention Health Ventures to develop and commercialize our technological innovations.

We’re Building a New Kind of Medicine. Help Us Put It into Words.

We’re at the edge of a transformation in care. Advances in data, diagnostics, AI, and genomics are making it possible to imagine individualized medicine—care that is built for you, not the average. But with this future comes complexity: ethical, clinical, technological, and human.

We’re launching a venture to design for that future.

And we’re looking for someone early in their career—curious, thoughtful, and eager to learn—who can help us explore, write, and communicate clearly as we go.

Job Summary

About the Role

As a Writer & Research Fellow, you’ll work directly with senior team members to explore ideas, technologies, and care models shaping individualized medicine. Your role is to ask questions, gather insights, and write clearly helping us organize our thinking and communicate it internally and externally (but not to investors). This is not a marketing role. You won’t be selling anything. This is about discovery through writing—and building intellectual clarity in a new, complex space.

You Might Be a Fit If You…

Love writing and want to keep getting better at it. You’ve written for class, a blog, a newsletter, or a paper—and people say you have a voice. Are curious about healthcare, especially where it intersects with science, ethics, and technology. Think in systems and care about questions like: What makes medicine personal? What role should AI play? Who owns health data? Are early in your career (or pivoting into health) and eager to learn, stretch, and contribute meaningfully to a mission-driven team. Take feedback seriously, listen closely, and have good judgment about when to speak up and when to dig in.

This Is Not…

• A marketing or social media job

• A front-facing communications role

• A clinical or engineering position

This is a writing-first role for someone who wants to understand how change happens in healthcare—by sitting close to it, asking good questions, and helping shape the story as it unfolds.

Responsibilities

What You’ll Do

Write daily. Contribute essays, internal memos, early program documents, and short explainer pieces. You’ll help draft and refine language that reflects how we think and what we’re learning.

Research widely. Support literature reviews, competitive scans, or thematic deep dives (on topics like AI in diagnosis, data ethics, primary care models, health equity, etc.) to inform product and program design.

Help shape our internal narrative. Capture team discussions, organize rough ideas into usable language, and help create clarity out of ambiguity as the venture evolves.

Grow in public. Over time, you may co-author or publish your own writing on themes at the edge of health, ethics, design, or future-of-care topics—with guidance and support.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in related field preferred 
• 5+ years of progressive experience 
• Experience working in healthcare, preferably in outpatient or community health settings.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Deep commitment to equity, inclusion, and employee well-being.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Essen Health care is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and we seek candidates who desire to work in and serve an ethnically diverse population.