Internship Spotlight: Trisha Chaudhary ’25, Manatt Health
An internship at a healthcare consulting firm serving state and federal agencies helped Trisha Chaudhary ’25 picture a career at the intersection of the public and private sectors.
We asked rising second-year MBA students to check in from their summer internships, where they applied the lessons of their first year at Yale SOM.
Internship: Summer Analyst, Manatt Health, Washington, D.C.
Hometown: Columbia, Missouri
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Go-to work lunch: Leftovers or Cava
After-work routine: Happy hour, dinner with friends, picnics in the park, after-hours museum visits, outdoor movies, and more.
Favorite thing about internship city: All the free museums!
I am a summer analyst at Manatt Health, a health policy consulting firm. This summer I am staffed on two projects with state government clients. One involves working with various states to gain federal approval to provide Medicaid to incarcerated individuals 90 days before release. The other is a large strategic plan with a state Department of Disability Services to improve alignment between service centers and Medicaid agencies. Many of Manatt’s projects are united by the goal to help state and federal agencies expand access to healthcare services and improve health outcomes for vulnerable populations.
As a dual MBA and MPH with a concentration in health policy, I was always interested in Manatt Health as a firm that allows me to combine my interests in business and public health. I was further inspired to apply for the internship after taking a class at Yale School of Public Health taught by a Manatt employee last fall and learning more about her project work. Though Manatt works with many state Medicaid agencies, it also has a range of clients in the private sector and assists with strategy, management, and implementation work. I am excited by the prospect of working on a range of projects from pressing policy issues with state governments to market strategy for digital health companies.
My SOM network helped me land this internship in other ways as well. Through the school, I connected with alumni who work at Manatt Health and learned about their experiences at the firm. The internship interview consisted of a case study, which I had prepared for through clubs at SOM. Later, during our internship orientation, we had to work on a mini-case with a team of interns, which was part of a strategic project for a real Manatt client. Frequently working on projects with my learning team at SOM and presenting in class prepared me to work effectively with the other interns. I was also able to leverage frameworks from classes like Competitive Strategy when ideating recommendations for the mini-case.
This internship has allowed me to picture a career at the intersection of the private and public sectors where I can explore my interests in both health policy and digital health. I am excited by the prospect of embodying SOM’s mission of a being leader for business and society, and grateful to have found a firm where I can explore my varied interests. My time at Manatt Health has also made me consider a future career in a state or federal government and inspired me to apply my interdisciplinary background to improving population health more directly.
