Name: Ramdhan Russell
Major: Statistical Science and Data Analytics
Hometown: Wayne, PA
Internship: Strategic Insights and Analytics Intern,
Johnson & Johnson (Titusville, NJ)
Even before he arrived at Temple University, Ramdhan Russell, class of 2026, knew he wanted to make an impact.
Specifically, within the healthcare industry.
“I’ve always been excited about the concept of blending technology and entrepreneurship within the healthcare industry to make a meaningful difference,” Russell says.
So, when the time came for Russell to find his summer 2025 internship, it’s no surprise he turned to one of the healthcare industry’s largest innovators.
Russell begins his senior year at the Fox School of Business after successfully completing a strategic insights and analytics summer internship with Johnson & Johnson. His internship took place at the company’s campus in Titusville, NJ.
To Russell, the opportunity was a perfect fit.
“Johnson & Johnson is a global company that aligns their values with something that is important to me: healthcare initiatives,” Russell says.
“As a statistical science and data analytics major, this internship experience allowed me to utilize my Fox education while diving into my passion for research and finding data-driven solutions within an industry I align with.”
After first entering Temple as a neuroscience major, Russell shifted to major in statistical science and analytics at the Fox School once he realized it would provide more value to his skillset and his goal of positively impacting the healthcare industry.
His internship with Johnson & Johnson continues his string of summer internships within healthcare: last summer he served as machine learning intern for behavioral analysis at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
His most recent experience saw him completing a variety of tasks.
“I am definitely going to apply this experience to my coursework, studies and additional skills that I will build for when it’s time to enter the workforce.”
“A key focus of my internship was helping automation initiatives develop across the company,” Russell says. “The company is in the process of adopting ‘Power BI’ as its primary data analytics tool, so part of my involvement in that process was building dashboard templates and teaching teams how to adapt their workflows to utilizing the new tool.”
Through tasks like this, and serving the portfolio and medical insights team for the Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine business segment, it’s evident that his Fox education had prepared him for success.
“Another task was to run analysis on several key performance indicators (KPIs) and their relation to various metrics—this was something that Fox really prepared me for,” he says. “I was able to apply my ‘time series’ (data points collected over a period for analyzing trends, patterns or other characteristics) analysis to offer new insights that hadn’t been explored yet.
“My senior director also asked me to deliver a project that generated insights derived from the entire Johnson & Johnson portfolio—I was running the data visualizations and statistical tests on ‘R’ (a programming language for statistical computing and data visualization) which was a program I learned through Fox.”
Additionally, he also served the portfolio and medical insights team for Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine business segment.
As he returns for his senior year, Russell feels motivated for a great senior year and start to his professional career.
“I am definitely going to apply this experience to my coursework, studies and additional skills that I will build for when it’s time to enter the workforce,” Russell says.
“I highly recommend that any Fox student pursues an internship—the connections and experience you make at any company is invaluable and unquantifiable—carrying you further than you think.”