Author: Joseph S Anzalone
Practicum Opportunity with Committed Communities Development Trust (CCDT) in Mumbai, India
CCDT works with marginalized communities in the slums of Mumbai and its suburbs, with a special focus on families and children infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. Their mission is “Community action combating hunger, discrimination, and disease.” Last year they hosted their first MPH Student, from BUSPH, Pavitri Dwivedi (pavitrid@bu.edu), who designed and conducted a cross-sectional […]
BU African Studies – FLAS Scholarships, due Feb 15
The African Studies Center expects to offer at least six Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships. These fellowships provide a stipend and tuition support to select graduate students who would benefit from studying an African language. We currently offer Arabic, Amharic, Hausa, Igbo, Swahili, Wolof, Xhosa, and Zulu. For Masters students, the FLAS provides […]
Internships in Health NGO’s in Ukraine
Do you have an interest in doing a practicum with a Health NGO in Ukraine? Do you have some language capacity in Ukrainian or Russian? Several opportunities to do a practicum in Ukraine are forthcoming. The Anti-Corruption Action Centre (AntAC) is a Ukrainian civil society organization, which unites experts from legal, media and civic-political sectors […]
Jobs at MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)
The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) was established in 2003 as a research center at the Economics Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since then, it has grown into a global network of researchers who use randomized evaluations to answer critical policy questions in the fight against poverty. J-PAL’s mission is to […]
Field Opportunity in Tanzania for Clinically Minded, with Initiatives, Inc. for 2 to 3 months, January – March 2014, apply by Dec 13.
Initiatives Inc., a small women-owned, Boston-based, business founded in 1987, is committed to improving access to quality primary health care for people in underserved communities. Their technical and management support enables organizations and communities to link, coordinate and deliver health services with the goal of providing solutions for better health. Their key areas of focus […]
Emergency Medicine in India – Practicum Opportunity – for Spring or Summer
Background: There is a great need for more epidemiological data and analysis to help guide emergency medicine efforts on a local and national level in India This practicum opportunity is a joint placement between Kerala Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS – http://www.kimskerala.com) and Apollo Hospitals (http://www.apollohospitals.com) network. Liz Clark, a BUSPH Alum, who works with […]
Intern for Betasab in Ethiopia, in Spring 2014, apply by Nov. 6
Betasab, Inc. is a nonprofit organization based in Brooklyn, New York and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Our goals are to: • Provide vulnerable Ethiopian women and children with the means to a secure future through a holistic package of services • Empower women by providing infrastructure for income-generating activities • Stop the cycle of poverty and […]
SPH IH job: Academic Services Coordinator
IH Department seeks to fill the Academic Services Coordinator position. Note – due to the confidential student information this position encounters, there is a strong preference for not hiring a current IH concentrator in the MPH degree program. Graduates of the program are welcome to apply.
Intern for Initiatives, Inc. improving Community Health Worker web resource
Initiatives Inc. a Boston-based, firm addressing health capacity issues for the improvement of health services in the developing world, seeks at least one intern for a Boston-based internship, to review, revise and update a USAID-sponsored CHW (Community Health Worker) Central web resource. The attached scope of work, provides greater detail. Intern positions are available for the […]
Learn Spanish and complete your practicum in Ecuador
BUSPH has a working relationship with the Montanita Spanish School in Ecuador. “The school was named one of the top five language schools in the world by the STAR Awards for the excellent performance by its professors, the beautiful location of the school on the beach in Montanita.” Students can go there to learn or […]