Category: Practicums/Internships
Looking for an Africa related internship but would like to stay domestic? Check out this CAI opportunity!
Consultancy Africa Intelligence (CAI), an international web-based research and consultancy firm with an exclusive focus on the African continent, has recently launched a Public Health research unit and is looking for aspiring researchers with an interest in Public Health and Africa to join our internship programme from 1 April 2012 to 31 December 2012.CAI’s Public Health unit provides outstanding research and analysis on the health and well being of African populations.
Who should apply?
The CAI internship programme is open to Masters and Doctorate students in applicable fields of study (Medicine, Public Health, Psychology, Sociology, etc). Applicants should:
- have strong writing ability and research skills;
- have an interest in, and a passion for Africa;
- have a drive to acquire relevant experience and exposure;
- be diligent and reliable;
- have relevant experience.
Note: Above-average grades are not prerequisites, but will strengthen applications.
What does the internship involve?
Successful applicants will be involved in research and writing on trends and developments on health-related issues. CAI interns are given the opportunity to:
- author/co-author editorial-style discussion pieces on public health trends, planning, and policy at all levels of the health system, potentially published on the CAI website and shared with our content partners;
- acquire valuable experience on health issues in Africa;
- develop skills in research and consultancy to support population health; and
- workwith a passionate, multicultural, and international consulting team.
The internships are un-remunerated and web-based (i.e. successful applicants would not be required to relocate). Interns who perform well during their internship may be (a) given an opportunity to contribute to CAI’s tailored research; (b) offered an internship extension; and/or (c) offered a position on our consultancy team.
How to apply:
Interested parties are invited to submit (a) their CV, (b) a brief motivation letter and (c) two examples of previously written work to CAI ( farah.seedat@consultancyafrica.com This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) before 25 March 2012.
Learn more about it here!
Part-time internship through Harvard Humanitarian Initiative…apply by Friday, March 16th!
The Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) is looking for a short-term part-time research assistant to work on data analysis for a feasibility study entitled "Post-Natural Disaster Human Trafficking Prevention in Thailand." The research assistant will be part of a four-person research team and will have the following tasks: transcription of roughly ten 1-hour interviews, code creation, coding of roughly 15 interviews, participation with data analysis, background research and support for report writing.
This is an un-paid position. The work will start in late March and go through mid-May.
Interested parties should be taking, or should have already taken SB 818 or IH 811, or have demonstrable experience with the qualitative research process. Knowledge of NVivo software and disaster preparedness are also desired, but not required.
If you're interested please email your resume or CV and a brief statement of interest to Eric Goodwin at egoodwin@hsph.harvard.edu. This position is planned to be filled by March 9.
Village Hopecore International: One year fellowship in global health availability
June 28th, 2012 to July 25th, 2013
Overview
Village Hopecore International is offering a fellowship in global health for individuals and graduate students who are interested in and have backgrounds in the areas of public health, nursing or medicine at its project site in Chogoria, Kenya. The fellowship will begin on June 28th, 2012 and end on July 25th, 2012. The fellow will receive a $500 per month living stipend.
Fellowship Description
Village Hopecore International is a non profit organization registered in Kenya and the United States with a mission to eradicate poverty and improve the health and living conditions of the Wameru people of Chogoria, Kenya. At this time, the project affects approximately 6,000 villagers and 6,000 students in our school-based mobile clinics. The project has been operating for the last 11 years and is situated on Mt. Kenya, four hours north of Nairobi by car at 5,000 feet elevation in a lovely area of tea and coffee farms. It is located approximately 20 miles south of the equator.
In 2000, HopeCore began a unique and innovative poverty eradication project that combines a Grameen style micro enterprise village bank, and an adult education program with a village level health care program. The health care program focuses on child and maternal health issues, and HIV and malaria prevention.
In 2009, HopeCore received funds to begin a comprehensive malaria education and prevention program which involves proving mosquito nets to people receiving microloans. The program involves educating individuals about the prevention and treatment of malaria. The distribution of the nets are followed by home visits to each of our families to be sure that the nets are being used correctly. At the time of the home visit, health data are collected on our families and further education on safe water, good nutrition, child-maternal health issues, family planning and HIV prevention and testing is provided. We now have a full time, Kenyan project nurse and four community health workers as part of our public health team, and a full-time peace corp volunteer is now working in Chogoria with our microenterprise program.
Since February 2011, HopeCore has been operating a school-based mobile clinic program by making a partnership with 16 primary schools and 8 secondary schools in the Chogoria area. Each mobile clinic begins with health education on various topics including malaria, HIV/AIDS, hygiene, and nutrition. Subsequently, students in our 24 schools receive free health services for the most common health issues (e.g., malaria, typhoid). In 2011, HopeCore conducted 55 mobile clinics and benefited 4,441 patients in total. We are now installing water tanks and water chrolination systems in all 24 schools, and by the summer 2012, we hope to have all our students under long-lasting insecticide treated malaria prevention bed nets.
The Fellow is responsible for all operations, including financial and budget management, human resources, and reporting to donors. The Fellow will also work on grant writing and fundraising.
The fellow will participate in a hands-on fashion with this ongoing community health project. The fellow’s major responsibilities will be to supervise the public health and malaria prevention program including the mobile clinic, mosquito net distribution and health education activities. The fellow works closely with the Kenyan nurse, Community Health Workers, and local schools, hospitals and government offices. HopeCore will provide training and supervision to the fellow to accomplish the responsibilities listed above. The fellowship began in 2009 and our current fellow is the fourth in our program.
Fellowship Start Date and Duration
The dates of the fellowship are from June 28th, 2012 to July 25th, 2013.
It is critical for all applicants to be able to comply with the exact dates above. The extra four weeks at the end of the fellowship will allow the outgoing fellow to help orientate and train the new incoming fellow. The outgoing fellow will be paid appropriately for the extra four weeks. If one cannot comply with the listed dates, please do not apply for the fellowship.
Compensation and Lodging
HopeCore will provide a $500 per month stipend to the fellow. The stipend is designed to cover all lodging and living expenses in Chogoria as well as travel expenses and health insurance expenses. HopeCore has a safe and secure one-bedroom apartment for the fellow in our local hospital’s compound. The apartment has cooking facilities, refrigerator and complete bathroom facilities. The rent for the apartment is $80 per month and will be paid out of the $500 per month stipend. Food costs in the village should run about $60 per month. It is required that for the fellow’s own protection, each fellow must have health insurance and evacuation insurance. The stipend was designed to provide $100 per month to help with the cost of health insurance and evacuation insurance. The fellow will be responsible for transportation costs to and from Kenya. Roundtrip airfare from the west coast of the US to Nairobi will be around $2000, less expensive from the east coast. The fellow will receive four weeks of vacation during the fellowship. The $500 per month stipend should cover all of the fellow’s transportation expenses getting to Kenya, all of the living expenses while in Chogoria and most if not all the cost of health insurance while in Kenya. The stipend is designed to allow a fellow to spend a year in Kenya without having to incur additional educational loans.
Application and Selection Process
The application and selection process will involve three stages. In the first stage, applicants e-mail a one page, cover letter stating the reason for their interest in our fellowship and a CV to Phil Rasori, MD, Medical Director of Hopecore at prasori@aol.com and Liz Applegate, former global health fellow, eliz.applegate@gmail.com. The cover letters and CV’s will be evaluated and a selection will be made of competitive applicants. In the second stage, competitive applicants will be interviewed over the phone. Following the phone interviews, a group of finalists will be selected. In the third stage, the finalists will have an in-person interview or another phone interview if geographical considerations do not allow for an in-person interview. References will be obtained at this time. All finalists will have a chance to talk by phone and e-mail with the current Hopecore Fellow to ask questions about the position and living conditions. We plan to make the final selection of the fellow by the middle of April, 2012.
Further information
More information on HopeCore can be found at www.villagehopecore.org/blog.
Update: Career Office events not worth missing!
WORKSHOPS AND EVENTS
Note: For planning purposes, RSVP’s are required for all workshops and events. Space is limited.
WORKSHOPS
Offered from 1-1:50pm in Room R103 unless noted otherwise. RSVP to Maria McCarthy at mamcc@bu.edu.
Mar. 7 LinkedIN Basics - Two Sessions: 1-1:50pm in R115, 5-5:50pm in R103.
Mar. 21 Interview Strategies
Mar. 28 Negotiating Job Offers
Internship opportunity in Uganda as the Deputy Program Manager of ACCESS
PFA is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and growing a community-based organization in the Nakaseke District of Uganda known as African Community Center for Social Sustainability (ACCESS). ACCESS is a community-based organization in rural Uganda founded in 2002 to empower vulnerable groups in resource limited settings through medical care, education and income-generating projects.
Job Posting - Deputy Program Manager
ACCESS has a very unique approach to development by providing Ugandans with medical skills to address the health needs of the local population and empowering community members through income generating activity and education. This internship opportunity would allow students to gain hands-on experience in the field of global health.
Feel free to contact Katie D'Angelo, Co-Director of ACCESS, at kkdangelo@gmail.com.
[NOTE - fellow MPH student, Katharine Collet [mailto:kcollet@bu.edu]
graduated with the Co-Director and is willing to be helpful for those interested in applying.
Initiatives Inc. seeking interns: international health focus but Boston-based!
Initiatives Inc. will be at the BUSPH Career Fair, Feb. 28th from 4-6pm.
Initiatives Inc. seeks one or more interns to support the ongoing development and management of CHW Central (www.chwcentral.org), a website devoted to sharing information about community health workers (CHWs) around the world.
Please see the attached description: CHW Central Intern Position Description FEB 2012
2012-2013 Class “CIDRZ Internship” Recruitment-Stipend included!
Recruiting for the 2012-2013 class for the "CIDRZ internship" also known the HIVCorps Public Health Fellowship is underway. Deadline is March 11.
Check out http://www.cidrz.org/hivcorps to learn more about this opportunity, and to download the application form!
Internship available through MGH: Initiative to End Child Malnutrition
Malnutrition is a major cause of child morbidity and mortality in under-resourced areas. The Division of Global Health and Human Rights is undertaking a unique program in rural Uganda that aims to address this problem. The Initiative to End Child Malnutrition involves students from the Harvard College Global Hunger Initiative (GHI) working under the direction of Division Global Health Fellow Keri Cohn to establish a referral center for the treatment of severe malnutrition and develop an outpatient treatment plan and training for moderate and mild malnutrition. In January of 2010 GHI students travelled to Uganda with Dr. Cohn to implement a child malnutrition protocol and trained physicians, nurses and communith health workers.
In the summer of 2010, our team returned to Nyakibale to refine the malnutrition treatment program, providing a continuing medical education program for the trained staff. Our team also worked to establish a social enterprise in the form of a hospital canteen to generate revenue that would subsidize the cost of treatment, allowing the hospital to offer patients a low flat-rate fee for malnutrition care. We also assessed and expanded our local community outreach, awareness, and education programs traveling to health centers, villages, and community centers.
Global Health Corps’ positions…applications due FRIDAY
Positions for Global Health Corps' 2012-2013 class of Fellows have been posted! They are offering a wide range of placements and skillsets - from Procurement and Logistics Coordinators with Partners in Health in Malawi, to Design Fellowships with MASS Design Group in Rwanda. Check out http://ghcorps.org/apply/placements for details. THeir current Fellowship positions are in Burundi, Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda, Zambia and the US beginning in July 2012.
Help GHC to build a community of committed young leaders who share a common belief: Health is a human right.
To apply, go to http://ghcorps.org/apply. Applications are open now through February 17, 2012.
Physicians for Haiti: Summer Intern Applications Now Available!
Physicians for Haiti is offering unique opportunities to two motivated individuals who are interested in global health and non-profit organization development to join our team as a Summer Interns....
Term
June-August 2012 (flexible)
Hours
10-15 hours a week
Location
Boston, MA
Summer Intern Position Titles
1. Medical Education Logistics Intern
2. Outreach & Development Intern
Application
Please see the individual Internship descriptions below. If you meet our qualifications, please submit a cover letter that addresses your specific interest in Physicians for Haiti, your language skills and level of fluency as well as your ability to meet the time commitment of the internship.
Please also submit your Curriculum Vitae.
Qulified applicants will be contacted for a phone interview at a mutually amenable time.
Commitment to Education
P4H is committed to helping individuals attain their academic goals, and to that end we are willing to work with those currently enrolled in college or graduate programs to meet requirements for practicum or other commitments in terms of supervision, documentation and time requirements.
Submission
Please submit your cover letter and CV by February to Chris Curry (ccurry@physiciansforhaiti.org) no later than March 11th.
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PHYSICIANS FOR HAITI: Summer Intern Position, Medical Education Logistics Intern
Report to: James Hudspeth MD, Michelle Morse MD, Chris Curry MD PhD
Description:
We work with several organizations in Haiti to help provide continuing medical education, to ‘train the trainers’ and to facilitate opportunities for healthcare workers to attend conferences and workshops on various medical topics. Physicians for Haiti is looking for an individual to help coordinate the logistics of our rapidly growing medical education work in Haiti. This will involve assistance with maintenance of databases of available professors who are available for teaching opportunities. The Intern will liaison and coordinate with a Haiti-based colleague to arrange logistics of travel, room and board for professors in Haiti.
As our Haitian counterparts identify learning needs, we create online and problem based learning tools to facilitate continuing education and opportunities to create medical educators. The intern will assist in editing and formatting of problem-based learning cases as well as powerpoints and online learning tools. There will also be components of monitoring and evaluation of ongoing projects in Boston and Haiti that the intern will assist with.
Skills Desired:
Attention to details, ability to work independently, quick uptake of new material and concepts, basic medical knowledge, dedication to improving medical educational opportunities in Haiti
Preference will be given to applicants fluent in French or Haitian Creole or those with a background in global health or medicine. An ability to work independently is a must.
PHYSICIANS FOR HAITI: Summer Intern Position, Outreach and Development Intern
Report to: Wit Davis MPH, Manouchka Jacques
Description:
Physicians for Haiti is a Boston-based organization that works with organizations in Haiti and the US to support medical education in Haiti. We are looking for an individual to work with our Outreach and Development Committee to identify and solicit philanthropic support from individual donors with interest in medical education in Haiti. This intern would coordinate closely with P4H partners to identify potential partners and donors who are integral to P4H’s work. This person will assist with grant writing and application submission.
Physicians for Haiti also has local partners who are in need of support and coordination for ongoing activities, events, fundraising and awareness raising programming. This intern will help expand our fundamental connections to community groups and develop ongoing relationships.
Skills desired:
Outgoing nature, comfort in multicultural and multilingual settings, grant writing experience, and a dedication to bolstering Physicians for Haiti’s capacity to work successfully with partner organizations.
Preference will be given to applicants fluent in French or Haitian Creole or those with a background in global health or medicine. An ability to work independently is a must.
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Questions?
Contact ccurry@physiciansforhaiti.org
