Category: Practicums/Internships
Are you interested in Global Health? Good at research and writing? If so, Initiatives, Inc. is looking for someone like YOU!
Initiatives, Inc. is a Boston-based, women-owned business dedicated to improving the health and services provided to communities in the developing world. Initiatives seeks a motivated intern with an interest in developing skills in research, writing, and design to support Initiatives’ work in disseminating information on CHW (Community Health Worker) issues, policies and best practices to the global and local community, through their CHW Central resource.
Follow the link to learn more and apply: CHW.CentralIntern.advert.September2016
Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition Communications Intern
Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition Communications Intern
Front Office, Office of Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition, Bureau for Global Health, United States Agency for International Development
Location: Washington, DC/Arlington, VA | October 2016 - January 2017: Compensated 12 week Internship | INT-P5-050
The Global Health Fellows Program (GHFP-II) is a five year cooperative agreement implemented and managed by the Public Health Institute in partnership with Global Health Corps, GlobeMed, Management Systems International and PYXERA Global. GHFP-II is supported by the US Agency for International Development (USAID).
GHFP-II's goal is to improve the effectiveness of USAID health programs by addressing the Agency's immediate and emerging human capacity needs. The program seeks to accomplish this goal first through the recruitment, placement and support of diverse health professionals at the junior, mid and senior levels. These program participants include fellows, interns, corporate volunteers and Foreign Service National professionals. The program then provides substantial performance management and career development support to participants, including annual working planning assistance, and ensures that professional development opportunities are available.
Looking to the future, GHFP-II also seeks to establish a pool of highly-qualified global health professionals that will ensure the Agency's ongoing technical leadership and effectiveness. This objective is supported by an extensive outreach program that brings global health opportunities and specialized career advice to a diverse range of interested individuals, with a particular focus on those underrepresented in the field of global health.
BACKGROUND
In 2014, USAID released a report outlining how it will work with partners to save 15 million children and 600,000 women by 2020. This is one exciting step toward the agency priority of ending preventable child and maternal deaths within a generation.
The recently formed Office of Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition (MCHN) will be taking forward this goal. The MCHN team works to identify, scale up, and track the most effective interventions to save the lives of women and children around the world. These interventions are effective and affordable such as stopping post-partum bleeding, cleaning newly cut umbilical cords, immunizing against disease, hand-washing with soap, and treating diarrhea. This work is focused on 25 priority countries that account for two thirds of maternal and child deaths and half the global unmet need for family planning globally. Learn more about USAID's work in MCH , nutrition, and work to end preventable child and maternal deaths.
INTRODUCTION
The MCHN Communications Intern (Intern) is a full time position that will support the Office of Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition. The MCHN Office is divided into teams that focus on maternal and newborn health, child health and immunization, nutrition and water, sanitation, and hygiene, and research and community health. The MCHN Office works closely with the Office of Population and Reproductive Health, as well as behavior change and research and innovation teams.
The Intern will primarily support the Communications and Advocacy Advisor, who is responsible for all communications for the MCHN Office. S/he will have the opportunity to learn about USAID's work from leading technical experts as well as develop a strong understanding of communications and how to promote the work the agency is doing. Communications is a fast paced and dynamic environment with new outreach opportunities and ideas to pursue arising every day. The Intern will also be a member of the Bureau for Global Health Communications Team. S/he will receive day to day guidance from the Communications Advisor as his/her onsite manager.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
• Gaining experience in the field of strategic communications and principles used to implement in a US Government setting.
• Gaining a greater understanding of USAID's communication strategy on the work to end preventable child and maternal deaths.
• Gaining a greater understanding of the global maternal and child health and nutrition communities, and their role in the globally endorsed Sustainable Development Goals.
• Deepening skills in collaboration and coordination within a complex organizational and implementation structure.
ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES
• Assisting with the management of social media presence for USAID's work on maternal and child health and nutrition.
• Assisting with the development of materials, including fact sheets, web pages, and graphics, for an external audience describing USAID's efforts to end preventable child and maternal deaths.
• Using existing raw materials to develop a library of success stories on USAID beneficiaries around the world.
• Drafting op-eds, success stories, blogs, press releases, presentations, and fact sheets to expand the library of existing written content.
• Supporting USAID's outreach around key advocacy days, including World Pneumonia Day, World Prematurity Day, Global Handwashing day, and more, by drafting e-cards, developing social media, participating in planning calls with implementing partners, developing blogs, and updating relevant web pages.
• Working with the Communications Advisor, USAID field offices, and implementing partners to develop a story for the Frontlines publication.
• Working with agency channels, including Impact Blog and Frontlines, to publish written content.
• Assisting with maintenance of photographic resources and story bank.
• Other tasks or responsibilities may be assigned based on organizational and programming need and/or the Intern's own interests.
QUALIFICATIONS
• Currently enrolled senior in a bachelor's degree program in public health, public policy, international development, journalism, or other related field; or, completion of such a program within the past 24 months.
• Demonstrated experience developing various web/print/social media materials.
• Demonstrated experience using Adobe Creative Suite with an emphasis on Photoshop and InDesign, preferred.
• Strong writing and analytic skills.
• Strong interest in strategic communications, public affairs or policy, and aspects of maternal and child health and nutrition.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work independently.
• US citizenship or US permanent residency required.
COMPENSATION
$16.15 per hour (non-exempt, hourly wage position).
TO APPLY
Detailed information, including an online application and instructions, is available on our website at https://www.ghfp.net/ All online applications must be submitted by August 3, 2016 by 5:00 pm Eastern time.
We are proud to be an EEO/AA Employer.
Internship for GH students interested in Epi and Biostats
Partners In Health and the Government of Rwanda implemented a verbal autopsy study on causes of and factors associated with under-5 mortality in two rural districts as part of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation's Population Health Implementation and Training (PHIT) partnership. A matched case-control design was used, and data were collected on presenting symptoms, social/demographic factors, and access to care. Opportunities for authorship may be considered depending on experience. The partnership is seeking a part-time analyst to conduct the case-control analysis.
The ideal candidate would have at least one year of experience working with a statistical package (e.g. SAS/STATA/R) and have taken courses in multivariate regression modeling (ideally familiar with generalized linear models and conditional logistic regression). Experience with preparing analyses for research abstracts or papers is a plus.
Interested parties can contact Dr. Neil Gupta (ngupta@pih.org) and Dr. Lisa Hirschhorn (lrhirschhorn@gmail.com) for more information.
GH707 is taking over Instagram!
Are you following the Tanzania field practicum on Instagram (@BUSPH) this week? Here's a primer on the work they're doing. Keep up with GH's own Jen Beard and the 19 students completing their practicum in Pommern...make sure to give their photos a double-tap!
In Pommern, Tanzania, students Theresa Cheng (left), Kimberly Hassel, and Dave Carroll-Kenney read over their survey before visiting households in the community. Photo by Chenzhe Cao (’16).
In the Classroom: Avoiding ‘Barbie Savior’
Deadlines quickly approaching for John Snow Inc. Summer Internships!
John Snow Inc. (JSI) has internship opportunities (possibly paid based on experience) for students and recent graduates who would like to learn about public health work in both in the United States and in international settings.
There are many different types of internships at JSI that allow students to gain insight into public health programs—or business operations, IT, and communications. JSI staff work closely with each intern to ensure that they have a fulfilling experience and contribute to the organization's daily work in a meaningful way.
JSI interns are also asked to write about their internships. Read about recent internship experiences by JSI interns.
JSI does not have a set internship recruiting or placement schedule. Internships occur at all times during the year and are largely driven by individual projects' needs. Please check the website frequently for updates.
The following are current available internships at JSI with deadlines approaching soon, click on the titles for links to the intern description page:
Innovations for Maternal, Newborn, & Child Health Intern - Apply by 06/08/16
RESPONSIBILITIES
- The Innovations for MNCH Intern will work with the project research team to complete project endline research activities. The position is based in the JSI Washington DC office. A selection of activities that the Innovations for MNCH Intern will be involved in may include:
- Draft and format presentations
- Prepare tables and graphs for internal reports and external publications
- Assist with formatting project documents and graphics
- Prepare and proofread report text and bibliographies
- Conduct online searches for project work
- Assist with literature reviews for external publications
- Assist with analysis of data for Innovations projects
- Coordinate meetings and take meeting notes
- Assist on any other project related activities
QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience or interest in public health, public policy, or social development
- Masters degree or Bachelors degree in public health or related field
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office
- Excellent writing skills
- English fluency
- Detail oriented, with good time management skills
- A self-starter who can work with minimal supervision
- Qualitative and quantitative analysis skills preferred but not required.
Monitoring & Evaluation Intern: Maternal & Child Survival Program - Apply by 6/10/16
RESPONSIBILITIES
- The HMIS review for child health registers in particular will be conducted in a phased approach, with the first phase consisting of a review on 14 priority countries that are currently implementing iCCM programs: Bangladesh, DRC, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Pakistan, Rwanda, South Sudan, Uganda, and Zambia. The MMEL Intern will coordinate this work, in close collaboration with the Child Health MMEL Technical Advisor. The specific responsibilities include:
- Develop a tracking sheet to track and organize child health-specific HMIS tools (registers, client cards, summary forms, supervision forms) from 14 countries.
- Coordinate with the Child Health Program Officer to follow-up with countries to secure missing forms.
- Manually review all forms for approximately 50 data elements (necessary to calculate child health service and quality indicators) and complete spreadsheet.
- Analyze/summarize data in a table
- Write summary report
- The deliverables for this internship are as follows:
- Summary table of child health data elements for indicators collected in 14 countries
- PowerPoint presentation/brief report presenting methods and results
QUALIFICATIONS
- Student or graduate of a master’s in public health program
- Interest and experience with routine health information systems
- Familiarity / experience with child health programs and measures
- Beginning/intermediate French and/or Portuguese
The internship will last approximately eight to ten weeks. The internship will be supervised by the Child Health MMEL Technical Advisor. This is a paid internship (salary commensurate with experience).
Data Visibility and Communications Intern - Apply by 06/10/16
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Collaborate with the Center for Health Logistics core team, project teams, and other JSI Centers to identify and summarize (through visual and written materials) learnings for external publication.
- Assist with the development, layout, visualization of corporate communications materials for the Center.
- Work with CHIME to conduct a landscaping of JSI use cases around data use and develop summary documentation.
- Support JSI’s Health Logistics Project, the Implant Access Program, to update their excel tools and its functionality.
- Provide additional support, as requested, on data use activities.
Through these activities, the intern will engage with staff from various technical areas of expertise across the organization, learn about the opportunities and challenges in working with partners to promote data-driven decision making, and build skills in data visualization, writing, and the presentation of information.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Ability to analyze and visualize data using various presentation formats, included but not limited to visual briefs, web content, infographics, social media graphics, and basic dashboards.
- Strong writing skills, with the ability to craft data-centered stories that integrate narrative with visualizations.
- Excellent English communications skills, both verbal and written.
- Dynamic team player with strong multicultural communication experience.
- Strong organizational skills, ability to multitask and manage competing priorities.
- Computer literacy required, specifically MS Office Suite; proficiency with various data visualization or analytics software preferred (e.g. PiktoChart, Tableau, Inkscape)
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Intern - Apply by 06/25/16
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Work with project lead and GIS advisor to create draft maps, web maps, and spatial analysis,(30%)
- Support the GIS advisor in updating GIS training materials and preparing training exercises.(30%)
- Review existing GIS infrastructure (GIS datasets and metadata documentation (40%)
By the end of the summer, the GIS intern will have an understanding of and experience with cartographic best practices, mapping software, GIS data structures, and various components of spatial analysis.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Master Graduate degree or student, preferably in Public Health, International Development or Geography
- Experience with GIS software, both ESRI products and open source tool QGIS, for mapping, and spatial analysis
- Experience in use spreadsheets and databases able to cleaning data, querying and managing datasets in Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, SQL
- Ability to work independently
- Experience with Microsoft Office
- Strong writing skills
- Ability to think creatively
- Strong organizational and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work well within a team-focused structure
- Flexibility in routine while handling multiple tasks and interruptions
- Interest in health and social service delivery systems desirable
Help on IPV study
GH Faculty, Dr. Lisa Messersmith and Dr. Nafisa Halim are seeking interested students to help with a research study to investigate the effect of a intimate partner violence (IPV) prevention program in Tanzania. In the Fall of last year, they posted a bit about the project on the GRAP program, @ /ghblast/grap-01-messersmith/
Please contact either of them, if you are interested in helping with this study. Thank you.
Summer Internship available with MSH’s Pharmaceuticals and Health Technologies Group
This is a very high profile activity in global pharmaceutical management, and would be a great addition to any student's resume!
- Refine and add detail to Performance Indicator Reference Sheets (PIRS) based on selected indicators to measure pharmaceutical systems strengthening
- Identify and list existing tools that collect each indicator, and identify other sources of information for data collection
- Collect available data on each indicator for each EPCMD/SIAPS country included in the pilot
- Deliverable - PIRS and pre-filled assessment instruments for pilot testing and validation
Internship to Support Global Projects with Initiatives, Inc.
Are you interested in Global Health? Fluent in French? A master of social media and website development? Good at research and writing? Able to work 15 hours/week on a short‐term assignment?
If so, Initiatives Inc. is looking for someone like you to support our work.
Our work spans organizational development, human resources for health, quality improvement,
community involvement and operations research. Our current projects are in DRC, Tanzania, Zambia,
Bangladesh and Uganda. In each, we strive to strengthen management systems to make organizations
more sustainable and transparent, advocate for the needs of communities and vulnerable populations,
and develop, test and implement new strategies for improving health systems. Initiatives also supports
community health workers (CHWs) and CHW programs through CHW Central.org.
We seek a motivated intern to support a short‐term assignment for our current work with the Challenge
TB project in DRC. Through this project we are working to strengthen the organizational capabilities for
local NGOs contributing to community‐based TB control initiatives. This assignment will contribute to
improving the communications and reach of these NGOs.
Read the full job description and application requirements here...
U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention Quality Research Institute Graduate Fellowship Program
Overview: The U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) is a scientific nonprofit organization that sets standards for the identity, strength, quality, and purity of medicines, food ingredients, and dietary supplements manufactured, distributed and consumed worldwide. USP’s drug standards are enforceable in the United States by the Food and Drug Administration, and these standards are used in more than 140 countries. Since its founding in 1820, USP has helped secure the quality of the American drug supply. Building on that legacy, USP today works with scientists, practitioners, and regulators of many nations to develop and revise standards that help protect public health worldwide. Building on this legacy, USP seeks to advance evidence-based policy in medicine and food quality by implementing scientifically-rigorous research that can advance the global health communities understanding of and dialogue on the effect of quality medicines and food on public health.
To view the complete job description and application, click here.
Practicum/BMC Memory Disorder Clinic
Implementation Study of BMC Memory Disorder Clinic
Under the direction of Hollis Day, MD and Heidi Auerbach, MD, Boston Medical Center’s Section of Geriatrics will be implementing a Memory Disorder Clinic. The primary goal of the clinic will be to conduct neuropsychiatric testing, with a focus on both English and non-English speaking patients. Following completion of the testing, patients will be provided with referrals, including referral to the Department of Neurology for follow-up as appropriate.
It is expected that this clinic will be somewhat time-intensive for the providers in the clinic, and therefore, Boston Medical Center wants to ensure that services, including provider time, are used most efficiently. One goal is to assess the impact of the service on other clinics in the Department, including the Geriatric Assessment Clinic and to decrease the back-log within that clinic. In addition, it will also be important to ensure that the new clinic’s services are useful for all patient populations, including non-English speakers.
Boston Medical Center proposes to conduct a formative evaluation of the Memory Disorder Clinic in order to examine both the implementation process and some clinical outcomes. Mixed methods will be used to conduct this evaluation, which will be guided by the PARIHS implementation framework. Outcomes and proposed methods include:
• Appropriate referrals to neurology, wait time for clinic services (including differences for English and non-English speakers) – assessed via medical record
• Impact on other clinics – assessed via medical record examining time to appointments in the geriatric assessment clinic
• Caregiver satisfaction – assessed via post-services caregiver survey, including differences for English and non-English speakers
• Provider satisfaction, including Memory Disorder Clinic providers and referring providers – assessed via qualitative interview or survey
• Provider views of feasibility, acceptability, sustainability – assessed via qualitative interview
• In non-English speakers, presence of live interpreters: both quantifiable (how often are they there) and qualitative for both patients and providers: i.e. how clearly are they giving instructions, making sure there is no assistance with answering the questions etc.
• Time for completion of battery needed for non-English speakers vs English speakers.
We anticipate that the student will be an essential part of designing the qualitative and quantitative data collection materials, as well as data collection and analysis. The student will have the opportunity to learn about implementation sciences and also work on their program management skills.
We are looking for a total of 240 hours. So, that would be 10 weeks at 24 hours a week or 12 weeks at 20 hours per week (or another combination that equals 240 hours). We can offer a stipend of $3,000 for the work this summer. Work hours and location are flexible.
For information and to apply:
Please contact Caitlin Allen, cgallen@bu.edu, T: 617-638-7281
