Category: Practicums/Internships
Research Specialist in Global Health and Nutrition position available
The Center for Nutrition in the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition of Boston Children’s Hospital is searching for a Research Specialist in Global Health and Nutrition.
The candidate will be responsible for coordination of field operational, data management, and regulatory activities for international nutrition and epidemiology research projects. Data management will be one of the main responsibilities of this position including supervision of database development and the collection, entry, cleaning and reporting of clinical, research, and laboratory specimen data.
Other responsibilities include development of case report forms, study protocols, and ethical review submissions and coordination of participant screening, recruitment, and follow-up. He/she will also assist with coordination of regulatory submissions for all research projects to Institutional Review Boards and regulatory organizations.
• Provide supervision for study implementation in study communities, clinical sites, main office, and laboratories.
• Monitor study progress and data completeness and quality.
• Develop and implement systems to continuously improve study implementation and data quality.
• Regularly review data quality and coordinate resolution of queries in the field or laboratories.
• Develop and conduct trainings for study staff.
• Document key processes, events, and meetings during the course of the projects.
• Report regularly to investigators on study progress.
• Prepare reports and other documents as requested by the investigators or donor.
All activities will be conducted in close collaboration with investigators and study personnel in Boston and Dar es Salaam.
Basic qualifications:
College background or equivalent experience, preferably in Life Sciences, Biostatistics, Public Health or related field. One to two years in conduct of research studies. Demonstrated knowledge of research populations and/or technical expertise in conduct of research studies.
Additional qualifications:
Master’s Degree in Epidemiology, Statistics, Public Health or related field. Two or more years demonstrated leadership, project management skills, and technical expertise in conduct of research studies. Excellent analytical, computer, organizational, and problem solving skills, strong interpersonal and communication skills, and the ability to work independently, under supervision and as part of a team are all necessary for this position. Strong attention to detail, excellent time management, goal and detail-oriented work style, and meticulous and consistent follow through on projects are required. Experience in project management desirable, preferably in international settings. Experience liaising with Institutional Review Boards, other regulatory organizations, and academic and governmental institutions preferred. Experience in statistical programming software is desirable (preferably in SAS) but not required for this position.
For further information, please contact:
Christopher Duggan, MD, MPH
Center for Nutrition at Boston Children’s Hospital
Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
333 Longwood Avenue, 4th floor
Boston, MA 02115
tel 617-355-7612
fax 617-730-4722
Christopher.duggan@childrens.harvard.edu
World Vision Global Health Fellows Programme – Multiple Positions Available
World Vision Global Health Fellows Programme
Summer, 2016 Global Health Fellowship Opportunities
- World Vision Bangladesh: Participatory Learning and Action Groups for MNCH Training Program – Field Test Research Assistant
- World Vision East Africa Region: Community Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) Lives Saved Tool (LiST) Analyses
- World Vision Ghana: Nutrition Links, Sustainable Livelihoods and Health Project – Documentation of Best Practices and Lessons Learned
- World Vision Guatemala: Child Health and Nutrition Target Impact Study - Programme Documentation
- World Vision Niger: Integrated MNCH, WASH and Food Security Livelihoods (FSL) Project Evaluation
- World Vision Sierra Leone: Monitoring & Evaluation Systems Strengthening for Mobile Health (mHealth)
- World Vision Zambia: Child Health and Nutrition Target Impact Study - Programme Documentation
Chinese speaking HealthMap Language Curator Needed!
HealthMap aggregates many sources of information using an automated system. To improve the automated system, we also review the alerts to make confirm disease and location. We then communicate the current status of infectious disease in the world to subscribers, including local public health agencies, the CDC, and WHO.
Scope of Work:
Primary Responsibility: We cover news in 15 languages. We are seeking assistance reviewing online news articles in Chinese. The student will analyze news articles on infectious disease outbreaks and inform HealthMap’s automated system.
Additional Responsibilities: The student will report to the rest of the team on breaking news in the Chinese-speaking world. (S)he will also be asked to write very brief outbreak summaries for inclusion in our weekly blog when important outbreaks occur.
Individual research projects are welcome/encouraged but not required.
Minimum Skills Required:
• Ability to read and understand news articles on disease outbreaks in Chinese.
• Chinese cultural literacy (for example, you need to be able to look at an online newspaper and quickly determine in what city it is published)
• Knowledge of Middle Eastern geography, city/state locations
• Excellent Internet search skills
• Familiarity with infectious diseases and associated terms in both English and Chinese (please list science or infectious disease coursework or work experience)
• Strong writing skills
Preferred:
•Public Health, Epidemiology, Biostatistics, or Global Health concentration(s)
•Code writing experience
•Familiarity with Twitter
Estimated Start/End Date:
Summer/Fall/Spring semester. Position open until filled.
Estimated Days/Hours:
10 hours/week. Flexible schedule. Some hours may be performed at home, but student must be in the office at least once a week. All 10 hours of the first three weeks must be in the office for training. Part Time, Part Time Internship/Practicum, Part Time Academic Research
Internship with HITLAB
Position Available: DELPHI Summer Internship Program 2016
About HITLAB:
HITLAB is an innovation and teaching lab dedicated to improving the quality and accessibility of healthcare worldwide. We help leading organizations ideate, create, and evaluate technology-based solutions to pressing healthcare challenges.
Our team of public health professionals, anthropologists, statisticians, clinicians, engineers, economists, strategists, and designers is determined to address healthcare needs across the globe. We work with a wide variety of stakeholders in both the public and private sectors to design and disseminate studies, programs, and products that improve healthcare access and delivery.
Position Overview:
The Developing Emerging Leaders in Public Health Initiative or DELPHI is designed to identify and develop the next generation of healthcare leaders. The DELPHI program offers emerging leaders an opportunity to work on applied research work in the digital health innovation space.
DELPHI interns work on HITLAB projects, which are funded by leading institutions in the healthcare industry and focused on the ideation, creation, evaluation and diffusion of digital health innovation. Responsibilities include support to our research studies, including outreach and communication with study sites/project sponsors, study participant recruitment and screening, drafting study materials (study protocols, questionnaires, moderation guide etc.), data collection, data entry and analysis, conducting literature reviews and other background research, and authoring/co-authoring grant proposals and scientific publications. Aside from exposure to live research grants, the Delphi intern will be provided training, feedback and mentorship on a monthly basis, in line with their career plans.
We are seeking highly motivated students who have a commitment to public health and are seeking to gain exposure to digital health research. The 3 month program is especially targeted towards students who are passionate about the meaningful use of technology in improving health outcomes and the access to healthcare. The right candidate will possess prior experience in the responsibility areas described above, a stellar academic record, excellent oral and written communication skills, the ability to work independently and in teams, and a strong interest digital health research.
Application Deadline:
Applications will be accepted through March 31st, 2016.
Requirements:
Delphi interns must be enrolled in a graduate program with 2+ years of work experience in a field relevant to science, healthcare, medicine, social science research and other similar subject areas.
Tenure:
The Delphi internship is a full-time 12-week program from late May-August 2016.
Hourly Rate:
$15-$17 an hour depending on work experience
How to apply:
Qualified candidates should email their resume and a letter of interest to hr@hitlab.org with the subject line - Delphi Intern
Mission: Restore Summer Research Fellowship in Tanzania
| Duration: 3+ months |
| Start Date: Flexible |
| Compensation: Stipend |
| Location: Tanzania |
Description:
Mission: Restore is a global health non-profit that aims to increase the capacity of local surgeons in developing countries. We specialize in reconstructive surgery and value operating together for long-term impact through hands-on training, educational grants, and telemedicine. At Mission: Restore we are creating a world in which local surgeons have the knowledge, skills, and support they need to treat debilitating injuries and birth defects in their own communities around the world.
Student Internship: Pharmaceutical Access Literature Review
Description Statement:
We are seeking one or two student interns to support the development of a manuscript that describes previous and existing medicine access programs, and efforts to evaluate these programs. This is a paid position.
In September 2015, the pharmaceutical company Novartis/Sandoz launched Novartis Access, an initiative aiming to improve access to 15 medicines for the treatment of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in 30 countries over the next 5 years. The main activity of Novartis Access is the direct sale of subsidized NCD medicines to purchasers in program countries. Novartis Access will first be rolled out in Kenya in 2016. A team of Boston University faculty, led by Richard Laing, will evaluate the impact of Novartis Access on the availability and price of NCD medicines at health facilities and households in Kenya, using a cluster-randomized trial design.
Novartis Access builds on several medicine access programs that have come before it. For example, these include the Merck (MSD) program to eradicate river blindness using ivermectin and starting in 2010 the Affordable Medicines for Malaria (AMFm) project, which sought to supply artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) at highly subsidized prices in the public, private not-for-profit, and private for-profit sectors of several countries. The student intern/s will help the Novartis Access evaluation team place their work within the broader context of medicine access programs.
Scope of Work:
We are looking for one or two students to work on this project. Tasks will include:
- Conducting a review of the published literature and other sources to identify previous and existing medicine access programs;
- Conducting a review of published evaluations of medicine access programs;
- Developing a database of the methods and indicators previously used to evaluate or report medicine access programs. The database would also include peer reviewed and other papers or reports that describe such access initiatives.
Minimum skills desired:
Experience conducting literature reviews; interest in pharmaceuticals and medicine access; Strong writing skills.
Time / Date Expectations:
Minimum of 10 hours per week for a total of 6 weeks. Start date: as soon as possible.
To apply:
Applicants should send a current CV, letter of interest stating relevant experience, available hours and a writing sample, to Isabel Hirsch at ihirsch@bu.edu
RMNCAH Internship at MSH- Summer Apps due March 25
The PLI unit is now conducting a rolling internship program targeting qualified master's or doctoral students in public health who have an interest in implementation research using a health systems approach for reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health (RMNCAH). The program will be approximately five months, part-time (up to 10-15 hours/week) and remote, and there will be opportunities for Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall program dates. The interns will work under the Senior Director of PLI, Juan-Carlos Alegre, and other global technical leads at MSH. There will be occasional travel to the home office in Arlington, VA, as well as in the field to develop and implement our RMNCAH priority agenda for implementation research and delivery science in low-middle income countries (LMICs). This would be an opportunity for students to complete research for their practicum/research requirement.
For more details, including a preliminary list of topics we are contemplating for the implementation research agenda, a description of the program and application materials are below. The program is now accepting interns for the Summer term, the application due date is March 25th.
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South Africa HIV testing Research Volunteer Opportunity
MPH student wanted to help complete research article by end of term.
The article is based on DrPH research conducted in South Africa looking at linkage to care after home based HIV testing. The quantitative results have been published. The graduate (now working for the Population Reference Bureau) had some very interesting qualitative findings as well, providing some insights into reasons for delay or failure to link to care.
Student will:
- Read the thesis
- Update the literature review, identifying and summarizing all relevant articles published since the thesis date (now about three years ago).
- Review qualitative quotes in the thesis, and potentially access the interview notes for additional quotes on the same themes.
- Assist Feeley and Reshma Naik (the thesis author) in drafting the article.
- Format the article for publication in selected journal.
Unpaid, but good work on the literature review and qualitative data extraction would entitle you to an authorship.
If interested, please contact ffeeley@bu.edu.
Local Health Internship Program – Massachusetts Department of Public Health
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health’s (MDPH) Division of Epidemiology
and Immunization is seeking up to 35 graduate students to intern in local health
departments during the summer of 2016. Cities and towns currently seeking interns
are listed in this posting. See the attached pdf for information about the available individual opportunities.
The positions to be filled are Local Public Health Interns. The selected students will
work on various projects within local health departments that may include environmental
health, communicable disease case investigation, needs assessment, bioterrorism and
emergency preparedness, health education, data entry/analysis, health policy, and other
duties as determined by the local health department in collaboration with the student.
Accepted students will also be offered the opportunity to spend time shadowing
epidemiologists and health educators at the MDPH Bureau of Infectious Disease
Prevention and Laboratory Services or Bureau of Environmental Health.
The applicant must have completed at least one semester of graduate level public
health course work preferably including, but not limited to, one course each in
epidemiology, environmental health, and biostatistics. Students should be able to work
independently and have basic computer skills. Clinical experience and/or prior work
experience is a plus, but is not required. Applicants must be able to communicate
effectively in English. Most students will need access to a vehicle; however, some
cities/towns have public transportation.
The student will be required to attend both an orientation program and the closing
session held in Boston. On the closing day, each student will be required to provide an
oral or poster presentation for fellow interns, local public health agents and MDPH
representatives summarizing his or her experience. Upon completion of this internship
each student will have an excellent understanding of the various roles of local health
departments in Massachusetts and will have obtained hands-on experience in the practice of public health.
Estimated number of hours required per week: 8-15 (Hours are flexible in most
communities). Students must commit to a minimum of 120 hours during the summer (Estimated time frame: 5/25/16- 8/18/16)
At this time, listed opportunities are unpaid internships.
Student Application Instructions:
Applicants should submit a cover letter and copy of their resume via email by the
application deadline: Friday, March 18, 2016.
Your Cover Letter Must Include:
- A list of cities/towns/programs (from the choices attached) at which you would be
interested in interning. Please include AT LEAST THREE options, in order of
preference. The more towns / programs selected, the better your chances of
placement. - A brief description of your interests and any specific project area that you would
like to focus on. Consider the projects that the cities/towns have proposed, but
remember that many health departments are willing to adapt their projects to the
student’s interests. - A list of graduate-level course work you have completed (or will have completed
by June 2016).
The above information helps us to make the best possible matches between interns and
local health departments.
Interested students should submit a cover letter and resume via email no later than
Friday, March 18, 2016, to:
Hillary Johnson, MHS
Massachusetts Department of Public Health
State Laboratory Institute
305 South Street
Jamaica Plain, MA. 02130
Phone: (617) 983-6800
Fax: (617) 983-6840
E-Mail: hillary.johnson@state.ma.us
Email submissions are preferred
Please feel free to contact Hillary Johnson via email with any questions you may
have regarding the application process or the internship program.
Practicum/Internship Opportunity with Reach out Global Foundation in Ghana
ROG Foundation is a non-profit organization which was established in 2014 to address the plight that women and children face in under-served communities in Ghana specifically in health. We seek to achieve our vision through public health education, screening and research in Eastern Region.
With our lenses focused on galvanizing people towards global health participation, we also provide academic and educative programs for volunteers and other professionals through our outreaches, internship and elective programs.
We are currently working with the district health directorate (the health representative of the ministry of health) to help in relaying our research work for health policy formulation and interventions for our target group.
Location:
Aburi, Eastern,Ghana
Program Activities:
Community Research, Health-post Attachment and Public Health Research & Activities. As well as weekend tourism.
Internship can be tailored to the intern's past experience and interest in a way that helps to further achieve ROG's mission.
Duration:
3-4 week internship program during Summer 2016 (dates are flexible)
Working hours are Monday-Friday 8am-3pm each week
Cost:
$1320
Transportation, accommodation, and feeding in-country are included. Airfare not included
For information about the organization, internship, the partnering health institutions that you could work with, and how to apply click here.
Any questions contact:
Dr. Francis Rhule
ROG Foundation
rulifrancis1@gmail.com
Deanna Lewis
University of Arizona
dll@email.arizona.edu
