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Throughout its history, CDC has recognized the essential role it plays in providing training in public health disciplines (e.g., epidemiology, laboratory science, behavioral science, and public health management) to students in the U.S. and to colleagues in other countries. Programs like the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) and the Field Epidemiology Training Programs (FETPs) have provided important resources to respond to domestic and international emergencies, while providing participants with crucial training and on-the-job experiences in applied epidemiology. Summer internships for high school, college, and graduate school students have provided unique opportunities for young people to develop their skills in public health practice, to enhance their educational experiences, and to begin to think globally in their approaches to health concerns.
Opportunities for International Fellowships include:
Financial support is provided by the Hubert Charitable Trust, CDC will provide opportunities for students (Masters level/medical/veterinary) to spend one to three months in other countries working on priority health problems. CDC centers, institutes, and offices will be invited annually to describe the international health fellowship opportunities they can provide to students in conjunction with a CDC-supported program or a collaborating institution in another country. Selected students will be able to apply for stipends of up to $3,000 for travel and per diem only for one of these international experiences.
Interested students should contact: International Student Fellowship Program Coordinator, Epidemiology Program Office, CDC, by May 1, 1998. Seven students will be selected for the first year of the fellowship to begin about June 15, 1998. Please contact Patsy Bellamy, Elective Student Coordinator at 404-639-4774 or e-mail prb1@cdc.gov or check out the information on the CDC Website.
International matches medical students with a mentor for elective opportunities in the developing world.Volunteers serve in small hospitals and isolated clinics for 4 weeks to 3 months. Applications for the summer are still available, please reply ASAP. Applications for 1st and 2nd year students for the summer are due Feb. 2, 1998. There is a $15 application fee and a fee of $150 for the spring program and $250 for the summer program.
This is a Spanish language and cultural immersion program for medical students with 4 to 6 week classes in Colombia, Honduras, Mexico and potentially in the Dominican Republic and/or Guatemala. Students receive Spanish training and visit community-based health centers. Applications are still available for 3rd and 4th year students and residents for the spring course repply ASAP since the classes fill quickly. The deadline for 1st and 2nd year students is Feb. 13, 1998. The application fee is $20, room and partial board is $75/week, and tuition is $1000. Students are responsible for their own travel expenses.
Applications as well as information are available from: AMSA's International Health Studies Center web site http://www.amsa.org/"> via email intl@www.amsa.org or by telephone (703)620-6600 ext. 213 Please address any additional questions to: Gabriela Mandolesi (703)620-6600 ext. 213
The American Association for World Health (AAWH), an educational non-profit based in Washington, DC. has started a new program, Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba (MEDICC). MEDICC is sponsored by the American Association for World Health, which serves as the U.S. committee for the World Health Organization and the Pan American Health Organization. In Cuba, MEDICC study opportunities are coordinated with the National Center for Post-Graduate Medical Training, under the supervision of the Council of Deans of Cuba's 24 medical schools and the National School of Public Health.
MEDICC offers medical electives to 3/4th year students for 4-6 weeks. The program offers students the opportunity to immerse themselves in the work of Cuba's public health system, which is based on complete coverage within the constraints of a severe economic crisis. The commitment and skill of Cuba's health professionals have been widely credited for keeping health indicators among the best in the hemisphere, despite shortages of medicines and other key resources. At the heart of their efforts is preventive medicine and special attention to primary care. U.S. students will carry out clinical and field work, with Cuban professors of medicine and public health as mentors. This may take MEDICC participants into city neighborhoods or small towns, where 25,000 family doctor-and-nurse teams care for the communities they live in; into clinics, pediatric or maternity hospitals working with specialists and their patients; or to centers for health education, tropical medicine and environmental health.
In 1998, students may choose from: Family Medicine, Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Emergency Care, Natural and Traditional Medicine, Tropical Medicine, Environmental Health, Community Health Promotion and Education, Maternal-Child and Reproductive Health and Midwifery (in cooperation with SUNY at Brooklyn).
Write to MEDICC at: P.O. Box 3507, Reston, VA 20195-1507 for an application form. Also, visit our Website at http://www.medicc.orgfor an on-line application and answers to any other questions you may have.
ABS is a 126 year old nonprofit social service organization that helps the American community in Mexico City and Cuernavaca. Services include: direct and indirect economic assistance, health care referrals, case management, physical home visits and a Senior Center Program. In 1993, the Society founded Mexico City's first Senior Center for English speaking adults. It is actively involved in promoting legislation to provide Medicare coverage for US citizens residing in Mexico.
Clerkship: Clerkship in a teaching hospital in Taiwan. For US medical students in their fourth year of medical school. Duration is for 2 months.
Fellowship Program: This program draws upon a network of professional resource people from the US who are available to respond to program needs as requested by Taiwanese institutions through lectures and teaching. For senior faculty and health professionals. Duration is for 2 months - 1 year.
An exchange program in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
This program coordinates electives with 25 different health service organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia, and Africa for clinical and pre-clinical students. Academically structured international electives with experienced preceptors. Duration 6 weeks.
A nonprofit international development organization that promotes sustainable development programs in partnership with grassroots organizations in some of the world's poorest communities. AJWS's Jewish Volunteer Corps places volunteers with a variety of technical and professional backgrounds in positions with NGO partners in the developing world. Health professionals of all types are needed, especially public health, child development, women's health professionals, ophthalmologists and health educators. Placements are from two weeks to six months
Primary health care/services for refugees and displaced persons.
These fellowships are intended to improve the information, education, and leadership in the fight against all sexually transmitted diseases. Applicants should have an MD or PhD degrees.
Navy Tropical Medicine Fellowship Program: access to a broad range of research opportunities in the laboratory, field or clinical setting at either of the Navy's medical research centers in Cairo or Jarkarta. Because of the unique scientific and diplomatic relationship between NAMRU and the host government, fellows serve as representatives of the United States and, as such, are subordinate to both the Commanding Officer of the NAMRU and the U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia or Egypt. Applicants must hold a doctoral degree, be U.S. citizens or permanent residents, and should be members of the ASTMH (membership application may be submitted concurrently with the fellowship application). These young investigators should have demonstrated ability to undertake independent research in collaboration with NMRDC/NAMRU investigators. Duration not less than one year.
Sends volunteers to Latin America to participate in health projects. The programs run in the summer for 4, 6 or 8 weeks.
Children's Heartlink works in partnership with cardiovascular centers in developing countries to support their efforts to provide sustainable treatment and prevention programs for needy children. Children's Heartlink currently has primary relationships with cardiovascular programs in Costa Rica and Kenya and secondary relationships with programs in Honduras, Ethiopia, and Columbia. While most activities and projects are handled by full- time staff, there are opportunities for graduate students to become involved in a specific project of the organization.
CCRS places individual nurses and doctors and places them in health facilities in Chernobyl. Doctors must be US board certified and nurses a minimum of BSN.
Christian and non-Christian volunteers accepted to serve on medical teams for two to three week periods. CMS can, in some cases, place medical students.
As delegates travel with the Citizen Ambassador Program, they benefit from their foreign counterparts' knowledge and learn of alternative methods of treatment used by different countries, as well as assist with the implementation of new technology and systems in developing countries.
Doctors Without Borders is the world's largest independent emergency medical aid organization whose humanitarian missions provide relief to victims of disasters and hardship throughout the world.
Assignments can be as short as one month or as long as two years. Volunteer positions are open to state licensed, board eligible medical doctors and other health professionals.
Doctors of the World provides volunteer medical, dental, educational, ecological, and technological aid and disaster relief to under served areas of the world and the U.S.
This organization provides financial, material, technical and educational support to those nations requesting assistance for the development of their medical care and health worker training services, and also provides medical care to refugee groups. They also promote support of projects focused on public health, preventative medicine, primary health care, auxiliary health worker training and family planning.
Works to advance worldwide study and practice of Neurosurgery by placing volunteer surgeons in short-and long-term positions overseas. Focus is based on teaching and clinical assignments.
HVO is a private nonprofit organization committed to improving health care in developing countries through training and education. The organization has five divisions in which it is actively seeking volunteers: Anesthesia Overseas (AO); Dentistry Overseas (DO); General Surgery Overseas (GSO); Oral Maxillofacial Surgery Overseas (OMSO); Orthopedics Overseas (OO); and Pediatrics Overseas (PO).
INMED is a non-profit organization that improves the health and quality of life of disadvantaged people worldwide. The internship opportunities are preferably set for graduate training in public health, health systems, maternal, and child health, social work, nursing, and child development.
International Lifeline, an overseas medical volunteer organization, has openings in its short-term program for rural clinic opportunities in Haiti. Primary care workers (MD, DDS, RN Res/Int, Student) needed rather than specialty personnel in order to meet the immediate needs of the patients at this time. In particular, volunteers will address a wide range of illnesses due to living conditions which include poor/inadequate sanitation, water shortages, intestinal infestation and micro-nutrient depletion.
Places physicians in long - or short-term assignments overseas for emergency medical relief and training.
Focuses on refugee assistance. IRC places public health workers, as well as physicians and nurses. Most assignments require up to six months to two year commitments and provide housing and a stipend.
Sends teams of plastic surgeons overseas for short-term assignments.
MAP INTERNATIONAL is an international service organization supporting programs in 118 developing countries. Working together with existing missions, organizations and individuals, MAP'S emphasis is in four major areas; medical commodities, emergency relief, community development, and the MAP-Reader's Digest International Fellowships (MAP-RDIF). MAP-RDIF has been established to provide medical students with clinical experiences in settings that will enable them to become familiar with the cultural, social and medical problems characteristic of developing countries. A minimum of 8 weeks must be sent on location to fulfill the requirements of the fellowship. Application forms and instructions are available in the Dean's office at each medical school or from MAP-RIDF.
Involved in primary health care projection Kenya, Uganda, and Nicaragua. The focus is on training community members to do education and outreach locally. A limited number of volunteers are recruited on a fairly regular basis for one year assignments.
NWTI is a non-profit humanitarian organization that responds to people in crisis around the world by sending volunteer medical and non-medical teams (98 teams to 21 countries in 1997-1998), humanitarian aid ($55 million to 60 countries), community development and children's ministry programs. Dentist, hygienists, physicians, nurses, and volunteers from all walks of life are encouraged to contact NWMTI to register for team travel and discover how they can help people in situations of poverty, famine, war, or natural disaster. You can help financially, with material aid, or by volunteering your time.
A non-profit, non-sectarian placement organization which directs health care professionals to areas of need. Makes referrals for long- and short-term, paid- and un-paid- placements. Options Programs.
Recruits physicians, nurses, physical therapists, and occupational therapists for paid and un-paid physicians in the former Soviet Union.
Places ophthalmologists and other eye-care professionals in assignments overseas.
Sends medical missions to San Miguel Pochuta, Guatemala. Spanish language ability required. Places physicians, nurses, and some teachers and fourth-year medical students.
A 1500 bed hospital located in southern India, which recruits volunteer health professionals for three to six months. Nurses (especially senior nurses with teaching experience) are needed, as are PTs, OTs and other paramedical professionals.
Fellows work in international affairs on scientific and technical subjects either in foreign policy at the US
Department of State or in international development at the US Agency for International Development.
The program is designed to provide fellows with a unique public policy learning experience; to make
practical contributions to the more effective use of scientific and technical knowledge in the US
government; to demonstrate the value of science and technology in solving important societal problems.
US citizens must have a PhD or equivalent doctoral degree at the time of application.
Dissertation Fellowships: dissertation research fellowships for women who are citizens or permanent
residents of the United States. There are no restrictions on the place or field of study or age of the
applicant. For women who are in the final year of writing their dissertations, have
completed all required course work and examinations of the doctorate. Applicants are expected to
receive a doctoral degree at the end of the fellowship year.
Postdoctoral Fellowships: Fellowships support a one-year research leave. Available to women who are citizens or permanent residents of the United States. There are no restrictions on the field or place of study or age of the applicant. Duration is one year.
Summer Research Fellowships: postdoctoral research leave for women faculty at colleges and universities where the teaching load limit active research. Time must be available for eight weeks of active research. Available to women who are citizens or permanent residents of the United States. There are no restrictions on the place of study of age of the applicant. Scholars with strong publishing records should seek other funding or apply for the one year postdoctoral/research fellowship. Duration is eight weeks.
The Educational Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce of Mexico is specifically interested in assisting talented young Mexicans who are studying or working abroad in locating opportunities for re-entry into their home county work force. Their bulletin also has a listing of companies that are accepting US students for internships. For U.S. and Mexican students.
AFCS works in the U.S. and other countries to promote peace, social change, and humanitarian service while assisting the victims of social, economic and political oppression and of war. In various countries of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle-East, AFCS workers conduct programs of social and technical assistance designed to enable people to realize and utilize their own power and resources.
Together with developing partners across Latin America, Africa, and Asia, ATI creates programs that commercialize the technologies which low-income entrepreneurs need to forge viable business and sustainable livelihood. ATI's "business plan" approach builds basic industries and enables producers to capture more value from their products long after ATI's development program ends. Although ATI has no specific intern program, it does however provide students with internship opportunities.
CARE USA's purpose is to help the developing world's poor in their efforts to achieve social and economic well being. CARE supports the processes that create competence and self-sustenance overtime and offers technical assistance, training, food, and other material resources and management in combinations appropriate to local needs and priorities. Although there is no specific internship program, CARE USA publishes a weekly publication of internship and job opportunities.
Offers 3 week volunteer opportunities in grassroots projects in India. Projects in health care, education, the arts and more. Volunteers attend an intensive three-day orientation before beginning work. No skills or experience are required. The only prerequisite is the desire to help others. Volunteers provide their own airfare and pay a tax-deductable fee of $1,650 that covers all program expenses while in India.
Earthwatch recruits paying volunteers to assist scientists on research expeditions around the world. Past projects have included: taking anthropomorphic measurements of under-fives and mothers for nutritional assessment in Nepal and Zimbabwe; investigating the social, cultural and economic factors that impact on care of the elderly in Indonesia; documenting the use of medicinal herbs among the Kharia people in India; determining public awareness of cervical and breast cancer to inform health education efforts in St. Lucia; recording health providers' perspectives about services for the children of AIDS-infected parents in Uganda; exploring intra- and inter-household food distribution in the Philippines; and examining stress-mediated disorders affecting homeless women in Pennsylvania. Grants are also available for qualified researchers wishing to propose a project. Funding inquiries should be directed to the Center for Field Research at the above address.
Internships listed on EDC Job Line at 617/969-7100 ext. 2290
The FHI internship program provides students an opportunity to better understand the international dimension of research and technical assistance programs and enhances skill development. The program provides interns with practical experience to work on projects in reproductive and AIDS programs. For more information, contact the following:
North Carolina Internships
FHI Internship Coordinator
PO BOX 13950
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
919/544-7040
Washington, DC Internships
AIDSCAP Human Resources Coordinator
2120 Wilson Blvd., STE 700
Arlington, VA 22201
703/516-9779
The internship/fellowship program in International Health and Development consists of a graduate course (MED 282) and an on-site internship at a Washington-based or field-based agency. This course is open to all qualified graduate students and recent graduates from any of the consortium universities in fields such as: anthropology, international development studies, public health, nursing, and international affairs. The course lasts for one semester and applicants must register for MED 282 in order to participate in the program.
A private, nonprofit international short-term development organization was founded in 1984 with the goal of helping to establish a foundation for peace through mutual understanding. Our programs center around a one-, two-, or three-week volunteer work experience in Asia, Africa, the Americas, the Caribbean or Europe. At the request of local leaders and indigenous host organizations, Global Volunteers sends teams of volunteers to live and work with local people on human and economic development projects identified by the community as important to its long-term development. In this way, the volunteers' energy, activity and labor are put to use at the same time that they gain a genuine, firsthand understanding of how other people live day to day.
Focuses on the creation of low-cost housing both in the U.S. and in developing countries. Volunteers are accepted from a variety of backgrounds to assist in construction and administration. Ten-week to three-year assignments are offered.
HOLT is an international adoption and child caring agency serving homeless children in Korea, Thailand, the Philippines, India, Hong Kong, Latin America, and the United States. HOLT has no specific internship program, but interns are used according to the needs of the student and the needs of the organization.
The global program of Hunger Project consists of five initiatives: Strategic Planning-in-Action, The Vision, Commitment and Action Workshop, The Africa Prize for Leadership for the Sustainable End of Hunger, Youth Ending Hunger, and Common Front for the End of Hunger. Interns working with The Hunger Project would have an opportunity to participate with the program team on one of the initiatives listed above.
A global network of representatives form all areas of business expertise. Volunteers executives provide managerial and technical assistance through short-term assignments to a variety of industries and services
Provides technical assistance to local organizations in the developing world.
Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential is committed to the significant increase of the ability of all children to perform in the physical, intellectual and social realms. The interns work full-time assisting the clinical staff in a full range of duties: compiling results, observing and caring for our brain-injured children, attending lectures and administrative duties. Interns receive no salary but are provided full room and board.
ODC's programs focus on three issues: the challenge of political and economic transitions and the reform of development dimensions of international responses to global problems; and the development implications of economic security.
This office offers semester internships for students.
Has excellent free Directory of 75 volunteer opportunities here and abroad.
Set up as a UN subsidiary organ in 1970, the United Nations Volunteer Programme (UNV) is administered under the UN Development Programme. It serves as an operational partner in developmental, humanitarian and peace-building programmes at the request of any UN member state, UN agency, NGO or community-based initiatives. Potential applicants must have basic or advanced academic qualifications, several years of working experience in aspects of social development work and a good command of English and/or Arabic, French, Portuguese, Russian or Spanish. A two-page CV is required.
UCS is dedicated to advancing responsible public policies in areas where technology plays a critical role. UCS offers internships in all three of their offices. The Cambridge, MA office offers two internships: one in the Public Outreach Department, and one in the Research Department. The Washington, DC office offers three internship positions, which may include advocacy, outreach, and media work. The Berkeley, CA office offers one internship that focuses on a variety of policy, education, outreach, and media projects relating to transportation issues. For more specific information, contact:
Washington Internships
Cheryl Siebert
Union of Concerned Scientists
1616 P St. NW #310
Washington, DC 20036
202/332-0900
Cambridge Internships
Lori Jackson
UCS
Two Brattle Square
Cambridge, MA 02238
617/547-5552
Berkeley Internships
Jane Kelly
UCS
2397 Shattuck Avenue #203
Berkeley, CA 94704
510/843-1872
International organization which sends volunteers to Africa and Latin America to work with indigenous development organizations, health centers, research institutes and progressive media. Volunteer must pay a program fee and make a one year commitment; Visions arranges work permits, housing, language training, orientation and work placements. Positions in health care, environment, human rights, democratization, women, community development, microenterprise and journalism in Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Burkina Faso and Mexico. Organizes annual Working for Global Justice Conference each Spring in Washington DC. US Internships always available.
Places volunteer consultants from the fields of agriculture and food processing, energy, water supply and sanitation, housing and construction, and small business development. VITA has projects in several developing countries.
Wellstart works cooperatively with health care professionals and institutions, educational facilities, private voluntary organizations, non-governmental organizations, and governments to support and expand optimal infant feeding practices. Anyone interested in applying for a possible internship, should send a letter of application to Wellstart International.
Places young people aged 17-24 in three-month voluntary service projects overseas. Focuses on scientific research and community service projects.
ZPG offers internships in Washington, DC for college graduates, graduate students, and undergraduates with a special interest in environmental issues. Each intern has a responsible role working with a department. One internship is likely to be available in each of the following areas: Field and Outreach, Government Relations, Media/Communications, Population Education, Researching, and Fund raising.
The Directory of International Opportunities is probably the most complete source of information for international opportunities. Please check their website for specific information. Also, the deans office has a copy of specific rotations available in various international destinations.
Over 450 organizations are listed in this valuable resource for those involved in international health.The Directory includes: website and email addresses for many organizations, volunteer opportunities abroad and it is conveniently indexed by "Country" and by "Topics of interest". $35 for NCIH members, $70 for non members.
National Council for International Health
1701 K St. NW #600
Washington, DC 20006-1503
(202) 833-5900, ext. 216, fax: (202) 833-0075)833-5900
email: ncih@ncih.org
web: www.ncih.org
This MOST IMPORTANT SECTION is still under construction. Check back after April 15, 1998 for the completed list. The names of the scholarships listed are accurate but the specific information is still being compiled. If you have any questions, please contact Scott Shreeve.