Category: Internships and Fellowships

Graduate Student Fellowships In Humanitarian Shelter and Settlements (Habitat for Humanity International/USAID)

by ihsection, posted in APHA IH Section, Internships and Fellowships

The deadline however for submission is June 23rd, 2017.

Fellowship Description: USAID/OFDA seeks to support the thesis or professional report writing efforts of two Fellows during the summer of 2017. Fellows will be graduate students currently enrolled full-time in accredited North American graduate school programs or North Americans studying abroad in similar graduate programs, in the following disciplines:

  • City, Urban, Environmental, or Regional Planning, and
  • Architecture or Architectural engineering

Ideally, successful candidates would be first-year, Masters-level, graduate students, in the programs listed above, who are interested in commencing work on a thesis or professional report as a requirement for graduation. The topic of this graduate student research would be focused on any of the following topics of interest:

  • Managing the transition of humanitarian shelter to permanent housing
  • Linking and incorporating hazard mapping efforts into settlements planning to promote risk reduction
  • Post-disaster neighbourhood-level planning efforts designed to promote safer, sustainable, and resilient shelters and settlements
  • Post-disaster emergency urban planning to reconfigure disaster-affected settlements to promote risk reduction, increase shelter opportunities, and accelerate recovery
  • Measuring the contribution of humanitarian shelter to the recovery of disaster-affected households and/or communities.
  • Identification and review of assessment tools (including GIS and open source mapping technologies) intended to better understand and deal with the urban context, thereby informing efforts to support effective and expeditious humanitarian S&S sector activities
  • Informal land management and tenure mechanisms that promote risk reduction or ensure occupancy of land and housing for displaced/vulnerable populations.

 

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Fellowship Opportunity: UCL Marmot Prince Mahidol Fellowships

by ihsection, posted in APHA IH Section, Education Opportunities (Workshops, Conferences, Etc), Internships and Fellowships

The UCL Marmot Prince Mahidol Fellowships are available to researchers committed to reducing inequalities in health within their countries. Applicants are likely to have completed doctoral training by the time of entry into the program in one of a variety of fields including, but not limited to: behavioural and social sciences, biomedical sciences, health professions, and public policy.  The Fellowships are designed to help develop the next cadre of researchers working in the area of inequalities in health, whilst building strategic global links between UCL and other institutions worldwide.

Fellowships will last for up to one year, with fellows being required to use the residency at UCL within the Institute of Health Equity (IHE).  Up to three awards for fellowships are available for 2017/18.  The deadline for applications is May 31, 2017.  For more information about the selection criteria and process, please visit: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/iehc/iehc-news/ucl-marmot-prince-mahidol-fellowships.  Applicants are welcome to discuss their research questions and potential costs by correspondence prior to submitting their application. Please email correspondence to: contact@iheucl.org.

Two Summer/Fall Internships with the Communications Committee

by ihsection, posted in APHA IH Section, Internships and Fellowships, Section Announcements

The IH Section’s Communications Committee is currently seeking two summer and/or fall interns! We are looking for two interns to post regularly to the IH Blog and the Section’s social media platforms, contribute to Global Health Communications Committee activities, and assist with the Global Health Jobs Analysis project. The position is unpaid, but it is remote and entirely web-based and thus can be combined with another opportunity. The weekly time commitment will be 15-20 hours a week distributed in any way that the intern can complete their duties.

The ideal candidate a self-starter who can initiate activities based on new ideas and complete projects with minimal supervision and guidance.

Qualifications: Must be a Student or Early Career Professional member of the American Public Health Association.

Not yet a member of APHA? Interested candidates may submit an application and, if selected, join before beginning the internship period. See https://www.apha.org/become-a-member/ for more information.

How to Apply: Interested candidates should e-mail a resume/CV and two writing samples to ihsection.communications@gmail.com. Please include the cover letter in the body of the e-mail.

Two Fellowships with upcoming application deadlines: Donald M. Payne (USAID) and Global Health Corps

by ihsection, posted in APHA IH Section, Internships and Fellowships

Below please find information about two fellowship programs that could be of interest to global health students, recent graduates, and new professionals.

Global Health Corps Fellowship: Positions available in Burundi, Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda, Zambia, and the U.S.
To be selected as a Global Health Corps fellow you must:

  • Be 30 or under at the start of the fellowship
  • Have an undergraduate university degree by July 2014
  • Be proficient in English

Application Timeline for the 2014-2015 Fellowship:

  • November 6, 2013: Part 1 of the application opens
  • December 6, 2013: Position descriptions posted online. Part 2 of the application opens
  • January 26, 2014: Applications close at 11:59pm EST
  • February 17, 2014: 2 recommendation forms and Proof of Identity and Proof of Education documents due
  • February – March 2014: Each application is reviewed by at least two readers
  • March 2014: up to 10 semi-finalists are selected for each fellowship position. All candidates are notified of their application status by email
  • March 2014: All semi-finalists are interviewed by Global Health Corps and 3-5 finalists per position are selected
  • March 2014-April 2014: All finalists are interviewed by the placement organizations
  • April-May 2014: Fellowship offers extended

Fellows come from a wide range of educational and professional backgrounds, as each individual fellowship position requires different specific skills. Make sure to check out our fellowship FAQs page.

USAID Donald M. Payne Fellowship (through Howard University)

The Payne Program is designed to attract outstanding young people to careers in international development as USAID Foreign Service Officers. The Payne Fellowship Program provides benefits valued at up to $90,000 over two years toward a two-year master’s degree, arranges internships on Capitol Hill and at USAID missions overseas, and provides professional development and support activities. Fellows who successfully complete the program become USAID Foreign Service Officers. Fellows may use the fellowship to attend a two-year master’s program in a U.S. institution to study an area of relevance to the USAID Foreign Service, including international development, international relations, public policy, business administration, foreign languages, economics, agriculture, environmental sciences, health, or urban planning at a graduate or professional school approved by the Payne Program. At the end of the two-year fellowship, Fellows enter the USAID Foreign Service. Applicants must be college seniors or graduates looking to start graduate school in the fall of the year they apply, have GPAs of at least 3.2 and be U.S. citizens. The program welcomes applications from those with any undergraduate major and encourages applications from members of minority groups historically underrepresented in the USAID Foreign Service and those with financial need. Information and application materials for the program are available at http://www.paynefellows.org.

Application deadline: January 27, 2014

APHA’s 2013 Fellowship in Government: Deadline is April 9

by ihsection, posted in Information and Social Media, Internships and Fellowships

The deadline for applications for the 2013 APHA Fellowship in Government (including CV and three letters of recommendation) for the 2013 APHA Public Health Fellowship in Government is Monday, April 9, 2012.

Applications and additional information are available on APHA’s website. Please note there are two steps to the application process and both parts must be completed by April 9.

For more information, contact Charlene Bright at charlene.bright@apha.org.