Fieldwork Opportunities as of Monday May 16, 2022

POSITION: Internships (Various)

ORGANIZATION: White House Initiative on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders Careers and Internships

WHIAANHPI offers full-time student volunteer internships year-round (spring, summer, and fall). Part-time applicants who can commit to at least 20 hours a week will be considered, although the Initiative prioritizes full-time applicants (32-40 hours a week). Internships will be based in Washington, DC, with the option to work remotely.

The Initiative is responsible for the implementation of President Joe Biden’s Executive Order 14031, dated May 28, 2021. Its purpose is to drive an ambitious whole-of-government agenda to advance equity, justice, and opportunity for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AA and NHPI) communities. The Initiative is housed at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services within the Office for Civil Rights.

Interns at the Initiative are responsible for assisting the staff on a wide range of AA and NHPI issues and priorities, including addressing anti-Asian bias and hate, COVID-19 recovery, capacity building, civil rights, data disaggregation, economic development, education, health, language access, workforce diversity, and more. In addition, interns will help write policy memos and proposals, draft blogs, assist with communications and social media, help coordinate and staff events, and assist with outreach to national and local AA and NHPI organizations and leaders.

Applicants for intern positions must be undergraduate or graduate students who are enrolled or accepted for enrollment as a diploma, certificate, or degree-seeking student. Ideally, the candidate will already be familiar with AA and NHPI issues and have outstanding writing, research, communications, and computer skills.

How to Apply:

If you are interested in applying via the student volunteer program, email WHIAANHPI@hhs.gov  with the subject line “Internship Application for WHIAANHPI.” With your email include:

• Dates that you are available for the internship (minimum of 2 months)
• Location preference of your internship (Washington, DC; or remote)
• Resume
• A written statement that describes (1) an issue that affects the AA and NHPI community on a national level, (2) a strategy that you would implement at the Initiative to address that issue, and (3) the organizations and/or federal agencies with whom you would collaborate and why. The statement should be no more than one page, single-spaced in Times New Roman, 12 point font.

Note: If you are not accepted to this program, your application may be passed onto other federal agencies for consideration.

Deadlines:

Fall 2022 and Spring 2023 session deadlines to be announced

Note: Fall and Spring session applications by students on a quarter system will be considered on a rolling basis.

All applicants must be:

• At least 18 years of age
• Enrolled in or accepted for enrollment in a degree-seeking program at an accredited academic institution
• Authorized to work in the United States
• All interns must go through a security background check.

A limited number of paid internships may be available (check USAJobs.gov for HHS “Pathways” internship postings), and we also encourage potential interns to seek course credit or funding through external programs. The United States Government does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability and genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, or other non-merit factor.

To view the official job posting: WHIAANHPI

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POSITION: Various Openings

ORGANIZATION: Healing Histories Project

The Healing Histories Project collaborates with healers, medical practitioners, organizers, media makers, cultural and memory workers who believe that all deserve care and support during times of crisis, vulnerability & resistance. We come together to inform and shape a vision for collective care and safety while integrating models of wellness that seek to transform and intervene on medical violence, harms, and abuses rooted in racism and capitalism. We are engaging individuals, communities and institutions to remember these abuses and harms by catalyzing research, action and movement-building strategies. We do this through the creation of popular education tools, workshop curriculum, cultural and political events and more.

The Healing Histories Project (HHP) is currently working to digitize the research we have gathered over 11 years, chronicling 500+ years of history of the Medical Industrial Complex (MIC) in a timeline that centers Black, Indigenous and immigrant experiences & resistance to the MIC. This will be an interactive and accessible digital timeline and curriculum.

Internship Descriptions:

1. We are seeking a summer intern (May 30-August 5, 2022 ~ dates flexible) to assist in gathering digital images for our interactive timeline on the history of the Medical Industrial Complex. The Digital Image Curator intern will work closely with the Digital Project Manager to identify images to accompany the events on the timeline, save them in an appropriate format, and link them to the timeline spreadsheet. The internship will last approximately 10 weeks, with 15 hours of work expected per week, and will be compensated with a $3750 stipend.

Qualifications:

• Advanced undergraduate or graduate student preferred; applicants with other relevant work/life experience considered;

• Interest and alignment with the mission of ending violence, experimentation and medical abuses rooted in enslavement and colonization and a commitment to building new systems of healing and care;

• Digital literacy (with Google Suite, Slack, Zoom etc.) and familiarity working with digital images, including converting between formats;

• Interest and study in racial and disability justice, abolition, history, gender studies, medicine and/or social sciences and humanities;
• Consistent communicator; self-directed and comfortable setting own schedule;
• Attention to detail and thoughtfulness about legal requirements for digital image use (royalties, copyright-free images etc.)

Benefits:

• Opportunity to learn about the history of the MIC and resistance movements;
• Skill-building in creating digital learning tools for popular education;
• $3750 stipend.

1. We are seeking a summer intern (May 30-August 5, 2022 ~ dates flexible) to assist in the final stages of research for our timeline of the Medical Industrial Complex. The Research Assistant intern will work closely with the Research Leads and Digital Project Manager to research historical events on the timeline, create permanent links to our source material, and finalize the bibliography for our project. The internship will last approximately 10 weeks, with 15 hours of work expected per week, and will be compensated with a $3750 stipend.

Qualifications:

• Advanced undergraduate or graduate student preferred; applicants with other relevant work/life experience considered;

• Interest and alignment with the mission of ending violence, experimentation and medical abuses rooted in enslavement and colonization and a commitment to building new systems of healing and care;
• Experience with academic research and managing citations;
• Digital literacy (with Google Suite, Slack, Zoom etc.)
• Interest and study in racial and disability justice, abolition, history, gender studies, medicine and/or social sciences and humanities;
• Consistent communicator; self-directed and comfortable setting own schedule.

Benefits:

• Opportunity to learn about the history of the MIC and resistance movements;
• Skill-building in research and creating digital learning tools for popular education;
• $3750 stipend.

Please submit a resume and short letter of interest to healinghistoriesproject@gmail.com by May 15.

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POSITION: Gil Addo Harlem Health Fellowship

ORGANIZATION: The Harlem Health Initiative (HHI) at CUNY SPH

Program description: The Harlem Health Initiative (HHI) at CUNY SPH launched in February 2020, just before the COVID-19 pandemic began. At its core, HHI is a technical assistance and training program to bolster community-based organizations (CBOs). Its single aim is to improve the health and wellbeing of the Harlem community through relationship building with existing coalitions and networks of CBOs, while also ensuring CUNY SPH’s status as a community-centered institution, part of the fabric of Harlem. The Initiative prioritizes consistent community representation and engagement when considering programming and policy as opposed to integrating community perspectives only when buy-in is necessary. As a result of its footprint and suite of support, HHI has enabled the school to garner nearly $7 million in research and community program funding that directly addresses critical health issues facing Harlem, including a task-shifting program to identify mental health concerns among residents in housing projects, establishing a community co-laboratory with CBOs to establish and enhance health equity programming, and building vaccine literacy through health communications and partner training activities. The Initiative provides community organizations with up-to-date health data, supports survey work, and engages student interns in community practice. HHI also works with Harlem’s elected and government officials to educate them about health issues like food insecurity, mental health, and COVID-19 impacts, and helps them understand how legislation can be supported by CUNY SPH’s work.

The portfolio of community engagement activities of HHI has expanded greatly over the last two years in an unexpected and unprecedented way. The Initiative’s Director, Ms. Deborah Levine, supports the school’s community portfolio. The Gil Addo Harlem Health Fellowship (“Fellowship”) will allow Ms. Levine to hire two student fellows at the master’s or doctoral level who will partner with her over a two-year period. Addo Fellows will be responsible for project management and general support of the Harlem Health Initiative.

Position Overview: This role will support HHI Director Deborah Levine and Program Manager Claire Ogburn and help ensure that the team meets program goals and deliverables in a timely and effective manner. The position’s responsibilities encompass community engagement and outreach for a variety of community-based research projects and initiatives; data gathering and analysis; community partner communication and support; research on health and wellness indicators for Harlem, the neighborhood’s CBOs and FBOs, and the impact of COVID-19 on Harlem; database assembly and management; developing health communications materials; and workstream alignment. This is a part-time position at 20 hours per week, per semester (15 weeks) at a rate of $35 per hour. Fellows are asked to make a 2-year commitment. 

Gil Addo Harlem Health Fellow Responsibilities: Under the leadership of the HHI Director and Program Manager, Fellows will:

Fellow 1:

• Develop a global partnership “master” database for CUNY SPH that can be accessed and leveraged by all school programs, including key programmatic partners: the Office of Experiential Learning and Career Services, the Pandemic Response Institute, Harlem Strong, CIRGH, the Vaccine Literacy Campaign, etc. 
• Liaise with the aforementioned offices and initiatives to ensure cross-communication of activities; maintain a record of concurrent research, outreach, and programs
• Identify indicators to include across SPH-led survey work of both community partners and the SPH student / alumni community
• Assist with development and execution of HHI’s 2022 Webinar Series
• Support the Pandemic Response Institute (PRI)’s Community Convening and Learning Team (CCLT), including database creation & management, liaising with NYC Department of Health and Department of Emergency Management, and attendance at virtual meetings.
• Other duties as assigned. 

Fellow 2:

• Develop an uptown charter book to develop the “who” and the “what” of health policy players and the state of health in Harlem. 
• Create a central dashboard database that displays aggregate data sets; coordinate with other CUNY SPH dashboards 
• Support the evolution and integration of advisory councils across CUNY SPH
• Support data collection, analysis and reporting efforts to understand and publicize the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on Harlem’s residents, organizations, and community leaders.
• Aid with writing funding proposals for multiple research and community projects.
• Assist with recruitment and outreach of community partners.
• Other duties as assigned. 

Qualifications:

• Master’s or Doctoral student at CUNY SPH in good academic standing
• Desired candidate qualifications: 
• Demonstrated commitment to social and racial equity 
• Database development / management and information architecture skills (experience with AirTable or other project management software, a plus)
• Quantitative and qualitative data gathering and analysis skills
• Strong writing skills
• Experience working with community-based, faith-based organizations, and/or social services organizations (outreach, engagement, partnership development and management)
• Development of culturally competent, linguistically-sensitive health communications materials, including infographics
• Experience working within the Harlem community is a plus
• Other language proficiency, a plus

To apply, please email your cover letter and resume to HarlemHealth@sph.cuny.edu by May 31, 2022, and indicated which fellow position (i.e., “1,” “2,” or “both”) you wish to apply for. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis.

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POSITION: Summer Intern (Unpaid)

ORGANIZATION: The Solution Lab

The Solution Lab provides part-time management consulting experiences to students and recent graduates from advanced degree backgrounds in lifesciences, healthcare, and business. We are pleased to provide volunteer opportunities for our Summer 2022 project cycle. We currently have projects available with clients in equity research, biotech, big pharma, and management consulting firms themselves. After the deadline, applications will be accepted on a rolling basis, as needed.

2022 Summer Application Deadline: Sunday, May 15th

Interested individuals should submit a resume (one page format only please) and a cover letter (in bullet point format) as soon as possible to recruiting@thesolutionlab.org. 

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Position: Fall 2022 Fieldwork Placement

Organization Ryan Health, Department of Population Health, Patient Navigation for Concrete Services and Social Determinants of Health

Program Description: Over the last year, Ryan Health’s population health department has expanded its outreach and screening services to determine and address concrete service needs in the community. The program has proved highly successful and in much demand as many of Ryan Health’s patients come from low-income, low-resource environments. The PRAPARE screen, an evidence-based social determinants of health screening tool, is sent to patients before their appointments. Results from these screenings are collected and entered into the electronic health record (clinical Works). If a patient has a positive PRAPARE screen and indicates on the tool that they would like to be contacted by a patient navigator for concrete services, the initial contact is made within 3 days of the patient completing the tool. The patient discusses their needs with the patient navigator and is then linked to any needed concrete services.

The population health department uses a platform called the “Here for You Community Resource Hub” to help guide staff and patients to available resources based on zip code. The platform is maintained on a regular basis and has up-to-date information about its organizations, including services provided, contact information, hours, and location. The concrete services with the highest demand by Ryan Health patients are housing, food banks, food pantries, and food distribution centers.

Fieldwork Position Overview: The role will support Ryan Health’s Patient Navigator for Concrete Services by helping to facilitate implementation of the PRAPARE screening tool and linking patients to the needed concrete services. Activities will be documented in both the electronic health record and the Community Resource Hub. The position requires excellent communication skills, the ability to work with patients from diverse backgrounds and ethnicities, outreach, resource support, linkage to care, and follow-up if necessary. Bi-lingual Spanish, French, Creole, Arabic, or any world language would be useful but is not required. The role also requires the ability to listen with empathy and develop rapport with each patient as they open to their needs, challenges, and life issues.

This fieldwork position would be totaling 180 hours from August 2022 through December 2022 (10 hours per week) and would finish at the same time as the CUNY Fall semester.

Patient Navigation for Concrete Services Fieldwork Responsibilities:

All points listed below will be under supervision and leadership from Supervisor of Care Coordination. This role will work closely with our existing Patient Navigator for Concrete Services.

• Transfer PRAPARE screening tool from the online LUMA platform to the electronic health record (eCW)
• Contact Patients requesting concrete services
• Link patients to the required services
• Confirm successful linkage to services
• Utilize and document in the “Here for You” community resource platform
• Develop additional community resource relationships within the community
• Promote intradepartmental PRAPARE screening tool and linkage services
• Attend weekly supervision sessions
• Attend monthly Social Determinants of Health meetings
• Work with Quality Improvement department on reports and reporting requirements
• Attend monthly Care Coordination meetings
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

• Student in good academic standing at CUNY SPH
• Attention to detail and patient charts
• Time management skills
• Passion for Social Determinants of Health (SDOH), health inequalities, and bridging the gap in health disparities

To apply please email your resume to: Sarahjane.Rath@ryancenter.org

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POSITION: Summer 2022 Fieldwork Placement

ORGANIZATION: Harlem United

Harlem United is interested in partnering with the School of Public Health and offering an MPH, MS or DPH student an opportunity to complete their fieldwork project at our site.  Please see below for information about the organization and our proposed project.

Organization Description

For over 30 years, Harlem United has led the charge as the agency of last resort for underserved communities of color, going above and beyond to meet the needs of the community with resilience, passion, and willingness.  As a nonprofit, community-based organization, our services include high-quality healthcare, supportive and emergency housing, and integrative supportive services that address the continual changes of our client communities.

Preceptor Contact Information

Danielle Strauss, PhD, MPH

Associate Vice President of Evaluation & Population Health

Dstrauss@harlemunited.org

212-803-2850 Ext. 2452

646-675-9918

Project Description

The health clinic at Harlem United is a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), which is a federally funded primary care provider dedicated to serving the community’s most vulnerable populations. As an FQHC, we are required to report on a set of quality indicators around chronic disease management, preventive services, and screenings. This data is stored in our Electronic Health Record (EHR) system and exported to a third-party Health Information Technology (HIT) platform that offers tools for population management, data visualization, and data reporting. To access these tools for quality improvement projects, we need to ensure the data in the system is reliable through a series of data cleaning and validation processes.

There are three aims to this project:

1. Clean and validate quality data between the EHR system and the HIT platform to improve data reliability and open a new suite of tools to the Evaluation and Population Health team.
2. Create a schedule and protocol for data validation between the two platforms.
3. Support the Colorectal Cancer Screening Quality Sub-Committee with project evaluation and quality improvement tools, utilizing the HIT platform where possible.

The fieldwork student would be responsible for:

• Validating quality measure data, including identifying discrepancies and investigating potential causes
• Creating a calendar for data validation so that data quality is monitored regularly
• Write a protocol that describes the mapping and validation process
• Adapt tools in the HIT platform to support the colorectal cancer screening quality sub-committee
• If possible: provide quality improvement process guidance and evaluation expertise to the colorectal cancer screening team.

Student Qualifications

• Basic quantitative analysis skills
• Experience cleaning and manipulating data
• Experience in project evaluation, work plan management, or quality improvement
• Ability to work independently and remotely
• Proficiency in excel a plus
• Attention to detail

Application Instructions

• Interested students should submit their resume to the agency Preceptor for consideration. Eligible candidates will be contacted for an interview.