Internship and fellowship postings as of November 30, 2022 - CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy

POSITION: PhD Student Fellow (part-time)

ORGANIZATION: CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute

The CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute is an academic research and action center based at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy. Our work focuses on providing evidence to inform public policies that promote equitable access to healthy, affordable food, fair labor practices in the food chain, and reduction in diet-related diseases.

The Institute is seeking to hire a PhD Student Fellow who will partner with us over a two-year period and assist the team with the implementation of a research project focusing on advancing food equity in the New York metropolitan region. The project will help build a task force of CUNY and regional stakeholders and provide food justice advocates and supporters with the evidence to persuade policy makers and the public about the value, public benefits, and merits of their policy proposals, including regional food systems proposals in the domains of institutional food procurement, food labor, and the reduction of unhealthy food marketing and diet-related disease.

The Fellow will assist the Institute research team and regional task force members with the development of detailed plans to improve food procurement by public agencies, address poor working conditions for low-wage food workers, and cope with diet-related diseases that contribute to health inequities. The Fellowship also involves identification, engagement, and the maintenance of working relationships with relevant CUNY and external stakeholder organizations in NYC and the metropolitan region and the quarterly convening of a taskforce of experts.

Fellows should be enrolled in a CUNY PhD Program in public health or a related field and be in good academic standing. The ideal candidate for this Fellowship will have experience working on regional food systems, food policy issues, and/or the underlying causes of health inequities in the New York metropolitan region. Superior writing skills, excellent attention to detail, and the ability to communicate effectively are required. The faculty supervisors for the Fellowship will be Dr. Nick Freudenberg, Distinguished Professor of Public Health at CUNY SPH and Co-Founder and Senior Faculty Fellow at CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute and Dr. Nevin Cohen, Associate Professor at CUNY SPH and Director of the CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute.

Candidates should submit your resume/CV and a cover letter stating your interest and background in food policy. Interested applicants can contact Craig Willingham, Managing Director of the CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute (Craig.Willingham@sph.cuny.edu)

Stipend: $4,000 to $5,000 per semester

Hours: Part-time position ~10 hours per week per semester beginning in January 2023. Fellows are asked to make a 2-year commitment.

Application Deadline: Friday December 9, 2022

To view job description posting, click here: CUNY PhD Student Fellow, CUFPI

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POSITION: Graduate Student Intern(s), Center for Opioid Epidemiology & Policy (part-time)

ORGANIZATION: NYU Langone Health, Epidemiology Division, Dept of Population Health

The Department of Population Health at NYU Langone Health is seeking 3 Graduate Student Interns (15- 20 hours/week) for a project assessing local harm reduction policies, local harm reduction service availability, and overdose. Duties will include collecting, coding and cleaning online policy data, as well as retrieving data on harm reduction services online and from organizations. Work will primarily be conducted via Zoom.

Compensation: $18- $20 per hour

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree
Enrollment in graduate program related to policy studies, law or public health
Experience with Microsoft Word and Excel and Google Docs and Sheets
Experience collecting data for research purposes.
Demonstrated conscientiousness and attention to detail.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with online data collection.
Experience using online databases that house government documents and policies for local jurisdictions (e.g., Municode, American Legal Publishing).
Experience with variable coding following a detailed protocol.
Strong work ethic with the ability to work independently and meet deadlines.
Personable with an ability to work well with others.
Interest in pursuing a career in public health and/or research.

Job Duties:

Collect and organize policy data from databases of government documents
Assist with cleaning and coding quantitative and qualitative data.
Collect and organize data on location and type of harm reduction organizations across the US.
Attend weekly project meetings and communicate as needed with research coordinators and project investigators.
Assist with administrative tasks and project reporting as needed.
Other duties as assigned.

Please send cover letter and resume to caroline.barnes@nyulangone.org

Caroline Barnes, MPH – Senior Project Manager, Center for Opioid Epidemiology and Policy

NYU Langone Health, Department of Population Health

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POSITION: Changemaker Fellow (10-month leadership development program, Feb-Dec 2023)

ORGANIZATION: Equity Changemakers Institute, Center for Healthcare Strategies (CHCS)

Changemakers offers an intensive 10-month leadership development program for up to 15 competitively selected senior-level leaders with significant oversight over their agency’s programmatic and policy efforts to advance health equity, reduce disparities in health care, and improve health outcomes. All Changemakers services will be provided at no cost to the participants. Changemakers participants will be reimbursed for their travel and related costs, such as airfare, accommodations, and meals.

The objectives of Changemakers are to: (1) strengthen participants’ knowledge and skills to enhance inclusive leadership and advance an organization’s equity strategy; (2) increase knowledge and use of policy levers to advance health equity, reduce disparities in health care, and improve health outcomes; (3) increase capacity and resiliency to navigate power structures, organizational cultures, and potential resistance while building consensus among a range of stakeholders in promoting policies that support more equitable health outcomes; and (4) build peer relationships and foster a network of state and territory leaders leading health equity initiatives to better sustain long-term change.

Eligibility:

Public sector health and human leaders from all states, commonwealths, and territories charged with leading their agency’s health policy efforts to advance health equity, reduce disparities in health care, and improve health outcomes.
Leaders from child welfare, long-term care, Medicaid, mental health, substance use treatment, public health, and broader health and human services “super agencies” are eligible to apply.

Info Session: November 30, 2022, 4:00 pm (ET)

By Phone, call 877-853- 5247 and use meeting code 436 073 4612

By Video/ZOom, please use this link: https://chcs.zoom.us/j/4360734612

Application Deadline: December 7, 2022 5:00pm (ET)

Interested applicants and any question can email:

Lauren Moran, Associate Director of Leadership and Capacity building, (lmoran@chcs.org)
or Tiffany Enos, Senior Fellow (tenos@chcs.org) with questions regarding eligibility.

For more information, please visit the website: https://www.chcs.org/project/equity-changemakers-institute/

To view the program description: Equity Changemakers Institute Program

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POSITION: Paid Internship – Summer Transportation Program for Diverse Groups (STIPDG):

ORGANIZATION: Volpe Center, U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT)

The Summer Transportation Internship Program for Diverse Groups (STIPDG) internship program is a unique opportunity for graduate students to get hands-on experience for a fulfilling, paid 10-week summer internship in public service while learning more about transportation challenges and advancements in the U.S. In partnership with the U.S. Department of Transportation, this program is a critical part of the agency’s employee recruitment efforts. Help make the U.S. home to the safest, most efficient and convenient transportation system in the world.

You’ll get a chance to build your network, develop new skills, and learn about open positions at the DOT. STIPDG 2023 will be held in-person at Department of Transportation offices in Washington, D.C. and across the country. Your assignment to one of the DOT’s Operating Administrations is based on your major and geographic preference. Internships are located in Washington, D.C. and in regional DOT offices across the U.S.

Compensation includes $5,000 stipend for graduate school students. Sponsorship covers the cost of the program and, only if held in-person, fully-furnished housing (if needed) and roundtrip travel to your assignment location (if your permanent residence is more than 50 miles away). You will be responsible for living expenses and local transportation.

Eligibility requirements: Prospective candidates must be a U.S. Citizen and a graduate student, enrolled in the Fall 2023 semester

Application Deadline: January 31, 2023

Info Session Webinar: 3pm, Tuesday, December 6th, RSVP here

If you have any questions, or would like to learn more about this program, please RSVP to join the Info Session Webinar 3:00pm Tuesdays, Dec 6th or contact dotstipdg@twc.edu

With the passage of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, it is an incredibly exciting time to be working in transportation. Transportation may not be the first job a typical public health student thinks of, but when one thinks about it transportation impacts every part of our daily lives. Some examples of Volpe work that may interest public health students:

Addressing historical inequities from previous infrastructure efforts
Modeling and analysis to help mitigate environmental impacts from infrastructure investments
Analyzing data and communicating it in a simplified manner to a wide audience
Policy and program evaluation
Improving transportation safety

Interested student applicants can connect with Angie Byrne, MPH, MCHES, CPH (she/her) to hear what it is like to work as a public health person in the transportation sector and, if applicable, connect them to colleagues that share similar interests of research and practice. Angie is Program Analyst I Program Development and Capacity Building

Volpe, The National Transportation Systems Center | U.S. Department of Transportation

Contact Angie via Email at angie.byrne@dot.gov

Read more about this opportunity at the STIPDG website here.

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POSITION: 2023 Preparedness Fellowship

ORGANIZATION: NYC Office of Emergency Preparedness and Response (NYC-OEPR)

Pipeline to Preparedness Fellowship Cohort of 2023 (see program flier here) from NYC Office of Emergency Preparedness and Response (NYC-OEPR) offers fellows:

Timeframe: 10 months January to October
Fellows work hours per week: Minimum 15 hours; Maximum 35 hours
Fellows work during OEPR ‘s work hours (9-5 Monday – Friday)
Currently Remote
Stipend Fellowship

Select 2 Projects that you have high interest, coursework and/or experience

Situational Awareness Expansion
OEPR Origin Stories/Health Equity
Crisis Standards of Care
Analysis of Public Communications
Public Health Emergency Workforce Development

APPLICATION PROCESS:

Send Resume + Cover Letter indicating the projects you’re interested in working on

Any questions, Interested applicants can contact Janaya Little via email at JLITTLE1@HEALTH.NYC.GOV

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POSITION: Postdoctoral Fellow, Health Evaluation and Analytics Lab (HEAL)

ORGANIZATION: NYU Grossman School of Medicine

The Health Evaluation and Analytics Lab (HEAL)-led by Dr. Charles Neighbors-is offering a postdoctoral fellowship with emphasis on improving treatment for substance use disorders in a large regulated system. The position offers unique opportunities to work closely with state policy makers as well as administrative data (e.g., Medicaid, treatment registry). Dr. Neighbors is behavioral scientist who brings together clinical, statistical, and business expertise to understand and inform about healthcare reform and its impact on individuals struggling with addictions and mental health disorders. His research focuses on examining quality and efficiency of the current treatment system for Substance Use Disorders (SUDs), studying the impact of system reform efforts, and bringing evidence-based interventions to practice.

HEAL is a unique research resource that contains New York Medicaid and other state administrative data to support studies of health and healthcare. The postdoctoral fellow will work within one of HEAL’s Cores: Addiction Health Services Research (AHSR). The mission of AHSR is to work with government agencies and community partners to improve the quality of care for individuals with addiction. The Core uses sophisticated analyses of large administrative data, qualitative data collection, and randomized step-wedge trials of interventions targeting organizations to improve the effectiveness of clinical practices while addressing issues of race/ethnicity, gender, social determinants, and their intersections.

Dr. Neighbors leads a portfolio of NIH-funded studies focusing on studying the addiction treatment system in New York State as well as interventions to improve quality of care. The Lab has a special emphasis on disparities in treatment.

The Fellow will collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of health services researchers, implementation scientists, organizational management researchers, state policy makers, and other and public health officials to advance the aims of these projects. There will be an opportunity to engage in all stages of research, from design through publication and dissemination. The Fellow will work independently to develop and execute complex analysis of data, including spearheading specific sub-projects and making decisions and recommendations about analytical techniques, scope, and approach. The Fellow will have ample opportunities to attend scientific meetings, present results at professional conferences as well as to interested state-level stakeholders, develop independent research projects, first-author research articles, and assist in developing grant applications.

Job Responsibilities

Participate in discussions to shape the direction of the research project with a stellar team of interdisciplinary scientists
Maintain a thorough knowledge of advances in their specialized field and contribute creative ideas and approaches
Work effectively with large, complex, and noisy administrative data to solve challenging problems
Define scope and selection of advanced econometric and statistical techniques according to study design, including cohort analyses. Time series, difference-in-differences and related techniques
Clearly communicate processes used and results achieved to technical and non-technical audiences; lead critical discussions of results and techniques
Detect and address complex issues in data and analytics, suggest new and alternative approaches to solve problems
Draft articles for peer-reviewed publications, as well as reports and presentations to a range of audiences

Minimum Qualifications

PhD in Behavioral Sciences, Health Services Research, Public Health, Public Policy, Statistics, Biostatistics, Economics, Sociology or related quantitative or mixed-methods research field.
Advanced quantitative analytical skills and demonstrated experience running complex analyses.
Experience or interest in qualitative research methods
Proficiency in at least one programming language.
Solid experience working with large data to answer complex questions.
Excellent written and oral communication skills.
Strong ability to identify, analyze and solve problems.
Self-directed and able to manage priorities on multiple projects simultaneously.

Fellowship begins in Summer/Fall 2023.

How to Apply: Interested candidates should send a CV, a cover letter explaining their research experience and their interest in this position, and contact information for three references to Kamila.Kiszko@nyulangone.org

To view the detailed job description posting: Postdoc Fellow, NYU Langone (HEAL)

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POSITION: Postdoctoral Associate

ORGANIZATION: Weill Cornell Medicine, Division of Comparative Effectiveness in the Department of Population Health Sciences

Weill Cornell Medicine’s Division of Comparative Effectiveness in the Department of Population Health Sciences is seeking a Postdoctoral Associate interested in comparative-economic evaluations of substance use disorder interventions, alongside clinical trials and cohort studies across multiple settings.

The candidate will work on a multidisciplinary team, under the direction of Sean Murphy, PhD, a leading health economist in the field of addiction. The candidate will learn new empirical methods for conducting cost-effectiveness analysis, and will lead data analyses of multiple NIH-funded projects. Weill Cornell offers a vibrant, team-oriented environment, where personal and professional development are encouraged. The successful candidate has:

a PhD in economics or closely-related field
health-related research experience
strong written- and oral-communication skills
strong teamwork skills
interest in SUDs
a willingness to travel to US-based research sites

Application deadline: 1/31/2023

Interested applicants can email Philip Jeng at phj2003@med.cornell.edu

To view the official posting: Find the full announcement HERE.

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POSITION: Postdoctoral Associate – Center for Health Economics of Treatment Interventions for Substance Use Disorder, HCV, and HIV (CHERISH)

ORGANIZATION: Weill Cornell Medicine

Yuhua Bao, PhD, associate professor of population health sciences at Weill Cornell Medicine, is recruiting a postdoctoral associate to conduct population data-driven health services and policy research with a focus on opioid use disorder, chronic pain, mental health and co-existing conditions. Leveraging the CHERISH research infrastructure, the postdoctoral associate will also receive training in research designs and statistical methods of comparative economic and effectiveness research including cost-effectiveness analysis conducted alongside clinical trials.

Please contact Jared Leff (jal2033@med.cornell.edu) with questions.

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POSITION: CUNY CEESP Fellow

ORGANIZATION: CUNY Cancer Epidemiology Education in Special Populations (CEESP)

The CEESP Program provides funding to students to conduct mentored cancer research in global and U.S. minority settings. This research training program has been funded by the NIH/NCI grant # (R25 CA112383) since 2006 to develop careers of public health students from all schools and program of public health in the U.S. in the field of cancer epidemiology and cancer prevention and control.

#ICYMI – watch CUNY SPH event Info Session video here

Interested applicants can email: Dr. Amr Soliman (asoliman@med.cuny.edu)

Application Deadline: January 24th of each year for summer research the following year

To view the official posting: https://ceesp.ccny.cuny.edu/apply/

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POSITION: Applied Public Health Informatics Fellowship (APHIF)

ORGANIZATION: Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE)

Applied Public Health Informatics Fellowship (APHIF) is a 2-year fellowship funded by CDC in which recent graduates and early career professionals work in a state or local health agency under the guidance of two experienced mentors.

Fellows work in a full-time role and will work on informatics projects at their host site.
Some of the top benefits of this program, according to former fellows, are the mentorship, connection with their peer cohort, and flexibility to take on a variety of projects and expand their skill set.
This fellowship is open to individuals who hold a masters or doctoral degree from an accredited academic institution.
Those who will graduate this winter or in spring 2023 are welcome to apply.
As a training program, this fellowship is particularly appropriate for recent graduates and early career professionals. Applicants should have demonstrated knowledge and experience with public health informatics, data science, or a related field.
Fellows must be US citizens. Individuals requiring a visa are not eligible for this program.
Fellows receive a stipend, reimbursement for health insurance, professional development funds, and relocation support.

Interested applicants with questions can connect with Bernadette Aylward via email: aphif@cste.org

CSTE’s Applied Public Health Informatics Fellowship (APHIF) applications are open now through January 20, 2023.

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POSITION: Diversity Scholars Fellowship Program

ORGANIZATION: Ithaca College

The Ithaca College Diversity Scholars Program was created to increase the racial and ethnic diversity of Ithaca College faculty and, in so doing, bring fresh perspectives to the college’s curriculum and the learning experiences offered to students.

Fellowships are for the academic year (August 15, 2023 to May 31, 2024) and are non-renewable. Scholars will receive a $42,000 stipend, $5,000 in travel/professional development support, relocation reimbursement, office space, health benefits, and access to Ithaca College and Cornell University libraries. Scholars will teach one course in the fall semester and one course in the spring semester; will be mentored by a faculty member in the host department; will be expected to participate in one official function per semester and monthly professionalization meetings; and must partake in an exit-interview. Course must be taught in person.

Applications are welcome in the following areas/departments: Please read the following descriptions and include reference to specific criteria in your cover letter.

The Department of Health Promotion, Health Sciences and Public Health is seeking a predoctoral fellow with interest or research in one or more of the following areas:

1) Health Disparities, 2) Epidemiology, 3) Policy and Health Care Systems, 4) social determinants of health. The twelve full-time department faculty are from several different disciplines, including public health, health sciences, social sciences, humanities, and education.

Applicants must be enrolled in an accredited PhD granting program; display a commitment to a career in teaching at the college or university level and scholarly promise. Applicants must also be authorized to work in the United States. Visa sponsorship is not provided for this position.Prior to August 15, 2023, applicants must be advanced to candidacy at their home institution. For PhD candidates this means having an approved dissertation proposal. Preference will be given to candidates in the last year of the writing process.

Application Deadline: December 1.

Questions about the Diversity Scholars Program should be directed to Belisa González at bgonzalez@ithaca.edu or 607-274-3921. For more information about the position in the department in which the public health fellow will reside, please contact Amy Frith- afrith@ithaca.edu.

To view the official posting: Ithaca College Diversity Scholars Program