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Graduate Student
Internship Program
Student Applications due February 13 – Register online today!
MCHB sponsors the Graduate Student Internship Program (GSIP) to enhance students' skills in data analysis, promote training in MCH epidemiology, and to provide assistance to state and local health agencies with data-related projects. In 2009, approximately 30 internships will be funded.
Internship
projects are focused in these three critical areas of: Data Analysis and Monitoring, Needs Assessment, and Program Evaluation.
- Data Analysis and Monitoring. Monitoring of diseases, injuries, and health conditions for their frequency, risk factors, consequences, and health service requirements, and analysis of epidemiological data sets are some of the projects included in this area. For example, an intern in Missoula County, Montana analyzed data to examine breastfeeding initiation, duration and exclusivity rates prior to and following interventions.
- Needs Assessment. Projects in this area include the systematic analysis, assessment, and projection of health needs and resources in a given population or community. In 2008, the GSIP intern with Iowa Department of Public Health took a leadership role in assessing and promoting evidence-based Title V MCH services.
- Program Evaluation. This area includes the monitoring, collection, and analysis of data to determine the effectiveness or outcomes of a particular program or project. An intern working at the Alexandria Department of Health worked to evaluate an initiative to provide comprehensive health, dental, developmental, and mental health evaluations for children who are at risk of abuse or neglect, in foster care, or who are homeless.
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