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Schedule and Programming

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The duration of the internship is 10 weeks. Interns will be based in NCEH/ATSDR offices where they will engage in summer-long projects; they will also participate in trips and activities that expose them to many facets of environmental health.

Week 1: Orientation

Day 1: Trip to CDC Roybal campus to get fingerprinted for identification badges, take a tour of the campus, and view the current exhibit at CDC’s Global Health Odyssey Museum. Introductions to senior staff, safety orientation, tour of Chamblee campus, general information orientation.

Day 2: Group orientation of CDC/ATSDR to learn about environmental health, led by Howard Frumkin, M.D., Dr. P.H. Director of NCEH/ATSDR. Introduction to public health, meet with mentors, panel introduction of Divisions, introduction to project supervisors and personal projects.

Day 3: Welcome from ORISE, Environmental health lab tour, history of CDC, introduction to environmental health, computer safety training. Interns will have a chance to set up offices and get acquainted with their supervisors. Evening fun activity.

Week 2-8:

  • Ongoing involvement in projects
  • Weekly activities (journal and current event clubs, brown bag lunches, field trips, etc)
  • Speaker’s Bureau Training
Week 9:  Wrap up project, prepare final presentation, and work on climate change presentation.

Week 10:  Final Presentations, Overall Wrap-Up, Next Steps, Evaluations

  • Power point presentations
    • Summer experience
    • Climate change topic
  • Wrap-Up lunch with interns and mentors
  • Evaluation forms, badge return, etc.
  • Final writing requirement

 

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Programming

  • Shadowing of senior officials/scientists in NCEH/ATSDR.
  • Informal "Brown-Bag" lunches with CDC staff.
  • Field Trips. For example, biological and chemical stream water monitoring, a trip to an air monitoring station, a day with a state and/or local health department, etc. Typically field trips will be combined with a relevant speaker and will take place on Friday.
  • Formal lunch presentations/lectures from people outside CDC involved both in environmental health and fields that intersect environmental health, such as transportation and urban planning.
  • Interns will also have the opportunity to attend open CDC lectures/presentations.
  • Possibility of travel to local meetings/conferences on environmental health topics.
  • Organization of social activities (Braves game, bowling, etc.).

 

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This page last updated on November 24, 2008