Public Health Entomology for All (PHEFA) Fellowship 2025 – YOA

Deadline: February 3, 2025

Applications are open for the Public Health Entomology for All (PHEFA) Fellowship 2025. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will host PHEFA Fellows in its discipline places of work in Fort Collins, Colorado; Atlanta, Georgia; and San Juan, Puerto Rico for one yr starting in summer season 2025.

Fellows will conduct analysis alongside skilled entomologists in CDC’s Division of Vector-Borne Diseases who’re creating options to public well being challenges, like Dengue, Zika virus, Lyme illness, and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. Fellows will find out about public well being entomology as a career and be taught utilized entomological methods to stop and management vector-borne illnesses. PHEFA fellowships will final for one yr. Fellows are anticipated to attend orientation beginning May 27, 2025 after which will be capable of prepare their begin date with the CDC.

Benefits

Fellows can be compensated as follows:

• $28 per hour. Fellows can be anticipated to work 40 hours every week for 52 weeks (excluding federal holidays);
• Membership in ESA for three years;
• Fellows can be supplied advantages (medical insurance, dental insurance coverage, and FICA withholding).

Eligibility

• Be presently enrolled in or have beforehand attended a Minority Serving Institution;
• Have obtained a Bachelors or Masters diploma throughout the final three years (together with Spring 2025);
• Be in tutorial good standing with a minimal GPA  of two.75, or
• Have graduated with a cumulative GPA of two.75
• Demonstrated curiosity in well being fairness.

Application

Applicants will even be requested to offer common data and:

• Confirm current or former attendance at a Minority Serving Institution.
• Upload a transcript for every put up-secondary tutorial establishment attended (official or unofficial).
• Upload a resume or CV.
• Provide two reference letters. At least one of many references ought to deal with your private traits and the way they might impression your success in PHEFA.

In addition, candidates for the one-yr fellowship might want to:

• Review the 4 CDC billets or analysis space description and establish which billet they’re considering and rank your picks within the questionnaire.

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For extra data, go to PHEFA Fellowship.