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

Deadline: February 3, 2025

Applications are open for the Public Health Entomology for All (PHEFA) Internship 2025. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will host a complete of six undergraduate college students who’ve accomplished their junior 12 months as PHEFA Interns in its subject places of work in Atlanta, Georgia; Fort Collins, Colorado; and San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the course of the summer season of 2025.

Interns will work 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. Consider making use of for this internship even when you don’t dwell or attend college close to any of the places, as housing shall be offered on the host location.

PHEFA internships will final 10 weeks in the course of the summer season of 2025. Interns are anticipated to attend orientation beginning May 27, 2025 and can organize the timing of their summer season work with CDC, with consideration made to when their spring lessons finish and fall lessons start.

Benefits

Interns shall be compensated as follows:

• $18 per hour. PHEFA Interns shall be anticipated to work 40 hours every week for 10 weeks (excluding federal holidays);
• 1 spherical-journey ticket to the situation of the assigned subject workplace;
• Housing on an area faculty campus or a housing stipend;
• A small stipend for meals; and
• Membership in ESA for three years.

Eligibility

To be eligible, college students should:

• Attend a Minority Serving Institution.
• Have accomplished no less than 3/4 of their undergraduate training.
• Demonstrate an curiosity in science and well being fairness.
• Be in tutorial good-standing.

Application

Applicants shall be requested to:

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

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For extra info, go to PHEFA Internship.