New and Current Opportunities!
1.LoveLife: The Search for Young Social Entrepreneurs
2.Global Engagement Summer Institute with Northwestern University
3.Health Interviewer and Health Educator wanted to work at Baystate Medical Center and/or Mercy Medical Center
4.Project Horseshoe Farm & The Horseshoe Farm Fellowship
5.The Massachusetts Public Health Association is looking for Interns and Volunteers!
6. Commission on Smart Global Health Essay Contest
7. Global Impact Corps: Global Health Volunteer Abroad Opportunities
8. Open Health Research Assistant position at The Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC)
1. LoveLife: The Search for Young Social Entrepreneurs
"LoveLife: The Search for Young Social Entrepreneurs," was created by AID FOR AIDS, International. The campaign is based on our belief that many young people today have innovative ideas that have the potential to change the world, but unfortunately, they often lack the resources to implement their ideas. At AFAI, we have created the LoveLife search to find and support these young change makers.
The LoveLife competition is open to anyone between 16 and 25 years old. The entrant registers as a competitor and works on a project that will spread awareness and raise funds for HIV/AIDS efforts. Throughout the competition, the LoveLife staff is available to competitors as a guide and a resource. The money raised by individual participants will go directly to HIV/AIDS patients at home and abroad. Toward the end of the competition, five finalists will submit a proposal for expanding their ideas into full-fledged campaigns. The winner of the competition will be selected according to the implementation of the essential LoveLife components: creativity, awareness, and self-sustainability.
The winner will receive a paid internship in the summer of 2010, in our New York headquarters, or in one of our five satellite offices in Latin America. Additionally, he or she will receive a seed investment of ,000 to expand their idea into a full-fledged, self-sustaining campaign. The investment and paid internship will be an excellent opportunity for this promising young social entrepreneur to implement the initiative s/he proposed at the close of the competition.
Additional information detailing more about AFAI and the LoveLife Campaign can be found at our websites. Visit www.lovelife.kintera.org to register as a participant.
2. Global Engagement Summer Institute with Northwestern University
Are you passionate about global change, committed to learning by doing, and ready to engage in hands-on international development? The Global Engagement Summer Institute at Northwestern University will equip you to: Work directly with grassroots NGOs and local communities in Uganda, India, Nicaragua, or Bolivia
Earn two Northwestern course credits through a weeklong training institute in Chicago
Leverage the strengths -- rather than list the weaknesses -- of the communities in which you live and work abroad. Live with a host family and immerse yourself in another culture for eight weeks. Work in teams to design and implement an original development project in environmental development, microfinance, youth and education, gender and development, global health, social enterprise, and more.
Ready to take the next step? Visit www.mycge.org to learn more
3. Health Interviewer and Health Educator wanted to work at Baystate Medical Center and/or Mercy Medical Center
HEALTH EDUCATOR
The health educator will recruit and educate pregnant prenatal care patients at Baystate Medical Center and/or Mercy Medical Center as part of an American Schools of Public Health Centers for Disease Control funded intervention study of physical activity and diet during pregnancy and risk of gestational diabetes. The health educator will work under the direction of the study's principal investigator and project manager. Training will be provided.
Responsibilities:
• Identify and recruit prenatal care patients from the prenatal clinic at Baystate Medical Center and/or Mercy Medical Center in Springfield, MA.
• Educate prenatal care patients about physical activity and nutrition behaviors during pregnancy based on a standard curriculum.
• Perform “booster” education sessions throughout in pregnancy.
• Protect the patients' rights and confidentiality, as prescribed by funding, regulatory and treatment guidelines.
Qualifications:
• Health education experience, with experience in nutrition education
• Bachelors degree or higher level of education; masters degree preferred
• Fluency in Spanish
• Excellent organizational, verbal, and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work independently
HEALTH INTERVIEWER
The health interviewer will conduct in-person interviews for the Proyecto Buena Salud, a 5-year National Institutes of Health funded study of stress during pregnancy and risk of gestational diabetes among Latina women. Under the direction of the study's principal investigator and project manager, the health interviewer will interview Latina women in English or Spanish, as needed, at the time of their obstetric visits at Baystate Medical Center and/or Mercy Medical Center.
Responsibilities:
• Identify and recruit prenatal care patients from the prenatal clinic at Baystate Medical Center and/or Mercy Medical Center.
• Interview prenatal care patients about their diet, physical activity, stress, and other behaviors using a structured interview form.
• Perform 2nd and 3rd interviews later in pregnancy to update patient information.
• Protect the patients' rights and confidentiality, as prescribed by funding, regulatory and treatment guidelines.
Qualifications:
• Interviewing experience and/or other inter-personal skills
• Bachelors degree or higher level of education
• Fluency in Spanish
• Excellent organizational, verbal and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work independently
HOW TO APPLY:
Please send information about your qualifications and any previous experience to the project manager, Renée Turzanski Fortner [(413) 545-6732], either by e-mail at fortner@schoolph.umass.edu or by mail to:
Renée Turzanski Fortner
Department of Public Health
421 Arnold House
University of Massachusetts
715 North Pleasant Street
Amherst, MA 01003-9304
4. PROJECT HORSESHOE FARM & THE HORSESHOE FARM FELLOWSHIP
Information Session: Monday, October 26th @ 7:00pm in the Amherst College Career Center
Unique 1 year residential fellowship opportunity.
-Learn about and be directly involved in the development, management, and leadership of a small community based non-profit organization.
-Help to provide direct service in and to manage an innovative housing program for elderly and mentally disabled adults.
-Provide direct service in, and help to manage an existing after school program staffed by community volunteers including Auburn University Architecture students and other recent college graduates.
-After school program currently serves over thirty 4th and 5th grade children.
-Learn about social entrepreneurship and community involvement and engagement. Learn about health care systems issues including the structure and financing of the U.S. health care system, health care law and ethics, healthcare economics, the history of the U.S. health care system, and health policy.
-Live with other Fellows on 70 acre farm campus and learn about rural life, rural communities, and the South.
-Get to know other young people involved in service through the Auburn University Rural Studio Architecture Program, Teach for America, Habitat for Humanity, and others.
-Work directly with M.D., M.B.A. physician who is director and primary teacher in project and fellowship.
-Have opportunity to work in and learn about a hospital setting, to shadow other physicians, and learn about rural healthcare.
The Fellowship is geared primarily to students with strong leadership potential and with an interest in community based medicine and healthcare, but it is open to applicants from the full spectrum of majors and backgrounds who have an interest in and the potential for community based service leadership and social entrepreneurship
For information, please go to www.projecthorseshoefarm.org or contact infohsf@yahoo.com
5. The Massachusetts Public Health Association is looking for Interns and Volunteers!
The Massachusetts Public Health Association (MPHA) is a statewide membership organization of people working to protect the health and safety of all our Commonwealth’s residents through advocacy and organizing for public policy and neighborhood-based changed. MPHA is a leader in the Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow (AHT), a broad coalition in working to pass laws and policies that prevent harm to our health from toxic chemicals. MPHA’s Western Massachusetts (Springfield) office seeks interns and volunteers to help inform and mobilize AHT supporting organizations in an effort to pass the Safer Alternatives Bill. Interns/volunteers will help call supporting organizations to update them on the bill’s progress and ask them to take action to support the legislation this fall. If we are successful, you will be part of passing historic public health legislation! Training and support will be provided. To Volunteer, call Aj Juarez at 413-750-2060 0r e-mail him at ellis6065@charter.net
6. Commission on Smart Global Health Essay Contest
The Commission on Smart Global Health is seeking answers to the question:
What is the most important thing the US can do to improve global health over the next 15 years?
In 500-800 words, we want to hear what students have to say about fresh, innovative approaches to the important challenges we face in global health. Students at all levels, from undergraduate to medical and professional students, are eligible.
The author of the first-place essay will receive a ,000 scholarship and be published in the Commission's final report, while the second-place entrant will receive a 0 scholarship. There will also be ,000 and 0 prizes for the first and second-place entries by non-students.
Complete details, including contest rules, can be found at:
http://www.smartglobalhealth.org/CUGHessays
The Commission on Smart Global Health aims to focus on practical solutions that maximize efficiency, produce measurable results, and engage the American public. One of our key goals is to gather input from anyone who has expertise or experience working in global health fields, including students. This essay contest is one way we're expanding the conversation to include the
ideas, stories and opinions of people who are passionate about global health issues.
Please feel free to contact the Commission with any questions you may have at dporter@csis.org or at (330) 605-5740.
7. Global Impact Corps: Global Health Volunteer Abroad Opportunities
http://www.uniteforsight.org/volunteer-abroad
Unite For Sight has been featured weekly on CNN International and in The New York Times
Unite For Sight is the world's leader in socially responsible, effective volunteering abroad. Unite For Sight's Global Impact Corps is an immersive global health experience.
All volunteers participating in Unite For Sight's international programs are Global Impact Fellows. They participate daily with local ophthalmic nurses, local optometrists, and local ophthalmologists to eliminate patient barriers to care and to facilitate comprehensive year-round eye care for patients living in extreme poverty. Through hands-on, structured training, volunteers gain a comprehensive understanding about best practices in volunteerism, global health, and international development. Global Impact Fellows gain skills and are nurtured to become new leaders in global health, and they receive a Global Health & Program Delivery Certificate.
Global Impact Fellows may also participate in the Global Impact Lab, an optional program for students interested in pursuing global health research. Research studies may focus on patient barriers to care, patient perceptions and understandings about medication, seasonal uptake of surgery, and other related global health topics. Students develop a research design in collaboration with Unite For Sight, the partner clinic abroad, and a faculty mentor at their university.
Locations (volunteer for 10 days, 20 days, 4 weeks, 6 weeks, 8 weeks, 10 weeks, or more)
* Accra and Kumasi Region, Ghana
* Rural Villages, Ghana
* Tamale, Ghana
* Tegucigalpa, Honduras
* Bihar, India
* Chennai, India
* New Delhi, India
* Orissa, India
Complete Details: http://www.uniteforsight.org/volunteer-abroad
8. The Center for Studying Health System
Change (HSC), a nonpartisan policy research organization located in Washington, D.C. is interested in recruiting current and former
undergraduate students from the five colleges for a Health Research Assistant position. Review of applications will begin in the upcoming weeks, so apply as soon as possible, though applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis.
For more information, visit hschange.org, https://careers.mathematica-mpr.com/applicants/jsp/shared/frameset/Frameset.jsp?time=1
Or contact:
Angie Ardoin
Center for Studying Health System Change
600 Maryland Ave., SW, Ste. 550
Washington, DC 20024
ph : 202-484-3475
fax : 202-484-9258
aardoin@hschange.org
