Internships:  Academic Health Department

SCHD is an academic health department.  It offers a unique learning environment, via internships, for students from a broad range of academic disciplines. To accomplish this, SCHD fosters unique linkages resulting in significant benefits not only for the health department and its partner universities, but also for students, faculty, health department employees, and the community as a whole. 

Students can gain from a range of experiences, including:

• Research: Small-sample and population research opportunities, including risk identification, social marketing, and intervention evaluation.
• Training: Interdisciplinary, cooperative training opportunities for public health, medical, and nursing students to explore practice issues in a field setting.
• Policy Development: From community to legislative proposal and policy formulation, opportunities to interact with county government and community leaders to work for change.
• Service Learning: Connecting research and learning with the greater good.

Internship Opportunities

Undergraduate and graduate students seeking an intern experience for academic credits can take advantage of internship opportunities with a variety of Health Department divisions or projects. Click on the links below to learn more about each area.

Internship Areas at SCHD

• Clinical Health
• CHIP (Community Health Improvement Partnership)
• Emergency Preparedness (Disaster Response Planning)
• Environmental Health
• Epidemiology/Communicable Disease Control
• Health Promotion
• Human Services
• Mosquito Management
• Women’s Health
• WIC (Women, Infants & Children Food Supplement Program / Nutrition Counseling)

How do I apply for an internship?

Now accepting applications for:  Summer 2012 unpaid internships

Students interested in an internship with SCHD for the fall or winter should complete the Intern Interest/Inquiry Form (above).  Instructions for submission are found on the bottom of the form.  Your internship interest information will be passed on to the appropriate Health Department personnel, and you will be contacted if we have a placement available.  Please submit the inquiry form at least two months before your internship start date.

▪ Download the Intern Interest/Inquiry Form [58KB DOC]

For more information about fall or winter internship placements, please email or fax your completed Intern Interest/Inquiry Form to: