The Dickey Center's Global Health Initiative is offering the following funded global health internships for undergraduate and graduate students with a variety of backgrounds:


Center for Disease Control (CDC) Division of Global Migration and Quarantine (15W)


Two undergraduates will be selected for internships at the Division of Global Migration and Quarantine at the CDC to work on one of two projects: the CDC response to the Ebola outbreak or the response to unaccompanied minors arriving from Central America. Students will be assigned to one response team and will primarily be tasked with working with epidemiological data and reporting.


Little Devices Lab at MIT (15W)


The Dickey Center, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Little Devices Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology<http://littledevices.org/> are offering students an 8-week internship. The Little Devices Lab develops empowerment technologies for health. One undergraduate student will be selected to work on one of the following projects:

  *   1) Innovative Solutions: Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Little Devices Lab is working with nurses across the country to understand, adapt and build toolsets for "maker nurses" in the US. Students will have the opportunity to shadow hospital staff at several national and regional hospitals and travel domestically with faculty mentors to understand and implement maker spaces at several hospitals. Students with a background in anthropology, sociology, geography, or engineering are strongly encouraged to apply, but students in any academic field are eligible.
  *   2) Diagnostic Tests: The Little Devices Lab has developed several remote diagnostic kits for use in developed and resource-limited settings. The selected intern works on evaluating assays, performs antibody screening, and designs and fabricates out of paper microfluidic tests for infectious diseases. Students interested in working on this project should have a strong biology and/or chemistry background.
  *   3) Solarclave: Little Devices Lab researchers have invented a device that uses sunshine to sterilize surgical tools. Solarclave provides reliable surgical sterilization for rural clinics outside of the grid - enabling healthcare workers to provide basic, life-saving services for patients. The students working on this project assist in design enhancements including fine-tuning the user interface, co-designing a sun tracker and helping design field experiments for a Central American roll out of the technology. Students interested in this project should have strong mechanical engineering skills.

Population Health and Development in Vietnam (15S)


The Institute of Population Health and Development (PHAD), located in Hanoi, Vietnam, is an interdisciplinary institute with the goal of understanding and improving the human health, especially disadvantaged groups, through research, training and interventions. Dartmouth has partnered with PHAD on several research initiatives (maternal-child health, mental health, and applications of mHealth for improved disease surveillance) and is offering three distinct internship  opportunities open to undergraduate, graduate and medical students.



APPLICATION DEADLINES: OCTOBER 15TH


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