Internship

NEHA has partnered with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Water, Food, and Environmental Health Services Branch for the past five years to support state, tribal, and local public health department internships for environmental health (EH) students through the National Environmental Public Health Internship Program (NEPHIP). The aim of NEPHIP is to encourage environmental health students to consider careers at local, state, or tribal environmental public health departments following graduation. Through this internship program, students will be exposed to exciting career opportunities, benefits, and challenges of working with environmental public health agencies throughout the U.S. The program connects highly qualified EH students and high performing state, tribal, local, or territorial (STLT) public health departments with the purpose of:

1. Exposing EH students to the important mission and work of STLT public health departments;

2. Presenting students with career opportunities and encouragement to consider working at a public health department;

3. Providing STLT public health departments with, at no cost, a qualified intern who is eager to gain field experience and contribute to the department’s work;

4. Increasing awareness of EHAC accredited programs and the value of working with and hiring their students and graduates.

NEHA administers the National Environmental Public Health Internship Program (NEPHIP) and is supported by cooperative agreement CDC-RFA-OT18-1802.

Application Information

This application is open to environmental health students and public health agencies (STLT). Students who apply must be enrolled in environmental health academic programs accredited through the National Environmental Health Science and Protection Accreditation Council (EHAC). Selected students will receive a base stipend of $6,000 ($600 per week) for undergraduate and $8000 ($800 per week) for graduate students to complete a 10-week internship. 

NEHA's role in NEPHIP is to:

• Solicits applications from eligible environmental health departments and selects locations based on established application criteria. 
• Solicits applications from eligible environmental health students and selects interns based on established application criteria. 
• NEHA staff will match the selected interns with the environmental health departments based on geolocation preferences, interests, and professional goals that align with opportunities at the health department. (Note. NEHA cannot guarantee placement base on previous mentioned criteria.) 

Please contact Maddie Gustafson at mgustfson@neha.org with any questions or concerns.

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