Organization: Collegiate Leaders in Environmental Health (CLEH) CDC’s National Center for Environmental Health and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (NCEH/ATSDR) are offering a 10-week summer internship program for students who are passionate about the environment, interested in human health, and curious about how they are linked.
Hours:Interns will be based at CDC/ATSDR’s Chamblee Campus and will be paid a stipend of approximately $600 a week during the course of the program.
Application due date: February 1, 2012
Program dates: June 13 – August 17, 2012
Duties: During the course of the internship students are introduced to environmental health at the federal level through collaborative projects, experiential learning opportunities, individual environmental health presentations, journal clubs, field trips, brown bag lunches, and shadowing and mentoring relationships at CDC/ATSDR.
Skills:
Eligibility requirements for CLEH interns:
1. US citizenship or Permanent Resident with a green card,
2. Full time enrollment at a college or university as a rising junior or rising senior by fall 2012
3. Minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 scaleContact:
Please visit us our website for more information and application instructions: www.cdc.gov/nceh/cleh
Note: Seniors graduating in Spring 2012 will not be accepted into this program
“This internship demonstrated the unique connection between human health and environmental well-being, giving my studies relevance and allowing me to develop a social perspective to my environmental studies.” –Todd Nelson, 2010 CLEH intern
For more information, please email LT Cory Kokko or Jay Nielsen at CLEH@cdc.gov
All interns are expected to maintain a high-quality work ethic as they would with any other employer.
