New Resource on ISDS Website: Public Health Surveillance-related Job and Internship Postings

ISDS is working to highlight public health surveillance-related internship, post-doc, and job opportunities in practice, industry, and academia, by developing a clearinghouse of professional opportunities. Cross-disciplinary disease surveillance opportunities in animal, plant, and environmental health will also be included.

To view the opportunities that have been shared thus far, please visit our website. These postings are submitted by members of the ISDS Community, and will be added on an on-going basis.

If you know of any relevant internship or job opportunities, please be sure to submit them for posting on the ISDS website:

• Internship Opportunity Submission Form
• Job Opportunity Submission Form

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact treynolds@syndromic.org.

Submit Your Public Health Surveillance-related Internship Opportunities!

ISDS would like to assist students in finding public health surveillance-related internships in an effort to help build a workforce prepared to meet the current challenges in public health surveillance.

Starting this year, the ISDS Research Committee is coordinating the collection of internship positions with the goal of creating a clearinghouse. The opportunities will be posted on the ISDS website, and the resource will be shared broadly.

We will be collecting internship positions on an on-going basis. If you have an open internship position at your organization or are aware of any such openings, please submit them here. For summer opportunities, we recommend that you submit them by April 28, 2014.

Please contact treynolds@syndromic.org with any questions or concerns.

Training opportunity: 2014 International research internship for health researchers, Jamaica

DEADLINE EXTENDED: April 21, 2013.

Training opportunity: 2014 International research internship for health researchers, Jamaica

INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH INTERNSHIP FOR HEALTH RESEARCHERS

June 2 – 27, 2014 in Kingston, Jamaica

Application deadline: April 21, 2014

FOR INFORMATION & APPLICATION PACKAGE: Janeil Brown janeil.brown02@uwimona.edu.jm

www.mona.uwi.edu/nursing/content/research-internship

The four week research internship is a unique, intensive training opportunity for junior researchers to launch their research career and network in the Caribbean and internationally.  It provides a great for participants to focus and develop programs of research, complete research proposals or manuscripts under the mentorship of local and international facilitators.

PROGRAM LEADERS AND PRESENTERS:

* Eulalia Kahwa, Lecturer and Graduate Program Coordinator, The UWI School of Nursing, Mona, University of the West Indies, Jamaica

* Nancy Edwards, Professor, School of Nursing and Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa, Canada

*Other prominent academics and researchers from the Caribbean

INTERNSHIP OBJECTIVES:

* To help participants develop proposals/programs of research or scientific manuscripts with support from mentors during work in progress sessions.

* Enable participants to acquire knowledge and skills in health systems research and linking research to policy.

* Develop skills in multiple intervention program design and evaluation in health systems.

* Enable participants to gain knowledge and skills essential for competitive grantsmanship.

* Extend participants’ repertoire of cutting edge research designs and approaches in health systems.

* Provide opportunities to enhance peer review skills.

* Build research networks and extend links with local, national and international decision-makers.

ELIGIBILITY:

* Graduate-prepared (minimum completed graduate degree one month prior to internship start date) in nursing, medicine, public health, epidemiology, or other health-sciences related disciplines.

* Committed to long-term research engagement and providing tangible benefits to home community or institution.

* Interest in international research collaboration.

PROGRAM FEE:

* Applicants from within Kingston (Half Package): US$1,500 (Includes: lunch, refreshments, all sessions, and course materials, transport for site visits, University library and internet access, and welcome dinner)

* Caribbean applicants from outside Kingston (Full Package): US$2,500 (Includes: accommodation, lunch, refreshments, airport shuttle, all sessions and course materials, transport for site visits, University library and internet access, and welcome dinner)

* Other International Countries (Full Package): US$3,000 (Includes: accommodation, lunch, refreshments, airport shuttle, all sessions, and course materials, transport for site visits, University library and internet access, and welcome dinner)

PLEASE NOTE: Travel costs (flights and personal travel) and weekend meals are not included in the program fee.