International Public Health Internship Program
The International Public Health Internship Program is a nine-month global health program that targets vulnerable populations living in sub-Sarahan Africa. Interns will work with project managers and health care professionals in Bauchi, Nigeria. Working together, interns will develop and implement public health campaigns that target major health concerns such as immunization, reproductive health, adolescent health, food and nutrition, child health, drugs, food hygiene and safety, control of Malaria, and HIV/ AIDS.
Educating the local community about key healthcare issues is an important part of this internship. Promoting awareness is the best way to ensure the prevention of avoidable diseases. Interns will create public health campaigns that will be presented in these communities.
The International Public Health Internship provides students the opportunity to understand the challenges faced by communities around the world. Interns are sure to gain greater cultural awareness and a broader perspective on the challenges and rewards of the field of medicine.
Grades: Rising Freshmen To Graduating Seniors
Summit Dates: September 1st – May 15th
Time: 1 – 2 Hours per Week
Location: Online
Price: Free
Program Highlights
Public Health Campaigns
Explore Key Issues in Nigeria’s Public Healthcare System and Bringing Research-driven Change
Choose a Global Public Health Topic
Interns will explore a variety of community health issues and how they intersect with gender, environmental, and behavioral studies. Students will work with their team to develop and implement campaigns on topics that range from promoting disease prevention to living a healthy life.
Partner with Community Healthcare Professionals
Interns start by identifying a need in the community and working with their assigned on-site mentor to develop solutions. Students will also work with local community healthcare liaisons to ensure that they are informed about cultural issues and assisted with overcoming any language barriers.
Interns will engage in research to provide support to often forgotten and over-looked demographics. Students will be pivotal in changing the health outcomes in an under-resourced area and learn how to report on problems surrounding health.
Hands-on Experience
Gain a Broad Range of Health-focused Community Development Training
Share Solutions and Raise Awareness
As an intern for the International Public Health Internship, students will use an interactive approach to learning that gives them an opportunity to immerse themself in the challenging complexities of health issues facing the world.
Interns will learn how to collect data, interpret survey methodology, and analyze health indicators within a supportive and solution-focused program. Project coordinators will work with internship teams to identify a public health issue affecting one community in sub-Saharan Africa. Interns will then develop an intervention to address that concern.
Work One-On-One With Industry Leaders
Students will have an unparalleled opportunity to engage with healthcare workers, professionals, and NGOs virtually to acquire an in-depth view of current health challenges while monitoring the status quo and assessing emerging trends.
Public Health Campaign That Change Minds
Apply and Synthesize Knowledge to Make the World a Healthier Place
Study Major Public Health Challenges
Students will have the opportunity to work directly with top medical minds to learn about the major public health challenges facing the population of sub-Saharan Africa. Students will address these challenges through the creation of global health campaigns that directly target their identified issue.
Directly Improve & Change Lives
Interns will be immersed in the local communities to design interventions that can prevent and promote maternal and child health, nutrition, preventable disease initiatives, immunizations, and other health campaigns. Throughout the year students will turn everyday prevention methods into life-saving information that will be posted throughout communities in the developing world to directly improve health outcomes.
International Internship Program Benefits
SAT/ACT Training
TestRocker is the premier online SAT/ACT training resource for high school students across the United States.
SAT/ACT Training
Featured in Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, and The Huffington Post, TestRocker is the premier online SAT/ACT training resource for high school students across the United States. All summer program participants will receive one year of free online SAT/ACT training from TestRocker valued at over $1200.
TestRocker utilizes personalized learning that incorporates technology & quality content to enable students to drastically increase their ability to take college standardized tests. TestRocker combines highly-effective private tutors with the best technology on the market to increase student scores.
Students have increased their SAT & ACT scores by an average of 280 points and 4 points, respectively.
TestRocker comes with customized lessons, full-length tests, and 24/7 customer service.
We will email the students’ parents a bi-weekly report so that parents can keep track of their progress.
College Probability
Modeling
LI has designed a system that will calculate the probability of acceptance into the student’s top university choices
College Probability
Modeling
Leadership Initiatives and our partners at Parchment, TestRocker and University Initiatives have designed a system that will calculate the probability of acceptance into the student’s top university choices based on the students GPA, test scores, extracurricular activities, career goals, financial need and more.
The Leadership Initiatives college admissions team will then help all participants narrow their college interest list and create a college application plan.
Because our college admissions teamwork with a broad range of higher education institutions, their advice, and beneficial knowledge will allow students to further understand the college admissions process.
Summer Program
Scholarships
IIP participants receive personalized scholarships to attend a LI Youth Development Program at Georgetown.
Summer Program Scholarships
Participants in the International Internship Program receive personalized scholarships to attend a Leadership Initiatives Youth Development Program of your choice at Georgetown University. Leadership Initiatives has week-long intensive internships in the fields of Business, Medicine, and Law.
We are the only summer program in the world where students intern with a real business, law firm, or hospital, work directly with college admissions officers, and meet one-on-one with subject matter experts to explore career field options.
For-profit summer education programs showcase simulations as the key component of their educational experience. As a nonprofit organization, we are proud to offer real experiences that impact the lives of students and the individuals they are partnered with.
Click here to visit LIChange.org/Summer to learn more about our programs.
So you can start an internship with a business in the developing world, work with a DC lawyer on an impending court case or partner with a doctor to diagnose patients in sub-Saharan Africa.
College Essay Review
All IIP participants are able to submit five college application essays for review by our partners at University Connection.
College Essay
Review
Participants in the International Internship Program receive one-on-one essay editing assistance from Leadership Initiatives partner University Connection.
This offer is exclusive, and not available with any other institution or program!
Each student essay will be edited to ensure it makes an excellent impression at every stage of the competitive application process. The editors will improve the style, clarity, sentence structure and coherence of your application so that your achievements are noticed.
Editors bring their experience in many different backgrounds, including Science and Technology, Commerce, Management, and the Humanities.
Letters of
Recommendation
IIP students will have the opportunity to have two letters of recommendation written for them by any LI staff member.
Letters of Recommendations
Student interns who participate in the International Internship Program will have the opportunity to have two written for them from any Leadership Initiatives staff member, including the Executive Director Marshall Bailly.
Students interns will also have the opportunity to have letters written by Leadership Initiatives partners from the International Business & Development Internship, International Public Health Internship, and International Law & Advocacy Internship.
These unique and complimentary letters are one of the most highly regarded benefits that Leadership Initiatives has. Below are letters of recommendation from past students showcasing how the program transformed their lives:
Click here to request letters of recommendation.
Matthew Matusiewicz – Full Ride to UC Berkley School of Engineering
Samantha Williams – Attending Harvard University
Ricky Toh – Outside Merit-Based Full-Ride Scholarship to Stanford University
Meredith Karle – Full Scholarship to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Real-World Experience
Students who participate in IIP will partner with business, public health, or advocacy organizations in the developing world.
Real-World Experience
The single greatest thing any student can have when applying for college is an experience that sets them apart from their peers. Students who participate in the International Internship Program help develop solutions for real-world problems facing communities in developing nations.
Not only does this demonstrate each student’s immense dedication to the welfare of communities worldwide, but it also highlights crucial skills including organization, team collaboration, creativity, effective communication, and many more essential qualities of leadership.
Leadership Initiatives Youth Development Program participants have been accepted into Harvard, Stanford, Georgetown, George Washington, University of Chicago, Northwestern, MIT, and other top colleges in the globe, due in part to the unmatched experience gained through the program
Scholarship Assistance
LI has compiled a database of past scholarship recipients to identify these factors and ease the burden of scholarship application for IIP students.
Scholarship Assistance
Hundreds of thousands of scholarships exist for upcoming college students, and financial aid and scholarships can be a deciding factor in a student’s ability to attend college.
However, many of these scholarships have unspecified stipulations and may only reward scholarship to students in a certain demographic (i.e. location, a relative who works at the respective company, etc.). Leadership Initiatives has compiled a database of past scholarship recipients to identify these factors and ease the burden of scholarship application for IBIP students.
LI provides unmatched one-on-one scholarship assistance to each IBIP student through personalized searches, individual Skype calls, and scholarship essay editing services.
The graduating seniors in the International Business Internship Program have received over $5.4 million in financial aid and scholarships to attend college.
Resume Editing
Assistance
All participants in the IIP receive professional resume creation advice and help from Leadership Initiatives.
Resume Editing Assistance
One of the most important tools in the professional world is a clean, organized, and cohesive resume. As the first impression made on an employer, university, or other institution, a strong resume requires considerable thought and effort.
All participants in the International Business Internship Program receive professional resume creation advice and help from Leadership Initiatives to create a fantastic resume and highlight all the important activities and academics that colleges, universities, and employers are looking for.
After students create their resume, Leadership Initiatives pays for professional editors to go through the resume line by line and make corrections and suggestions.
The editors will improve grammar, diction, formatting, and make suggestions on content.
Leadership Initiatives also provides professionally-designed resume templates which allow students to easily copy and paste their content into an effective format easily.
Community
Service
LI will work to ensure that your work to transform lives is recognized.
Community Service
With participants volunteering their time each week to the betterment of communities worldwide, the IBIP program acts as a source of community service hours to fulfill requirements for groups like The National Honors Society.
Leadership Initiatives will work with your school and their community service program to ensure that your work to transform lives is recognized.
International Internship Participants participants have been accepted into Harvard, Stanford, Georgetown, George Washington, University of Chicago, Northwestern, MIT, and other top colleges in the globe, due in part to the unmatched experience gained through the program
Click here to request a letter to verify your service hours.
Personalized Team
Website
Leadership Initiatives creates a personalized website for each International Internship Program team highlighting their collaborative efforts with their partner in the International Business & Development Internship, International Law & Advocacy Internship, or International Public Health Internship.
The website displays your team’s solutions, grant proposal, photos of your partners, and illustrates the impact your team has had on the life and community of your partners. The website link is included in your letters of recommendation, allowing colleges to independently explore the phenomenal work done by each and every student.
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