Career Ready

Internships, Fellowships, and Job Search

Internships and Fellowships

• Students are encouraged to seek out internships while they are in the MPH Program, to enhance their educational experience and gain beneficial field experience. The benefits of completing an internship are numerous: http://www.careers.uiowa.edu/students/benefits.html
• Make the most of your internship! Here's how: http://www.careers.uiowa.edu/Making%20the%20Most%20of%20
  
• The following are helpful links to websites that post internship and fellowship opportunities:

  Institute for Public Health Practice cph.uiowa.edu/iphp/

  Iowa Department of Public Health http://www.idph.state.ia.us/internship/

  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) http://www.cdc.gov/Fellowships/
                 
  Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH) https://fellowships.asph.org/

  American Public Health Association (APHA) http://www.apha.org/membergroups/students/committees/APHASA_
  

  Association for Prevention Teaching and Research (APTR)
  http://aptrweb.org/prof_dev/fellowships.html

  National Cancer Institute (NCI)
  http://www.cancer.gov/researchandfunding/cancertraining/atnci/programs

  Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL)
  http://www.aphl.org/mycareer/fellowships/pages/default.aspx

  National Institutes of Health (NIH):  John E Fogarty International Center
  http://www.fic.nih.gov/About/Pages/Employment.aspx

  Presidential Management Fellows Program
  https://www.pmf.opm.gov/Index.aspx

  Population Council
  http://www.popcouncil.org/what/professionalresources.asp

Job Search

• All MPH students have access to Job Connection, our internal career and employment resource. If you experience any difficulty logging into Job Connection, please email Kot Flora, kathryn-flora@uiowa.edu.
  • A step-by-step guide to Job Connection can be found here: Job Connection Tutorial
• Pomerantz Career Center offers tips for finding full-time employment: http://www.careers.uiowa.edu/students/findfulltime.html

• National Job Sites:

www.publichealthjobs.net

http://phpartners.org/jobs.html

www.jobspublichealth.com

http://www.usajobs.gov/

• Local Job Sites:

http://jobs.uiowa.edu/

http://www.corridorcareers.com/

http://www.idph.state.ia.us/

http://ipha.memberlodge.org/Default.aspx?pageId=58763