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New Jobs and Internships in Maternal, Newborn and Child Health

Maternal Health Task Force

Interested in a position in reproductive, maternal, newborn, child or adolescent health? Every month, the Maternal Health Task Force rounds up job and internship postings from around the globe. Here are positions open for applications in August 2024.

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New York City Teens Connection: a Personal Reflection on Positive Youth Development

Fund for Public Health NYC

FPHNYC is proud to have secured a new fourth round of HHS funding for the NYC Health Department’s New York City Teens Connection (NYCTC). They were the program leader for Curtis High School Teen Health Promoters Club. They encouraged us to apply as a way to build on our knowledge and interest in teen sexual health.

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The beginning and end of Monday Morning

Monday Morning

The new dean of the Gillings School, Nancy Messonnier, MD, is the right person to lead now. The pandemic changed the importance and urgency of public health, resources for public health, and how we work. We stood against racial, gender, sexual, and other inequities. These issues are public health.

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Anti-AIDS program in GOP crosshairs over abortion funding 

The Hill

chair of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health Security and Diplomacy Bureau, called the revelation just the tip of the iceberg and vowed investigations into PEPFARs programs. pushed back, saying that increased partisanship is threatening a landmark health program that has saved millions of lives in Africa.

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CDC Firings Undermine Public Health Work Far Beyond Washington

KFF Health News

The Trump administration’s sudden firing of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employees gutted training programs across the nation whose participants bolstered the workforce of state and local public health departments that for decades have been starved of resources. That was far from its only purpose.

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CDC firings undermine public health work far beyond Washington

HEALTHBEAT

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeats free national newsletter here. The programs are designed to cultivate a new generation of public health leaders, many of whom have gone on to work at the CDC. The Public Health Associate Program deploys recent college graduates and other early-career workers for two years.