Student internships

2023 Local Health Internship Program Opportunities (Please Read First)!

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This program is intended for graduate students and is designed to:

Provide students with an opportunity to… gain hands-on professional experience in local public health departments.
Enable local public health departments to… host graduate student interns and gain assistance with pressing projects.
Promote local public health to students… and cultivate an interest in the field early on in their academic and professional careers.

For over a decade, this annual program has placed public health student interns in local, regional, and state health departments in Massachusetts.

For more information, please contact:

Julie Coco, MPH (she/her/hers)
Epidemiologist II, Internship Coordinator
Division of Epidemiology
Massachusetts Department of Public Health
Phone: (617) 983-6800
Fax: (617) 983-6840

julie.coco@state.ma.us