NEPHTC offers our Health Equity Stipend Program to provide exceptional students with opportunities to apply their acquired knowledge and skills in a public health practice setting working with a medically underserved area/population. Every year, we aim to reach students of all backgrounds from different areas, and this year we are happy to report that we have student representation […]
NEPHTC thanks our colleagues at Region 4 PHTC (Emory and University of Alabama) for putting together this data on the PHTC Student Field Placement Program. These data show that the PHTCs, a HRSA-funded program providing public health workforce development, collectively placed 693 students from July 1, 2018 to June 30,21. 74% of students worked on […]
Wrapping up the year, NEPHTC is reflecting on the important public health practical experiences we get to offer graduate students in the form of internships. We were happy to see in our data from last year 86% of student placements were with medically underserved populations or in medically underserved communities. This is an improvement from […]