Internship Resources
Resources to Support the Internship Search Process
Community Health department resources
Community Health juniors and seniors complete a one-semester internship in the Boston area. At the Department of Community Health office, we have a number of resources to assist with your search for an internship placement for CH 140, the course connected to the required internship in CH. Department resources include:
- Internship Database: CH students may review the database internship sites which previously hosted CH students. The database, located in the CH main office (and not available remotely), contains information on past CH internships sorted by a variety of categories and locations. You can print out an information sheet on each site that interests you. The listings are useful as a first step in your research of possible sites. Make several choices which best match your professional and personal interests and goals.
- Internship Binder: Next to the database, there is a binder of current and past position postings. These positions include work in settings such as clinical research, consulting, communications, policy/government, and community organizations.
- Read your emails: The CH Department sends out weekly updates which include recent position descriptions.
- Contact Pamela: If you need more guidance, you may meet with Pamela Schoenberg Reider, Internship Administrator (pschoenberg.reider@tufts.edu).
Tufts Career Center
Visit the Career Center in Dowling Hall to identify your career goals and gain the skills, resources, contacts, and tools necessary to achieve them.
Quick Start Guide to Using the Career Center
Whether you are deciding on a major or career, looking for an internship or job, or considering graduate school, they can help. Additionally, the Career Center has internship and job listings. The Career Center has ongoing events, panels, drop-in hours, and online resources including the following:
- Tufts Internship Profiles
- Tufts Career Guide
- Tufts Career Center Resume Guide
- Tufts Career Center- Tips on Finding an Internship
- Tufts Career Center- Tips on Internship Funding
- Network with Community Health alumni through ‘The Herd’
- [WATCH] Webinar: "Get to Know The Herd'" (learn how to find a mentor)
- Career Community Resources and Blogs
- How to use Handshake
- Summer Internship Grants
- Rock Your LinkedIn Profile
- Get to know the HERD (Tufts Alumni Mentoring Databsae)
- First Destinations Survey by Major (where do CH students go after graduation)
- Diversity & Inclusion Programs for Students Interested in Health & Life Sciences (Malakia Silcott, Career Center Blog)
Some useful job/internship search websites
- idealist.org – Directory of non-profit web sites
- Boston.com – in association with The Boston Globe
- HPCareer.net – Health Professions Career Net
- Governor's Internship Program
- Forest Foundation
- Massachusetts State House
- City of Boston
- Boston Public Health Commission
- Indeed.com
- Association of Schools of Public Health
- The American Public Health Association (APHA) – Public Health CareerMart
- The Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) – Career Connection health education job locator
- LinkedIn – Create your own LinkedIn profile to join public health groups, and grow your professional network. Tufts Career Center can assist you.
- Local Public Health Job Resources in MA
Internship Funding Resources
- Tufts Career Center Summer Internship Grants
- Off-Campus Community Service Work Study
- Additional Internship Funding Information from the Tufts Career Center
- Tisch Summer Scholars Program
- Tisch Summer Fellows Program
- Tufts Career Center Professional Development Fund for Undergraduate Students
- Undergraduate Research Fund
Additional resources
- Speak to fellow CH students who have completed their internships
- Attend our panels and meetings related to internships
- Reach out to family or friends for connections
- Do independent research to identify interesting contacts or sites
- Consult with CH faculty or advisors