Internships & Early Career Development

SF Bay PSR offers mentoring and support for students and young health professionals who want to incorporate health activism into their careers, and youth-led, climate-health organizations.

If you are a student or member of a student/youth organization interested in activist mentoring and/or helping to build our student PSR chapter, please contact info@sfbaypsr.org.

YOUNG HEALTH ACTIVIST AWARDS

Every year, SF Bay PSR gives three awards to young health professionals for their contributions to environmental and health advocacy.

READ about our 2021 awardees here.

INTERNSHIPS

Our internship program is designed to teach the next generation of healthcare professionals activism, leadership, and advocacy skills in our areas of concentration: nuclear weapons abolition, climate change, environmental health, and intersecting social and racial justice issues.

APPLICATION

Application deadline for 2023 internships: December 1, 2022

Who can apply? Primarily public health, pre-med, medical, nursing, or other students (enrolled or in between degrees) who are interested in incorporating activism into their professional health career.

Student interns are directly supervised by SF Bay PSR’s communications specialist and will be afforded mentorship opportunities by the chapter president, SF Bay PSR’s board of directors, and other members.

Internships are usually six months to a year long. Interns are paid an hourly rate of $17 and classified as a non-exempt employee. Work hours fluctuate from 5-8 hours per week with about three evening meetings and events per month.

In addition to a special project, mentorship, and educational activities, interns will learn how activists collaborate and nonprofits function via assisting with taking minutes at committee meetings, tracking and researching policies, helping with events, social media, the website, writing some newsletter sections, and assisting with scheduling, among other duties.

Please send a resume and cover letter with two references to jujulindow@yahoo.com.

Want to support the next generation of climate-health activists? DONATE to our internship program, click here

Remembering Dr. Tom Hall

The internship program is made possible by a generous gift from the late Dr. Thomas Livingston Hall and his family. A dedicated PSR member, Tom received his MD and MPH from Harvard and was subsequently awarded a Doctor of Public Health in International Health from Johns Hopkins University, where he was on the faculty until 1971. Tom was also on the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where his health-related career involved providing clinical services in rural Puerto Rico, national health workforce planning studies via the World Health Organization, directing a population studies center at UNC, directing a health care planning office in Seattle, and several years of health planning in New Zealand. In 1986, Dr. Hall came to San Francisco, and from 1988 to 1996 he directed a postdoctoral training program in HIV/AIDS prevention research at UC San Francisco. After retirement, he volunteered to teach and mentor in global health, and until his death, he worked with the Consortium of Universities for Global Health.