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. Below please find information about our internship program, awards, and how you can make a difference by donating to the Tom Hall Student and Young Health Professional Fund!
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.
INTERNSHIPS
Our internship program is designed to teach the next generation of health 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. Scroll down for application info.
Read about past and current interns here: Welcomes and Farewells: 2025 Interns!
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INVEST in the next generation of health activists!
DONATE HERE to the Dr. Tom Hall Student and Young Professionals Fund!
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.
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YOUNG HEALTH ACTIVIST AWARDS
Every year, SF Bay PSR gives awards to young health professionals for their contributions to environmental and health advocacy.
READ about our inspiring awardees and their advocacy projects:
2024 Awardees
2023 Awardees
2022 Awardees
2021 Awardees
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INTERNSHIP APPLICATION
Application deadline for 2025 internships: DECEMBER 1, 2025, and interviews will be scheduled in December, online.
TWO positions are available:
1. Environmental Health Committee internship: Supports committee of medical and public health professionals and scientists who advocate for public policies to protect communities from the climate and health harms caused by fossil fuel pollution and toxics.
2. Nuclear Weapons Abolition Committee internship: Works with a team of medical and public health professionals and community activists dedicated to influence public awareness, civic involvement, and national policies in support of a world free from nuclear weapons. This role also involves collaboration with partner groups such as the Peace Caucus in affiliation with the American Public Health Association (APHA) including contributing to the preparation of the Peace Caucus program for the 2024 APHA national meeting.
Job Description: In addition to a special project, mentorship, and educational activities, interns will learn how activists collaborate and nonprofits function via assisting with setting up meetings, taking minutes, tracking and researching policies, helping with events, social media, the website, writing some newsletter sections, and assisting with scheduling, among other duties.
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 work directly with SF Bay PSR’s communications director and will be afforded mentorship opportunities by the chapter president, SF Bay PSR’s board of directors, and other members.
Internships are usually one year long, from January – January, but please inquire about other options. Interns are paid an hourly rate of $20 and classified as non-exempt employees. Work hours fluctuate from 5-8 hours per week with about three evening meetings and events per month. Most meetings and work is done remotely and online.
Please send a resume and cover letter with two references to jujulindow (at) yahoo.com, SUBJECT LINE: Internship Application. Your cover letter should explain how this internship would fit within your career path and which of our core areas you are most interested in focusing on and learning about. Be sure to review our website for information about our programs.