Deadline to Apply: Friday, February 14, 2020 (Applicants
Notified by late March)
Organization Description: The Occupational Health
Internship Program (OHIP) is a national summer program dedicated to help
students learn about the field of occupational safety and health (OSH) from
those most at stake: working people. Since 2004, OHIP has played a key role in
training, mentoring, and inspiring a new generation of OSH professionals to
prevent job injury and disease through partnerships with worker and
community-based organizations. A project of the Association of Occupational and
Environmental Clinics (AOEC), OHIP has training sites across the country
including: the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, DC, and
New York City. Visit www.OHIPintern.org
<http://www.OHIPintern.org> for new 2020 sites.
A sample of our 2019 projects included a hazard
assessment of the Las Vegas casino hotel industry, an investigation of sexual
harassment and workplace violence in Los Angeles cannabis dispensaries, an
assessment of job hazards and pain reported by women housekeepers in the
Philadelphia hotel industry, and an investigation of violence and assaults on
transit workers in Hartford, CT.
Position Description
Teams of two students are placed with a union or worker
organization to investigate job-related health and safety problems among
workers, often employed in an under-served or a high hazard job. Projects are
designed to maximize interaction between workers and students. OHIP is an
applied research experience, where students learn about the OSH field from the
workers' perspective. Project work emphasizes worker interviews and worksite
evaluations. At the end of the project, teams provide a "give back"
product to the workers and their host union/worker organization, present their
project at a national NIOSH web-conference, and produce a final report.
Commitment is full-time, including possible evenings or weekends.
Qualifications
- Graduate and
undergraduate students can apply; some stipends are restricted to US
citizens.
- Non-US
citizens must supply documentation of permission to work in the US.
- Undergraduates
must have completed two years, preferably in a field related to public
health, environmental studies, or public policy. Graduate students in
public health, medicine, nursing, or a related field are encouraged to
apply.
- Recent
graduates cannot be out of school for more than six months prior to the
start of OHIP (i.e. students are not eligible if they graduated prior to
December of 2019).
- Looking for
students with experience or interest in working with unions or social
justice organizations, are organized and self-starting, have good team
skills and ideally speak a second language such as Spanish, Tagalog,
Vietnamese, etc.
- Underrepresented
minority students encouraged to apply.
Compensation
Undergraduate Students = $4,000 stipend
Graduate Students = $5,200 stipend
To Apply
For eligibility info, on-line application and program
details go to www.OHIPintern.org<http://www.OHIPintern.org>.
Additional questions? Contact administrator coordinator
Ingrid Denis (idenis@aoec.org<mailto:idenis@aoec.org>,
1-888-347-2632).
For further program information, visit www.OHIPintern.org<http://www.OHIPintern.org>
or email program coordinator Sarah Jacobs (sjacobs@irle.ucla.edu<mailto:sjacobs@irle.ucla.edu>).
