Public Health Fellow/Student Intern

Internship and Fellowship Opportunities with the County of San Luis Obispo Public Health Department

The County of San Luis Obispo Public Health Department is hiring current students for internships and fellowships. Join us and help create a safe and healthy community and an environment where everyone has the opportunity to thrive!

The Public Health Department promotes, preserves and protects the health of all San Luis Obispo County residents through disease surveillance, health education, direct services, and health policy development. The department includes seven different divisions offering a wide range of fellowship and internship opportunities.

There are a variety of internship and fellowship opportunities, ranging from health education and promotion, to data collection and analysis, to lab work, and more. The department also partners with the following programs: Pathways Cal-PPH and Cal-EIS Fellowship Program.

Please note that this is a continuous posting. Applications will be given to Public Health Divisions at their request, based on need.

The seven divisions of the Public Health Department include:

• Clinical & Communicable Disease Services: Serves to promote and protect community health and well-being through reproductive health services, management of communicable diseases, immunizations, and infectious disease epidemiology.
• Emergency Medical Services and Public Health Emergency Preparedness: The EMSA is primarily responsible for the administration of emergency medical services in the County. The PHEP is responsible for planning responses to public health emergencies.
• Health Care Access: Centers its efforts around coordinating health care services among providers and increasing access to key health determinants such as food, housing, and dental care.
• Health Promotion: Provides health education to prevent chronic disease and improve community health. Program areas include nutrition and food security, physical activity, bicycle and pedestrian safety, car seat installations, healthy aging and dementia prevention, tobacco use prevention, and the Women Infants and Children (WIC) program.
• Maternal & Child Health: Aims to enhance and safeguard community health and well-being through its efforts in maternal, child, and adolescent health, children's medical services, and field nursing.
• Planning, Evaluation & Policy: Dedicated to internal planning, community collaboration, assessing, analyzing, and evaluating data, and maintaining vital records. Additionally, the PEP Division strives to advance health equity in our community by addressing health disparities and ensuring that services are provided in culturally and linguistically equitable ways.
• Public Health Laboratory: Offers clinical and environmental testing services including drinking water analysis, parasite identification, and tick testing for Lyme disease.
• Public Information Office: Provides relevant local health information to SLO County community members through a wide range of channels. This includes information to the community as a whole as well as messages for more specific audiences such as health care workers, older adults, and many others.

The ideal candidates are current students majoring or minoring in related areas of study. We welcome current undergraduate, graduate, and nursing students to apply! Student Intern: Person appointed to temporary employment with the County in a training position which compliments their ongoing education as a regularly enrolled student in an accredited college, university, community college, or graduate school, or as a participant in a supervised training program to meet licensure requirements of the State of California. "Regularly enrolled" shall mean that the student is both currently enrolled and intends to continue that enrollment in the next regularly scheduled term.

Certain positions within this classification may require driving. When driving is an essential function of the position, a valid California driver's license will be required at the time of appointment.

Applications, including answers to supplemental questions, must be submitted online by the final filing date. If you have questions or would like to discuss the opportunity further, please contact Human Resources at View email address on click.appcast.io. Confidential inquiries are welcomed.

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