Paid Summer Internship Opportunity

Overview

The Occupational Health Internship Program (OHIP) is a national summer program dedicated to helping students learn about the field of occupational safety and health (OSH) from those with the 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 work-related injury and disease through partnerships with labor and worker organizations. A project of the Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics, OHIP has training sites across the US. OHIP anticipates 2025 projects in West Palm Beach, FL, Philadelphia, New York City, Cleveland, OH, Racine, WI, San Francisco Bay, Los Angeles, Boston and more. Visit www.OHIPintern.org for a complete list of 2025 sites and program details. 2024 projects included documenting experiences of workplace violence among retail workers and developing prevention strategies, exploring the interrelations of public health and exploitative conditions of caregivers and recommending prevention strategies, and conducting health and safety training with migrant farmworkers.

Position Description
Teams of two students are placed with a union or worker organization to investigate work-related safety and health problems among workers. 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. 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 2024). We are 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 and Vietnamese. We also seek students who have skills to work independently and as a team member in environments where interactions with partners of varied backgrounds and experiences are encouraged.

Compensation
Undergraduate Students = $5,000 stipend | Graduate Students = $6,000 stipend

To Apply
Visit www.OHIPintern.org Questions? Contact Paola Henderson (phenderson@aoec.org) or Ingrid Denis (idenis@aoec.org or 888-347-2632)

OHIP is supported by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Grant # T03OHOO9220-17-00.