Internship Program

International Public Health

Gain Real-World Experience And Targeted Skills In Global Health

Create A Public Health

Campaign To Save Lives

Research Public Health Crises In Nigeria And Create Educational Materials

To Assist With Relief Efforts

Collaborate With Leading Industry Experts

Work With Doctors And Experts in Public Health For The Developing World

Partner With Public Health Programs In Nigeria

Work With Pre-Existing Groups To Publicize Your Public Health Campaign

International Public Health Internship Program

The International Public Health Internship Program is a nine-month global health program that targets vulnerable populations living in sub-Sarahan Africa. Interns will work with project managers and health care professionals in Bauchi, Nigeria. Working together, interns will develop and implement public health campaigns that target major health concerns such as immunization, reproductive health, adolescent health, food and nutrition, child health, drugs, food hygiene and safety, control of Malaria, and HIV/ AIDS.

Educating the local community about key healthcare issues is an important part of this internship. Promoting awareness is the best way to ensure the prevention of avoidable diseases. Interns will create public health campaigns that will be presented in these communities.

The International Public Health Internship provides students the opportunity to understand the challenges faced by communities around the world. Interns are sure to gain greater cultural awareness and a broader perspective on the challenges and rewards of the field of medicine.

Summit Dates:

Time:

Location:

Rising Freshmen To Graduating Seniors

September 1st - May 15th

1 - 2 Hours per Week

Online

Price:

Free

Grades:

Program Highlights

Explore Key Issues in Nigeria’s Public Healthcare System and Bringing Research-driven Change

Public Health Campaigns

Choose a Global Public Health Topic

Partner with Community Healthcare Professionals

Interns will engage in research to provide support to often forgotten and over-looked demographics. Students will be pivotal in changing the health outcomes in an under-resourced area and learn how to report on problems surrounding health.

Interns start by identifying a need in the community and working with their assigned on-site mentor to develop solutions. Students will also work with local community healthcare liaisons to ensure that they are informed about cultural issues and assisted with overcoming any language barriers.

Interns will explore a variety of community health issues and how they intersect with gender, environmental, and behavioral studies. Students will work with their team to develop and implement campaigns on topics that range from promoting disease prevention to living a healthy life.

Gain a Broad Range of Health-focused Community Development Training

Hands-on Experience

Share Solutions and Raise Awareness

Work One-On-One With Industry Leaders

Students will have an unparalleled opportunity to engage with healthcare workers, professionals, and NGOs virtually to acquire an in-depth view of current health challenges while monitoring the status quo and assessing emerging trends.

As an intern for the International Public Health Internship, students will use an interactive approach to learning that gives them an opportunity to immerse themself in the challenging complexities of health issues facing the world.

Interns will learn how to collect data, interpret survey methodology, and analyze health indicators within a supportive and solution-focused program. Project coordinators will work with internship teams to identify a public health issue affecting one community in sub-Saharan Africa. Interns will then develop an intervention to address that concern.

Apply and Synthesize Knowledge to Make the World a Healthier Place

Public Health Campaign That Change Minds

Study Major Public Health Challenges

Directly Improve & Change Lives

Interns will be immersed in the local communities to design interventions that can prevent and promote maternal and child health, nutrition, preventable disease initiatives, immunizations, and other health campaigns. Throughout the year students will turn everyday prevention methods into life-saving information that will be posted throughout communities in the developing world to directly improve health outcomes.

Students will have the opportunity to work directly with top medical minds to learn about the major public health challenges facing the population of sub-Saharan Africa. Students will address these challenges through the creation of global health campaigns that directly target their identified issue.

International Internship Program Benefits

SAT/ACT Training

College Probability Modeling

Summer Program Scholarships

TestRocker is the premier online SAT/ACT training resource for high school students across the United States.

LI has designed a system that will calculate the probability of acceptance into the student’s top university choices

IIP participants receive personalized scholarships to attend a LI Youth Development Program at Georgetown.

SAT/ACT Training

Featured in Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, and The Huffington Post, TestRocker is the premier online SAT/ACT training resource for high school students across the United States. All summer program participants will receive one year of free online SAT/ACT training from TestRocker valued at over $1200.

TestRocker utilizes personalized learning that incorporates technology & quality content to enable students to drastically increase their ability to take college standardized tests. TestRocker combines highly-effective private tutors with the best technology on the market to increase student scores.

TestRocker comes with customized lessons, full-length tests, and 24/7 customer service.

We will email the students’ parents a bi-weekly report so that parents can keep track of their progress.

Students have increased their SAT & ACT scores by an average of 280 points and 4 points, respectively.

College Probability Modeling

Leadership Initiatives and our partners at Parchment, TestRocker and University Initiatives have designed a system that will calculate the probability of acceptance into the student’s top university choices based on the students GPA, test scores, extracurricular activities, career goals, financial need and more.

The Leadership Initiatives college admissions team will then help all participants narrow their college interest list and create a college application plan.

Because our college admissions teamwork with a broad range of higher education institutions, their advice, and beneficial knowledge will allow students to further understand the college admissions process.

Community Service

SAT/ACT Training Scores

Grade Point Average

Financial Assistance Needs

Extra-Curricular Activities

College Probability Calculator

Summer Program Scholarships

Participants in the International Internship Program receive personalized scholarships to attend a Leadership Initiatives Youth Development Program of your choice at Georgetown University. Leadership Initiatives has week-long intensive internships in the fields of Business, Medicine, and Law.

We are the only summer program in the world where students intern with a real business, law firm, or hospital, work directly with college admissions officers, and meet one-on-one with subject matter experts to explore career field options.

For-profit summer education programs showcase simulations as the key component of their educational experience. As a nonprofit organization, we are proud to offer real experiences that impact the lives of students and the individuals they are partnered with.

So you can start an internship with a business in the developing world, work with a DC lawyer on an impending court case or partner with a doctor to diagnose patients in sub-Saharan Africa.

College Essay Review

Letters of Recommendation

Real-World Experience

All IIP participants are able to submit five college application essays for review by our partners at University Connection.

IIP students will have the opportunity to have two letters of recommendation written for them by any LI staff member.

Students who participate in the IIP help create a new business or expand a growing business in a developing country

College Essay Review

Participants in the International Internship Program receive one-on-one essay editing assistance from Leadership Initiatives partner University Connection.

Each student essay will be edited to ensure it makes an excellent impression at every stage of the competitive application process. The editors will improve the style, clarity, sentence structure and coherence of your application so that your achievements are noticed.

Editors bring their experience in many different backgrounds, including Science and Technology, Commerce, Management, and the Humanities.

This offer is exclusive, and not available with any other institution or program!

Letters of Recommendation

Student interns who participate in the International Internship Program will have the opportunity to have two written for them from any Leadership Initiatives staff member, including the Executive Director Marshall Bailly.

Students interns will also have the opportunity to have letters written by Leadership Initiatives partners from the International Business & Development Internship, International Public Health Internship, and International Law & Advocacy Internship.

These unique and complimentary letters are one of the most highly regarded benefits that Leadership Initiatives has. Below are letters of recommendation from past students showcasing how the program transformed their lives:

Real-World Experience

The single greatest thing any student can have when applying for college is an experience that sets them apart from their peers. Students who participate in the International Internship Program help develop solutions for real-world problems facing communities in developing nations.

Not only does this demonstrate each student’s immense dedication to the welfare of communities worldwide, but it also highlights crucial skills including organization, team collaboration, creativity, effective communication, and many more essential qualities of leadership.

International Internship Participants participants have been accepted into Harvard, Stanford, Georgetown, George Washington, University of Chicago, Northwestern, MIT, and other top colleges in the globe, due in part to the unmatched experience gained through the program

Scholarship Assistance

Resume Editing Assistance

Community Service

LI has compiled a database of past scholarship recipients to identify these factors and ease the burden of scholarship application for IIP students.

All participants in the IIP receive professional resume creation advice and help from Leadership Initiatives.

LI will work to ensure that your work to transform lives is recognized.

Scholarship Assistance

Hundreds of thousands of scholarships exist for upcoming college students, and financial aid and scholarships can be a deciding factor in a student’s ability to attend college.

However, many of these scholarships have unspecified stipulations and may only reward scholarship to students in a certain demographic (i.e. location, a relative who works at the respective company, etc.). Leadership Initiatives has compiled a database of past scholarship recipients to identify these factors and ease the burden of scholarship application for IBIP students.

LI provides unmatched one-on-one scholarship assistance to each IBIP student through personalized searches, individual Skype calls, and scholarship essay editing services.

The graduating seniors in the International Business Internship Program have received over $5.4 million in financial aid and scholarships to attend college.

Resume Editing Assistance

One of the most important tools in the professional world is a clean, organized, and cohesive resume. As the first impression made on an employer, university, or other institution, a strong resume requires considerable thought and effort.

All participants in the International Business Internship Program receive professional resume creation advice and help from Leadership Initiatives to create a fantastic resume and highlight all the important activities and academics that colleges, universities, and employers are looking for.

After students create their resume, Leadership Initiatives pays for professional editors to go through the resume line by line and make corrections and suggestions.

The editors will improve grammar, diction, formatting, and make suggestions on content.

Leadership Initiatives also provides professionally-designed resume templates which allow students to easily copy and paste their content into an effective format easily.

Community Service

With participants volunteering their time each week to the betterment of communities worldwide, the IBIP program acts as a source of community service hours to fulfill requirements for groups like The National Honors Society.

Leadership Initiatives will work with your school and their community service program to ensure that your work to transform lives is recognized.

International Internship Participants participants have been accepted into Harvard, Stanford, Georgetown, George Washington, University of Chicago, Northwestern, MIT, and other top colleges in the globe, due in part to the unmatched experience gained through the program

Personalized Team Website

Leadership Initiatives creates a personalized website for each International Internship Program team highlighting their collaborative efforts with their partner in the International Business & Development Internship, International Law & Advocacy Internship, or International Public Health Internship.

The website displays your team's solutions, grant proposal, photos of your partners, and illustrates the impact your team has had on the life and community of your partners. The website link is included in your letters of recommendation, allowing colleges to independently explore the phenomenal work done by each and every student.

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