Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Project Name                                                      Summary                                                                    Skills/Languages	Title	Summary	Agency	# Interns	Project Code	Required Languages	Required Skills	Description	Post Name	Country	Country of Focus	Additional Info	Created	Agency Id	Section	Id
L-CDC-USA-6 Develop Guidelines for HIV Prevention Learn about systematic literature reviews and methods to develop national, evidence-based guidelines, methods of grading the quality of the evidence and strength of recommendations. Help us develop ... Analytical writing, Coding, Data analysis, Research, Writing	Develop Guidelines for HIV Prevention	Learn about systematic literature reviews and methods to develop national, evidence-based guidelines, methods of grading the quality of the evidence and strength of recommendations. Help us develop guidelines to support HIV prevention and contribute to Ending the HIV Epidemic.	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention	2	L-CDC-USA-6		Analytical writing, Coding, Data analysis, Research, Writing	CDC’s Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention (DHAP) promotes health and quality of life by preventing HIV infection and reducing HIV illness and death in the United States. Our project involves all aspects of the guideline development process and provides the opportunity to gain hands on experience with the development of HIV prevention guidelines and related products. The activities encompass completion of literature searches in collaboration with a librarian, conducting systematic or scoping reviews to synthesize evidence for HIV prevention as well as translation of public health/scientific data into guideline related materials. The project requires reviewing and critically evaluating a variety of evidence to support each guideline recommendation following agreed upon methodology by using Distiller, a systematic review software that manages, tracks, and streamlines the screening, data extraction, and reporting processes of systematic reviews. The findings of our research are summarized in guideline documents and/or papers that we publish in scientific journals. We also present our findings at local and national conferences. This position will primarily assist with screening and coding of studies with exposure to the other steps in our process including developing presentations and manuscripts.		United States		This position will be on the Guideline Development Team in the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention. DHAP promotes health and quality of life by preventing HIV infection and reducing HIV illness and death in the United States and provides leadership in helping control the spread of HIV/AIDS by working with community, state, national, and international partners in surveillance, research, and prevention and evaluation activities. More information on DHAP is available at: http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/dhap/about.html. The mission of our team is to improve transparency, validity, reliability, and applicability of DHAP guidelines by ensuring that they follow CDC’s guideline development standards. The team coordinates, monitors, and guides the Division’s activities related to the development, adaptation, dissemination, implementation, and evaluation of guidelines and supporting material. In its work, the team collaborates with DHAP staff, DHAP senior leadership, the Office of Science Quality, other CDC Divisions, as well as external federal and non-federal partners. To learn more about us, please go to: http://intranet.cdc.gov/nchhstp/dhap/offices/oppc/guidelines.shtml	2020-09-10 11:53:47	100		3527
CDC-USA-2 Write/edit public health stories about fighting infectious disease threats in the U.S. Compose narratives from content submitted by public health staff across America. You will author submitted stories for non-scientific audiences while also evaluating their impact and quality. Analytical writing, Cultural diplomacy, Data visualization, Editing and proofreading, Storytelling/blogging/vlogging	Write/edit public health stories about fighting infectious disease threats in the U.S.	Compose narratives from content submitted by public health staff across America. You will author submitted stories for non-scientific audiences while also evaluating their impact and quality.	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention	3	CDC-USA-2		Analytical writing, Cultural diplomacy, Data visualization, Editing and proofreading, Storytelling/blogging/vlogging	As Americans are increasingly affected by infections emerging anywhere in the world, finding and stopping infectious disease health threats is essential to protecting public health and saving lives. For a quarter-century, the Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity for Prevention and Control of Emerging Infectious Diseases (ELC) program has provided hundreds of millions annually to all 50 states and U.S. territories and affiliates to detect, respond to, control, and prevent infectious diseases (e.g. West Nile virus, Zika, chikungunya, COVID-19). This cooperative agreement has been critical to U.S. health departments’ ability to combat infectious diseases. ELC is seeking 1-3 graduate students with exceptional writing and qualitative evaluation skills and storytelling experience. A captivating story helps strengthen ELC-funded activities throughout the U.S. Interns will work directly with ELC’s Communications Specialists, other CDC experts, and network with state public health partners. Interns will have opportunities to: • Utilize traditional and new communication tools to promote infectious disease prevention activities; • Compose/edit compelling narratives from content supplied by public health professionals throughout the U.S. for non-scientific audiences; • Evaluate success stories submitted by local/state health departments using an established criterion for scoring; and • Synthesize success story evaluation findings to create usable, actionable feedback for local/state health departments. As a result of this project the eIntern will become knowledgeable of diverse infectious disease projects occurring in the U.S. and have the occasion to network with public health professionals at state, local, territorial, and federal levels.		United States		We prefer interns located in the Eastern Time Zone. A solid story can promote the growth of a program or activity. To learn more about the ELC program, visit www.cdc.gov/ELC. Look to the left navigation section and click on Resources. There you will find story videos and other promotional content.	2020-06-09 11:27:53	100		3119
CDC-USA-3 CDC Global Response Training Development Support Exciting opportunity to work directly with CDC experts involved in global public health emergency preparedness! French helpful, Spanish helpful; Cultural diplomacy, Data analysis, Data visualization, Editing and proofreading, Educational design, Research, Survey / polling design, Website design, Writing	CDC Global Response Training Development Support	Exciting opportunity to work directly with CDC experts involved in global public health emergency preparedness!	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention	1	CDC-USA-3	French , Spanish	Cultural diplomacy, Data analysis, Data visualization, Editing and proofreading, Educational design, Research, Survey / polling design, Website design, Writing	Our unit is tasked with the development of trainings and provision of response capacity consultations to improve the global emergency workforce to better respond to international public health emergencies. The project will evolve over time as we respond to public health emergencies globally but may include tracking trainings, database management, data visualization, performing literature reviews and supporting communication material development. The project can be aligned with the student's interests and career goals. Other projects that the student may support include: • Designing and developing curriculum in collaboration with CDC subject matter experts for CDC responders, foreign governments, and international organizations during both peacetime and response activation • Supporting quantitative and qualitative evaluation data collection and analysis to improve capacity development strategies • Developing plans, procedures, and tools for more streamlined execution of capacity building activities including the provision of simulations, tabletop exercises, workshops, and in-country consultations • Contributing to the preparation of training activities, reports, presentations, and communication materials		United States		This student will also have opportunities for professional growth and development by participating in trainings, workshops, and meetings centered around global emergency preparedness.	2020-05-07 12:48:52	100		2732
CDC-USA-5 Health and Safety Big Data Research in Mining (Machine Learning) Join our project team at point of inception to research machine learning options using health and safety leading indicator data provided by frontline workers: clean and tag data, perform testing, and ... Coding, Data analysis, Data visualization, Design thinking, Research	Health and Safety Big Data Research in Mining (Machine Learning)	Join our project team at point of inception to research machine learning options using health and safety leading indicator data provided by frontline workers: clean and tag data, perform testing, and develop requirements to help identify predictors of workplace incidents.	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention	2	CDC-USA-5		Coding, Data analysis, Data visualization, Design thinking, Research	Opportunity to prepare and integrate large datasets of daily health and safety process and behavioral data using machine learning approaches to explore predictive utility. Project assignments will be based on experience and interest or based on the current needs of the organization but are likely to include: - Data extraction, clean-up, correlation, and analysis from Excel and unstructured text, with Power BI, and using other open source data analysis software tools such as R, R-studio, and Python. Should have experience with not only data analysis but design thinking and research knowledge.		United States		Not required but, if applicable, feel free to submit a description of prior big data/machine learning experience or projects.	2020-05-08 10:16:16	100		2735
CDC-USA-1 Making Virtual Reality User Friendly - User Interface Design in Virtual Environments Develop and test a generic, visual/audio user interface framework that enables individuals that are not familiar with virtual worlds or virtual reality interface devices to interact effectively with a... Coding, Data visualization, Design thinking, Graphic design, Research, Software development, Writing	Making Virtual Reality User Friendly - User Interface Design in Virtual Environments	Develop and test a generic, visual/audio user interface framework that enables individuals that are not familiar with virtual worlds or virtual reality interface devices to interact effectively with a virtual environment.	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention	1	CDC-USA-1		Coding, Data visualization, Design thinking, Graphic design, Research, Software development, Writing	At CDC/NIOSH, Virtual Reality (VR) is becoming a critical tool for research that allows the creation of dynamic, high fidelity virtual environments to do things that would otherwise be impossible, too costly, or too dangerous in the real world. With VR, our researchers can visualize invisible concepts and complex data, help to evaluate prototypes, and simulate dangerous or non-routine situations. We do this through data collection and visualization projects that include human subject data collection, iterative simulation, co-visualization applications, and training applications. When we do human subject data collections, we ask our subjects to interact with the virtual environment in various ways. Often time, our subjects are not be familiar with VR or VR interfaces. The ease of their interaction effects our data collections, so we need to provide an interface that the uninitiated can grasp intuitively. The interface can be visual (point and click), audio (speech recognition) or both.		United States		This work is part of the CDC/NIOSH Mining program, based at the Bruceton Research Center, a large facility in the suburbs south of downtown Pittsburgh. You can learn more about the program at https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/mining. You will be working with a team of computer scientists, engineers, 3D modelers and social scientists that do research to improve the health and safety of workers in the US mining industries. Our facilities include our Virtual Immersion and Simulation Laboratory (VISLab - https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/mining/content/facilities.html). We build our virtual environments using the Unity game engine (https://unity.com/).	2020-05-06 11:18:26	100		2723
CDC-USA-4 Synthesize Evidence for HIV Prevention Learn to use state-of-the-art software tools to screen, code and evaluate HIV prevention research. Help us synthesize evidence to support HIV prevention and contribute to Ending the HIV Epidemic. Analytical writing, Coding, Data analysis, Research, Writing	Synthesize Evidence for HIV Prevention	Learn to use state-of-the-art software tools to screen, code and evaluate HIV prevention research. Help us synthesize evidence to support HIV prevention and contribute to Ending the HIV Epidemic.	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention	1	CDC-USA-4		Analytical writing, Coding, Data analysis, Research, Writing	At the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, we are joining many other federal agencies to work towards Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Plan for America (EHE) (https://www.hiv.gov/federal-response/ending-the-hiv-epidemic/overview), which aims to end the HIV epidemic in the United States by 2030. Our project involves conducting systematic reviews to synthesize evidence for HIV prevention. We do this by identifying, evaluating and summarizing data from published research studies. We conduct a massive literature search and use the latest software tools to screen thousands of articles. We then use systematic review methods to abstract data and conduct data analyses to determine the evidence from the literature. We document our findings in research papers that we publish in top-notch scientific journals. We also present our findings at local and national conferences. This position will primarily assist with screening and coding of studies with exposure to the other steps in our process including developing presentations and manuscripts.		United States		This position will be on the Research, Synthesis and Translation Team (RSTT) in the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention. Our team is responsible for evaluating and synthesizing HIV/AIDS literature to identify evidence-based interventions and best practices for reducing HIV infection and transmission. We conduct systematic reviews and meta-analyses on various topics, including risk reduction interventions (e.g., condom distribution, partner notification and referral services), medication adherence among HIV-positive persons, linking and retaining HIV-positive persons in care and Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). In addition, the team conducts and publishes systematic reviews and meta-analyses on HIV behavioral interventions for populations disproportionately affected by the HIV epidemic (e.g., African Americans, Hispanic/Latinos, women of color, transgender persons and men who have sex with men). To see some of our work and publications, please go to: https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/research/interventionresearch/compendium/index.html and https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/dhap/prb/prs/publications.html	2020-06-10 10:24:16	100		3215