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YCCCH Summer Internship Program

The Yale Center on Climate Change and Health (YCCCH) Summer Internship Program aims to match Yale students with meaningful internships focused on the critical intersection of climate change and health.

Eligibility:

  • Returning (non-graduating) Yale School of Public Health MPH students
  • Current YCCCH Climate Change and Health Concentration students (non-graduating)
  • Undergraduate Environmental Studies majors (non-graduating)
  • Master’s students (non-graduating) from the Yale School of the Environment

Process:

Eligible students apply to be matched with a specific internship from the list of opportunities (see below). To apply, students will submit all materials via Qualtrics. The Qualtrics form will ask you to:

  • Submit a cover letter addressed to the host organization that identifies your preferred project and describes the skills, experience, and perspective you would bring to the project. If there are required skills or eligibility criteria listed for that project, be sure to respond to those explicitly. - You may apply to more than one internship; to do so, you must write one cover letter per internship project.
  • Include an up-to-date resume/CV and a transcript (unofficial is ok).
  • Applications are due Friday, February 7, 2025 at 11:59pm.
  • Each internship host will review its applications (some may also conduct interviews) and determine who to offer the internship to; YCCCH will relay offers to the applicants.

Past internship projects and partner organizations include:

  • California Department of Public Health’s Climate Change and Health Equity Unit. Project: California Climate Change and Health Data and Research Internship
  • Community Engagement, Environmental Justice, and Health (CEEJH) Laboratory at the University of Maryland School of Public Health. Project: Climate and Health Equity Internship
  • Connecticut Department of Public Health. Project: A Survey of Cooling Station Practices in Connecticut and Local Indicators of Climate and Health
  • Connecticut Department of Public Health. Projects: Climate and Health: Vulnerable Infrastructure; Air Quality/Extreme Heat: Educational Curriculum; Climate Change Impacts: Asthma Levels; Food Security and Equity; Environmentally Safe Housing; Private Well Survey
  • Connecticut Institute for Resilience and Climate Adaptation and Yale Center on Climate Change and Health. Project: Municipal Tools for Extreme Heat
  • Dejusticia. Project: Health, air quality and climate change interlinkages with a human rights perspective
  • Eastern Caribbean Health Outcome Research Network (ECHORN). Project: Feasibility and Acceptability of Emergency NCD Kits to address needs of people living with NCDs after natural disasters
  • East Shore District Health Department. Project: Climate Change in Connecticut: A Research & Photojournalism Road Map to Awareness
  • Equity and Environmental Justice-Adaptation Subcommittee of the Connecticut Governor’s Council on Climate Change. Project: Connecticut Climate Justice Internship
  • Minnesota Department of Public Health. Project: Communications and Outreach Internship
  • Montana Health Professionals for a Healthy Climate. Project: MontanaHPHC Program Administrator
  • New Haven City Plan Department. Project: Planning for Climate and for Health
  • Save the Sound. Project: Climate Justice and Health Training Initiative
  • The Science Based Targets Network. Project: Building partnerships to reduce GHG emissions from food companies in China
  • UNICEF. Project: Exploring UNICEF’s approach to Climate Change and Adolescent Mental Health
  • WE ACT for Environmental Justice. Project: Northern Manhattan Cooling Center Audit
  • Yale Center on Climate Change and Health. Project: Climate Change and Health Policy Impact Unit
  • Yale Equity Research and Innovation Center. Project: A Plan to Reduce Non-Communicable Disease-Related Morbidity and Mortality After Natural Disasters
  • Yale Program on Healthcare Environmental Sustainability. Project: Greenhouse gas emissions impacts of pandemic-related telehealth expansion

You can find interviews with our Summer 2020 interns, who worked with the Connecticut Department of Public Health, WE ACT for Environmental Justice, and Yale’s Equity Research and Innovation Center on the YSPH news site.

Questions?

Contact Alix Rachman, YCCCH Program Administrator.