Center for Public Health Practice
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The Center for Public Health Practice (CPHP) at the School of Public Health promotes individual and community health by working with students, faculty, and practitioners to achieve excellence in practice. The Center's mission is to collaborate with its academic and practice partners in making the link between teaching, research, and the practice of public health. It accomplishes this by providing programs and services appropriate to the needs of its key constituents.
CPHP activities include:
- Providing M.P.H. students with a field program supervisor who will work with students to find a full-time summer internship that matches their interests and abilities. Field program supervisors also assist in student career development by helping students identify and refine their interests, skills, and career direction, as well as resume review, professional contacts, and informational interviews.
- Placing approximately 125 students each year in health departments, community-based organizations, health care systems, nonprofits, and other public health organizations.
- Assisting with international summer internships. Berkeley M.P.H. students have been placed in summer internships in Bolivia, Brazil, China, Cuba, Ecuador, Guam, India, Kenya, Thailand, Mali, Mexico, Namibia, Nicaragua, Haiti, Switzerland, Vietnam, Zimbabwe, and Zambia.
- Providing the PH291 professional development workshop series. Workshops are presented by CPHP staff or community public health practitioners. The series is divided into four modules to emphasize certain skills: management, communications & advocacy, planning & strategy, and personal & project management. Topics include: Introduction to Finance, Writing for Publication, Legislative Advocacy and Policy, Writing Grants for the CDC and NIH, Administrative Advocacy, Evaluation Methods, Project Management, Negotiation, Project Management, and Human Resources Management.
- Providing career services for M.P.H. students, alumni, and employers. Jobs and internships are posted on our job site (http://www.cphp-berkeley.org). In addition to job postings, career services include job search, resume writing, and interviewing workshops; career counseling; and special events such as the Career Cafe.
- Creating the Center for Multicultural Health (CMH): Reducing Health Inequities Through Public Health Practice. The CMH, part of the Center for Public Health Practice, works with numerous community partners to offer students with paid internships during the summer and academic year, paid and volunteer jobs, practice-based class projects and case studies and workshops with leading practitioners. Through these opportunities, students can contribute to the design, implementation, and evaluation of interventions designed to reduce health disparities and/or improve the access and quality of programs and services. CMH Advisory Board Members include representatives from Alameda County Department of Public Health, Alameda Alliance for Health, City of Berkeley Public Health Department, Contra Costa County Health Services, Ethnic Health Institute, The Greenlining Institute, Kaiser Permanente Institute for Culturally Competent Care, PolicyLink, and Samuels and Associates.
- Cosponsoring the Public Health Alumni Association's annual Career Cafe, where public health practitioners meet with students to network, share their insight, career advice, and employment opportunities in an informal, casual venue.
- Development and coordination of the "What Can You Do with an M.P.H.?" speaker series where public health practitioners from different organization types (health department, CBO, private sector) or topics (obesity, environmental justice, HIV/AIDS) share their day-to-day activities, industry trends, challenges, typical salaries, desired skills, opportunities, and other information that help students learn more about possible M.P.H. career paths.
- Working with faculty to include and develop practice-based projects in courses. The Center also works with community partners on practice-based interventions.
- Disseminating job announcements, fellowship and internship opportunities via a weekly electronic newsletter.
Mailing Address:
School of Public Health
Center for Public Health Practice
140 Warren Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-7360
(510) 643-0970
FAX: (510) 642-9891
Main Office Location:
19 Warren Hall
