Internships
We are pleased to announce five paid internship positions for graduate and upper-level undergraduate students for the summer of 2025!
The internships are designed for students interested in injury and violence prevention.
Each selected applicant will be provided a stipend totaling $5,700 and is required to work a minimum of 300 hours over the summer.
Applicants can apply for up to 2 internships.
Summer 2025
Applications are now closed for 2025
Summer 2025 Internship Placements
- SAFE ARMS: Community-Based Firearm Injury Prevention and Safe Storage Intervention for Families with Young Children
- Expanding Surveillance of Burn Injuries: A Comprehensive Review of Non-Fire Related Burns and Risk Factors
- PC CARES: A Community Mobilization Approach to Prevent Suicide and At-Risk Substance Use in Remote Alaskan Communities
- Best Practices for Violence Prevention Programming: Assessing Sandy Hook Promise’s Implementation of the Know the Signs Program in Bronx School District 9
- National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Students
We announce five paid summer internship positions for graduate and upper-level undergraduate students each year.
Examples of previous projects include:
- Updating and evaluating the Facts Over Fear opioid awareness curriculum for middle and high school students
- Working on recruitment and engagement strategies, data collection, survey building, and resource guide development for emergency department interventions to reduce youth firearm violence
- Evaluating the Recovery Opioid Overdose Team (ROOT+) program, a quick-response team linking overdose survivors to treatment and recovery services
- Analyzing survey data, writing reports, conducting interviews, and developing materials for community partners as part of the Family Safety Net project, which seeks to increase the safety of youth in NW Alaska by providing information and resources to support safe firearm storage
- Working to develop a campus climate survey on gender-based violence to be used at universities in sub-Saharan Africa
Qualifications:
- Graduate-level applicants must be enrolled in a graduate program or medical school
- Undergraduate-level applicants must be a rising junior or senior at the time of the internship
- Interest in injury prevention practice, policy, or research
- Ability to work independently
- Ability to maintain the confidentiality of sensitive information
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Proficiency with computer software applications such as Microsoft Office, Excel, and PowerPoint
Each selected applicant will receive a $5,700 stipend. Depending on the needs of the preceptor, internships may be in-person or hybrid. However, some in-person seminars will take place with your intern cohort throughout the summer.
We also sponsor one competitive paid internship position for U-M public health graduate students with the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta.
All applicants will be asked to provide:
- A resume or CV
- Two letters of recommendation
These letters of recommendation may be from your academic advisor, current or former employer or supervisor, or a current or former professor or research supervisor. One letter must be from a faculty member.
- A personal statement describing all of the following in 500 words or less
- Your interest in injury prevention
- Your career goals
- Skills that you would bring to the internship
- A summary of your previous research or practice experience (especially if it is related to injury prevention!)
Preceptors
The University of Michigan Injury Prevention Center will fund five intern positions next summer supporting work in injury prevention. The Center will recruit graduate and upper-level undergraduate students interested in injury prevention research or practice experiences in specific topic areas.
The goal is to offer students an opportunity to gain mentored research and practice-based experience in injury prevention. Internships should provide students an opportunity to work approximately 25-30 hours/week (a cumulative total of no less than 300 hours for the summer).
Interested in hosting an intern next summer?
Contact Taylor (tdhaut@med.umich.edu) for more information.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is there a specific application form that should be filled out, or is the application a document that I create?
The internship application will be submitted through a Qualtrics form. Once the application period is open, the form will be linked above.
Do the letters of recommendation need to be submitted along with the entire application, or can they be submitted directly to the person of contact for the internship program?
Letters of recommendation can be submitted through the Qualtrics link with the entire application or directly to Taylor Hautala (tdhaut@med.umich.edu)
Can I apply to more than one project?
You can apply for up to 2 projects. You will be asked which is your first choice.
How specific would you like our applications to be regarding the topic of interest or experiences we hope to gain?
The more you can speak to your interests (either in terms of injury-related topics you are interested in or would like to learn more about, skills you want to acquire, or experiences you hope to gain), the better. You are welcome to provide examples if that helps.
Is this opportunity open to any graduate or undergraduate students at any accredited university or just those enrolled at the University of Michigan?
U-M IPC internships are open to University of Michigan students only (including U-M Flint and Dearborn). Only U-M public health graduate students are eligible for placement at the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
Are these internships in-person, remote, or hybrid?
It varies by project. Each project has unique needs, and the working environment is ultimately up to your mentor. We do our best to indicate the anticipated working environment in the project’s description. As part of the program, interns are required to attend a once-a-week seminar hosted by the U-M IPC, many of which take place in person. As such, interns must be located in or around Ann Arbor, or, close enough to commute to these events.