Internship Opportunities
We offer paid summer internships for graduate, medical school, and upper-level undergraduate students.
Our internship program:
- Generates student interest in injury prevention
- Supports student educational development
- Provides mentorship
- Creates successful injury prevention professionals
We invite all students with an interest in injury prevention to apply.
Organizations, departments, or researchers can apply to be an internship preceptor. We announce a call for placement opportunities in the fall of every year. You can read the requirements below.
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Summer 2026 internship applications will open in fall of 2025
Students
We announce five paid summer internship positions for graduate and upper-level undergraduate students each year.
Summer 2026 projects will be announced in the fall. You can apply to up to 2 projects.
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 at the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta. The selected applicant will be provided $500 for travel to/from Atlanta, GA if travel is required. Applicants should indicate in their application whether or not they would like to be considered for this placement.
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 27-30 hours/week (a cumulative total of no less than 300 hours for the summer).
Interested in hosting an intern next summer?
Contact Taylor ([email protected]) for more information.
Frequently Asked Questions
The internship application will be submitted through a Qualtrics form. Once the application period is open, the form will be linked above.
Letters of recommendation can be submitted through the Qualtrics link with the entire application, or directly
to Taylor Hautala ([email protected]) if that is the preferred/most convenient method of delivery.
Yes, you can apply for up to two projects. In the application, there is a space to mark which projects you
would like to be considered for.
The more you can speak to your interests (either in terms of injury-related topics you have an interest 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.
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.
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.