Preventation Policy Intern

Title

Preventation Policy Intern

Division

Health Policy 

Mission

The New York Academy of Medicine advances the health of people in cities. An independent organization since 1847, NYAM addresses the health challenges facing the world's urban populations through interdisciplinary approaches to policy leadership, education, community engagement and innovative research.

Drawing on the expertise of diverse partners worldwide and more than 2,000 elected Fellows from across the professions, our current priorities are

• To create environments in cities that support healthy aging
• To strengthen systems that prevent disease and promote the public's health
• To implement interventions that eliminate health disparities

Summary and Description

NYAM's Health Policy team brings together researchers, policymakers, community members, and key stakeholders to think strategically and creatively about the root causes of health outcomes and to identify and develop evidence to influence urban health policies that reduce health disparities, encourage the spread of best practices, and raise awareness of how economic, social, and other policies and practices influence the broad determinants of community health.

In July 2008, NYAM conducted an extensive literature review that helped form the basis of a report for Trust for America’s Health (TFAH), which demonstrated that modest investments in community-based prevention could result in dramatic health care savings. TFAH and NYAM also issued a Compendium of Proven Community-Based Prevention Programs, which summarized a sample of the articles and highlighted some additional studies addressing other behaviors and preventable conditions (e.g., asthma, falls prevention, and sexually transmitted infections).

Since the publication of those reports, the demand for information about effective means for generating health-systems savings has grown. In addition the literature on effective community-based prevention has grown. In the past three years, approximately 230 new articles were published that meet the criteria used in the previous Compendium. NYAM and TFAH plan to publish an update to the Compendium reflecting this growing evidence base.

Duties and Responsibilities

Interns are needed to fulfill the following tasks to support this effort:

• Review a consistent number of identified literature each week to check that each meets the selected criteria (a rubric will be provided and reviewed) • Develop summaries of selected relevant articles • Help sort specific information identified from the literature into worksheets • Conduct additional literature searches as needed
• Help develop report outline and assist with the writing of accompanying text

Qualifications

Previous experience conducting literature reviews. Masters or PhD preferred.

Duration:
3- 4 months beginning immediately. Work may be done more quickly depending on the pace of the Intern.

Hours:
Highly flexible, but will be required to check in on a weekly basis to ensure consistent progress.

Pay: Stipend

Experience

Relevant Areas of Study:
Public Health, Public Administration, Policy or a related field

To Apply

Please email a resume and cover letter to hr@nyam.org. Please include “Prevention Policy Intern" in subject line.

For more information, visit our website: www.nyam.org.

The New York Academy of Medicine is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.