Collegiate Leaders in Environmental Health (CLEH) Internship Opportunity Announcement

CDC’s National Center for Environmental Health and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (NCEH/ATSDR) is offering a 10-week summer internship program for students majoring in environmental, physical, biological, chemical, and/or social sciences, or related fields. During the course of the internship, students are introduced to environmental health at the federal level through collaborative projects, experiential learning opportunities, individual environmental health presentations, journal clubs, field trips, brown bag lunches, and shadowing and mentoring relationships at CDC/ATSDR. Interns will be based at CDC/ATSDR’s Chamblee Campus. Students are paid $500 a week during the course of the program. Please go to our website for more information and application instructions.

Application due date: February 2, 2011
Program dates: June 8-August 12, 2011

Eligibility requirements for CLEH interns:

• US citizenship or Permanent Resident with a green card,
• Full time enrollment at a college or university as a rising junior or rising senior by fall 2011
• Minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale

Note: Seniors graduating in Spring 2011 will not be accepted to this program.


“This internship demonstrated the unique connection between human health and environmental well-being, giving my studies relevance and allowing me to develop a social perspective to my environmental studies.” –Todd Nelson, 2010 CLEH intern

For more information, please email Jay Nielsen, Program Development Office, NCEH/ATSDR at CLEH@cdc.gov