BUSPH Public Health Post Fellowship Opportunity

in Fellowships
November 18th, 2016

The launch of Public Health Post (PHP), a new venture housed at SPH that aspires to elevate the conversation on public health. The goal of the website is to facilitate an ideas-first dialogue around public health that focuses on the drivers of population health. We seek to engage policymakers, journalists, and academics who can make change on a local, state, national, and global scale. We aspire to foster an online portal that is fresh, fun, and appealing to people across sectors; to feature work from across the world; and to become the go-to-place for the public health conversation. 

Fellows play a prominent role in the creation and dissemination of content.

The ideal candidate is an…

-excellent writer passionate about public health,

-comfortable with social media

-well-organized and creative

-Graphic design, WordPress, and other web skills are a plus

Fellows will report to Editor-in-Chief David Jones and Project Manager Melissa Davenport. Fellows will be expected to produce one new article per week, working on average 15 hours per week, and will receive a stipend of $10,000 for the year. Any interested students should send a cover letter, CV, and writing sample to Melissa Davenport at davenpor@bu.edu

Feel free to send any other materials you think are relevant, including art or links to websites you have developed. Applications received by November 18 will receive priority

Public Health Post is accepting applications for the second round of fellows for January 2017-2018. Any interested students should send a cover letter, CV, and writing sample to Melissa Davenport at davenpor@bu.edu

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