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have graduated from an accredited medical
school in the U.S. or Canada (or who are
certified by the Educational Council for
Foreign Medical Graduates). Participants
must have completed at least one year of
approved clinical internship or residency
experience and be licensed to practice medicine
in the U.S. or Canada, and must be U.S.
or Canadian citizens or permanent residents.
The program provides the academic (M.P.H.)
year and the year of supervised field training
(practicum year) in preventive medicine and
public health required by the American Board
of Preventive Medicine. Applications for the
practicum year only will also be considered.
For further information and application
materials, please contact: James Seward,
Director, Preventive Medicine Residency,
School of Public Health, University of
California, Berkeley, 570 University Hall,
Berkeley, CA 94720-7360; seward1@
LLNL.gov.
Occupational Medicine
Residency Program
The University of California, San Francisco,
campus administers a residency program in
occupational medicine. Please direct inquiries
to the Northern California Center for
Occupational and Environmental Health
(COEH), Bldg. 30, 5th Floor, San Francisco
General Medical Center, 1001 Potrero
Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94110; (415)
206-8950. Applicants must also apply to the
Environmental Health Sciences area of concentration
in the School of Public Health at
Berkeley.
Intercampus Exchange Program
Permission must be received from the student’s
adviser, the deans of the Schools of
Public Health and Graduate Divisions of both
universities, and the chair of the department
in which study is proposed. Students pay fees
on the home campus and are considered resident
students there. Arrangements are made
for registration at the host campus and for
transfer of grades to the home campus. Intercampus
exchange forms are obtained from the
Graduate Division of the home campus.
Center for Public
Health Practice
Field Program Supervisors: Griego,
Oxendine, Sebsibe, Schindelman
141 University Hall, (510) 643-0970
The Center for Public Health Practice’s mission
is to support students, faculty, alumni
and practitioners to achieve excellence in
practice as they promote individual and community
health. We live and promote a commitment
to diversity, human rights, and social
justice in all we do.
We fulfill our mission through the following
services:
• Internships
• Career Services
• Professional Development Opportunities
• Center for Multicultural Health
• Community Research and Evaluation
• Center for Health Leadership
Through the Center for Public Health
Practice, the UC Berkeley School of Public
Health is unique among accredited schools of
public health in that it has a student centered
primary focus, rather than research or training.
Our goals are to help students:
• Discern or refine what they want to do
• Develop practical skills, experience, and
connections to achieve their goals
• Be inspired, get a meaningful job and take
action to make a difference in public health
To achieve these goals we offer a centralized
internship placement process that provides
students from all concentrations with online
access to over 150 summer internships.
Dedicated CPHP staff members help students
find and select an internship that best matches
their career interests, skill needs and objectives.
Field supervisors and career services
then assist students to obtain meaningful jobs
that make a difference in public health. A partial
list of organizations that have sponsored
interns and hired SPH graduates includes:
Association of Asian Pacific Community
Health Organizations
California Department of Health Services
California Food Policy Advocates
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
City of Berkeley Public Health Division
Environmental Protection Agency
Food First
Genentech
Kaiser Permanente
La Clinica de La Raza
Los Angeles County Department of
Public Health
National Institutes of Health
Natural Resources Defense Council
Northern California Cancer Center
PolicyLink
Prevention Institute
Public Health Institute
Samuels & Associates
San Francisco Department of Public
Health Laboratory
San Francisco General Hospital
STOP AIDS Project
UC Berkeley Center for Weight and Health
UCSF Blood Centers of the Pacific
UCSF Global Health Group
In addition to domestic internships over 20%
of MPH students do international summer
internships in Africa, Asia, Latin America
and Europe.
School of Public Health
Career Services
The Career Services office assists School of
Public Health students and alumni to discover
and pursue public health employment that suits
their goals and passions and enables them to
make a difference in public health. SPH Career
Services is dedicated to bringing together
employers, students, and alumni to contribute
to industry and community needs for a better
trained and diverse public health workforce.
Services for Berkeley SPH students include
career counseling, assessment, workshops,
employer panels, and an online job site for all
types of Public Health jobs (full-time, parttime,
internships, fellowships, and graduate
student researcher/instructor positions). For
more information, contact Ruthann Haffke,
Career Services Manager, at haffke@berkeley.
edu or (510) 642-0431.
Center for Health Leadership
Started in 2008, the UC Berkeley SPH Center
for Health Leadership (CHL) is designed to
enhance the School’s curricular, co-curricular
and experiential offerings to inspire and
prepare graduate students to be effective
health leaders and professionals. The Center
also develops practical leadership programs,
resources and conferences for alumni and
health professionals.
The CHL builds on and expands leadership
development activities offered through
the Center for Public Health Practice and
throughout the SPH. It includes a student
board, speaker series, practice based seminars,
workshops, internships, a Leadership
Fellows program, and community projects
designed to strengthen leadership competencies
and opportunities.
The aims of the UCB Center for Health
Leadership include:
• Support the School of Public Health mission
to produce transformational leaders
• Promote the importance of leadership across
diverse health disciplines
• Develop and enhance leadership competencies
among students, faculty, alumni and the
community at large
• Ready students for leadership and professional
roles, better preparing them for the
challenges of their first post graduate jobs and
for advancement
• Increase leadership development opportunities
during students tenure at the SPH, and
immediately thereafter
• Improve links between alumni and students
and develop mentorship opportunities for
students with alumni and public health professionals
• Encourage and support students to lead from
where they are to promote change
For more information, contact Ellie
Schindelman at ebs@berkeley.edu or
(510) 642-2084.
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