We’re Hiring 2024 Summer Interns!
Calling UW undergrads! We’re looking for two interns to join our team this summer through EarthLab’s Summer Internship Program. You’ll help us evaluate the healthcare benefits of spending time in nature. Applications are due on March 1, 2024 by 5 pm.
Internship Summary
Available Internship Positions: 2
Hours: 25 hours per week (20 hours per week with Nature and Health and 5 hours per week with the EarthLab cohort)
Total Summer Stipend: $4,950 disbursed over the 9 week internship, plus $180 total travel stipend per intern
Location: Hybrid, including a required in-person EarthLab cohort meeting each Tuesday from 9 am – 1 pm
Description: Nature and Health is a collaboration of nearly 400 researchers, healthcare practitioners, policymakers, urban planners, and community members who are passionate about understanding how time spent in nature can improve human health and well-being. Our findings help shape programs, policies, and spaces that improve health for all people and protect nature. Over the coming year, one of our major goals is to calculate the healthcare cost savings associated with spending time in nature. In other words, how much money can we save by prescribing time in nature and by increasing access to nature? We need to answer these questions before we can influence policy at a meaningful and systemic scale. Intern(s) will create a comprehensive literature review related to healthcare cost savings based on time spent in nature. This literature review will serve as the foundation for a Healthcare Economist to derive healthcare cost savings predictions for different health conditions and exposure to nature scenarios.
Activities will include determining inclusion/exclusion criteria, conducting searches in published literature, saving search results in a citation management tool, de-duplicating search results, evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of individual sources and evaluating them for bias, methodologies, and thoroughness, grouping results to an organizational structure that helps answer our research questions, highlighting any gaps that may exist in research to date, analyzing the information gathered, and synthesizing bodies of research into easily readable summaries
Requires strong communication, organizational, and research skills.