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Intern Positions Available: Summer/ Fall 2012

Who are we?

Lutheran Family Health Centers (LFHC) serves as the ambulatory arm of Lutheran HealthCare providing services to nearly 100,000 patients. Located in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, LFHC is the largest Federally Qualified Health Center Network in New York State and the second largest in the nation.  In over 608,000 patient encounters, the network includes nine primary care sites, thirty-one school-based health centers and dental clinics, three day care centers, the nation’s largest dental residency program, New York’s largest behavioral health program, fourteen community medicine sites providing care to homeless New Yorkers, comprehensive HIV services and a family support center offering educational, vocational and other social support programs.

Prospective Interns

With mentorship from researchers and medical staff at LFHC and our research partners from the Clinical Directors Network (CDN), Inc. and Weill Cornell Medical College, interns will be able to increase their knowledge in research methodology while given the opportunity to create meaningful abstracts that will lead to significant research studies, mainly tackling the elimination of health disparities. With a large and diverse patient population, LFHC will be focusing most of their research on patient-centered outcomes as a means to eliminate health disparities. Many of the patients at LFHC are from ethnic minorities, foreign-born, and living under the federal poverty level. In developing our research capacity, interns can research how these barriers, amongst several others, affect access, engagement, and retention in obtaining health services and also in chronic disease management. 

Requirements:                       Pursuing a Masters of Public Health Degree or related degree

Preferred Interest(s):             Health Disparities, Chronic Disease, Urban Community Health, Immigrant Health, Medically Underserved Populations, Patient-Centered Outcome Research, Comparative Effectiveness Research, Behavioral Sciences

Mentorship’s:                         Lutheran Family Health Centers, Clinical Directors Network, Inc., Weill Cornell Medical College

For further information on internship opportunities, please contact:

Nonkulie Dladla, M.D., M.S. ; [log in to unmask]; (718)832-5980 ext. 1922