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Dear Friends:

Once again, I want to let you know about an exciting summer internship opportunity for undergraduate students interested in health inequalities and health care.  Many hospitals, health centers, and other health organizations in the Detroit-Ann Arbor-Flint, Michigan area have agreed to provide paid ($3,250 for the summer) eight-week summer internships in health management and policy to qualified undergraduate students  interested in the elimination of racial/ethnic health inequalities.  These internships are part of the University of Michigan’s Summer Enrichment Program (UM SEP) in Health Management and Policy. UM SEP, which was begun in 1986 by the Department of Health Management and Policy at the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health, is designed to familiarize undergraduate students with the inequalities in health status and health care that confront communities of color across the United States.  The program has had great success In the past. We are entering our 29th year!

If  you know any undergraduate students at your school or at other colleges and universities who have a specific interest in the health field, management, policy, or any career which will enable them to use their skills in a socially meaningful way, I urge you to inform them about UM SEP. Accepted students will also receive housing, a food allowance and travel expenses to and from Ann Arbor.

Please note that the application deadline is January 31, 2014. The application is available on our website at http://www.sph.umich.edu/sep.

I would appreciate it very much if you would inform potential applicants about UM SEP. Please feel free to contact Ashley Green, Program Coordinator, or me, at (734)936-3296 if you would like to discuss the UM Summer Enrichment Program further or e-mail us at  [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>. To see a recent video about SEP, click here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3maWGfFzrM. Thank you for your  assistance.

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Richard Lichtenstein, PhD, MPH
S.J. Axelrod Collegiate Professor of Health Management and Policy
University of Michigan
School of Public Health
1415 Washington Heights
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2029
Phone: (734) 936-1316