***The application cycle for this program has closed.***

The ASPH/NHTSA Public Health Training Program is a collaborative effort between ASPH, and NHTSA in the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT). The global leader in motor vehicle and highway safety, NHTSA's mission is to save lives, prevent injuries and reduce economic costs due to road traffic crashes, through education, research, safety standards and enforcement activity. The agency develops, promotes and implements effective educational, engineering, and enforcement programs to prevent injuries and deaths and reduce economic costs associated with the nation's roadways and provides leadership to the motor vehicle and highway safety community through the development of innovative approaches to preventing roadway crashes and resulting deaths and injuries. NHTSA spearheads innovative research and data analysis critical to motor vehicle and highway safety and leads the nation by setting the motor vehicle and highway safety agenda.

What does the ASPH Internship offer you?

While at the NHTSA Region I Office in Cambridge, Mass, the selected intern will have the opportunity to learn from national experts in injury prevention and motor vehicle and highway safety issues to examine the causes and etiology of motor vehicle crashes and injuries.The internship opportunity will provide a unique opportunity for motivated and experienced individuals to play major roles in increasing linkages between the public health and traffic safety sectors.

Students who are pursuing graduate degrees at ASPH-member schools of public health, accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH), or a recent graduate (having graduated no earlier than Spring 2007), may apply for the internship program. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or hold visas permitting permanent residence ("Green Card") in the U.S. to be eligible for the internship program.