Deadline: November 1, 2024
Applications are open for the CDC Public Health Informatics Fellowship Program (PHIFP) 2025. The Public Health Informatics Fellowship Program (PHIFP) is a 2-year paid fellowship to apply information science and technology to the practice of public health.
Public health informatics is the systematic application of knowledge about systems that capture, manage, analyze, and use information to improve population-level health outcomes. PHIFP provides on-the-job training for professionals to apply expertise in computer science, data analytics, and data science to public health to address current and future public health needs.
Informatics Fellows are assigned to host sites within CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), where they work on advanced projects to enhance information systems and data projects to improve the nation’s health. Fellows share their expertise while also growing their skills through classroom and experiential learning.
Benefits
- Master’s degree fellows are paid at the GS 11, step 3 level, and doctoral degree fellows are paid at the GS 12, step 3 level. They receive the same benefits as other CDC FTE employees, including medical insurance and leave.
Eligibility
- All doctoral candidates must have a doctoral degree (PhD, MD, PharmD, DrPH) from an accredited academic institution in one of the following:
- Public health, medicine, healthcare/health services research.
- Computer science, data science, or medical/public health informatics.
- Statistics or epidemiology.
- Engineering.
- Operations research.
- All master’s level candidates must have a master’s degree (MPH, MS, MSc) from an accredited academic institution as well as at least one year of documented experience in one of the following:
- Public health, medicine, healthcare/health services research.
- Computer science, data science, or medical/public health informatics.
- Statistics or epidemiology.
- Engineering.
- Operations research.
- PHIFP applicants should document any research or evaluation experience that they completed during or after their academic training. Acceptable experience includes publications, thesis writing and defense, poster presentations, and/or a research or evaluation proposal.
- Accepted fellows must relocate to programs at CDC locations. Some assignments may also occur in other federal agencies, as well as state and local health departments.
- Applicants must verify that they are not a citizen of a country designated as a state sponsor of terrorism per this US Department of State website.
Application
For more information, visit PHIFP.
