Food-Inspired Resilience & Equity (FIRE) Internship

Goals for Interns

Utilize a health equity lens when implementing the outlined performance requirements including:

  • Ensuring that program design, implementation, and evaluation efforts are promoting health equity such as specific outreach to underserved communities and engagement with historically marginalized populations,
  • Engaging priority populations in program planning, implementation, and/or evaluation,
  • Providing opportunities for staff and partners to learn about health equity and social determinants of health, and apply these concepts to program design, implementation, and evaluation,
  • Ensuring education and communications materials are culturally sensitive, linguistically appropriate, and at an appropriate comprehension level to accommodate stakeholders with varying backgrounds,
  • Partnering with organizations, agencies, and/or community groups that focus on the social determinants of health or health equity.