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.