The Center for Immigrant Health (CIH) at New York University School of Medicine attracts a dynamic and diverse workforce. We welcome new talent and energy for the various roles and projects at the Center. If you would like to work on challenging, interesting projects, and have a significant public health impact, the Center provides the right environment.

We also welcome interns and volunteers to contribute to the various projects. CIH offers a variety of opportunities for high school, undergraduate, and graduate students to participate in agency activities as volunteers or interns. CIH internships offer exciting exposure and insight into the field of public health as it relates to the health of immigrant populations.

At present, the following full-time, part-time, and internship positions are available:

Community Tuberculosos Prevention Program (CTPP)

Project Assistant- Part Time/Paid Position

We are looking for an enthusiastic candidate whose background and experience will best fit the Community Tuberculosis Prevention Program's mission to fight TB infection in New York City's foreign-born population. CTPP conducts education, screening, referral, and case management of persons needing INH-prophylaxis in immigrant communities with high TB infection rates. The Center for Immigrant Health (CIH) offers outreach and TB education in partnership with community-based organizations through English as Second Language classes, churches, job-training programs, and other community sites. Tuberculosis skin test positive clients are linked with New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene clinics for chest x-ray, medical examinations and treatment for latent TB infection (LTBI) when indicated. Persons on treatment for latent TB infection receive intensive case management.

Requirements:
Bachelor degree in Community Health OR Associate degree with one year of outreach experience OR High School diploma with three years of outreach experience.
Bilingual a must, Mandarin or Cantonese preferred.

Responsibilities:
· Participate in development and translation of health education materials
· Develop outreach sites and coordinate screening activities
· Provide health education to immigrant communities
· Perform Tuberculin Skin Test (TST)
· Provide counseling to TST positive clients, and others placed on treatment for latent TB infection
· Refer TST positive clients to health care facilities for chest-x-ray and medical evaluation
· Educate clients' family members about tuberculosis
· Provide case-management while the client is receiving treatment for latent TB infection for duration prescribed by a physician

Salary based on experience

Please submit resume with cover letter to:
Attn: Julia Ramirez
E-mail: ramirj05@med.nyu.edu
Include the job title for which you are applying in the e-mail subject line

CTPP Internship/Volunteer

We are currently seeking committed and enthusiastic interns/volunteers to assist with data entry, data clean up, and client inquiries.

Responsibilities
- Enter client information from intake forms into the CTPP Access data base
- Check past data to ensure entries were made without errors
- File completed intake forms
- If fluent in another language, field calls from, or make calls to, clients regarding clinic appointments, screening follow-up, and other general inquiries

Qualifications
- Must be detail-oriented, organized, self-motivated and able to work without constant supervision
- Computer/IT experience necessary, familiarity with Access desired
- Fluency in Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Urdu, Bengali a plus

Salary and benefits
- Hourly wage and/or tuition stipend possible, depending on qualifications.

Hours
- Weekly Hours: 10-25
- Work Schedule: Flexible

Please submit resume with cover letter to:
Ms. Julia Ramirez
E-mail: julia.ramirez@med.nyu.edu

Language Initiatives Opportunities

Transcribers and Translators

The CIH is conducting a cost effectiveness and satisfaction study and an error analysis of its Remote Simultaneous Medical Interpretation (RSMI) Demonstration Project. Primary care physicians, nurses, and other practitioners have traditionally relied on the services of various ad-hoc interpreters who are physically present to eliminate languages barriers to effective health care. RSMI utilizes the services of trained interpreters who are remotely located and linked to the clinician through state-of-the art communication technology. The CIH has established the RSMI demonstration project at Gouverneur Hospital to demonstrate its cost effectiveness and qualitative advantages relative to traditional proximate-consecutive medical interpreting practice. The CIH is looking for experienced transcribers and translators for this study.

Qualifications Sought:
Excellent writing and analytical skills
Fluency in English and: Spanish and/or a Chinese (Cantonese and/or Mandarin)
Background in transcription, translation, linguistics, anthropology, sociology, public health, statistics, or economics preferred.

Candidates interested in the Language Initiatives positions should submit their cover letters and resumes to Javier Gonzalez, project director, at gonzac05@med.nyu.edu


Internship/Volunteer Opportunity

Seeking linguists, researchers, students, teachers, web designers and/or technical writers who are bilingual in both English and either Bengali, Bosnian/Serbo-Croatian, Chinese (ability to write Chinese and familiarity with software required), Khmer, Kru-Bassa, Kpelle, Mende, Russian, Spanish, Temne, or Vietnamese to intern or volunteer at the Center for Immigrant Health's (CIH) Language Initiatives Program (NYU School of Medicine).

Our goal at the Center for Immigrant Health's Language Initiatives Program is to increase immigrant access to health care by working to overcome language barriers in the medical setting. Our work includes developing curricula for training classes, translating medical documents, and teaching medical interpretation. This summer, we'll also be starting a project to use Census data to do a linguistic mapping of New York's population.

If interested, please contact Javier González, Project Director, at gonzac05@med.nyu.edu with a note about your interest and skills.