Intern with us

Interested in starting a career in public health?

Each year we accept several interns to work on specific research projects, practicums, thesis projects or independent studies. If you are interested in gaining some implementation or research experience, please email info@tbhelp.org introducing yourself and letting us know about your interests. 

Our past interns

Thu Anh Dam

Brown University, USA

I interned with FIT during the summer of 2018 and began working on a study looking at the feasibility and acceptability of using Video Observed Therapy for tuberculosis treatment adherence in the private sector. It gave me the foundational experience I needed to complete an undergraduate honors thesis, and I graduated in May 2019. I was then hired as a full-time project officer at FIT in Ho Chi Minh City until I left for medical school at the University of California San Francisco.

Tobias Gullberg

Medical Student at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

For my degree project in medicine I wrote about the association between health insurance enrollment and tuberculosis treatment outcomes in Ho Chi Minh City. We found a significant association for this, as well as an association between treatment outcome and other variables.

Asad Zaidi

Macalester College, USA. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK

I interned for four months at FIT as a Monitoring and Evaluation Officer in the summer of 2017. I spent my time developing an institution-wide standard operating procedure for the collection, storage, analysis, and reporting of data. I also worked on the back-end architecture of the VITIMES mHealth app linking incoming data from the Vietnamese TB National Register to our contact tracing and screening activities. I use the data management and analysis skills I honed at FIT every day in my current role as a scientist at Public Health England.

Our past inters

Thu Anh Dam

Brown University, USA

I interned with FIT during the summer of 2018 and began working on a study looking at the feasibility and acceptability of using Video Observed Therapy for tuberculosis treatment adherence in the private sector. It gave me the foundational experience I needed to complete an undergraduate honors thesis, and I graduated in May 2019. I was then hired as a full-time project officer at FIT in Ho Chi Minh City until I left for medical school at the University of California San Francisco.

Tobias Gullberg

Medical Student at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

For my degree project in medicine I wrote about the association between health insurance enrollment and tuberculosis treatment outcomes in Ho Chi Minh City. We found a significant association for this, as well as an association between treatment outcome and other variables.

Asad Zaidi

Macalester College, USA. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK

I interned for four months at FIT as a Monitoring and Evaluation Officer in the summer of 2017. I spent my time developing an institution-wide standard operating procedure for the collection, storage, analysis, and reporting of data. I also worked on the back-end architecture of the VITIMES mHealth app linking incoming data from the Vietnamese TB National Register to our contact tracing and screening activities. I use the data management and analysis skills I honed at FIT every day in my current role as a scientist at Public Health England.