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2024 Summer Healthy Food Service Guidelines Internship

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Center for Science in the Public Interest

Feb 13

Applications are closed

  • Internship
    Full-time
    Summer Internship
  • Healthcare
  • Washington, DC
    Remote

Requirements

  • Currently enrolled in a public health or nutrition graduate degree program (master’s or doctoral)
  • Excellent research and writing skills with ability to read, analyze, interpret, and translate public health and nutrition research for a policy audience
  • Basic knowledge of evidence-based food and nutrition recommendations for health
  • Exceptional attention to detail
  • Demonstrated ability to work independently and manage tasks appropriately to achieve project goals
  • Interest in and familiarity with health promotion strategies in institutional food service environments preferred

Responsibilities

  • The intern will support CSPI’s campaign to increase the proportion of food purchased and served by public institutions that supports healthy diets and a sustainable, just food system. The tentative primary project is developing evidence-based advocacy materials on the efficacy of healthy food service guidelines to improve food environment, diet quality, and health outcomes. Food service guidelines are standards and best practices that can be used to increase healthy and safe food options in settings such as government facilities and programs, worksites, colleges and universities, food pantries/food banks, and healthcare facilities. A systematic literature search has already been conducted, so the intern would be tasked with creating written materials that narratively synthesize the evidence for use in CSPI’s advocacy. Another tentative project would involve supporting the assessment of nutrition standards in cities’ healthy food purchasing policies. The intern will likely have opportunities to support our federal, state, and local food purchasing and service policy campaigns and other projects at CSPI as needed throughout the summer.

Center for Science in the Public Interest

Your Food and Health Watchdog

Government
Industry
11-50
Employees
1971
Founded Year

Mission & Purpose

The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) is a non-profit health-advocacy group based in Washington, DC, that focuses on nutrition and food safety. CSPI publishes Nutrition Action, one of the nation’s largest circulation health newsletter, and has led efforts that resulted in healthier diets, more-nutritious school foods, safer foods, and more honest food labeling. CSPI provides objective information to the public and represents citizens’ interests before legislative, regulatory, and judicial bodies. CSPI is supported largely by subscribers to Nutrition Action, individual donors, and foundation grants.