Occupational Health Internship Program (OHIP)
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Occupational Health Internship Program (OHIP)
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Learn from Workers. Become Inspired. Improve Worker Health & Safety.
OHIP is a national summer internship dedicated to helping you learn about the field of occupational safety and health from those with most at stake: working people.
T
he
Occupational Health Internship Program
(OHIP)
is a full time, paid summer internship designed to link the skills and interests of students with the needs of workers employed in an under-served or high hazard job. Teams of two interns are assigned to a union or worker organization wher
e t
he
y receive supervision from a designated staff member and an academic mentor. The
2026 OHIP training sites
are
Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Durham, NC, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, and San Francisco Bay Area. Additional sites may be announced after the opening of the application period.
Work on a Multidisciplinary Team
Students are matched with projects based on specific language or technical skills, as well as their experience or interest in working with worker organizations or unions. Typically a graduate student is paired with an undergraduate student. Most teams include students from different disciplines.
Investigate Health and Safety Concerns
Each team project is designed to maximize contact between workers and interns to learn about the hazards and other realities of work. As part of the process of researching hazards, interns interview workers, conduct focus groups, attend union/worker organization meetings, and observe workers on the job. As a result, students gain an understanding of the complexity of the work environment and learn about the importance of health and safety in relation to work.
Ultimately teams identify and document health and safety problems and recommend ways to reduce or eliminate hazards. In return, interns provide workers and unions/worker organizations with concrete information about hazards or health and safety concerns that they can use to build and strengthen their efforts to prevent job injury and illness.
Build Friendships, Meet OSH Professionals, Land a Job!
Experience friendships created by working together to tackle important problems. Meet other students striving to integrate their academic and political interests into their life’s work. Build camaraderie through team meetings, periodic seminars, and activities held over the summer. Connect with people that have dedicated their careers to improve working conditions for an ever changing workforce. Attend local, state-wide, and national events where job opportunities may arise.
OHIP 2026 Program Date:
June 16 - August 15, 2026
_____
OHIP 2026 Program Applications
The
2026 Summer application
period is now open.
Deadline January 30, 2026
OHIP 2025 Projects
The OHIP 2025 projects are now available!
Discover the impactful work of our 2025 interns
HERE
In the Words of Alumni
OHIP exposed me to data collection, surveying, conducting interviews, and using the results to find associations between exposure and health outcomes. That essentially is what epidemiology is and what I love about public health.
— Celeste Wong, OHIP 2009
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top of page
Learn from Workers. Become Inspired. Improve Worker Health & Safety.
OHIP is a national summer internship dedicated to helping you learn about the field of occupational safety and health from those with most at stake: working people.
T
he
Occupational Health Internship Program
(OHIP)
is a full time, paid summer internship designed to link the skills and interests of students with the needs of workers employed in an under-served or high hazard job. Teams of two interns are assigned to a union or worker organization wher
e t
he
y receive supervision from a designated staff member and an academic mentor. The
2026 OHIP training sites
are
Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Durham, NC, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, and San Francisco Bay Area. Additional sites may be announced after the opening of the application period.
Work on a Multidisciplinary Team
Students are matched with projects based on specific language or technical skills, as well as their experience or interest in working with worker organizations or unions. Typically a graduate student is paired with an undergraduate student. Most teams include students from different disciplines.
Investigate Health and Safety Concerns
Each team project is designed to maximize contact between workers and interns to learn about the hazards and other realities of work. As part of the process of researching hazards, interns interview workers, conduct focus groups, attend union/worker organization meetings, and observe workers on the job. As a result, students gain an understanding of the complexity of the work environment and learn about the importance of health and safety in relation to work.
Ultimately teams identify and document health and safety problems and recommend ways to reduce or eliminate hazards. In return, interns provide workers and unions/worker organizations with concrete information about hazards or health and safety concerns that they can use to build and strengthen their efforts to prevent job injury and illness.
Build Friendships, Meet OSH Professionals, Land a Job!
Experience friendships created by working together to tackle important problems. Meet other students striving to integrate their academic and political interests into their life’s work. Build camaraderie through team meetings, periodic seminars, and activities held over the summer. Connect with people that have dedicated their careers to improve working conditions for an ever changing workforce. Attend local, state-wide, and national events where job opportunities may arise.
OHIP 2026 Program Date:
June 16 - August 15, 2026
_____
OHIP 2026 Program Applications
The
2026 Summer application
period is now open.
Deadline January 30, 2026
OHIP 2025 Projects
The OHIP 2025 projects are now available!
Discover the impactful work of our 2025 interns
HERE
In the Words of Alumni
OHIP exposed me to data collection, surveying, conducting interviews, and using the results to find associations between exposure and health outcomes. That essentially is what epidemiology is and what I love about public health.
— Celeste Wong, OHIP 2009
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