YCCCH Summer Internship Program

The Yale Center on Climate Change and Health (YCCCH) Summer Internship Program aims to match Yale students with meaningful internships focused on the critical intersection of climate change and health.

Eligibility:

• Returning (non-graduating) Yale School of Public Health MPH students
• Current YCCCH Climate Change and Health Concentration students (non-graduating)
• Undergraduate Environmental Studies majors (non-graduating)
• Master’s students (non-graduating) from the Yale School of the Environment

Process:

• View the 2026 Summer Internship list.
• Submit an updated resume/CV and a cover letter addressed to the host organization that identifies your preferred project and describes the skills, experience, and perspectives you would bring to the project.
  • Note: You may apply for more than one internship. Application requirements vary by internship site. Please review the instructions provided at the end of each internship description carefully.
• Applications for the 2026 Internship Program must be submitted directly to each site, as indicated in the individual internship postings, by Friday, February 20, 2026, at 11:59 p.m., and are reviewed on a rolling basis.
• Internship sites will review applications (some may also conduct interviews) and relay offers to candidates by mid-March (at the latest).

Organizations that have partnered with our internship program:

• California Department of Public Health, Climate Change and Health Equity Unit
• The CDC Foundation
• The City of New Haven
• Climate Psychiatry Alliance
  
• Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
  
• Connecticut Department of Public Health, Office of Climate and Health
  
• Connecticut Governor’s Council on Climate Change, Equity, Environmental Justice, and Adaptation Subcommittee
  
• Connecticut Institute for Resilience and Climate Adaptation
  
• Dejusticia
  
• Eastern Caribbean Health Outcome Research Network (ECHORN)
  
• East Shore District Health Department
  
• Generation Power CT
  
• Heidelberg Institute of Global Health
  
• Megafire Institute
  
• Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, Climate and Health Adaptation Program
  
• Minnesota Department of Public Health
  
• Montana Health Professionals for a Healthy Climate
  
• New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
  
• New York City Mayor's Office of Climate and Environmental Justice
  
• Save the Sound
  
• UNICEF
  
• University of Maryland School of Public Health, Community Engagement, Environmental Justice, and Health (CEEJH) Laboratory
  
• Vermont Department of Health, Climate & Health Program
  
• WE ACT for Environmental Justice
  
• Yale Center on Climate Change and Health
  
• Yale Program on Healthcare Environmental Sustainability

Questions?

Contact Alix Rachman, YCCCH Program Administrator at alix.rachman@yale.edu.