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The Gift<\/em><\/strong> Internship
\n<\/strong>Bureau of Family Health (LA Dept. of Health and Hospitals- Office of Public Health) <\/span>
\nSummer- Fall 2014<\/span><\/h2>\n

The Bureau of Family Health provides qualified public health students with a rewarding practicum\/internship. Students will gain valuable public health experience, specific to maternal and child health\/breastfeeding. Students will provide programmatic support to a statewide breastfeeding initiative targeting LA maternity care facilities (The Gift<\/em>) with a focus on evaluation and data collection\/analysis. \u00a0The purpose of the Bureau of Family Health Gift <\/em>Program internship is to foster skilled public health professional s and advocates for maternal and child public health issues, specifically breastfeeding.\u00a0 Students will learn how social, behavioral, environmental and biological factors contribute to breastfeeding outcomes and specific strategies to address policy, community, organizational barriers to breastfeeding.\u00a0 The Practicum Student\/Intern will be embedded within the Data Action team and his\/her primary purpose will be to work with The Gift<\/em> Program Manager and Data to Action Team Leader on the evaluation of The Gift <\/em>program.<\/p>\n

Detailed description of the internship
\n<\/strong>Primary Purpose:\u00a0 To measure The Gift<\/em> program\u2019s impact on breastfeeding initiation, exclusivity and duration among women delivering in Gift <\/em>designated hospitals.
\nSecondary Purpose:\u00a0 To evaluate the success of The Gift<\/em> model in aiding participating hospitals in improvement in the Ten Steps to achieving The Gift<\/em> and\/or the Baby-Friendly Hospital designation.<\/p>\n

Goals
\n<\/strong>1. Gain experience in program evaluation in the \u201creal world
\n2. Practice database design skills
\n3. Analyze, summarize and present data.<\/p>\n

Objectives
\n<\/strong>1. Explore literature on the evaluation of the breastfeeding initiatives targeting delivery hospitals.
\n2. Describe design considerations for controlling for confounding factors in real world evaluation of programs which exist in communities with multiple efforts aimed at influencing breastfeeding practices.
\n3. Design relational databases for hospital specific information (descriptors, application information, mPINC scores), hospital assessments, and pre\/post-test training instrument data.
\n4. Apply statistical methods to self-assessment data and pre\/post training data
\n5. Link delivery hospital data to PRAMS data to analyze breastfeeding initiation and duration for women who delivered at The Gift<\/em> designated facilities.
\n6. Transcribe qualitative interview data from hospital staff.
\n7. Summarize, write up and present aggregate and hospital specific results to The Gift<\/em> staff.
\n8. Apply theory and strategy based communication principles across different settings and audiences.
\n9. Demonstrate effective written and oral skills for communication in the process of design, implementation and evaluation of public health programs.
\n10. Develop\/improve a contacts\/outreach management system for the program.<\/p>\n

Click more for responsibilities\/activities, qualifications, and more about supervisors<\/p>\n

For more information or to apply, please contact Marci Brewer at\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>Marci.Brewer@la.gov<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/strong>Main Responsibilities\/Activities
\n<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Data and Analytic Tasks<\/span>
\nThe Gift<\/em>-collected application, assessment, training and interview data, Louisiana PRAMS (2011) data, Louisiana Vital Records (Birth Certificate data) will be used for all analyses.\u00a0 To measure breastfeeding practices associated with Gift<\/em> designated hospitals, Vital Records and PRAMS data will be linked by a unique identifier.\u00a0 Monitoring hospital improvements in the 10-Step process will include data entry, management and analysis of application, assessment and survey data.\u00a0 Analyses will include calculation of totals and percentages.\u00a0 The internship is within the Data Action Team.\u00a0 A large part of the assignment is the preparation and communication of the findings\/results.\u00a0 The intern will be expected to prepare the results in easy to understand format and summarize what the data are \u201ctelling\u201d us in terms of what \u201caction\u201d The Gift<\/em> staff and participating hospitals can take to further refine their efforts.
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