The University Health Center is in the process of accepting applications for Fall 2009 Health Internship. Please see the attached PDF file: "Health Internship - 2009" for more information. These positions are open every term except summer, so keep this opportunity in mind even if you can't apply now! Applications can be submitted online at healthed.uoregon.edu.

Peer Health Education at the University of Oregon 

Make It Happen in Peer Health - Peer Health Educators

• Speak Let your voice be heard. Peer Educators make presentations to a wide variety of campus groups on hot topics that matter to students
• Write Be a published author. Peers write an article for Wellness Wednesday, which is published each term in the Oregon Daily Emerald, the University of Oregon's independent daily newspaper.
• Innovate Program events in recognition of special dates such as World AIDS Day, The Great American Smoke Out, National Nutrition Month, and many others.
• Create Let your inner artist out. Design, draw, build, create bullitin boards, posters, web materials, and other health resource materials for distribution on campus.
• Participate Get involved in the campus community. Be an integral part of the health center.

Peer Health Education Intern Program

Are you looking for an exciting internship that will give you an opportunity to get involved on your campus as a leader, educator, and role model while building skills, relationships, and your résumé? Don't look any further; Peer Health is all that and more.

• "Peer Health has given me more skills and experience than most anything in college.
  I feel as though my time in the program has made me a more efficient worker and given me the confidence to pursue other interests." - PHE and recent UO Anthropology/PPPM Graduate
• "I will use the knowledge I gained in peer health for the rest of my life. Additionally, I met some incredibly wonderful people in the program-some of whom, I expect I will stay in touch with for many, many, years to come." - PHE and recent UO Journalism Graduate
• "It was the idea of belonging to something important that was valuable. I feel confident that once the PHE's graduate they will look back at the program and realize it was one of the most positive experiences that they had while attending the U of O." - Former Peer Health Educator . Presently a Communication Disorders Graduate Student

Want to be a Peer Health Education Intern? Fill out this application. Classes are T and TH 10:00-11:50. This is an upper division class so you must be at least a sophomore to apply. For additional program information contact the Peer Health Education Program: