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Community and Global Health



Special Opportunities

Macalester regularly sponsors student internships and study away experiences related to community and global health.

Sample internship sites

  • American Red Cross
  • Center for Victims of Torture
  • Centro
  • Clare Housing
  • Family Tree Clinic
  • La Clinica
  • Leonard David Institute of Health Economics
  • Mental Health Association of MN
  • Midwest Health Center for Women
  • Minnesota Autism Center
  • Minnesota Center for Bioethics
  • Minnesota Department of Health
  • Minnesota International Health Volunteers
  • Native American Community Clinic
  • Neighborhood Health Care Network
  • Neighborhood House
  • Office of Minority and Multicultural Health
  • Open Arms of Minnesota
  • Planned Parenthood
  • Sexual Offense Services
  • Tubman Family Alliance
  • United Hospital

Click here for a list of recent internship sites

Sample study away programs

  • Alliance: Contemporary India: Development, Environment, Public Health
  • CIC Dominican Republic: Latin American Health, Nutrition, and Environmental Issues
  • Danish Institute for Study Abroad (DIS): Copenhagen
  • IHP: Health and Community
  • Miami University: Program in International Public Health
  • Michigan State University: Food, Nutrition, and Health in Tanzania
  • SIT Brazil: Public Health and Community Welfare
  • SIT Mali: Gender, Health and Development
  • SIT South Africa: Community Health and Social Policy
  • SIT Switzerland: Global Health and Development Policy

Please click here for a more detailed list with links to program websites.


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