Internships
Internships
Experiential Learning
The ASCENT Center for Reproductive Health offers meaningful opportunities for students to gain hands-on experience in reproductive health research and community engagement. Our undergraduate internship program provides flexible placements in communications, policy, community engagement, or allows students to design their own experience based on their interests and career goals. These opportunities provide valuable real-world experience while contributing to our mission of advancing reproductive health through research, education, and community engagement.
Internships
Join our communications team to develop essential skills in health communication and digital marketing. Interns will create engaging social media content across platforms, develop print and digital collateral materials, contribute to our newsletter, assist with website content updates, and support media outreach efforts. This role offers hands-on experience in strategic communication, graphic design, and public health messaging.
Work directly with our Policy Director to gain exposure to reproductive health policy development and implementation. Interns will assist with policy research and analysis, attend reproductive health roundtable meetings, support legislative tracking efforts, help prepare policy briefs, and contribute to coalition-building activities. This opportunity provides valuable insight into the policy process and how research translates into real-world health policy change.
Build meaningful connections between our center and the communities we serve. Interns will plan and execute at least 3 community and campus outreach events, develop relationships with community organizations, schools, and local businesses through strategic partnership building, contribute to research initiatives, represent the center at local meetings and community events, and oversee campus vending machine operations. This position offers experience in event planning, stakeholder engagement, and community-based participatory approaches to public health.
Interested in researching with us?
The ASCENT Research Training Program in Sexual and Reproductive Health is a 10-week summer intensive program for aspiring researchers and clinician scientists interested in sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice through community-engaged research. Open to scholars at all levels nationwide—from upper undergraduates to early-career professionals—this program offers unique multi-level mentorship combining scientific and community-based approaches. Now in its 11th year at the University of Utah ASCENT Center for Reproductive Health, participants engage closely with faculty from Obstetrics and Gynecology, Law, Social Transformation, Sociology, Political Science, and Nursing, plus community partners to explore pressing SRHRJ issues.