| September 5, 2002 |
Contact:
HRSA Press Office
301-443-3376 |
HRSA Administrator Betty Duke recently welcomed four new employees -- Brandy Airall,
Shkeda Johnson, Michael Makinde and Leslie Swann -- who have joined
HRSA under Secretary Tommy G. Thompson’s new HHS Emerging Leaders Program.
Secretary Thompson designed the internship program as a two-year opportunity
for personal growth and professional development for recent college
graduates. The program hopes to recruit the interns as future
Department leaders by giving them the opportunity to observe the work
of high-level officials, gain a thorough knowledge of various agencies
and occupations, and learn about the Department’s working environment,
mission and goals.
The interns are hired into a specific HHS agency. They will spend
their first 60 days in that agency and will then do 60- to 90-day rotations
in offices throughout the department for the rest of the first year.
During the second year, interns will work in the operating division
that hired them. All interns will be assigned mentors to provide
guidance and advice.
Interns may work in administrative (budget, personnel, grants, etc.),
public health, scientific, social sciences or information technology
positions.
Johnson and Airall have been assigned to HRSA's HIV/AIDS Bureau, while
Swan is working in the Bureau of Health Professions and Makinde is in
the Office of Information Technology.
More information about the Emerging Leaders Program is available at
http://www.hhs.gov/jobs/elp.
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