Georgia has some of the harshest HIV criminalization in the US – and Georgia Equality wants to address that head on by introducing our new fellowship program, Ending the Epidemic Policy Fellowship, funded by the Elton John Aids Foundation. 

The former President’s plan to end the HIV epidemic by 2030 is built around four pillars: Diagnose, Treat, Protect, and Respond. The fourth pillar, focuses on establishing an HIV health force with “boots on the ground” health professionals. While this is an important element, equally as important is the need to develop HIV policy advocates and leaders who are equipped to identify emergent issues and bring them to the attention of policymakers, create policy solutions that help remedy structural issues that drive the epidemic in marginalized communities, and to find political allies and policy making windows that make it possible to advance public health. 

For the “boots on the ground”, Georgia Equality is looking to hire three recent graduates for its Ending the Epidemic Policy Fellowship. The fellowship places recent graduates with backgrounds in public health, public administration, public policy, and/or other related fields at Georgia Equality for a 12-month immersion into the policy-making process. Fellows apply their academic training, critical thinking, and analytical skills to support evidence-informed, decision-making that addresses HIV policy challenges on a local and statewide level. Fellows should have an understanding of the systemic structures that create barriers for marginalized communities and warp our response to the HIV epidemic, especially along lines of race, gender, and sexual orientation. 

Georgia Equality’s Ending the Epidemic Policy Fellowship Program provides comprehensive policy training at the intersections of LGBTQ health, race, policy and geography to early-career professionals with an interest in working in the HIV policy space. The project will specifically prioritize individuals living with and vulnerable to HIV from minority and underrepresented communities who are committed to acquiring the skills, knowledge and experiences to participate in the policy process at the state and local level and use their training to improve health, health care, and health policy towards ending the epidemic by 2030. 

 

For more information or to apply, please visit our employment page, here:

https://georgiaequality.org/about/employment-internships/