In partnership with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Entomological Society of America (ESA) created the Public Health Entomology For All (PHEFA) program as we recognize entomology and ESA have a role in creating a workforce that can protect the United States from debilitating diseases carried by insects.

The PHEFA 10-week Internship will encourage students and recent graduates to pursue entomology as a career and work toward a future in which all communities benefit from creative scientific processes and solutions.

Through PHEFA, ESA hires U.S. undergraduates who have completed their junior year and are interested in entomology and public health. Interns work at the CDC Arboviral and Bacterial Diseases Branches in Fort Collins, Colorado, the Rickettsial Zoonoses Diseases Branch and Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria in Atlanta, Georgia, and the Dengue Branch in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Please fill out the form below if you are interested in participating. Summer 2026 applications will open in December.

Please visit https://www.entsoc.org/advocacy-initiatives/public-health-entomology-for-all for more information and contact Stacie East, ESA PHEFA Director, at seast@entsoc.org for any additional questions.