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Student Intern – Resilience & Mental Health Research The Center for Health Policy & Inequalities Research (CHPIR) focuses on advancing research and interventions that address health inequities and promote societal well-being. As part of this mission, CHPIR is turning its focus towards research and intervention that promotes resilience—defined at the individual level as the ability to adapt to challenges, and at the community level as the process of creating structures and harnessing resources (such as access to health care and education) that foster societal well-being. Internship Overview This internship will focus on connecting with faculty across Duke University, who are studying mental health and determining if they include resilience concepts in their research and, if so, how it is measured. Key Responsibilities · Through literature review, develop an understanding of multiple ways that resilience is conceptualized; create slides to educate CHPIR members. }· Meet with Duke faculty studying resilience and document how they conceptualize resilience, what their studies involve, and how they measure resilience. · Create a databank of resilience measures, complete with specific survey items or information on biometric data collection, scoring, journal articles, and information on Duke faculty and projects that have used the measures. · The intern(s) will engage in 1-2 additional projects with mentoring provided by faculty and staff from the Center for Global Mental Health and CHPIR. o Assist with PATH program (contact with Charlotte Trans Health) to pull information from client files on interviews conducted after 6 months of participation in the PATH program and assist with organizing, analyzing and presenting the data o Assist with conducting interviews/and or case management tasks o Potentially prepare communications (e.g., website, newsletter) materials for the Center for Global Mental Health and conduct research-related activities |