{"id":23015,"date":"2023-01-09T19:38:58","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T00:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom2\/2023\/01\/10\/public-health-student-lands-competitive-internship\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T11:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T15:29:07","slug":"public-health-student-lands-competitive-internship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom\/2023\/01\/09\/public-health-student-lands-competitive-internship\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Health Student Lands Competitive Internship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Haverhill, MA (January 9, 2023)\u2013 Northern Essex Community College <a href=\"https:\/\/necc.edu\/learn\/credit-programs\/health\/public-health\/\">Public Health<\/a> student Erin Archambault just turned 24, but she\u2019s already spent years working in health care. The Haverhill native was trained as a Certified Nurse Assistant while attending Whittier Regional Vocational Technical High School and started working in a nursing home at the age of 17. After high school, she studied biology at UMass Boston and UMass Lowell. While she liked both schools, something wasn\u2019t clicking. \u201cI wasn\u2019t feeling campus life, and I didn\u2019t like commuting. So, I took a break during the beginning of the pandemic,\u201d remembers Archambault.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_26158\" style=\"width: 288px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/02\/Erin-Archambault.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26158\" class=\" wp-image-26158\" src=\"http:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/02\/Erin-Archambault.jpg\" alt=\"Erin Archambault smiles at the camera wearing grey, v neck shirt\" width=\"278\" height=\"494\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-26158\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Erin Archambault, Public Health Major<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In the fall of 2021, Archambault decided she was ready to give college another try and enrolled as a <a href=\"https:\/\/necc.edu\/learn\/credit-programs\/health\/general-studies-health-specialization\/\">General Studies: Health Specialization<\/a> major at NECC. It was then, she says, that everything finally started to click. \u201cI had been thinking about it for a while. Seeing the pandemic and the role that public health had in educating people and making sure that the correct information was out in the community. I realized I wanted to do public health.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Archambault hit her stride quickly, and with a 3.9 GPA, her professors urged her to apply for a competitive internship with The Academic Public Health Corps (APHC). \u201cLuckily, I had updated my resume in a course I took, so I was good to go,\u201d says Archambault. After a lengthy application and an interview, Archambault was among the group of students from the state\u2019s top public health schools selected to take part in the spring cohort.<\/p>\n<p>The Academic Public Health Corps was created during the pandemic to support local COVID-19 efforts. The group enlisted students to help with contact tracing, health communications, health equity efforts, data analysis, and more. In 2021, the program was awarded a three-year grant to continue this work. Student interns complete 160 hours of work on assigned public health projects, learn about local public health in Massachusetts, build their resumes and real-world experience, and are paid a $2,400 stipend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very open to where this might take me- I\u2019m very interested in patient advocating,\u201d says Archambault of the opportunity. \u201cIt\u2019s very important to help patients know their rights. It comes naturally to advocate for people.\u201d She will complete her internship this spring while working as a pharmacy technician and continuing her coursework at NECC. She\u2019s on track to graduate in December of this year and looks forward to starting her career in public health.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Health Care Careers at NECC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A third of the students at Northern Essex are enrolled in one of the college\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/necc.edu\/learn\/credit-programs\/health\/\">22 associate degree and certificate programs<\/a>\u00a0in high-demand health care fields, ranging from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/necc.edu\/learn\/credit-programs\/health\/\">nursing<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/necc.edu\/learn\/credit-programs\/health\/respiratory-care-associate-degree\/\">respiratory care<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/necc.edu\/learn\/credit-programs\/health\/sleep-technologist-certificate\/\">sleep technology<\/a>. Most programs are located at the El-Hefni Allied Health &amp; Technology Center on Common St in Lawrence.\u00a0 The 44,000-square-foot facility features a Health Education Simulation Center, where health care students receive hands-on experience in simulated environments such as a hospital intensive care unit, a trauma room, an acute care hospital room, an apartment, an ambulance, and a doctor\u2019s office. For more information, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/necc.edu\/\">website<\/a> or contact interim Dean of Health Services <a href=\"mailto:khudson@necc.mass.edu\">Kathy Hudson<\/a> to learn more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haverhill, MA (January 9, 2023)\u2013 Northern Essex Community College Public Health student Erin Archambault just turned 24, but she\u2019s already spent years working in health care. 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