Horizon International Invites Associates: Interns, Volunteers, Research Fellows 2011-2012

Opportunity Details:  Internships and Research Fellowships for fall 2011 and 2012 for a minimum of a three month period which can commence at any time and be fulfilled over an extended time. The work can involve research, writing, organizing, and creative multimedia, among other possibilities. Horizon provides a chance to publish or produce your work. Horizon will, as possible, assist with designing a research fellowship and obtaining funds.

Horizon International works with numerous collaborators and cooperating entities to find and advance solutions.  Horizon focuses on needs that it can most effectively address, prioritizing initiatives that are most pressing and that inform and inspire positive action. Quality, accuracy and thoroughness make results stand out as trusted coverage. This is made possible with the help of Horizon’s Scientific Review Board and Special Advisors. Horizon International is a not-for-profit organization based at Yale University.

White Dragontail Photograph by Horizon Intern Barau Maan

Type of work:  Horizon Associates, consisting of interns, volunteers and research fellows, help to find and share knowledge of successful initiatives through the Horizon Solutions Site at www.solutionssite.org, Horizon’s Magic Porthole Coral Reefs and Oceans program including by providing content for its Web site at www.magicporthole.org and www.coralreefs.co, new television programs, see www.horizoninternationaltv.org and YouTube under jselendy’s channel www.youtube.com/user/jselendy, other outreach, and opportunities provided in conjunction with entities cooperating with Horizon International and through other avenues. Participation might include assistance with Horizon-Peru. Assignments are personalized in order to help associates more fully realize their own potential and aspirations while realizing tangible results from their work for the benefit of others. 

Horizon's Chairman, President, and Publisher, Janine Selendy, is editor of " Water and Sanitation Related Diseases and the Environment: Challenges, Interventions and Preventive Measures," Published in Collaboration between Wiley-Blackwell and Horizon International. Written by experts from the fields of public health, medicine, epidemiology, environmental health, climate change, environmental engineering, and population research, this authoritative volume provides a thorough understanding of the interconnection among many factors linked to water related diseases, sanitation, and hygiene. An accompanying DVD provides a further four hours of supplemental content as well as over 500 maps, tables and illustrations. A companion website will also include further updates and additional resources. The publication will be released in August 2011.

Among the specific subjects that are the current focus of Horizon International are Global Climate Change, oceans and coral reefs and the interconnected areas of “water, sanitation and the environment.”  Horizon’s Chairman, President, and Publisher, Janine Selendy, is editor of  Water and Sanitation Related Diseases and the Environment: Challenges, Interventions and Preventive Measures, Published in Collaboration between Wiley-Blackwell and Horizon International. The book explores the close relationship between sanitation, clean water supply and the environment to outline strategies for the prevention and eradication of water and sanitation-related diseases. Written by experts from the fields of public health, medicine, epidemiology, environmental health, climate change, environmental engineering, and population research, this authoritative volume provides a thorough understanding of the interconnection among many factors linked to water related diseases, sanitation, and hygiene. An accompanying DVD provides a further four hours of supplemental content as well as over 500 maps, tables and illustrations. A companion website will also include further updates and additional resources. The publication will be released in August 2011.

Vicuna in the mountains of Peru. Horizon Intern Raul Farfan prepared a case study on Horizon International's role in saving the endangered vicuna and helped to found Horizon-Peru. Photograph by Janine Selendy

The Horizon Solutions Site is a collaborative program developed with UNEP, UNDP, UNFPA, UNICEF, the International Development Research Center, Yale University and Horizon's colleagues at Harvard that was launched at the UN in 1999.  The Site presents articles, case studies, and exhibits in the interrelated areas of health, the environment, population, and poverty alleviation.  They provide knowledge of how an initiative was successfully brought about, encourage replication in whole or in part, and foster the development of new ones.  The examples inspire action and provide knowledge for establishment of new projects and improvements of existing ones. By presenting examples of what has been proven effective to solve problems, the Solutions Site also encourages policy changes to strengthen support of successful programs and to support new projects.  The Site also provides screened descriptive links. The Solutions Site was twice chosen by the Stockholm Challenge as runner-up among the 10 best IT websites in the world in the field of the environment.

Further information about the Associate program can be found on the Horizon Solutions Site.

Contact: Janine Selendy by e-mail with your expression of interest, resume, three references and time you would like to serve.  Please indicate “Solutions Site Application” in the subject line.  Address: jselendy (at) gmail.com.