Applications are open for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) Evaluation Fellowship Program 2025. The CDC Evaluation Fellowship Program is a two-year fellowship that works to make program evaluation more useful and impactful. The Evaluation Fellowship offers a unique training opportunity with clear expectations and supportive resources. This includes professional development funds provided by the host program. Fellows learn evaluation skills while working in their host program to build, expand, and/or improve evaluation activities.

CDC wants to make program evaluation a standard practice and to develop the professionals with the skills to do it. Fellows are placed in host programs at CDC to work on program evaluation, evaluation capacity, performance monitoring, and program design. This fellowship helps CDC continuously improve its work with the appropriate resources, tools, and leadership.

Benefits

Fellow’s salary is based on their education level (based on the qualifying degree) and experience. CDC Human Resources Office determines the fellow’s salary is non-negotiable because this is a training program.

Participating in CDC’s Evaluation Fellowship includes these benefits:

• • Exposure to world-class evaluators and public health professionals who work at and visit CDC.
  • A view of the public health system from the federal level, working in various disease and prevention areas.
  • A strong cohort of Evaluation fellows and an evaluation community of practice from whom fellows can learn and obtain feedback.
  • Strong program oversight and management from the Division of Workforce Development.
  • Recognition through the highly respected branding of the CDC Evaluation Fellowship Program.
  • Access to limited-duration evaluation projects outside the host program that increase the fellow’s visibility and exposure across CDC and provide opportunities to learn and apply skills in topic areas that the fellow might not otherwise have.

Eligibility

• Have U.S. citizenship or permanent resident with a green card valid for at least two years from the start of the Fellowship (mid-August).
• Have significant applied program evaluation experience and able to document three projects that demonstrate the depth and breadth of the evaluation experience.
• Have a doctoral or master’s level degree from an accredited academic institution in a field relevant to CDC’s work. Examples of degree concentration include public health, epidemiology, sociology, anthropology, biostatistics, and community psychology.
• For upcoming or recent graduates, the degree must be conferred by the end of the spring semester of the application year.

To become a fellow, if accepted, the applicant must:

• Meet CDC/ATSDR requirements for general employment suitability (e.g., favorable background security check for U.S. Government employment).
• Commit full time to the Fellowship assignment for two years (the second year is determined by satisfactory performance and availability of funds).
• Relocate to the location of the CDC host program (most are in Atlanta, Georgia).

Application

The application will include:

• • Questions about applicants’ educational and evaluation experience.
  • Questions about applicants’ interest and goals for applying to the program.
  • Upload of applicants’ resume or CV.
  • Two letters of recommendation (requested through the application portal).
  • Transcript of highest educational degree (Transcripts issued to the student are acceptable with the application. However, they must state your degree of study, courses taken, earned grades, and graduation date. If selected as a fellow, you must have your academic institution(s) send an official transcript(s) issued directly to the CDC Evaluation Fellowship and CDC Human Resources Office).
  • Copy of green card (if applicable).

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For more information, visit CDC Evaluation Fellowship.