Duke Welcomes HRSA's Emerging Leaders

HRSA Administrator Betty Duke recently welcomed four new employees -- Brandy Airall, Shkeda Johnson, Michael Makinde and Leslie Swann -- who have joined HRSA under Secretary Tommy G. Thompson’s new HHS Emerging Leaders Program.

Secretary Thompson designed the internship program as a two-year opportunity for personal growth and professional development for recent college graduates.  The program hopes to recruit the interns as future Department leaders by giving them the opportunity to observe the work of high-level officials, gain a thorough knowledge of various agencies and occupations, and learn about the Department’s working environment, mission and goals.

The interns are hired into a specific HHS agency.  They will spend their first 60 days in that agency and will then do 60- to 90-day rotations in offices throughout the department for the rest of the first year.  During the second year, interns will work in the operating division that hired them.  All interns will be assigned mentors to provide guidance and advice.

Interns may work in administrative (budget, personnel, grants, etc.), public health, scientific, social sciences or information technology positions.

Johnson and Airall have been assigned to HRSA's HIV/AIDS Bureau, while Swan is working in the Bureau of Health Professions and Makinde is in the Office of Information Technology.

More information about the Emerging Leaders Program is available at http://www.hhs.gov/jobs/elp.

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