Interdisciplinary Training: Neurodevelopmental Toxi(RMI)

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请要求资金在哈佛公共卫生学院建立一个神经发育毒理学博士后跨学科培训项目。该计划将以该部门的暴露、流行病学和风险计划为基础。环境健康。培训计划的结构如下从一个概念模型强调，暴露于毒物和神经发育之间的关联的深刻理解需要解释的方式，其中主机和环境因素可能会修改的协会。在本计划中考虑的此类修改因素的主要类别是：其他神经毒物的共同暴露、基因型、营养状况和社会环境。因此，将为学员提供五个培训课程：接触评估/环境健康、神经发育、遗传学、营养学和社会环境。鉴于该计划的重点，所有受训人员将有望发展暴露评估/环境健康，神经发育和流行病学/生物统计学（特别是适用于多层次数据集的分析方法）的专业知识。对于每一个轨道，我们指定了一组核心能力，所需的课程工作，临床经验的机会（如果相关），和研讨会系列。即将到来的学员将在一个或多个计划学科中发展专业知识，作为他们博士培训的一部分。因此，该计划的目标是在一个或多个其他领域提供交叉培训，以便在获得跨学科专业知识后，受训人员可以进行更直接满足风险评估人员需求的神经发育毒理学研究。每年，两名新学员将被接受进入为期三年的计划。一个34名成员组成的教师，代表所有学科包括在该计划中，已被招募担任实习导师。教师目前进行了丰富的多学科研究，这将为学员提供现成的机会，在正在进行的研究项目中应用他们的培训。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application requests funds to establish a post-doctoral Interdisciplinary Training Program in Neurodevelopmental Toxicology at the Harvard School of Public Health. The Program will be based in the Exposure, Epidemiology, and Risk Program of the Dept. of Environmental Health. The structure of the training program follows from a conceptual model emphasizing that a deep understanding of the association between exposure to a toxicant and neurodevelopment requires explication of the ways in which host and environmental factors might modify the association. The major categories of such modifying factors considered in this Program are: co-exposures to other neurotoxicants, genotype, nutritional status, and the social environment. Therefore, five Training Tracks will be offered to trainees: Exposure Assessment/Environmental Health, Neurodevelopment, Genetics, Nutrition, and Social Environment. Given the focus of the Program, all trainees will be expected to develop expertise in exposure assessment/environmental health, neurodevelopment, and epidemiology/biostatistics (particularly the analytic methods appropriate for multi-level data sets). For each track, we specify a set of core competencies, required course work, opportunities for clinical experiences (if relevant), and seminar series. Incoming trainees will have developed expertise in one of more of the Program disciplines as part of their doctoral training. The goal of the Program, therefore, will be to provide cross-training in one or more additional areas so that, having acquired interdisciplinary expertise, the trainee can conduct neurodevelopmental toxicology studies that more directly address the needs of risk assessors. Each year, two new trainees will be accepted into the three-year program. A 34-member faculty, representing all disciplines included in the Program, has been recruited to serve as trainee mentors. Members of the faculty currently conduct a wealth of multidisciplinary research, which will provide trainees with ready opportunities to apply their training in ongoing research projects.