MULTIDISCIPLINARY ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH TRAINING

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EXCEED THE SPACE PROVIDED. We propose a multidisciplinary training program in environmental health in the following countries; Romania, Russia, Uzbekistan, Mongolia, Kenya and Uganda. The activities with Romania, Russia, Kenya and Uganda are continuations of ongoing Fogarty support from either our original grant, or from supplemental awards we have received. Uzbekistan and Mongolia are proposed as new countries to our Fogarty program, and we currently have students in Albany from these countries, supported by other funds, and are responding to requests from universities in these countries to be included. While the primary countries in our original award were Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic, the economic and scientific progress there has been such that we believe our focus should be on countries of greater need for training in environmental health. However by maintaining programs in the Eastern European region, we will not lose our valuable relationships that have been established over the past six years in these more developed countries. The six countries in this application have very severe environmental health issues, and lack the resources, infrastructure and trained personnel to adequately deal with them. The issues of greatest importance in these countries are provision of drinking water and food that is not contaminated with either infectious or toxic substances, safe disposal of sewage, solid and hazardous wastes and air pollution. We propose a training program with an Albany-based faculty of epidemiologists, statisticians, toxicologists, water experts, ecologists, environmental chemists and remediation experts. Most of our funds will initially be expended on long-term (at least one year) training and research in Albany. Selected fellows will stay to complete a degree program. As trainees return to their home countries, we will support collaborative research with selected fellows. In addition we will mount one short-course each year in one of these countries on a topic chosen in consultation with the collaborating faculty there. PERFORMANCE SITE ========================================Section End===========================================