Mountain and Plains Education and Research Center

描述（由申请人提供）：科罗拉多、新墨西哥州、亚利桑那州、怀俄明州、蒙大拿州、北达科他州和南达科他州的山区和平原州都有一系列共同的问题，这些问题超出了现有的职业健康资源：人口增长、大量服务不足的美洲原住民和拉丁裔工人、特定地区的工作相关健康问题（例如，采矿、能源、农业），以及与职业健康卓越教育中心的地理距离。随着预计2008年在科罗拉多州开设一所新的公共卫生合作学校，该学校将吸纳来自三所大学的教师和学生，迫切需要将该地区的职业健康计划调整为一个连贯的、综合的、多学科的单位。拟议中的新的山区和平原教育和研究中心的目标是帮助促进职业健康方面的跨学科综合研究生教育;在服务不足的地区改善继续教育和外联活动;支持推动诺拉议程的试点研究项目;解决少数民族招聘和留用需求，特别强调美洲原住民和拉丁美洲人群体。MAP ERC将包括来自丹佛科罗拉多大学和健康科学中心、国家犹太医学和研究中心以及科罗拉多州立大学的五个项目：工业卫生（IH）和职业医学住院医师（OMR）的核心项目，以及健康物理学（HP）、人体工程学（ERGO）和职业健康心理学（OHP）的联合健康项目。这些方案中的前四个目前部分作为NIOSH个人培训赠款提供资金。所有学校都提供研究生（硕士或博士）或博士后/住院医师培训。每年，MAP ERC将在IH培训5人，OMR培训4人，HP培训5人，ERGO培训5人，OHP培训3人。继续教育，特别强调最先进的远程学习工具，预计将在第一年为1 400多人提供培训。与科罗拉多州立大学的三种族中心、美国印第安人和阿拉斯加原住民项目以及丹佛科罗拉多大学的多样性办公室和印第安人健康服务健康科学中心合作，并与邻近的ERC合作，这个新中心将采用创新方法和社区联盟来改善该地区和国家面临的职业健康差距。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The mountain and plains states of Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota share a common set of problems that outstrip existing occupational health resources: rising population, large groups of underserved Native American and Latino workers, region-specific work-related health issues (e.g., mining, energy, agriculture), and geographic distance from educational centers of excellence in occupational health. With the anticipated 2008 opening of a new Collaborative School of Public Health in the State of Colorado that will incorporate faculty and students from three universities, there is an immediate need to align the region's occupational health programs into a coherent, integrated, multidisciplinary unit. The objectives of the new, proposed Mountain and Plains Education and Research Center (MAP ERC) are to help promote interdisciplinary, integrated graduate education in occupational health; to improve continuing education and outreach activities in an underserved region; to support pilot research projects that advance the NORA agenda; and to address minority recruitment and retention needs, with particular emphasis on Native Americans and Latino groups. The MAP ERC will incorporate five programs from the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, National Jewish Medical and Research Center, and Colorado State University: Core programs in Industrial Hygiene (IH) and Occupational Medicine Residency (OMR), and allied health programs in Health Physics (HP), Ergonomics (ERGO), and Occupational Health Psychology (OHP). The first four of these programs are currently funded, in part, as individual NIOSH training grants. All provide either graduate (masters or doctoral) or postdoctoral/ residency level training. Annually, the MAP ERC will train 5 in IH, 4 in OMR, 5 in HP, 5 in ERGO, and 3 in OHP. Continuing Education, with particular emphasis on state-of-the-art distance learning tools, is expected to provide training for over 1400 in year one. Working in concert with the Tri-ethnic Center at Colorado State University, the American Indian and Alaska Native Programs and the Office of Diversity at University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, Indian Health Service, and by collaborating with neighboring ERCs, this new Center will use innovative approaches and community alliances to improve the occupational health disparities facing the region and nation.