Mountain and Plains Education and Research Center

描述（由申请人提供）：科罗拉多州、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、大量得不到服务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（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。预计2008年将在科罗拉多州开设一所新的公共卫生合作学院，该学院将包括来自三所大学的教师和学生，因此迫切需要将该地区的职业卫生方案整合成一个连贯、综合、多学科的单位。拟议中的新的山地和平原教育和研究中心（MAP ERC）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；改善服务不足地区的继续教育和外展活动；支持推进NORA议程的试点研究项目；并解决少数民族的招聘和保留需求，特别强调美洲原住民和拉丁裔群体。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。其中前四个项目目前部分由NIOSH个人培训补助金资助。都提供研究生（硕士或博士）或博士后/住院医师水平的培训。每年，MAP ERC将对5人进行IH培训，4人进行OMR培训，5人进行HP培训，5人进行ERGO培训，3人进行OHP培训。继续教育特别强调最先进的远程学习工具，预计第一年将为1400多人提供培训。与科罗拉多州立大学的三民族中心、美国印第安人和阿拉斯加原住民项目、科罗拉多大学丹佛分校的多样性办公室和健康科学中心、印第安人健康服务中心合作，通过与邻近的ERCs合作，这个新中心将使用创新的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.