Interdisciplinary Training: Neurodevelopmental Toxicology(RMI)

描述(由申请者提供)：本申请申请资助哈佛大学公共卫生学院神经发育毒理学博士后跨学科培训计划。该计划将以暴露、流行病学和风险计划为基础。环境健康部。培训计划的结构源于一个概念模型，该模型强调，深入了解接触毒物和神经发育之间的联系，需要解释宿主和环境因素可能改变这种联系的方式。本计划考虑的此类影响因素的主要类别包括：共同暴露于其他神经毒物、基因、营养状况和社会环境。因此，将为学员提供五个培训轨道：暴露评估/环境健康、神经发育、遗传学、营养学和社会环境。鉴于该方案的重点，所有受训人员都应具备暴露评估/环境健康、神经发育和流行病学/生物统计学方面的专门知识(特别是适用于多层次数据集的分析方法)。对于每个课程，我们指定了一套核心能力、所需的课程作业、临床经验的机会(如果相关)和研讨会系列。作为博士培训的一部分，新学员将在多个项目学科中的一个学科中发展出专业知识。因此，该计划的目标将是提供一个或多个额外领域的交叉培训，以便受训者在获得跨学科专业知识后，能够进行神经发育毒理学研究，更直接地满足风险评估员的需求。每年，将有两名新学员被录取参加这个为期三年的项目。一名34人的教职员工，代表该计划包括的所有学科，已被招募担任见习导师。教员目前从事着丰富的多学科研究，这将为受训人员提供随时准备的机会，将他们的培训应用于正在进行的研究项目。

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.