Environmental Biostatistics Training Grant

描述(由申请人提供) 研究人员建议继续他们在埃默里大学罗林斯公共卫生学院生物统计和生物信息学系的环境生物统计学(EB)博士后和博士后培训计划。在目前的课程中，学员开发和应用环境科学中应用的统计和计算方法，具体主题涉及环境政策统计(SEP)和定量疾病生态学(QDE)。埃默里的地理位置是继续该项目的理想之地，因为在这些领域已经有了强大的跨学科研究计划。此外，自EB计划最初获得资助以来，埃默里大学最近的几项发展既扩大和加强了为成功的计划提供的机构支持和环境。最重要的是，埃默里大学生物统计和生物信息学系在生物信息学领域进入了一段有针对性的增长期(事实上还扩大了部门名称以反映这一重点)，在新的部门领导和关键战略投资下招聘了多名新员工。这一增长提供了一个机会，通过在高吞吐量环境数据(HTED)领域增加一个新的主题领域来加强当前的培训计划。此外，罗林斯公共卫生学院的环境卫生系也经历了快速增长，包括环境流行病学和疾病生态学的招聘，增强的研究空间，以及一个新的博士研究项目。鉴于这些发展，研究人员建议扩大(但仍有重点)培训计划，包括三名博士前和两名博士后受训人员，利用埃默里公司在环境科学领域的持续实力，进入下一个资助期及以后。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant) The investigators propose the continuation of their pre- and postdoctoral training program in Environmental Biostatistics (EB) in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University. In the current program, trainees develop and apply statistical and computational approaches applied in the environmental sciences, with particular themes involving Statistics for Environmental Policy (SEP) and Quantitative Disease Ecology (QDE). Emory's location is ideal for continuation of the program due to the strong interdisciplinary research programs already in place in these areas. In addition, several recent developments at Emory University since the initial funding of the EB program both expand and strengthen the institutional support and environment for the successful program. Most importantly, the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Emory has embarked in a period of targeted growth in the area of Bioinformatics (and in fact expanded its departmental name to reflect this emphasis) with multiple new hires recruited under new department leadership and key strategic investment. This growth offers an opportunity to enhance the current training program through the addition of a new theme area in the area of High-Throughput Environmental Data (HTED). In addition, the Department of Environmental Health in the Rollins School of Public Health has also undergone rapid growth including hires in environmental epidemiology and disease ecology, enhanced research space, as well as a new doctoral research program. Given these developments, the investigators propose an expanded (but still focused) training program involving three pre-doctoral and two postdoctoral trainees drawing on Emory's continued strength in the fields of environmental science into the next funding period and beyond.