Training Program in Environmental Life Course Epidemiology

 描述(由申请人提供)：这项拨款申请请求支持一个新的环境生命课程流行病学培训计划。培训计划将由帕姆·法因特-利特瓦克博士和罗宾·怀亚特博士指导。它要求在第一年为两名博士后实习生和一名博士后实习生提供资金，并在第五年逐步增加到总共四名博士前实习生和两名博士后实习生。拟议的导师是资金充足、出版良好的调查人员，在培养硕士、博士后和博士后方面有相当的经验。该计划的主题是培训新一代科学家，了解环境流行病学和人口健康的生命过程方法，即调查早期环境暴露和可能要到生命过程后期才表现出来的结果，并研究这种暴露-结果关系背后可能的生物、社会、行为和心理机制。拟议的计划建立在哥伦比亚大学漫长、杰出和持续的生命历程和分子流行病学方法历史的基础上。博士前实习生将完成流行病学或环境健康科学博士学位的要求，包括生命过程跟踪和与生命过程相关的论文研究的具体课程要求，并将获得资助 为期5年。博士后实习生将在经验丰富的导师的指导下从事环境生命过程流行病学研究。因此，受训者将为在各种学术和公共卫生环境中进行环境生命过程研究做好独特的准备。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This grant application requests support for a new training program in Environmental Life Course Epidemiology. The training program will be directed by Drs. Pam Factor-Litvak and Robin Whyatt. It requests funds for two pre-doctoral trainees and one post-doctoral trainee in year 1, and gradually increases to a total of four pre doctoral and two post-doctoral trainees by year 5. The proposed mentors are well funded and well published investigators with considerable experience in training Master's, pre-doctoral and post-doctoral students. The theme of the program is to train a new generation of scientists in the life course approach to environmental epidemiology and population health that is to investigate early environmental exposures and outcomes which may not manifest themselves until later in the life course and to study the possible biologic, social, behavioral and psychological mechanisms behind such exposure - outcome relationships. The proposed program builds upon the long, distinguished and ongoing history of life course and molecular epidemiology approaches at Columbia. Pre doctoral trainees will complete the requirements for a PhD in epidemiology or environmental health sciences, including specific course requirements in the life course track and dissertation research related to the life course, and will be offered funding for a period of 5 years. Post-doctoral trainees will pursue research in environmental life course epidemiology under the guidance of experienced mentors. Thus, trainees will be uniquely prepared to perform environmental life course research in a variety of academic and public health settings.