Training Program in Environmental Life Course Epidemiology

 描述（由申请人提供）：此资助申请要求支持环境生命过程流行病学的新培训计划。培训计划将由Pam Factor-Litvak博士和Robin Whyatt博士指导。它要求在第一年为两名博士前学员和一名博士后学员提供资金，到第五年逐步增加到总共四名博士前学员和两名博士后学员。拟议的导师是资金充足，出版良好的研究人员在培训硕士，博士前和博士后学生相当丰富的经验。该方案的主题是培养新一代科学家，使他们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直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。拟议的计划建立在生命历程和分子流行病学方法在哥伦比亚的长期，杰出和持续的历史。博士前学员将完成流行病学或环境健康科学博士学位的要求，包括生命历程轨道的特定课程要求和与生命历程相关的论文研究，并将获得资助 为期5年。博士后学员将在经验丰富的导师指导下进行环境生命过程流行病学研究。因此，受训人员将做好独特的准备，在各种学术和公共卫生环境中进行环境生命课程研究。

 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.