Environmental Biostatistics Training Grant

描述(由申请人提供) 调查员提出了一项环境生物统计学方面的培训方案，以满足对受过培训的本科生和研究生的主要和发展中的需求，重点是下列研究主题之间的相互作用：(A)环境政策的统计方法(例如，关于制定和执行优先污染物的标准、定量风险评估和环境正义评估，涉及社会人口群体间环境暴露的不同影响)；以及(B)定量疾病生态学中的统计方法(例如，量化环境对病媒传播的疾病和人畜共患病，如狂犬病和莱姆病的影响，包括调查这些疾病的特定遗传菌株的自然地理或空间模式)。该培训计划通过课程作业和学员的“研究轮换”将这两个主要领域结合在一起。该项目涉及来自生物统计学、环境和职业健康、流行病学、生物学和法律系的教职员工。该项目包括任何一年的两名博士后和一名博士后级别的实习生，他们可能是生物统计学系的学生，但也可能是对环境科学或环境法有培训和兴趣的个人，寻求接受统计分析高级领域的培训。主要设施包括艺术与科学研究生院、伍德拉夫健康科学中心、罗林斯公共卫生学院和法学院，所有这些都在埃默里大学。

DESCRIPTION (provide by applicant) The investigator propose a training program in environmental biostatistics addressing key and developing needs for graduate- and post-graduate trained quantitative researchers focused on the interaction between the following research themes: (a) statistical methods for environmental policy (e.g., pertaining to setting and enforcing standards for priority pollutants, quantitative risk assessment, and assessments of environmental justice concerned with differential impacts of environmental exposures across socio-demographic groups); and (b) statistical methods in quantitative disease ecology (e.g., quantifying environmental impacts on vector-borne diseases and zoonoses such as rabies and Lyme disease, including investigations of the phylo-geography or spatial patterns of particular genetic strains of such diseases). The training program integrates these two main areas through coursework and a "research rotation" for trainees. The program involves faculty from departments of Biostatistics, Environmental and Occupational Health, Epidemiology, Biology, and Law. The program includes two pre-doctoral and one postdoctoral level trainees in any given year, likely students in the Department of Biostatistics, but possibly individuals with training and interests in environmental sciences or environmental law seeking training in advanced areas of statistical analysis. The primary facilities span disciplines housed in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the Woodruff Health Sciences Center, the Rollins School of Public Health, and the School of Law, all at Emory University.