Research Training for Study of Air Pollution Control in China

描述（由申请人提供） 中国经济的快速发展带来了严重的环境恶化，通过温室气体的排放和大规模的污染运输，造成气候变化，并可能产生重大的全球影响。在应对关键的环境健康问题方面面临许多挑战，中国今天面临的主要挑战之一是严重缺乏环境健康科学所有主要领域的训练有素的人才。该申请的主要目标是确保在中国国家环境健康和相关产品安全研究所（IEHS）内建立环境健康科学卓越研究和教学中心所需的资源，该研究所由中央政府授权负责中国的环境健康和监测。这些资源将用于（1）培训IEHS急需的科学家，以制定适当的战略，更好地了解和更有效地应对中国大规模环境污染和恶化所带来的新威胁;（2）建立基础设施，使IEHS成为国家环境健康科学教学和研究中心。培训目标将通过学员实现，从教师和现有的博士前和博士后项目中选择， IEHS将在耶鲁大学公共卫生学院（YSPH）通过长期、中期和短期培训接受教育和指导。培训将强调六大领域的原则和方法：环境卫生、环境流行病学和分子流行病学、风险评估、干预试验和生物统计学。该培训计划将由一名指导 委员会由IEHS和耶鲁大学的代表组成。YSPH和IEHS在先前的研究和培训合作方面有着悠久的历史。我们期望该项目的学员将成为中国环境健康科学领域未来的领导者。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant) China's extraordinary, rapid economic development has brought severe environmental deterioration which can have major global impacts through emissions of greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change and through large scale transport of pollution. Facing many challenges in confronting the crucial environmental health issues, one of the major challenges China faces today is the severe lack of trained personnel in all major areas of environmental health sciences. The primary goal of this application is to secure the resources necessary to build a center of excellence in research and teaching in environmental health sciences within the Chinese National Institute of Environmental Health and Related Product Safety (IEHS), which is mandated by the central government to be responsible for China's environmental health and monitoring. The resources will be used to (1) train scientists urgently needed in the IEHS to develop appropriate strategies to better understand and more effectively respond to the emerging threat from the vast environmental pollution and deterioration in China; and (2) build an infrastructure that will allow IEHS to function as a national center for teaching and research in environmental health sciences. The training goals will be achieved through trainees, selected from faculty and existing pre- and post-doctoral programs at IEHS, who will receive education and mentoring at Yale University School of Public Health (YSPH) through long-term, intermediate-, and short-term training. The training will emphasize principles and methods in six major areas: environmental health, environmental epidemiology and molecular epidemiology, risk assessment, intervention trials and biostatistics. This training program will be administered by a Steering Committee with representation from both IEHS and Yale University. YSPH and IEHS have a strong history of prior research and training collaborations. We anticipate that trainees of this program will be uniquely qualified to be future leaders in the field of environmental health science in China.