International Training and Research in Environmental and Occupational Health

描述（由申请人提供） 该计划的目的是继续建设乌克兰，白俄罗斯，俄罗斯和摩尔多瓦的环境和职业健康研究机构的能力，通过这些研究所与伊利诺伊大学芝加哥及其美国学术和政府合作伙伴之间的合作研究和培训，调查，控制和预防环境和职业健康问题。我们的具体目标在5年的赠款期限是：（1）培训多达25名前苏联科学家从我们的合作机构在国家的最先进的研究方法，并在负责任的研究行为，通过美国-（2）通过共同主办9次国内会议，在环境和职业健康暴露评估、流行病学研究设计和干预研究方面培训500多名前苏联科学家（每年2场）以及在乌克兰、俄罗斯、白俄罗斯和摩尔多瓦举办的研讨会;（3）继续发展和加强职业和环境卫生研究所（卓越研究中心）在我们的伙伴国家通过培训他们的教师（特别是在助理和副教授级别），为他们提供研究工具，并通过与他们合作研究计划来支持他们的优先研究领域;（4）继续并完成我们关于以下问题的长期合作研究方案：乌克兰儿童环境健康，重点是哮喘、肥胖和青春期;乌克兰煤矿安全和健康;乌法职业和环境接触二恶英问题;白俄罗斯和乌克兰切尔诺贝利辐射照射的影响;（5）制定一项关于俄罗斯持久性有机污染物接触评估和乌克兰氡接触与肺癌的新的合作研究方案;（6）与彼得堡西北公共卫生研究中心制定一项新的合作“艺术中的健康”研究和培训方案;（7）与欧洲区域公共卫生学校协会合作，通过教师发展和交流以及课程开发，继续在乌克兰和俄罗斯建设新的公共卫生培训方案的能力;（8）开展新的能力建设工作，支持摩尔多瓦和白俄罗斯制定公共卫生培训方案;（9）继续支持出版乌克兰卫生和医疗生态学研究所出版的乌克兰主要的乌克兰、俄罗斯和英语环境卫生期刊《环境与健康》，并支持出版俄语《职业卫生信息通报》，这是一份关于职业卫生领域最近的俄罗斯和国际出版物的书目;（10）影响我们伙伴国家环境和职业健康公共政策的发展;（11）在基辅和莫斯科建立环境和职业健康资源中心。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant) The aim of this program is to continue to build the capacity of environmental and occupational health research institutes in Ukraine, Belarus, Russia and Moldova to investigate, control, and prevent environmental and occupational health problems through collaborative research and training between these institutes and the University of Illinois at Chicago and its U.S. academic and governmental partners. Our specific objectives over the 5-year term of the grant are to: (1) Train up to 25 FSU scientists from our partner institutions in state-of-the art research methodologies and in the responsible conduct of research through U.S.-based short-term and intermediate length training; (2) Train more than 500 FSU scientists in environmental and occupational health exposure assessment, epidemiologic research design, and intervention research by co-sponsoring 9 in-country conferences (2 per year) and workshops in Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, and Moldova; (3) Continue to develop and strengthen occupational and environmental health research institutes (centers of research excellence) in our partner countries by training their faculty (especially at the assistant and associate professor level), providing them with research tools, and supporting their priority research areas by partnering with them on collaborative research programs; (4) Continue and complete our long-term collaborative research programs on: children's environmental health in Ukraine, focusing on asthma, obesity, and puberty; coal mine safety and health in Ukraine; occupational and environmental exposure to dioxins in Ufa; and effects of Chernobyl radiation exposure in Belarus and Ukraine; (5) Develop a new collaborative research program on exposure assessment of persistent organic pollutants in Russia and radon exposure and lung cancer in Ukraine; (6) Develop a new collaborative "Health in the Arts" research and training program with the Northwest Public Health Research Centre in St. Petersburg; (7) Continue to build the capacity of new public health training programs in Ukraine and Russia through faculty development and exchange and curriculum development in partnership with the Association of Schools of Public Health of the European Region; (8) Initiate new capacity-building efforts to support the development of public health training programs in Moldova and Belarus; (9) Continue to support the publication of Environment and Health, the major Ukrainian, Russian, and English language environmental health journal in Ukraine published by the Ukrainian Institute for Hygiene and Medical Ecology and the publication of the Russian language Informational Bulletin on Occupational Health, a bibliography of recent Russian and international publications in the field of occupational health; (10) Impact the development of public policy in environmental and occupational health in our partner countries; (11) Develop environmental and occupational health resource centers in Kyiv and Moscow.