International Training and Research in Environmental and Occupational Health

描述（由申请人提供） 该项目延续了爱荷华州大学的多层次国际培训， 职业和环境卫生研究方案（ITREOH）在中欧和东欧的发展中民主国家的数量增加。 该计划将在斯洛文尼亚、捷克共和国、波兰、匈牙利和斯洛伐克合作机构先前对研究和培训能力的投资的基础上，进一步发展波斯尼亚-黑塞哥维那、克罗地亚、塞尔维亚、马其顿和罗马尼亚的卓越中心网络。 拟议的方案模式是基于我们以前在该地区的经验，并利用信息和通信技术的新发展。 主要的能力建设活动将是在爱荷华州大学对25名职业早期和中期专业人员进行为期5个月的中期培训。 将利用实时、基于因特网的网络会议技术，向来自整个区域的数百名科学家和保健专业人员提供环境和职业健康方面的成本效益高的“短期同等”远程教育培训。 这一短期远程培训的核心将是在项目的五年期间每年举行两次为期15周的环境和职业健康全球论坛。 将通过以下方式发展和加强英才中心：增加返回的受训人员的知识和技能;开展20-25个小型合作研究项目;广泛参与全球论坛;参加和共同主办网络研究所年度会议。 通过在年度ITREOH网络研究所组织和举办短期课程/讲习班，通过支持参加科学会议和大会，以及通过出版和介绍正在进行的研究的结果，承认受训人员的专门知识和领导能力，将促进受训人员向负责和有影响力的职位的过渡。 研究成果将通过上述短期课程/讲习班、网络研究所以及中欧和东欧国家内担任负责职务的职业中期受训人员的直接影响，转化为公共卫生实践。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant) This project continues the University of Iowa's multi-level International Training and Research Program in Occupational and Environmental Health (ITREOH) in an expanded number of developing democracies in Central and Eastern Europe. This program will build upon previous investments in research and training capacity at collaborating institutions in Slovenia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia, to further develop a network of centers of excellence in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, Macedonia, and Romania. The proposed program model is based on our previous experience in the region and takes advantage of new developments in information and communications technology. The primary capacity building activity will be (5-month) intermediate-term training of 25 early- and mid-career professionals at the University of Iowa. Cost-effective "short-term-equivalent" distance education training in environmental and occupational health will be provided to several hundred scientists and health professionals from throughout the region using real-time, internet-based web-conferencing technology. The core of this short-term distance training will be two 15-week Global Forums on environmental and occupational health held each year for the five year duration of the project. Centers of excellence will be developed and strengthened by the increased knowledge and skills of returning trainees, by 20-25 small collaborative research projects, by widespread participation in global forums, and by participating in and co-hosting an annual Network Institute meeting. The transition of trainees to positions of responsibility and influence will be facilitated by recognition of their expertise and leadership through organizing and conducting short courses/workshops at the annual ITREOH Network Institute, by support for participation in scientific meetings and conferences, and by publishing and presenting the results of ongoing research. Research results will be translated into public health practice through the above-mentioned short courses/workshops, the Network Institutes, and by the direct influence of the mid-career trainees in positions of responsibility within the countries of Central and Eastern Europe.