International Training Program in Environmental and Occupational Health

描述(由申请人提供) 西奈山医学院社区和预防医学部寻求资金，以继续和扩大环境和职业健康国际培训和研究方案(ITREOH)，该方案已进入第11个年头。西奈山研究所的使命是促进拉丁美洲伙伴国在环境和职业健康科学方面的合作努力，以提高当地确定、记录、预防和减轻对公共卫生具有重大意义的环境和职业健康问题的能力。为了完成这一使命，该计划培训和培育了37名欧文·J·塞利科夫学者的职业生涯，他们中的许多人现在处于有影响力的职位，可以对本国的环境和职业健康政策和做法产生重大影响。由于通过该计划建立了密切的、长期的合作关系，西奈山ITREOH现在准备扩大其在地区层面的影响。因此，它建议采用多层次能力建设战略，以满足个人、机构和区域各级的需求。具体目标是： 具体目标1：促进巴西、智利和墨西哥的科学家个人在环境和职业健康研究的关键学科中获得新的知识和技能。具体目标2：提高主要国际机构在拉丁美洲国家内部和国家之间认识和解决职业和环境健康问题的能力。具体目标3：为拉丁美洲区域建立一个熟练的环境和职业健康科学家网络，他们能够解决贯穿各领域的国际环境问题。该方案为个人、机构和区域各级的能力建设提供了一种多层次的方法，避免了伙伴国家训练有素的人员的“人才外流”，并在拉丁美洲国家内建立了能力。这些目标已经并将继续通过西奈山医学院与巴西、智利和墨西哥的合作中心之间的现有伙伴关系来实现。正如过去五年福格蒂的支持所表明的那样，拟议的三方计划的继续具有实现这些目标的专业知识、权威和经验。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant) The Department of Community and Preventive Medicine of Mount Sinai School of Medicine seeks funding to continue and to expand the International Training and Research in Environmental and Occupational Health Program (ITREOH), which is in its 11th year. The mission of the Mount Sinai ITREOH is to promote collaborative efforts in the environmental and occupational health sciences in partner countries in Latin America that enhance local capacity to identify, document, prevent and mitigate environmental and occupational health problems of major public health significance. To accomplish this mission, the program has trained and nurtured the careers of 37 Irving J. Selikoff scholars, many of whom are now in positions of influence that can significantly impact the environmental and occupational health policies and practices in their home countries. Because of the close, long-term collaborations that have been established through this program, the Mount Sinai ITREOH is now poised to expand its reach at the regional level. Thus, it proposes to employ a multi-tiered capacity building strategy that addresses needs at the individual, institutional and regional level. The Specific aims are: Specific Aim 1: To promote the acquisition of new knowledge and skills in key disciplines of environmental and occupational health research by individual scientists from Brazil, Chile and Mexico. Specific Aim 2: To improve the capacity of leading international institutions to recognize and address problems of occupational and environmental health, both within and between countries in Latin America. Specific Aim 3: To develop a network of skilled environmental and occupational health scientists for the Latin American region who can address cross-cutting international environmental issues. This program provides a multi-level approach for capacity building at the individual, institutional and regional levels that avoids the "brain-drain" of trained personnel from the partner countries and builds capacity within the countries of Latin America. These aims have and will continue to be achieved through existing partnerships between Mount Sinai School of Medicine and collaborating centers in Brazil, Chile and Mexico. The proposed continuation of the tripartite program has the expertise, authority, and experience to accomplish these goals, as demonstrated over the past five years of Fogarty support.