Rural Environmental Health Training Program

项目摘要 影响人类健康的环境暴露传统上与城市中的工业源有关 环境，而农村景观特有的暴露和相关健康结果较少 在环境卫生科学培训中强调。为了解决这一问题，农村环境卫生 (REH)培训计划将利用弗吉尼亚理工大学在农业，工程，兽医， 在农村地区开展自然资源研究和外联活动，以促进生物医学和公共卫生培训， research. REH计划将为博士前研究员提供以下领域的环境健康培训： 毒理学、环境流行病学、接触科学和风险评估。学员将专注于他们的 在三个重点领域之一的论文研究：环境介导的疾病的机制 在农村地区流行，农村景观中暴露的表征，或社区参与的方法 解决农村地区的环境卫生优先事项。在5- 10年的时间里，将招募6名REH学员。 一年的资助期从参与博士学位授予计划在弗吉尼亚理工大学包括：1） 转化生物学，医学和健康，2）生物医学和兽医科学，3）环境和 水资源工程，4）生物系统工程，5）鱼类和野生动物保护，和6） 生物科学。在4年的培训中，他们将参加环境保护方面的正式课程。 健康科学，包括毒理学、流行病学和接触科学，以深入研究方法学， skills. REH学员将获得团队科学和科学沟通技巧，在 科学政策接口，并通过参与全球 变革（IGC）跨学科研究生教育计划。IGC将使他们接触到广泛的 关于气候变化和农村环境污染相互作用的健康威胁的全球变化研究。 REH学员将参加由REH领导层领导的期刊俱乐部，以建立同志情谊， 此外，还应随时了解有关农村环境卫生的文献。REH计划得到支持 由一个领导团队跨越四个学院（医学，兽医，工程，自然 资源）和额外的22名教师导师与前沿的跨学科研究计划资助 通过NIH和其他联邦机构包括NSF、USDA和NASA的赠款。作为一个新项目， 领导团队已经制定了一个指导和评估计划，其中包括多种独立的方法， 来自学员，教师导师和外部咨询委员会的反馈，由长期董事组成， NIEHS资助的培训计划，以指导进展，并确保REH的持续增长和成功 实习生

PROJECT SUMMARY Environmental exposures affecting human health are traditionally associated with industrial sources in urban environments, while exposures and associated health outcomes unique to rural landscapes have been less emphasized in environmental health sciences training. To address this gap, the Rural Environmental Health (REH) training program will leverage Virginia Tech’s strengths in agriculture, engineering, veterinary, and natural resources research and outreach in rural areas to advance biomedical and public health training and research. The REH program will provide predoctoral fellows with environmental health training in the areas of toxicology, environmental epidemiology, exposure science, and risk assessment. Trainees will focus their dissertation research within one of three focus areas: mechanisms of environmentally-mediated diseases prevalent in rural areas, characterization of exposures in rural landscapes, or community-engaged approaches to address environmental health priorities in rural areas. A total of six REH trainees will be recruited over the 5- year funding period from participating PhD degree granting programs at Virginia Tech including: 1) Translational Biology, Medicine, and Health, 2) Biomedical and Veterinary Sciences, 3) Environmental and Water Resources Engineering, 4) Biological Systems Engineering, 5) Fish and Wildlife Conservation, and 6) Biological Sciences. Over their 4 years of training, they will participate in formal coursework in environmental health sciences, including toxicology, epidemiology, and exposure science, to gain depth in methodological skills. REH trainees will gain team science and science communication skills, experience working at the science-policy interface, and receive career planning guidance through participation in the Interfaces of Global Change (IGC) Interdisciplinary Graduate Education Program. The IGC will expose them to the wide range of global change research on interacting health threats from climate change and pollution in rural environments. REH trainees’ will participate in a journal club led by REH leadership to build camaraderie, learn from each other, and keep abreast of the relevant literature on rural environmental health. The REH program is supported by a leadership team spanning four colleges (Medicine, Veterinary Medicine, Engineering, and Natural Resources) and an additional 22 faculty mentors with cutting-edge interdisciplinary research programs funded through grants from NIH and other federal agencies including NSF, USDA, and NASA. As a new program, the leadership team has developed a mentoring and evaluation plan that includes multiple methods of independent feedback from trainees, faculty mentors, and an external advisory board made up of directors of long-standing NIEHS-funded training programs to guide progress and ensure the continued growth and success of the REH trainees.