Occupational Health and Safety Training Grant (Graduate Training Program)

描述：流行病学被认为是大多数基本职业健康和安全专业培训计划的核心组成部分，包括工业卫生、职业人体工程学、工业安全、职业健康护理和职业医学。将流行病学置于这些培训计划的核心反映了这样一种认识，即所有职业健康专业人员都需要能够解释调查工作场所危害对工人健康和安全的影响的流行病学研究，并了解从观察性研究中进行因果推断的优点和局限性。目前的资金允许每年资助大约三名流行病学硕士或博士研究生。该提案要求每年为四名硕士或硕士研究生提供支持。

DESCRIPTION: Epidemiology is recognized as a core component of most basic occupational health and safety professional training programs including those in industrial hygiene, occupational ergonomics, industrial safety, occupational health nursing and occupational medicine. Placement of epidemiology within the core of these training programs reflects the recognition that all occupational health professionals need to be able to interpret epidemiologic studies that examine the impact of workplace hazards on worker health and safety, and to have an understanding of the strengths and limitations of causal inference from observational studies. Current funding permits financial support of about three epidemiology students per year at either the master's or doctoral level. This proposal requests support for four MS or ScD trainees per year.