Graduate and Postdoctoral Training in Environmental Health Science and Toxicology

总结/摘要 我们成功的T32培训计划在环境健康科学的竞争性更新， 毒理学的重点是通过确保多学科的培训，培养该领域的下一代领导者。 受训人员发展为成功的独立环境卫生所需的培训经验 研究人员和实践者。该计划是建立在我们不断发展和成功的博士培训计划， 环境健康科学，以及免费的博士后培训机会， 埃默里大学的环境健康研究基地我们教师的广度和深度，以及我们的 扩大对纳入环境数据科学的麻烦研究的关注，使埃默里大学成为独一无二的 继续我们成功的训练我们的实习生在头两年要参加严格的课程 在环境健康科学的三个关键学科中获得全面的知识基础：（1） 暴露科学，（2）易感性和疾病的生物机制，（3）环境决定因素 人口健康。此外还提供负责任的研究行为和道德方面的培训， 沟通和赠款写作技能，教学和众多的专业发展机会 和管理培训。指导研究是这个培训计划的中心，让学生 通过他们选择的导师和项目深入了解特定主题，学员必须 在分子和神经毒理学、环境流行病学、接触科学、 预测毒理学基因组学和代谢组学。共有33名经验丰富的培训教师， 研究重点是可用的，这些教师是由160多个研究赠款和项目， NIEHS/EPA儿童环境健康中心，我们的NIEHS P30核心中心，以及合作 与整个大学的许多其他中心和计划。我们建议继续支持 六名博士前研究生和三名博士后研究生。博士预科生持有学士学位，通常是硕士学位 基础科学，公共卫生或工程学科的学位，博士后学员必须持有 环境卫生、流行病学、毒理学、环境工程或相关基础专业博士学位 或公共卫生科学学科。所有学员必须表现出对研究和职业的承诺， 环境健康科学和/或毒理学。我们的计划在招聘和留住人才方面取得了成功 少数民族在科学领域的代表性不足，我们有许多计划可以继续和增加 这些机会。绝大多数完成这一计划的受训人员正在进入研究密集型 在学术或政府机构的职位，我们的一些学员已经接受了个别培训 以F30/F31或K99/R 00奖励的形式提供支持。我们的目标是继续提供卓越的传统， 学员获得全面的培训经验，使他们能够为公共卫生做出有影响力的贡献 并成功地追求在环境健康科学和毒理学的复杂问题。

SUMMARY/ABSTRACT This competitive renewal of our successful T32 training program in the Environmental Health Sciences and Toxicology is focused on training the next generation of leaders in the field by assuring a multidisciplinary training experience needed by trainees to develop as successful independent environmental health researchers and practitioners. The program is built on our growing and successful PhD training program in the environmental health sciences, and the complimentary postdoctoral training opportunities afforded by the growing base of environmental health research at Emory. The breadth and depth of our faculty, and our expanding focus on exposome research incorporating environmental data sciences makes Emory uniquely suited to continue our successful training efforts. Our trainees take rigorous coursework in their first two years to gain a comprehensive base of knowledge in three key disciplines of the environmental health sciences: (1) exposure science, (2) biological mechanisms of susceptibility and disease, and (3) environmental determinants of population health. This is supplemented by training in the responsible conduct of research and ethics, communication and grant-writing skills, teaching, and numerous opportunities for professional development and management training. Mentored research sits at the center of this training program, allowing students to gain an in-depth understanding of a specific topic through their chosen mentor and project, and trainees have developed projects in molecular and neurotoxicology, environmental epidemiology, exposure science, predictive toxicology, genomics, and metabolomics. A total of 33 experienced training faculty with broad research foci are available, and these faculty are supported by over 160 research grants and projects, an NIEHS/EPA Children’s Environmental Health Center, our NIEHS P30 Core Center, as well as collaboration with numerous other centers and programs throughout the University. We propose to continue the support of six predoctoral and three postdoctoral trainees. Predoctoral trainees hold bachelor’s and often master’s degrees in basic science, public health, or engineering disciplines, and postdoctoral trainees must hold a doctoral degree in environmental health, epidemiology, toxicology, environmental engineering, or related basic or public health science disciplines. All trainees must demonstrate a commitment to research and a career in the environmental health sciences and/or toxicology. Our program has had success in recruiting and retaining under-represented minorities in science, and we have numerous programs in place to continue and increase these opportunities. The vast majority of trainees completing this program are entering research intensive positions in the academic or government setting, and a number of our trainees have received individual training support in the form of F30/F31 or K99/R00 awards. We aim to continue the tradition of excellence in providing trainees a comprehensive training experience to allow them to make impactful contributions to public health and successfully pursue complex problems in the environmental health sciences and toxicology.