Diseases of Public Health Importance

描述（申请人提供）：病理生物学系是公共卫生与社区医学学院五个系之一。该学院是公共卫生教育委员会认可的24所公共卫生学院之一。该学院是健康科学中心的一部分，该中心还包括牙科学院、医学院、护理学院和药学学院。病理生物学系的培训师资位于大学和附近的设施，包括弗雷德·哈钦森癌症研究中心、传染病研究所、太平洋西北研究中心、西雅图生物医学研究所和政府设施。该系自1970年开始开设硕士学位课程，并于1990年秋季批准了博士学位课程。1970年至2001年间，有43名博士生和79名硕士学生在我们的项目中获得了学位。病理生物学处在基础生物学和临床医学的交叉点。重点是对疾病问题的人口方法和对疾病过程的理解。我们课程的最终目标是阐明疾病的独特机制或特征，从而发展出诊断、预防和控制的成熟方法。培训计划的具体目标是培养研究生和博士后在应用现代生物技术的原理和理论来解决特定疾病问题方面的能力。病理生物学计划提供分子方法和公共卫生之间的联系。这是由我们的研究生课程要求所支持的，包括强调疾病概念的病理生物学核心课程，以及流行病学、生物统计学、免疫学和分子生物学课程。多种研究合作将我们的实验室培训与其他公共卫生学科相结合，为开展人类疾病的多学科研究提供了独特的机会。多样化的研究和课堂环境相结合，提供了一种强有力的综合办法，使受训者能够最有效地应对疾病对全球公共卫生的影响。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Department of Pathobiology is one of five departments within the School of Public Health and Community Medicine. The School is one of 24 Schools of Public Health accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health. The School is part of the Health Sciences Center, which also includes Schools of Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, and Pharmacy. The training faculty within the Department of Pathobiology are located at the University and at nearby facilities including the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Infectious Disease Research Institute, Pacific Northwest Research Center, Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, and government facilities. The department has had a Master's degree program since its beginning in 1970 and an approved Ph.D. program since the fall of 1990. Between 1970 and 2001, 43 Ph.D. students and 79 M.S. students received their degrees as a result of training in our program. The Department of Pathobiology stands at an interface between fundamental biology and clinical medicine. The emphasis is on population approaches to disease problems and on understanding disease processes. The ultimate goal of our program is to elucidate unique mechanisms or characteristics of disease that can result in the development of proved methods of diagnosis, prevention, and control. The specific objectives of the training program are to train graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in the application of principles and theories of modern biotechnology to specific disease problems. The Pathobiology program provides a link between molecular approaches and public health. This is supported by the course requirements in our graduate program, which include core courses in Pathobiology emphasizing disease concepts, and courses in epidemiology, biostatistics, immunology, and molecular biology. The multiple research collaborations melding our laboratory-based training with other public health disciplines offer unique opportunities to conduct multidisciplinary studies on diseases in human populations. The combination of diverse research and classroom environments provide a strong integrated approach to enable trainees to prepare for and deal most effectively with the impact of disease on global public health.