Agricultural Safety and Health Training for Public Health Graduate Students

描述（由申请人提供）：我们建议为寻求公共卫生硕士（MPH）或公共卫生博士（DrPH）学位的学生开发并提供一个专注于农业健康和安全的培训项目补助金（TPG）。该项目将由niosh资助的肯塔基大学公共卫生学院东南农业健康与伤害预防中心管理。拟议的农业人口健康（HAP） TPG将在传统的公共卫生课程、研究培训和实地经验中应用农业安全和健康培训。HAP-TPG将把农业职业安全和卫生的交叉能力纳入四个公共卫生学科，特别是卫生服务管理、卫生行为、流行病学和环境卫生。HAP-TPG项目是在2001年东南中心资助的成功的小规模公共卫生硕士和公共卫生博士农业卫生课程的基础上进行扩展的。目前提供的农业卫生课程序列不是TPG，它只提供部分学费和研究支持，没有津贴。截至2005年8月，2名博士生和2名博士生已经毕业，并获得了HAP重点领域的称号，目前有9名学生（8名博士生和1名博士生）参加了HAP课程。我们预计在2005年秋季学期开学时，还会有6名学生加入这个项目。拟议的HAP-TPG的公共卫生硕士学生将需要41-44个学时才能毕业，其中20个学时将与农业健康安全和伤害研究直接相关。在拟议的HAP-TPG项目中，DrPH学生需要完成74-78个学时才能毕业，其中23-29个学时与HAP-TPG相关。在2006年至2011年期间，TPG预计将至少有16名硕士和4名博士毕业生。制定了强有力的评估和多元化招聘策略。肯塔基大学每年为加入TPG的学生支付58128美元的学费。新的TPG计划与公共卫生高度相关，因为它将增加公共卫生从业人员和研究人员的数量，他们通过预防、干预、实践和研究来解决农业职业问题。

DESCRIPTION (Provided by Applicant): We propose to develop and offer a training project grant (TPG) focused on agricultural health and safety for students seeking a Master of Public Health (MPH) or Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) degree. The program will be administered by the NIOSH-funded Southeast Center for Agricultural Health & Injury Prevention at the University of Kentucky College of Public Health. The proposed Health of Agricultural Populations (HAP) TPG will apply agricultural safety and health training across traditional public health coursework, research training and field experiences. The HAP-TPG will add cross-cutting competencies for occupational safety and health in agriculture into four public health disciplines, specifically health services management, health behavior, epidemiology, and environmental health. The HAP-TPG expands on a successful small-scale MPH and DrPH agricultural health curriculum funded in 2001 via the Southeast Center. The currently offered agricultural health curriculum sequence is not a TPG, and it provides only fractional tuition and research support without stipends. As of August 2005, 2 DrPH students and 2 MPH students have graduated with a HAP Emphasis Area designation, and 9 students (8 MPH and 1 DrPH) are currently enrolled in the HAP curriculum. We anticipate 6 additional students will join the program when fall semester 2005 classes begin. MPH students in the proposed HAP-TPG will require 41-44 semester hours to graduate, of which 20 semester hours will be directly related to agricultural health and safety and injury research. DrPH students in the proposed HAP-TPG will need to complete 74-78 semester hours to graduate, of which 23-29 semester hours will be HAP-TPG related. Between 2006 and 2011, at least 16 MPH and 4 DrPH graduates of the TPG are expected. Strong evaluation and diversity recruitment strategies are planned. The University of Kentucky is committing $58,128 per year for tuition for students enrolled in this TPG. The new TPG program is highly relevant to public health because it will increase the number of public health practitioners and researchers who address agricultural occupational problems through prevention, intervention, practice and research.