Midwest Center for Occupational Health and Safety Training Grant

描述：中西部职业健康与安全中心（MCOHS）教育与研究中心（ERC）的使命是提供卓越的跨学科学术和研究培训，以培养职业健康与安全领域的杰出领导者。拟议的职业和环境流行病学培训计划将包括硕士和博士水平的培训。该计划将利用公共卫生学院两个部门的优势：环境健康科学（EnHS）和流行病学和社区卫生（EpiCH）。博士研究生将从任何一个学部录取，公共卫生硕士学生将从英国国家卫生研究院录取。该项目将提供应用于职业和环境问题的流行病学方法的严格培训，并将在多学科培训环境中纳入最先进的方法。卫生部在工业卫生、职业和环境医学方面建立了卓越方案；职业和环境卫生护理；职业健康服务研究和政策、职业伤害预防研究和有害物质。区域需求和卫生部战略规划工作的结果表明，有必要制定职业和环境流行病学的正式综合方案，作为卫生部的一项重要目标。MCOHS成立于30多年前，服务于明尼苏达州、威斯康星州、北达科他州和南达科他州的地区。MCOHS的创新管理结构建立在战略规划和关键利益相关者参与的基础上，这加强了跨学科研究、教育和推广，包括从研究到实践，并加强了多元化招聘。这个建立良好、生产力高的中心提供了一个理想的环境，将职业和环境流行病学的多学科培训项目结合起来，培养未来公共卫生领域的领导者，他们将为国家劳动力的健康做出重要贡献。

DESCRIPTION: The mission of the Midwest Center for Occupational Health and Safety (MCOHS) Education and Research Center (ERC) is to provide excellence in interdisciplinary academic and research training to prepare exceptional leaders the field of occupational health and safety. The proposed training program in occupational and environmental epidemiology will include training at the master's and doctoral levels. The program will draw on the strengths of two divisions in the School of Public Health: Environmental Health Sciences (EnHS) and Epidemiology and Community Health (EpiCH). Doctoral students will be admitted from either division and MPH students will be admitted from EnHS. This program will offer rigorous training in epidemiologic methods applied to occupational and environmental problems and will incorporate state-of-the-art methods in a multidisciplinary training environment. The MCOHS has established programs of excellence in industrial hygiene, occupational and environmental medicine; occupational and environmental health nursing; occupational health services research and policy, occupational injury prevention research, and hazardous substances. Regional needs and the results of a strategic planning effort in MCOHS identified the need for establishment of an officially integrated program in occupational and environmental epidemiology as an important goal for the MCOHS. The MCOHS was established over 30 years ago and serves the region of Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, and South Dakota. The innovative administrative structure of the MCOHS builds on strategic planning and engagement of key stakeholders, which enhances interdisciplinary research, education, and outreach, including research to practice, and strengthens diversity recruitment. This well established and productive center provides an ideal environment to incorporate a multidisciplinary training program in occupational and environmental epidemiology to prepare future leaders in public health who will make important contributions to the health of the nation's workforce. RELEVANCE: The MCOHS ERC serves the region of Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, and South Dakota and is a resource for industry, labor, federal, state, and local government agencies, agriculture, and other interested parties. Recognized regionally, nationally and internationally, it provides outstanding academic and research training programs. The occupational and environmental epidemiology training program will enhance the quality of the multidisciplinary training experiences and the resulting regional, national and global impact of the center. The proposed program is integral to this Center and will further enhance its excellence.