Southwest Center for Occupational and Environmental Health

 描述(由申请人提供)： 这是德克萨斯大学公共卫生学院(UTSPH)西南职业与环境健康中心(SWCOEH)的竞争更新。SWCOEH的总体目标是通过提供研究生水平的学术和研究培训以及继续教育，满足对训练有素的职业和环境健康专家的迫切需求。UTSPH有一个独特的多校区系统，主校区位于休斯顿的德克萨斯医疗中心，在奥斯汀、布朗斯维尔、达拉斯、埃尔帕索和圣安东尼奥有五个地区校区。ERC项目、教师和学生主要位于休斯顿和圣安东尼奥，主要设在流行病学、人类遗传学和环境科学部以及健康促进和行为科学部，并有来自UTSPH内外其他学科的支持教师。所有校园都以电子方式连接在一起，促进了高质量的教学和研究，扩大了课程设置，促进了跨学科合作和接触地区利益攸关方，并扩大了我们对少数族裔学生群体的影响。经济合作与合作委员会自1977年成立以来一直得到资助。ERC提供工业卫生学硕士级培训(2-3年)、职业流行病学博士级培训(3-4年)和职业医学博士后实习(2年)。这项申请包括申请资助一个新的职业伤害预防博士项目，该项目已根据先前的奖励获得了逐步淘汰的资金。除了学位课程外，经济合作与合作委员会还有积极的继续教育和外联计划，提供全方位的培训机会，并通过每年支持试点项目，为新的和过渡时期的调查人员提供研究培训。在2015学年，我们预计总共资助18名学员：工业卫生学5名，职业流行病学5名，职业医学4名，伤害预防4名；我们的持续教育计划计划向大约2,000名参与者提供约75门课程，我们的试点项目研究培训计划计划授予7至8个奖项，以支持公共卫生区域6的职业安全和健康研究(PHR 6)。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a competing renewal for the Southwest Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (SWCOEH) at the University of Texas School of Public Health (UTSPH). The overall goal of the SWCOEH is to respond to the critical need for well-trained occupational and environmental health specialists by providing graduate level academic and research training and continuing education. The UTSPH has a unique, multi-campus system, with the main campus located in the Texas Medical Center in Houston and five regional campuses in Austin, Brownsville, Dallas, El Paso and San Antonio. The ERC programs, faculty and students are located in Houston and San Antonio primarily in the Division of Epidemiology, Human Genetics and Environmental Sciences and the Division of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences with supporting faculty from other disciplines inside and outside of the UTSPH. All campuses are linked electronically, facilitating quality teaching and research, expanded course offerings, interdisciplinary collaboration and access to regional stakeholders as well as expanding our reach to minority student populations. The ERC has been continuously funded since it was established in 1977. The ERC provides master level training (2-3 years) in Industrial Hygiene, doctoral level training (3-4 years) in Occupational Epidemiology, and postdoctoral residencies (2 years) in Occupational Medicine. This application includes a request to fund a new doctoral program in Occupational Injury Prevention, which had received phase-out funding under the previous award. In addition to the academic degree programs, the ERC has active Continuing Education and Outreach Programs that provide a full spectrum of training opportunities, enhanced by annual support of pilot projects research training for new and transitional investigators. For the 2015 academic year, we expect to fund a total of 18 trainees: 5 in Industrial Hygiene, 5 in Occupational Epidemiology, 4 in Occupational Medicine and 4 in Injury Prevention; our Continuing Education Program plans to offer approximately 75 courses to about 2,000 participants and our Pilot Project Research Training Program plans to grant 7 to 8 awards to support occupational safety and health research in Public Health Region 6 (PHR 6).