Transdisciplinary Training at the Intersection of Environmental Health and Social Science

 描述（由申请人提供） “环境健康与社会科学交叉点的跨学科培训”培养6名博士生和3名博士后研究员成为社会科学-环境健康科学合作的未来领导者。该培训计划的独特之处在于由学术机构东北大学社会科学环境健康研究所和非学术机构寂静的春天研究所共同指导，寂静的春天研究所是一个以科学为基础/以社区为基础的参与式研究环境非营利组织。它建立在两个伙伴之间十年的合作研究和培训活动的基础上。培训部分培训博士生和博士后研究员，使他们走上新的研究轨道，将环境卫生、接触科学和社会科学的研究结合起来。学员学习以社区为基础的参与性研究，环境正义，非正式科学教育和公众参与科学。这将包括定期NU研讨会的课程，以及在寂静的春天研究所教授的特殊环境健康课程，为我们的学员设计。能力建设部分在寂静的春天研究所提供实践培训，以第一手了解一个社区组织如何处理关于新出现的污染物和技术的研究和宣传，并成为正在进行的研究项目的一部分。这些项目涉及向参与者报告生物监测和个人暴露结果的过程和道德规范、数据共享和隐私保护、绿色装修对哮喘和公共住房室内环境质量的影响、科德角饮用水中新出现的污染物的建模、乳腺癌研究暴露生物标志物的开发以及自行空气采样器对半挥发性有机化合物的现场测试。学员还将学习如何与新闻媒体合作。社区部分将受训人员安排在社区组织和环境卫生研究中心实习不同的时间。实验室部分使受训人员能够到各种实验室和组织地点了解广泛的环境卫生研究和宣传。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant) "Transdisciplinary Training at the Intersection of Environmental Health and Social Science" prepares 6 doctoral students and 3 postdoctoral fellows to be future leaders in social science-environmental health science collaborations. This training program is unique in that is co-directed by an academic institution, Northeastern University's Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute and a non-academic institution, the Silent Spring Institute, a science-based/community-based participatory research environmental non-profit organization. It builds upon a decade of collaborative research and training activities between the two partners. The training component trains doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows in a new research trajectory that combines the study of environmental health, exposure science and social science. Trainees learn about community-based participatory research, environmental justice, informal science education, and public participation in science. This will include coursework in regular NU seminars, as well as a special Environmental Health course taught at Silent Spring Institute, designed for our trainees. The capacity-building component offers hands-on training at Silent Spring Institute to learn first-hand how a community-based organization deals with research and advocacy on emerging contaminants and technologies, and to be part of ongoing research projects. These projects involve processes and ethics of reporting back biomonitoring and personal exposure results to participants, data sharing and privacy protection, impact of green renovations on asthma and indoor environmental quality in public housing, modeling of emerging contaminants in Cape Cod drinking water, development of exposure biomarkers for breast cancer studies, and field testing of do-it-yourself air samplers for semi-volatile organic compounds. Trainees will also learn how to work with the news media. The community component places trainees in externships at community-based organizations and environmental health research centers for varying periods of time. The laboratory component brings trainees to various laboratories and organizational sites to learn about a broad range of environmental health research and advocacy.