Graduate and Postdoctoral Training in Environmental Health Science and Toxicology

摘要/摘要 这是我们成功的环境健康科学和T32培训计划的竞争性更新 毒理学专注于培训该领域的下一代领导者，通过确保多学科 学员需要培训经验以发展为成功的独立环境健康 研究人员和从业者。该计划建立在我们不断发展和成功的博士培训计划的基础上 环境健康科学，以及免费的博士后培训机会 埃默里大学不断壮大的环境健康研究基地。我们教职员工的广度和深度，以及我们的 将重点扩大到暴露研究，结合环境数据科学使埃默里成为独一无二的 适合继续我们成功的培训工作。我们的实习生在头两年要进行严格的课程学习 全面掌握环境健康科学的三个关键学科的知识基础：(1) 暴露科学；(2)易感性和疾病的生物机制；(3)环境决定因素 关于人口健康的问题。此外，还有负责任的研究和道德方面的培训， 沟通和助学金撰写技巧、教学和众多职业发展机会 和管理培训。有指导的研究位于该培训计划的中心，使学生能够 通过他们选择的导师和项目对特定主题进行深入的理解，学员可以 在分子和神经毒理学、环境流行病学、接触科学、 预测毒理学、基因组学和代谢组学。共有33名经验丰富的培训人员，拥有广泛的 研究重点是可用的，这些教职员工得到了160多个研究补助金和项目的支持，以及 NIEHS/EPA儿童环境健康中心，我们的NIEHS P30核心中心，以及合作 与大学内的许多其他中心和项目合作。我们建议继续支持 六名博士后和三名博士后实习生。博士前实习生拥有学士学位和硕士学位 基础科学、公共卫生或工程学科学位，博士后实习生必须持有 环境健康、流行病学、毒理学、环境工程或相关基础专业的博士学位 或公共卫生科学学科。所有受训人员必须表现出对研究和职业生涯的承诺 环境健康科学和/或毒理学。我们的项目在招聘和留住员工方面取得了成功 在科学界代表不足的少数群体，我们有许多项目来继续和增加 这些机会。完成这个项目的学员绝大多数都进入了密集的研究阶段。 学术或政府部门的职位，我们的一些实习生都接受了个人培训 以F30/F31或K99/R00奖励的形式提供支持。我们的目标是延续卓越的传统，为客户提供 学员有全面的培训体验，使他们能够为公共卫生做出有影响力的贡献 并成功地解决了环境健康科学和毒理学中的复杂问题。

SUMMARY/ABSTRACT This competitive renewal of our successful T32 training program in the Environmental Health Sciences and Toxicology is focused on training the next generation of leaders in the field by assuring a multidisciplinary training experience needed by trainees to develop as successful independent environmental health researchers and practitioners. The program is built on our growing and successful PhD training program in the environmental health sciences, and the complimentary postdoctoral training opportunities afforded by the growing base of environmental health research at Emory. The breadth and depth of our faculty, and our expanding focus on exposome research incorporating environmental data sciences makes Emory uniquely suited to continue our successful training efforts. Our trainees take rigorous coursework in their first two years to gain a comprehensive base of knowledge in three key disciplines of the environmental health sciences: (1) exposure science, (2) biological mechanisms of susceptibility and disease, and (3) environmental determinants of population health. This is supplemented by training in the responsible conduct of research and ethics, communication and grant-writing skills, teaching, and numerous opportunities for professional development and management training. Mentored research sits at the center of this training program, allowing students to gain an in-depth understanding of a specific topic through their chosen mentor and project, and trainees have developed projects in molecular and neurotoxicology, environmental epidemiology, exposure science, predictive toxicology, genomics, and metabolomics. A total of 33 experienced training faculty with broad research foci are available, and these faculty are supported by over 160 research grants and projects, an NIEHS/EPA Children’s Environmental Health Center, our NIEHS P30 Core Center, as well as collaboration with numerous other centers and programs throughout the University. We propose to continue the support of six predoctoral and three postdoctoral trainees. Predoctoral trainees hold bachelor’s and often master’s degrees in basic science, public health, or engineering disciplines, and postdoctoral trainees must hold a doctoral degree in environmental health, epidemiology, toxicology, environmental engineering, or related basic or public health science disciplines. All trainees must demonstrate a commitment to research and a career in the environmental health sciences and/or toxicology. Our program has had success in recruiting and retaining under-represented minorities in science, and we have numerous programs in place to continue and increase these opportunities. The vast majority of trainees completing this program are entering research intensive positions in the academic or government setting, and a number of our trainees have received individual training support in the form of F30/F31 or K99/R00 awards. We aim to continue the tradition of excellence in providing trainees a comprehensive training experience to allow them to make impactful contributions to public health and successfully pursue complex problems in the environmental health sciences and toxicology.