Environmental Biostatistics Training Grant

描述（由申请人提供） 调查员提出了一个环境生物统计学培训计划，旨在解决毕业生和研究生培训的定量研究人员的关键和发展需求，重点关注以下研究主题之间的相互作用：（a）环境政策的统计方法（例如，关于设定和执行优先污染物的标准、定量风险评估以及关于环境暴露对社会人口群体的不同影响的环境公正评估）;以及（B）定量疾病生态学中的统计方法（例如，量化环境对狂犬病和莱姆病等病媒传播疾病和人畜共患病的影响，包括调查这类疾病的特定遗传菌株的地理分布或空间模式）。培训方案通过课程和学员的“研究轮换”将这两个主要领域结合起来。该计划涉及来自生物统计学，环境和职业健康，流行病学，生物学和法律部门的教师。该计划包括两个博士前和一个博士后水平的学员在任何给定的一年，可能在生物统计学系的学生，但可能在环境科学或环境法的培训和兴趣的个人寻求在统计分析的先进领域的培训。主要设施包括埃默里大学艺术与科学研究生院、伍德拉夫健康科学中心、罗林斯公共卫生学院和法学院。

DESCRIPTION (provide by applicant) The investigator propose a training program in environmental biostatistics addressing key and developing needs for graduate- and post-graduate trained quantitative researchers focused on the interaction between the following research themes: (a) statistical methods for environmental policy (e.g., pertaining to setting and enforcing standards for priority pollutants, quantitative risk assessment, and assessments of environmental justice concerned with differential impacts of environmental exposures across socio-demographic groups); and (b) statistical methods in quantitative disease ecology (e.g., quantifying environmental impacts on vector-borne diseases and zoonoses such as rabies and Lyme disease, including investigations of the phylo-geography or spatial patterns of particular genetic strains of such diseases). The training program integrates these two main areas through coursework and a "research rotation" for trainees. The program involves faculty from departments of Biostatistics, Environmental and Occupational Health, Epidemiology, Biology, and Law. The program includes two pre-doctoral and one postdoctoral level trainees in any given year, likely students in the Department of Biostatistics, but possibly individuals with training and interests in environmental sciences or environmental law seeking training in advanced areas of statistical analysis. The primary facilities span disciplines housed in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the Woodruff Health Sciences Center, the Rollins School of Public Health, and the School of Law, all at Emory University.