Environmental Epidemiology in Community Settings

描述（由申请人提供） 波士顿大学公共卫生学院环境卫生系是全国少数几个专门研究环境流行病学在社区环境中应用的学术单位之一。该提案描述了一个培训方案，位于一个成熟的博士课程，其最终目标是准备博士前的学生使用目前最先进的方法，以推进知识的状态，并开发面向社区的环境流行病学的新方法。虽然该部门主要致力于通过使用尖端工具来推进研究议程（如功能性磁共振成像），开发新方法（如动力系统模型或晶格公式）和其他学科的整合（数学，城市研究，经济学，毒理学和人类学等），它还认识到，即使是最神秘的《双城之战》科学研究也是在特定的社会背景下进行的。就环境流行病学而言，这包括联邦、州和地方机构、个人和有组织的社区成员以及私营部门的组成部分的复杂组合。学生必须准备好在这个困难的专业环境中发挥作用。因此，关于社会背景的指导是该计划的一个组成部分。该计划旨在每年招收两名学生，对六名博士前学员进行稳态普查。它包括一个规定的核心课程，包括流行病学，毒理学和生物统计学的教学，其次是一套更先进的课程，以适应各种研究兴趣和战略。它还包括丰富受训人员经验和促进社会和职业凝聚力的活动。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant) Boston University School of Public Health's Department of Environmental Health is one of a small number of academic units nationally that has a specialty in the application of environmental epidemiology in community settings. This proposal describes a training regimen, located within a mature doctoral program, whose ultimate objective is to prepare pre-doctoral students to use the most sophisticated methods currently available to advance the state of knowledge and develop new methods in community-oriented environmental epidemiology. While the department is primarily committed to advancing the research agenda by use of cutting edge tools (such as functional magnetic resonance imaging), development of new methods (such as dynamical systems models or lattice formulations) and integration of other disciplines (mathematics, urban studies, economics, toxicology and anthropology, among others), it also recognizes that even the most arcane scientific research takes place within a specific social context. In the case of environmental epidemiology this includes a complex mix of federal, state and local agencies, individual and organized community members and elements of the private sector. Students must be prepared to function in this difficult professional landscape. Accordingly, instruction about the social context is an integral part of the program. The program is designed to admit two students per year for a steady-state census of six predoctoral trainees. It consists of a stipulated core curriculum that includes instruction in epidemiology, toxicology, and biostatistics, followed by a suite of more advanced courses to accommodate various research interests and strategies. It also includes activities to enrich the experience of the trainees and promote social and professional cohesion.