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International Training and Research In Environmental and Occupational Health

Purpose

The Fogarty International Center (FIC) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), in collaboration with the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), NIH, and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has developed this program in order to train foreign health scientists, clinicians, epidemiologists, toxicologists, engineers, industrial hygienists, chemists, and allied health workers from developing countries and emerging democracies in both general environmental health and occupational health.

Table of Contents

1. Purpose
2. Contact
3. Program Design
4. Training Types
5. Three other types of training may be offered in-country
6. Program Directors/U.S. Institutions/Collaborating Countries
7. Archives

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Contact

Please contact the relevant U.S. program director for country-specific information, necessary qualifications, eligibility, and application procedures. Scientists from the participating countries are eligible to apply for these training programs. Scientists from countries other than those listed may wish to contact the Fogarty International Center at the following address for further information and suggestions as to which programs may be able to accommodate their interests:

Joshua Rosenthal, Ph.D.

Deputy Director
Fogarty International Center
National Institutes of Health
31 Center Drive, B2C29
Bethesda, MD 20892
301-402-6522 phone
301-402-0779 fax

Program Design

• Increase expertise in epidemiology, engineering, and other components of environmental and occupational health through short-and long-term training at U.S. institutions, which may lead to M.S. or Ph.D. degrees in epidemiology, engineering, toxicology, and other related areas;

• Increase laboratory expertise of technical assistants in foreign countries who are engaged in epidemiological and other studies related to environmental and occupational health through in- country, short-term, didactical, and technical training; and

• Expand ongoing collaborative training and research in environmental or occupational health between U.S. and foreign scientists.

Training Types

• Training in epidemiology concepts and methods, environmental monitoring, industrial hygiene, field studies and other research related to environmental and occupational health that will lead to the M.S. or Ph.D. degree for individuals with previous field research experience;

• Training in epidemiology, field studies, environmental monitoring, industrial hygiene, and research related to environmental and occupational health that will lead to the M.S. degree for individuals without prior field research experience;

• Short-term comprehensive courses in epidemiology, toxicology, chemistry, industrial hygiene and environmental and safety engineering, with an emphasis on control of occupational injuries and illnesses, for health and safety professionals to be given in the U.S.;

• Training in laboratory procedures and research techniques related to environmental and occupational health for individuals with the M.S. or Ph.D. degree to be given in the U.S.;

• Postdoctoral research training for foreign scientists who want to expand their abilities in the epidemiology, diagnosis, prevention and treatment of environmental and occupational disease and injury. Postdoctoral training can take place both in the U.S. and in foreign countries.

Three other types of training may be offered in-country:

• Practical and applied short-term training related to environmental and occupational health for professionals, technicians and allied health professionals, including worker health and safety representatives, faculty of worker training facilities and other safety health trainers;

• Advanced research training for selected current and former trainees to enable them to continue this advanced training in their home country and to participate in in-country research projects. While applicants can plan to include such training (estimated to be of about two years duration) as part of competing applications, individual appointments must be approved in advance as a reprogramming request and be under the guidance of the program director and his or her faculty colleagues.

• Support to enable U.S. faculty to be involved in advanced research and in training activities conducted in-country.

Program Directors/U.S. Institutions/Collaborating Countries