Updated November 2001


Summary

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.

Specifically, the program is designed to:

• 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.

Types of training may include:

• 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

Dr. Thomas Cook
Center for International Rural and Environmental Health
The University of Iowa
Room 356, IC
Iowa City, Iowa 52242
Telephone: 319-335-2822
Fax: 319-335-0280
e-mail: thomas-cook@uiowa.edu
(Slovakia, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Romania)

Dr. David Carpenter
Dean, School of Public Health
University at Albany, SUNY
One University Place
Rensselaer, New York 12144-3456
Telephone: 518-525-2660
Fax: 518-525-2665
e-mail: carpent@albany.edu
(Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, WHO, Ukraine, Romania)

Dr. George Delclos
SW Center for Occupational Health
The University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston
P.O. Box 20186
Houston, Texas 77225
Telephone: 713-500-9464
Fax: 713-500-9442
e-mail: gdelclos@utsph.sph.uth.tmc.edu
(Venezuela, Mexico, Colombia, Costa Rica)

Dr. Daniel Hryhorczuk
Great Lakes Center for Occupational & 
Environmental Safety and Health
University of Illinois at Chicago
2121 West Taylor Street
Chicago, Illinois 60612-7260
Telephone: 312-996-7887
Fax: 312-413-7369
e-mail: dhryhorc@uic.edu
(Ukraine, Belarus, Russia)

Dr. John Froines
University of California, Los Angeles
Center for Occupational and Environmental Health
P.O. Box 951772
46-070 CHS
Los Angeles, California 90095-1772
Telephone: 310-206-6141
Fax: 310-206-9903
e-mail: jfroines@ucla.edu
(Mexico)

Dr. Thomas Robins
Department of Environmental Health Sciences
University of Michigan
School of Public Health
109 South Observatory
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2029
Telephone: 313-936-0757
Fax: 313-763-8095
e-mail: trobins@umich.edu
(South Africa)

Dr. Evangelos Petropoulos
Institute of International Health
Michigan State University
B-301 West Fee Hall
East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1315
Telephone: 517-353-8992
Fax: 517-355-1894
e-mail: petropou@msu.edu
(Bulgaria, Romania, Yugoslavia)

Dr. Allan Smith
School of Public Health
University of California
140 Warren Hall
Berkeley, California 94720-7360
Telephone: 510-843-1736
Fax: 510-843-5539
e-mail: ahsmith@uclink4.berkeley.edu
(India)

Dr. Ian Greaves
Environmental Occupational Health
University of Minnesota
420 Delaware Street SE
Box 807 UMHC
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
Telephone: 612-626-0900
Fax: 612-626-0650
email: igreaves@cccs.umn.edu
(Philippines)

Dr. Jeffrey L. Burgess
University of Arizona
College of Public Health
1501 N. Campbell Ave., PO Box 245163
Tucson, Arizona 85724-5163
Telephone: 520-626-5580
Fax: 520-626-6093
e-mail: jburgess@u.arizona.edu
(Zambia, Zimbabwe)

Dr. Luz Claudio
Division of Environmental and Occupational Medicine
Box # 1057
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
One Gustave L. Levy Place
New York, New York 10020-6574
Telephone: 212-241-7625
Fax: 212-996-0407
e-mail: Luz.Claudio@mssm.edu
(Brazil, Chile, Mexico)

Dr. Howard Frumkin
Rollins School of Public Health
1518 Clifton Road, N.E.
Atlanta, Georgia 30322
Telephone: 404-727-3697
Fax: 404-727-8744
e-mail: medhf@sph.emory.edu
(Chile, Peru, Mexico)

Dr. Joseph H. Graziano
Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University
Division of Environmental Health Sciences
60 Haven Avenue B-108
New York, New York 10032
Telephone: 212-305-1678
Fax: 212-305-3857
e-mail: jg24@columbia.edu
(Bangladesh)

Dr. Matthew C. Keifer
University of Washington
Occupational and Environmental Medicine
MS 359739
325 Ninth Avenue
Seattle, Washington 98104
Telephone: 206-731-3337
Fax: 206-731-8247
e-mail: mkeifer@u.washington.edu
(Vietnam, Thailand, Costa Rica, Nicaragua)

Dr. Jerold Alan Last
Toxic Substances Program
University of California
One Shields Ave, Surge l, Rm 1131
Davis, California 95616-8723
Telephone: 530-752-2099
Fax: 530-752-5593
e-mail: jalast@ucdavis.edu
(Uruguay)

Dr. Rafael Moure-Eraso
University of Massachusetts Lowell
One University Avenue
Lowell, Massachusetts 01854
Telephone: 978-934-4937
Fax: 978-452-5711
e-mail: Rafael_Moure@uml.edu
(Brazil, Mexico)

Dr. Nalini Sathiakumar
University of Alabama at Birmingham
1665 University Boulevard, RPHB 220
Birmingham, Alabama 35294-0022
Telephone: 205-934-3719
Fax: 205-975-7058
e-mail: nalini@uab.edu
(Pakistan)

Dr. Richard Kreutzer
Environmental Health Investigations Branch (EHIB)
California Department of Health Services
1515 Clay Street, Suite 1700
Oakland, California 94612
Telephone: 510-622-4411
Fax: 510-622-4505
e-mail: rkreutzer@dhs.ca.gov
(China)

Contacts

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:

Christopher Schonwalder, Ph.D.
Senior Environmental Health Advisor to the Director 
Fogarty International Center
National Institutes of Health
111 Alexander Drive
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 USA
919-541-4794 phone
919-541-2583 fax
E-mail: cs64c@nih.gov

Archive

The announcement for this program appeared in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts on December 8, 2000. RFA: TW-01-002.

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