Increasing capacity for environmental engineering in Salta, Argentina

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• Personal Author:
  Cid AG ; Cruz MC ; Gutierrez Cacciabue D ; Last JA ; Moraga MB ; Poma HR ; Rajal VB ; Romano, Nancy T. ; Cid AG ; Cruz MC ; Gutierrez Cacciabue D ; Last JA ; Moraga MB ; Poma HR ; Rajal VB ; Romano, Nancy T.
• Description:
  Background: The Fogarty International Center (FIC) of the United States National Institutes of Health includes the International Training and Research in Environmental and Occupational Health (ITREOH) Program. The "International Training Program in Environmental Toxicology and Public Health" Center, funded in 2002 is based at the University of California, Davis, and is part of the ITREOH group of Centers. It has major efforts focused at the public universities in Montevideo, Uruguay, and Salta, Argentina. Results: Training and research efforts in Salta begun in 2005 in the College of Engineering. A donated used real-time PCR machine was the starting point and the initial FIC support was instrumental to face other problems including physical space, research projects and grants, trainees, training, networking, and distractions/opportunities in order to develop local capacities in Environmental Engineering using modern methodology. After 6 years of successful work, the Salta center has become a reference Center in the field, and is still growing and consolidating. Conclusions: This program has had a significant impact locally and regionally. The model used in Argentina could be easily adapted to other fields or types of projects in Argentina and in other developing countries. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Communicable Diseases Education Environmental Health Health Personnel Occupational Health Public Health Race Factors Safety Staff Development Water Purification
• Keywords:
  Administration Author Keywords: Fogarty Center Distance Learning Environmental-health Graduate Education Health-science-personnel Infectious-diseases Infectious Disease Information-processing Information-systems ITREOH Program Medical-research Occupational-health Occupational-health-programs Occupational-safety-programs Public-health Racial-factors Training Training Grant Water-analysis Water-purification Water Quality

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• ISSN:
  0271-3586
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article ; Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  California ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health ; Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America ; North America
• Pages in Document:
  11-19
• Volume:
  56
• Issue:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20042977
• Citation:
  Am J Ind Med 2013 Jan; 56(1):11-19
• Contact Point Address:
  Veronica B. Rajal, PhD, Instituto de Investigaciones para la Industria Qui¤mica, INIQUI-CONICET, Argentina
• Email:
  vbrajal@gmail.com
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2013
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  American Journal of Industrial Medicine
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:d9a2d4cad8fda3cef8743301af0a480f2f15a1419878e57fedfc05b940ce330d97d97ef4c19c62eaea8b406573b444419f1e98f6a9b468818ae0ab1f14be775a
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/195022/cdc_195022_DS1.pdf
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