Southern California Education and Research Center

Details

• Personal Author:
  Krause N
• Description:
  The characteristics of the Southern California Education and Research Center (SCERC) are embodied in a coordinated, interdisciplinary set of professional education, continuing education, research and outreach activities that have a positive impact on the region's and nation's occupational health and safety practice. The Center is a multi-campus collaboration between the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine). The Center has a Center Administration and Planning Core and six training programs - three in professional OSH disciplines and three interdisciplinary programs. The core training programs include Industrial Hygiene and Occupational and Environmental Health Nursing based at UCLA, and Occupational Medicine at UC Irvine. The IH and OEHN program offer both master's level professional training and doctoral level research training. Center-wide programs include Pilot Project Research Training and a Targeted Research Training Program that emphasizes collaborative PhD training in occupational epidemiology and research training in work organization and psychosocial stress. Degrees offered by the SCERC programs include MPH, MS, MSN, PhD, DrPH, and OM residency certificates. The Center also has robust programs in Continuing Education and Outreach that provide regional training. The SCERC operates in concert with the UCLA and UC Irvine Centers for Occupational and Environmental Health (COEH). These are state supported centers for research and teaching in occupational safety and health. Together the ERC and COEH represent a unique and effective partnership between state and federal funding. Between 2012-16, the SCERC enrolled 61 new graduate students, including four epidemiology students in the TRT program of whom 2 graduated with a PhD. In the IH program, 7 students graduated with the MS, 4 with the MPH, 2 with the PhD, and one with a DrPH. In the OEHN program, a total of 22 master's level advanced practice registered nurse practitioner (APRN-NP) trainees and one PhD student graduated. The OM Residency trained an average of 4 residents per year and graduated 8 residents - all of them became board certified in occupational medicine and are practicing in the field. Two thirds of the trainees were females and 70% minority students. The research training core in AY 2016/17 had 19 trainees (5 new and 7 continuing PPRT trainees, and 4 new and 3 continuing TRT trainees). The CE program of the outreach core offered on average 112 courses and trained 1,577 individuals each year. The programs of the SCERC impact Occupational Safety and Health in three ways: Our graduates contribute directly to worker safety and health through their employment as professionals in the field and many go on to assume leadership positions in business and various state and federal agencies. Our research contributes to longer term improvements in worker health through improved understanding of workplace exposures, health effects, and their control. Our Continuing Education and Outreach programs facilitate the translation of research results into actual occupational and public health and safety practice. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Education Epidemiology Occupational Health Safety Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Environmental Health Industrial Hygiene Programs Occupational Health Nursing Occupational Medicine Programs Training Grants
• Series:
  Grant Final Reports
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Final Grant Report
• Place as Subject:
  California ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OEP - Office of Extramural Programs
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-40
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20055728
• Citation:
  Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, T42-OH-008412, 2017 Sep; :1-40
• Contact Point Address:
  Niklas Krause, MD, MPH, PhD, Professor, University of California Los Angeles, Box 95-1772; 56-071 CHS, 650 Charles E. Young Drive South, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1772
• Email:
  niklaskrause@ucla.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2017
• Performing Organization:
  University of California Los Angeles
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• End Date:
  20270630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/218866/cdc_218866_DS1.pdf
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