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The Southwest Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, the University of Texas School of Public Health, Final Progress Report, July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2015



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  • Personal Author:
    Symanski, Elaine
  • Description:
    The University of Texas School of Public Health (UTSPH) is one of six schools within the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth). The Education and Research Center (ERC) is housed in the Southwest Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (SWCOEH) in the Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics and Environmental Sciences (EHGES) of the UTSPH. The ERC incorporates faculty and students from various disciplines related to occupational and environmental health. The UT (University of Texas) ERC has been continuously funded since 1977. The overall goal of the Center is to respond to the critical need for well-trained occupational and environmental health (OEH) specialists by providing graduate-level academic and research training in the OEH disciplines and providing continuing professional education. The UTSPH has multiple campuses, the main one is located in the Texas Medical Center in Houston and five others are in Austin, Brownsville, Dallas, El Paso and San Antonio. This makes the UTSPH unique among all other schools of public health in the United States. All campuses are linked electronically via interactive television, video conferencing, online course delivery and document sharing on a secure server. These resources facilitate seamless, quality teaching and research, expanded course offerings, interdisciplinary collaboration and access to regional stakeholders, as well as to expanded minority student populations. Since 2008, the ERC programs, faculty and students have been located at the Houston and San Antonio campuses. Master degree level training during the reporting period was provided in Industrial Hygiene (IH) along with doctoral level training in Occupational Epidemiology (OE) and postdoctoral residency training in Occupational Medicine (OM). We also completed training of two doctoral-level occupational injury prevention trainees under phase-out funding. During the reporting period, the ERC has recruited 88 students into the core and allied academic programs. In total, 57 students have graduated (31 NIOSH-funded trainees) and graduates have gone on to positions of importance and influence in the fields of occupational safety and health (OSH). In addition to the academic graduate degree programs, the ERC has had active Continuing Education and Outreach (CE) programs that provided a full spectrum of training opportunities that have responded to changing needs in the ocupational and safety arena. A total of 444 continuing education courses were delivered to almost 17,000 participants. These programs are enhanced by annual support of the Pilot Projects Research Training program (PPRTP) for new and transitional investigators. In total, pilot project research awards were made, totaling $260,333, to new and transitional investigators in three states in federal Region 6. There was important faculty recruitment in environmental and occupational health sciences at both our Houston and San Antonio campuses. We also developed and implemented a systematic process of evaluation for all academic and non-academic programs of the ERC. Finally, UTHealth received a philanthropic gift from SHELL Health to endow a faculty chair in occupational and environmental health, named in honor of the founding director of the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the SWCOEH, Dr. Marcus M. Key. [Description provided by NIOSH]
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  • Series:
    Grant Final Reports
  • Publisher:
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
  • Document Type:
    Text
  • Funding:
    Grant
  • Genre:
    Final Grant Report
  • Place as Subject:
  • 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:
    1-97
  • NIOSHTIC Number:
    nn:20062844
  • NTIS Accession Number:
    PB2022-100478
  • 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-008421, 2015 Sep; :1-97
  • Contact Point Address:
    Elaine Symanski, Center Director, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics and Environmental Sciences, The University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, Texas 77225
  • Federal Fiscal Year:
    2015
  • Performing Organization:
    University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
  • Peer Reviewed:
    False
  • Start Date:
    20050701
  • Source Full Name:
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
  • End Date:
    20250630
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    urn:sha-512:651f3e0d1c8d1bd84c1d22e78811a32d92b7decdf4a100bd441051412e32f510a369d1c6c04d8c9904fdea2df9a66f6468c7d53df080e5bc6a7e18a07442a324
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