Molecular Mechanisms of Environmental Injury
Description: Public Health Relevance The public health relevance of this NIEHS Environmental Toxicology Training Program is a function of how the trainees are taught, and what they do in their subsequent careers. We endeavor to teach them solid, evidence- based principles that can be tested by hypotheses, and direct the trainees toward seeking new knowledge that can benefit the public in the maintenance of public health. Our trainees also receive intensive training in risk assessment and statistics to fortify their science training, and them to understand the toxicological risks in the world around them. A number of our trainees have gone on to become involved with public policy-making, as well as consultative positions, in which they are responsible for making decisions that can ultimately affect public health. Many go on to become academic scientists, continuing their search for knowledge, funded by federal grants, which also require publication and public availability of their discovered information. Others become toxicologists working for companies that are conscientious in their product-making, for environmental concerns that can affect public health. In all, we believe that our Environmental Toxicology Training Program has an important core of concern and relevance for all public health, due to its emphasis on environmentally- based studies that can benefit the public in their everyday lives.
Funding type: training
Funder scheme: T32
Start date: 1990-07-01
End date: 2024-08-31
Investigator: BILL T AMEREDES
Institution: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MED BR GALVESTON
Funded outputs count: 199
Funder award ID: T32ES007254
OpenAlex ID: G1274333780