EXCEED THE SPACE PROVIDED. The overall purpose of this project is to build global capacity and collaboration to better understand, investigate, control and prevent environmental and occupational health problems in developing countries and the United States. This goal will be accomplished by_implementing a multidimensional research and training model in environmental and occupational health that has been developed over the last five-and-a-half years in the Central/Eastern European region. Countries collaborating in these activities will include: Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Slovenia, Romania,' and the Ukraine. Thirty scientists and health professionals from these countries will be trained at The University of Iowa at the intermediate-term level, thirty at the short-term level, and five at the long-term, advanced degree level. Centers of excellence in collaborating countries will be developed and strengthened by the increased knowledge and skills of returning trainees, by thirty small research projects and forty-five in-country workshops conducted by returning trainees and their U.S. faculty mentors, by five re-entry research projects of long-term trainees, and by participating in and co- hosting five summer institutes, two rural health conferences, and two workshops on informationtechnology. All of these activities will also serve to complement and reinforce research and training activities of partner agencies such as those currently conducted by NIEHS, CDC,NCI, and EPA. The transition of trainees to positions of responsibility and influence will be facilitated by recognition of their expertise and leadership through organizing and conducting short courses/workshops in their respective countries and an annual summer institute regionally, by participation in an annual Fogarty Fellows regional network meeting, by support for participation in scientific meetings and conferences, by provision of computer systems to enhance professional activities, and by publishing and presenting the results of on- going research. Research results will be translated into public health practice through the above-mentioned series of short courses/workshops, summer institutes, regional conferences, and by the' direct influence of trainees in positions of responsibility within the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. PERFORMANCE SITE ========================================Section End===========================================
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