International Training and Research in Environmental and Occupational Health (ITREOH)

In 1995 CIREH received a 6-year training grant from the Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health in their program entitled, International Training and Research in Environmental and Occupational Health. CIREH was funded for a second cycle in 2001.

This program has provided various levels of training to health research specialists in the areas of environmental health, occupational health and public health from research and educational institutions in Central and Eastern Europe (Slovakia, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Romania) and, more recently, in The Gambia, West Africa.

Components of the ITREOH program

Training in Iowa

• Short-Term Training
• Intermediate-Term Training
• Long-Term Training

In-Country Activities

• Workshops
• Research
• Conferences
• International Summer Institute

Distance-Learning Archives

• Sharpen Your Skills
• Environmental Health Seminars
• International Summer Institute

Collaborating Institutions

• Slovak Medical University/Institute for Preventive and Clinical Medicine; Bratislava, Slovakia
• Trnava University Faculty of Health Care and Social Work; Trnava, Slovakia
• University of Debrecen School of Public Health; Debrecen, Hungary
• Nova Gorica Polytechnic; Nova Gorica, Slovenia
• Nofer Institute for Occupational Health; Lodz, Poland
• Institute for Public Health; Cluj-Napoca, Romania