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
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
- Dept. of Social Medicine and Organization of Health Care, A. Stampar School of Public Health; Zagreb, Croatia
- Center for Development in Occupational Health and International Relations, Institute of Occupational and Radiological Health; Belgrade, Serbia
- The Gambia College; Brikama, The Gambia
Training at The University of Iowa
Resources
The University of Iowa offers many resources for research in environmental and occupational health, which include:
- An Environmental Health Sciences Research Center which has been in operation for 19 years
- A recently renovated research facility
- Experts in multiple fields of occupational and environmental health, including agriculture safety and health, industrial hygiene, ergonomics, and epidemiology, who study broad topics including musculoskeletal disorders of farm, factory, and office workers, measurement of biotoxins in the environment, health effects of bioaerosols on farmers and other workers, metabolism of PCB’s, control measures for occupational exposures, strategies to prevent injuries at work and in the community