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Education & Training

Includes online learning programs for medical and public health providers, health assessors, and others; some versions in Spanish and Japanese.









ATSDR's Environmental Health and Medicine Education



ATSDR Environmental Medicine Education for Health Professionals

ATSDR's newly developed or revised environmental medicine education products present current environmental medicine content drawn from peer-reviewed medical literature. These products are accredited for free continuing education.


ATSDR Environmental Health Education for the Public

ATSDR provides community members, health educators, health care providers, and other health professionals with community environmental health education products to increase environmental health literacy. These products include information about specific types of exposures to hazardous substances, exposure routes and pathways, health effects, treatment options, and how to prevent or minimize exposures to hazardous substances in the environment.


Environmental Health Nursing Initiative

A site which highlights and supports nurses' contributions to promoting environmental health for communities and individuals. The initiative is a collaborative effort to increase and sustain environmental health knowledge and skills in nurses and other health professionals. The vision of the initiative is to create a sustainable role for environmental health in professional nursing. The goal of the initiative is to make environmental health an integral component of nursing practice, education, and research.

Intended Audience: Nurses, nurse practitioners, staff and faculty of schools of nursing, other health care providers and interested public health professionals

Technical Level: Medium

Primer on Health Risk Communication: Principles and Practices

A primer explaining ATSDR's comprehensive efforts to prevent or mitigate adverse human health outcomes related to hazardous substance exposure, how the process works, and some general principles for improving effectiveness. This primer will also present key principles and techniques to assist federal decision-makers and health risk communicators to improve their overall effectiveness in evaluating health risk messages and materials.

Intended Audience:Health Professionals who respond to public concerns about exposure to hazardous substances

Technical Level: Medium





ATSDR's Environmental Public Health Training



Public Health Assessment Overview 1 - Mission and Community

The current web-based training course, "Public Health Assessment Overview 1 - Mission and Community" not only explains ATSDR's role in the public health assessment process; it also shows how affected community members can become constructively involved in that process.

Intended Audience: Public health professionals and trainees

Technical Level: Low


Public Health Assessment Overview 2 - Exposure Pathways and Toxicologic Evaluation

The current web-based training course, "Public Health Assessment Overview 2-Exposure Pathways and Toxicologic Evaluation" explains how health assessors conduct an exposure pathways analysis to find out how, when, and where people are coming in contact with chemicals. Toxicologic evaluation involves estimating the amount of the chemical that enters the body and considering additional data about health effects associated with the chemical.

Intended Audience: Public health professionals and trainees

Technical Level: Low


Public Health Assessment Overview 3 - Evaluating Health Effects Data and Determining Conclusions and Recommendations

The current web-based training course, "Public Health Assessment Overview 3 - Evaluating Health Effects Data, and Determining Conclusions and Recommendations" is a follow-up to the previous module on exposure pathways and a continuation of the health evaluation. The final part of this module explains the process by which ATSDR develops health conclusions about the site, and the types of recommendations and health actions it may conduct. The course concludes with a discussion of the types of documents health assessors may use to report the results of the investigation.

Intended Audience: Public health professionals and trainees

Technical Level: Low





Internships



Collegiate Leaders in Environmental Health (CLEH): Summer Internship

The National Center for Environmental Health/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (NCEH/ATSDR) in Atlanta, Georgia invites rising collegiate juniors and seniors who currently major in Environmental studies or related fields to apply for this 10-week Collegiate Leaders in Environmental Health summer internship.

Undergraduate students that are passionate about the environment, about health, and about the link between the two will be paired with mentors from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to gain experience in the fascinating field of Environmental Public Health. Students will receive a stipend of $500 per week to cover living expenses and other basic needs.

Intended Audience: Undergraduate students who are rising juniors/seniors majoring in environmental studies and related fields.

Technical Level: N/A



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