We are offering a 3-year post-doctoral interdisciplinary training program in Neurodevelopmental Toxicology at the Harvard School of Public Health with support provided by a T32 grant. The Program is based in the Division of Epidemiology, Exposure, and Risk Assessment of the Department of Environmental Health. Each year, two new trainees will be accepted into the program.

The structure

The training program follows from a conceptual model emphasizing that a comprehensive understanding of the association between exposure to a toxicant and neurodevelopment requires explication of the ways in which host and environmental factors might modify the association. The major categories of potential modifying factors are: genetics, nutrition, and the social environment.

It is anticipated that fellows will enter the program with doctoral training in one of the key areas represented in the conceptual model: exposure assessment and biomarkers, neurodevelopment, genetics, nutrition, the social environment (social epidemiology), epidemiology/biostatistics.

The goal of the program is to cross-train a fellow in one or more additional areas so that, having acquired interdisciplinary expertise, the fellow can conduct neurodevelopmental toxicology studies that more directly address the needs of risk assessors.

A 35-member faculty (see below), representing the major training tracks, serves as trainee mentors. For each track, we have specified a set of core competencies, required coursework, opportunities for practical experiences (if relevant), and seminar series. Members of the faculty currently conduct a wealth of multi-disciplinary research, often in collaboration with one another, which provides trainees with ready opportunities to apply their training in ongoing research projects.

 

Exposure Assessment/Environmental Health	Genetics
Philippe Grandjean Howard Hu Susan Korrick Michael Shannon Thomas Smith John Spengler Alan Woolf	David Hunter Karl Kelsey Scott Weiss Robert Wright (Associate Program Director)
Neurodevelopment	Social Environment
Alberto Ascherio David Bellinger (Program Director) Jane Holmes-Bernstein Stephen Buka Stephen Faraone Celiane Rey-Casserly David DeMaso Leonard Rappaport Deborah Waber	Lisa Berkman Ichiro Kawachi Nancy Krieger Laura Kubzansky SV Subramanian Rosalind Wright
Nutrition	Epidemiology/Biostatistics
Matthew Gillman Francine Grodstein Karen Peterson	Brent Coull Douglas Dockery Nan Laird Louise Ryan Joel Schwartz James Ware

 

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