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Your Environment. Your Health.

Final Progress Reports: Columbia University: Training Core

Superfund Research Program

Training Core

Project Leader: Pam Factor-Litvak
Grant Number: P42ES010349
Funding Period: 2000 - 2011

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Final Progress Reports

Year:   2010  2005 

The Training Core continued its Workshop Program with a week-long workshop from November 14-18 on “Hazardous Waste Operations First Responder Awareness and Hazard and Spill Control Training” given by Dr. Marco Pedone, an expert on hazardous waste management.  In addition to covering the didactic requirements for NIOSH/OSHA/USCG/EPA training in this area, the workshop included a day-long simulation of a hazardous waste management exercise with assessment and clean-up as well as a medical emergency event. 

In addition to the monthly Superfund Seminar Series, the Training Core also participated in the Annual Granville H. Sewell Distinguished Lecture In Environmental Health Sciences, which in 2005 featured Professor Peter Singer from Princeton speaking on “The Ethics of What We Eat” concerning the importance of food issues in environmental health.  In addition, the Training Core continued to offer trainees participation in a web-based course on “Hazardous Waste and Public Health” during the summer semester which can be done by anyone with a computer and internet access from any location and which has proven highly successful in past years.  The course includes practical case studies in managing hazardous waste issues as problem-solving exercises for the participants.  Finally, trainees participated in a day-long field trip to the United Nations for a tour and briefings on environmental health aspects of the Millenium Development Goals.

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