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Research Experience and Training Coordination Core (RETCC)

The goal of the Research Experience and Training Coordination Core (RETCC) is to expand the population of professionals able to conduct and interpret research relating to human exposure to and the health effects of emerging drinking water contaminants.

Description

The RETCC plays a foundational role in the YSRC by ensuring the recruitment and training of pre- and post-doctoral researchers with technical competence in the center research areas.

To develop scientists, engineers, and biomedical researchers capable of addressing emerging research and health questions, the RETCC (in collaboration with other YSRC cores) will provide professional experiences and training in community engagement, risk communication, and research translation relating to drinking water contaminants.

Central activities of the RETCC will include:

  1. recruitment of a cadre of diverse, academically prepared doctoral students and post-doctoral researchers
  2. provision of interdisciplinary training through required cross-disciplinary coursework and focused training in community outreach, results dissemination, risk communication, and research translation
  3. design and implementation of a program for interdisciplinary research exchanges within and external to Yale; and...
  4. fostering the professional development of trainees through planned interactions with community partners, government agencies, and private industry
Housed within the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Yale's nationally renowned Environmental Engineering graduate program contains seven full-time faculty members leading research in air and water pollution, climate change, and sustainable energy production.

The Yale School of Public Health PhD program ranks among the very best in the country. This PhD program provides scholars with the disciplinary background and skills required to develop better ways of measuring, maintaining, and improving public health; this includes understanding the impact of environmental stressors – physical, chemical, and biological – on human health and comfort, as well as the development and application of sound statistical and mathematical principles to research in the health sciences.

Relevance

The primary purpose for improving water quality is to protect human health. The RETCC will develop cross-trained scientists, engineers, and biomedical researchers with wide-ranging communication skills to successfully address emerging research and health questions relating to drinking water contaminants.

Leaders:
Christian Tschudi, PhD
Jordan Peccia, PhD

Co-Investigator:
Ying Chen, PhD