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UTHealth Awarded Grant for Biosafety and Infectious Disease Training Program

by Global Biodefense Staff
June 8, 2016
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Biohazard TeamA multi-institutional collaboration, including The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) School of Public Health, has been awarded a $1.3 million federal grant for the Biosafety and Infectious Disease Training Initiative.

The training program, an initiative of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), was piloted last summer in Houston under the leadership of Janelle Rios, Ph.D., and Robert J. Emery, Dr.P.H.

The goal of the program is to provide well-designed, well-delivered and practical hands-on health and safety training to prepare workers and communities for the risks associated with potentially deadly infectious diseases, said Emery.

“This project builds upon a long-standing and successful relationship between UTHealth partners and the NIEHS,” said Emery, professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics and Environmental Sciences at UTHealth School of Public Health and vice president of safety, health, environment and risk management at UTHealth.

The target audience for the program includes workers who generate, label, load, transport, unload, receive, treat, store, analyze or dispose of potentially biohazardous materials; first responders, including emergency medical technicians, law enforcement officers and fire fighters; security personnel; wastewater treatment personnel; mortuary and forensic technicians; and custodial staff, especially those working in settings in which biohazards are present.

“The training will specifically target workers who are not typically the recipients of biosafety or infection prevention training,” said Rios, director of the Office of Public Health Practice and Career Service at the School of Public Health.

In addition to UTHealth School of Public Health, the collaboration includes the Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington, led by co-principal investigator Shawn Gibbs, Ph.D.; the Nebraska Biocontainment Unit at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, led by co-principal investigator John Lowe, Ph.D.; Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, led by Paul Biddinger, M.D., and Dillard University, led by Beverly Wright, Ph.D.

Ultimately, the group aims to train workers to protect themselves, their colleagues, their communities and the environment from exposure to biohazards through the development and delivery of curricula based on sound scientific methods, including research conducted by the team. At the same time, the initiative will place special emphasis on promoting the health, resiliency and financial stability of workers and their communities.

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