# Coronavirus and Infectious Disease Response Training

> **NIH NIH U45** · UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL · 2020 · $131,566

## Abstract

Program Summary/Abstract
This is a supplemental proposal for a coronavirus and infectious disease response training program to be
implemented by The New England Consortium-Civil Service Employees Association (TNEC-CSEA), a
partnership between the University of Massachusetts Lowell (UML), four New England coalitions for
occupational safety and health (COSH groups) in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New
Hampshire, and CSEA, Local 1000 AFSCME, in New York. Since 1987, TNEC has been providing participatory
hands-on HAZWOPER training to workers throughout the New England region. In addition to HAZWOPER
training, the COSH organizations provide a diversified set of health and safety training programs for labor
unions, community organizations, school personnel, and other groups and individuals. CSEA represents
300,000 public sector workers in New York State and has been part of AFSCME’s NIEHS WTP-awarded
training program since 2003 and provided substantial direct training from 2007 until joining TNEC. CSEA has
built effective internal health and safety management systems through site-specific hands-on training and uses
a labor-management cooperative peer-trainer model with 150 active Peer Trainers, 24 of which have been
involved for ten or more years, and part of the Emergency Management Operations Protocol to be deployed in
emergencies and disasters. TNEC/New England’s previous experience in infectious disease training includes:
in 2008-09, delivery of seven 6 to 7 hour Train-the-Trainer courses on avian flu pandemic preparedness to
Massachusetts public school teachers, who then delivered training back in their school districts; and in 2014,
delivery of Ebola-related training to 190 workers including employees of the New Hampshire Department of
Public Health, members of the Massachusetts State Police, and for leaders of the Massachusetts Nurses
Association. Altogether, TNEC will deliver 29 courses for 1,010 students for 2,920 contact hours in New
England. CSEA will complete approximately 145 sessions for 1,142 participants for 1,376 contact hours in New
York of mostly interactive online coronavirus/COVID-19 and infectious disease response training. These
trainings will include: overview of the SARS-CoV-2 virus; workers’ rights; assessing exposure; prevention in the
workplace; personal protective equipment; keeping yourself safe; cleaning & disinfecting and returning to
work; hazard communication/Safety Data Sheets; PPE for cleaning & disinfecting; cleaning & disinfecting
delivery systems; and mental health well-being. Our target populations are: 4,831,010 essential personnel in
the six New England states and 300,000 frontline workers in the public sector within New York state. TNEC-
CSEA seeks to build sustainable capacity for CSEA peer trainers and TNEC/New England trainers to deliver
ongoing COVID-19 and infectious disease response trainings that will reduce exposures and increase the
capacity of employers and workers to identify and mit...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10150410
- **Project number:** 3U45ES006172-28S1
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL
- **Principal Investigator:** DAVID TURCOTTE
- **Activity code:** U45 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $131,566
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2020-06-30 → 2021-07-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10150410

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10150410, Coronavirus and Infectious Disease Response Training (3U45ES006172-28S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10150410. Licensed CC0.

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