# Atlantic Emerging Technologies & Industrial Hygiene Training Center

> **NIH NIH R25** · GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND HEALTH POLICY · 2020 · $100,000

## Abstract

Abstract
Atlantic Emerging Technologies & Industrial Hygiene Training Center
The project will establish the Atlantic Emerging Technologies & Industrial Hygiene Training
Center (Atlantic Training Center) as a multi-lingual training center with extensive online
programing. Hunter College School of Urban Public Health (Hunter) and the City University of
New York School of Public Health will act as lead institution in collaboration with the Rutgers
School of Public Health (Rutgers) Office of Public Health Practice and the School of
Environmental Affairs at Universidad Metropolitana (SEA-UMET). The collaboration between
Hunter, Rutgers and SEA-UMET to create the Atlantic Emerging Technologies & Industrial
Hygiene Training Center is important because it allows expansion and development of
Superfund research and education in Region 2, areas with extremely high density of Superfund
and Brownfields sites. The Atlantic Training Center will immediately provide graduate level
academic training in emerging technologies at Hunter's two masters programs: the ABET
accredited graduate program offering a MS in Industrial Hygiene and the CEPH accredited
graduate program offering a MPH in Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences. The
Atlantic Training Center will also develop industrial hygiene coursework in the MS in
Environmental Management at SEA-UMET in San Juan, Puerto Rico with the goal of seeking
accreditation for a new concentration in Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences from
the Puerto Rico Council of Education. In short, the project will fund ten graduate students per
year at Hunter's campus in New York City and ten graduate students per year at SEA-UMET's
campus in San Juan -- for a total of 100 students over the five years of the project. Regarding
the overall program participants, 62% of the trained graduate students will be women, and the
majority (60% at Hunter and 99% at SEA-UMET) identify as individuals from racial and ethnic
groups shown by the NSF as underrepresented in health sciences; many also come from low-
income, disadvantaged backgrounds. The faculty for the program is also diverse regarding
gender and ethnicity: the PI for the lead institution is a woman and the PI for SEA-UMET is a
Hispanic female. Finally, the Atlantic Training Center will offer ten (10) online, multi-lingual
continuing education courses for industrial hygienists, environmental consultants and those
working in the field as live 1.5 hour broadcasts from New York, New Jersey and Puerto Rico for
100 participants per course per year (for a total of 5000 participants). The continuing education
program will produce 50 high quality videos on emerging technology that will be posted on the
Internet to be viewed for free at any time.
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## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9861241
- **Project number:** 5R25ES027082-04
- **Recipient organization:** GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND HEALTH POLICY
- **Principal Investigator:** Elizabeth Ann Geltman
- **Activity code:** R25 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $100,000
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2017-02-01 → 2021-12-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9861241

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9861241, Atlantic Emerging Technologies & Industrial Hygiene Training Center (5R25ES027082-04). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9861241. Licensed CC0.

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