# University of Puerto Rico - Caribbean Center for  Professional Industrial Hygiene Training

> **NIH ALLCDC T03** · UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO MED SCIENCES · 2020 · $149,476

## Abstract

UNIVERSIDAD DE PUERTO RICO, RECINTO DE CIENCIAS MÉDICAS
 UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO, MEDICAL SCIENCES CAMPUS
FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS BIOSOCIALES Y ESCUELA GRADUADA DE SALUD PÚBLICA
 FACULTY OF BIOSOCIAL SCIENCES AND GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Programa de Higiene Industrial
Industrial Hygiene Program
Departamento de Salud Ambiental
Department of Environmental Health
Project Summary
The Industrial Hygiene Program from the University of Puerto Rico – Medical Sciences Campus
– Graduate School of Public Health, submits its renewal application for the NIOSH Training
Grant, entitled “University of Puerto Rico – Caribbean Center for Professional Industrial
Hygiene Training”.
This training program grant renewal application proposes to train a total expected number of fifty
(50) industrial hygienists in the period comprised between 07/01/19 and 06/30/24. Academic
training in Industrial Hygiene will be done according to a new recently approved curriculum that
is strongly concentrated in IH courses on top of a strong foundation in Public Health. All
Industrial Hygiene related courses have applied components and an emphasis on occupational
hazard control and mitigation. Curriculum updates, modification and supervision will be one of
Dr. Caporali’s responsibilities as Principal Investigator, and will be done in coordination with the
other training program faculty and advisory board. This application proposes to surpass its past
successful graduation rates (as it can be observed in the data tables attached) with a close
academic advancement follow up with each trainee, and the implementation of a part time track
for the working trainee. This application also proposes to increase its enrollment efforts with the
involvement of first and second year trainees, along with program faculty, in several visits to be
paid to different undergraduate academic training centers. The overall objective of this renewal
application is to continue to provide Puerto Rico and the continental United States with highly
trained, professional, mature, and technically proficient Spanish/English-speaking Industrial
Hygienists. As depicted in the attached support letters, UPR-IH Program graduates are in high
demand across all industry sectors in Puerto Rico and in some sectors in the continental United
States. Through collaborative agreements such as the one signed in the Memorandum of
Understanding attached to this proposal, UPR-IH Program intends to increase even more the
applied component in almost all IH courses.
Although the graduate degree in Industrial Hygiene at UPR does not require a thesis, the
curriculum has strong research components embedded in its coursework and the fundamental
requirement for all trainees to undergo formal training in the responsible conduct of research.
All our trainees participate in research activities held in collaboration with the Sunshine
Educational and Research Center at USF. All three full time program faculty are engaged in
applied research, eac...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9967902
- **Project number:** 5T03OH008619-15
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO MED SCIENCES
- **Principal Investigator:** Sergio Augusto Caporali-Filho
- **Activity code:** T03 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** ALLCDC
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $149,476
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2005-07-01 → 2021-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9967902

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9967902, University of Puerto Rico - Caribbean Center for  Professional Industrial Hygiene Training (5T03OH008619-15). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9967902. Licensed CC0.

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