The CEET has established a pipe-line into careers in the environmental health sciences that spans high-school students to advanced career training
Summer Programs
Penn Undergraduate Environmental Health Scholars Program:
Summer internships for selected undergraduate students (the Short Term Educational Experiences for Research or STEER grant). Ten weeks of summer activities will expose students to the field of environmental health science through mentorship, coursework, and field experience.
Teen Research and Education in Environmental Science (TREES) for High School Students
The TREES Program is a unique summer research and mentorship program offering hands-on environmental research opportunities to motivated high school students. Each summer, approximately eight high-school students work one-on-one with mentors on projects that they choose and design.
Summer Undergraduate Internship Program (SUIP): The SUIP provides an intense research experience to students interested in graduate study in the biomedical and biological sciences. The program seeks to encourage and prepare talented students to pursue careers in scholarly research.
Programs for High School Students
Teen Research and Education in Environmental Science (TREES) for High School Students
The TREES Program is a unique summer research and mentorship program offering hands-on environmental research opportunities to motivated high school students. Each summer, approximately eight high-school students work one-on-one with mentors on projects that they choose and design.
Undergraduate
Penn Undergraduate Environmental Health Scholars Program (Short Term Educational Experiences for Research or STEER) Summer internships for selected undergraduate students Ten weeks of summer activities will expose students to the field of environmental health science through mentorship, coursework, and field experience.
Summer Undergraduate Internship Program (SUIP): (The Office of Biomedical Graduate Studies) The SUIP provides an intense research experience to students interested in graduate study in the biomedical and biological sciences. The program seeks to encourage and prepare talented students to pursue careers in scholarly research.
Barbara and Edward Netter Center for Community Partnerships: Over 160 Academically Based Community Service (ABCS) courses from diverse schools and disciplines across the University have engaged in work in West Philadelphia through the Barbara and Edward Netter Center for Community Partnerships. ABCS courses involve hands-on, real-world problem solving and help students become active, participating citizens of a democratic society.
Department of Earth and Environmental Science – Undergraduate Program: The Department of Earth and Environmental Science offers undergraduate majors in both Earth Science and Environmental Studies.
Post-Baccalaureate Programs
Post-Baccalaureate Research Education Program (PennPREP) The PennPREP Program provides one- to two-year research experiences for students who have completed college and are interested in pursuing a doctoral degree in the basic biomedical sciences.
Programs for Graduate Students
Certificate Program in Environmental Health Sciences A full-time training program offered by the Office of Biomedical Graduate Studies (BGS). Students take specialized courses in addition to their graduate group requirements and receive a PhD from their graduate group and a Certificate in Environmental Health Sciences.
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PHARM590 Schedule Spring 2013 This course focuses on the molecular mechanisms by which environmental exposures lead to end-organ injury and to diseases of environmental etiology (neurodegenerative and lung diseases, and reproduction and endocrine disruption. This course is a required for those pursuing the Certificate Program in Environmental Health Sciences. Offered Spring semester
Translational Research Training in Environmental Health Science (funded by NIEHS: 1T32ES019851).This training program helps create a new cadre of environmental health scientists trained to tackle major societal disease caused by environmental exposures at the patient and community, and public health level. It supports predoctoral fellows in the Certificate Program in Environmental Health Sciences and postdoctoral and clinical fellows to conduct research.
Graduate Training Programs in Epidemiology: The MSCE program in epidemiology are geared toward medical professionals interested in pursuing careers in clinical research.
Biostatistics Graduate Programs:
The MS and PhD programs in Biostatistics are designed to develop fundamental skills in the statistical sciences with an emphasis on applications in the health sciences.
Public Health Certificate Program (PHCP): Provides supplemental training to highly motivated, well qualified doctoral candidates who are interested in public health.
Masters of Environmental Studies Offers a multidisciplinary approach to the study of the environment.
Masters of Science in Translational Research (MTR):The objective of the MTR program is to provide graduate students with in-depth instruction in the fundamental skills, methodology and principles necessary to become a well-trained translational investigator.
Masters in Public Health Program:The MPH Program prepares students for leadership by integrating research, education, and service learning in population health problems. We aim to educate professionals from diverse disciplines in the core areas that define public health.
Masters of Science Program in Health Policy Research: The two-year Master’s program in health services trains outstanding investigators in health services and policy research and prepares students for successful careers in academics, government, non-profit, and industry.
Training of Medical School Students: Frontiers in Environmental Health Sciences-FRO532: Course offered annually to 4th Year Medical School Students. The purpose is to provide graduating medical students with an education on the breadth and application of environmental health sciences to clinical medicine.
Postdoctoral
Biomedical Postdoctoral Programs (BPP): BPP provides biomedical postdocs in the Perelman School of Medicine, School of Veterinary Medicine, School of Dental Medicine, School of Nursing, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Monell Chemical Senses Center and The Wistar Institute with quality training in and outside of the labs.
Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholars Program: Aims to develop leaders who will produce significant scholarship, design interventions, and build the infrastructure and prestige of a new field focused on the multiple determinants of health.
MD Training Residency Programs
Residency in Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Translational Research Training in Environmental Health Science (funded by NIEHS: 1T32ES019851).This training program helps create a new cadre of environmental health scientists trained to tackle major societal disease caused by environmental exposures at the patient and community, and public health level. It supports predoctoral fellows in the Certificate Program in Environmental Health Sciences and postdoctoral and clinical fellows to conduct research.