Program Overview

Program Overview

Fellowship 

Trainees accepted into the Targeted Research Training program will receive the following benefits as an TRT trainee:

  1. Participation in the seminars 
  2. Participation in a small, interdisciplinary, group of trainees who will meet every month with Dr. Costello to discuss research progress, potential collaborations, and practice oral presentations. Groups will be in-person (if feasible and safe). Schedule will be set based on participant availability.
  3. Additional one-on-one mentoring meetings with Dr. Costello are also available, regularly or ad hoc, depending on student needs. Mentoring meetings can be in-person or virtual.
  4. Subject to a satisfactory proposal, including a budget and budget justification, administrative research funds up to $2,000 [Note: the research funds are available only for first-time TRT awardees, not applicants awarded subsequent years of TRT funding].

  5. A partial stipend to cover living expenses based on NIH guidelines and/or partial or full in-state tuition and fees. Stipend, tuition and fees will be awarded based on needs, other types of income (i.e. GSI etc.) and availability of funds.

Seminars

The Targeted Research Training program will host monthly seminars from guest speakers on a range of occupational health research topics. Seminars will be at 10am on the first Friday of the month. Seminars will be a mix of in-person (if feasible and safe) and virtual to accommodate out-of-town guest speakers and trainees who can not travel to UC Berkeley for the seminars. PH298 credit is available (1 unit per semester). Contact Dr. Costello for more information.

The seminar during the 2021-2022 school year will focus on research communication themes.

Speakers will include people with expertise communicating with print, television, and social media as well with community members and research participants. All Northern California Education Research Center trainees will be invited to take the course for credit or attend sessions at will. It will be up to  Program Directors to decide whether the seminar will be compulsory for their trainees.

Commitments as a COEH Trainee

COEH Trainees are expected to participate fully in their home program and are also invited to engage in COEH activities.

Trainees accepted to their respective academic program are encouraged to complete the following after discussing the requirements with the Program Director:

  •  Take required coursework specific to specialization (discuss with your Program Director)
  • Commit to Interdisciplinary Education opportunities by:
    • Attending Annual Symposia
    • Taking or auditing Interdisciplinary Courses, as appropriate
    • Attending TRT Seminars, as appropriate
    • Engage in Field Visit opportunities
  • Engage in one or more scholarly research activities and consider presenting and/or publishing your work
  • Contribute at least 2 hours of service/outreach related activity (presentations, projects, outreach in the community)
  • Read COEH communications(emails) and respond when appropriate
  • In addition, COEH Trainees need to acknowledge our support from NIOSH in all current and future publications, journal articles, conference proceedings that are a result of work performed during your time as a Graduate Student. The acknowledgment should use the following language:

“This publication (journal article, etc.) was supported by the Training Grant, T42OH008429, funded by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) / Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)."