Pediatric Environmental Health Trainees get invaluable feedback and mentorship at APA’s annual Environmental Health Retreat.

Program Description

The annual Environmental Health Scholars Retreat, supported by APA for over 15 years, gives trainees an opportunity to present research in progress in an informal setting with faculty input on the project and presentation. Many past attendees have gone on to successful research careers. In addition, national and international leaders in environmental health give talks and keynote symposium; past speakers have included the Director of NIEHS and Administrator of the EPA. Each year we hold a pre-meeting workshop on Friday afternoon designed to build academic and research skills.

Curriculum Outline

This is a 2.5-day event designed to promote academic development for trainees interested in children’s environmental health.
The retreat is small (about 30 people in total attend, about 10 faculty and ~15 trainees with sponsored travel and 4-5 guest speakers). Each trainee or fellow presents a 10-minute work in progress talk. Each talk is assigned to a faculty attendee who reviews the talk in an informal setting and then moderates a discussion among the larger group.

Afternoon Day One
Building Academic and Research Skills Workshop
Dinner & Keynote Presentation

Day Two
Trainee Presentations
Lunch & Career Development Panel
Dinner & Keynote Presentation

Morning Day Three
Trainee Presentations
Adjournment

How to Apply

Interested trainees must submit a 300 word abstract of in-progress research, along with contact information. The top abstracts based on the training levels (we aim for a mix of early and late-stage trainees and fellows), quality of the proposed research, and relevance to children’s environmental health will be selected. Invited trainees will have all travel expenses covered. Invited trainees will have all travel expenses covered.
The call is announced in late summer.

Leadership

Robert Wright, MD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Joseph Braun
Institute at Brown for Environment and Society

Allan Just, PhD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Faculty interested in participating should contact Robert Wright at Robert.wright@mssm.edu