NIEHS is committed to supporting training and workforce development across the environmental health sciences and all Research Areas of Emphasis. Support of training and workforce development is a key component of how NIEHS advances environmental health sciences. NIEHS aims to promote a diverse, inclusive culture in the environmental health sciences enterprise, where all members of the environmental health sciences workforce are empowered to do their most collaborative, productive, and best work in a civil, respectful atmosphere.
- Recruit and staff an office led by a Scientific Diversity Officer to help advance DEIAC issues within NIEHS and throughout the broader environmental health sciences community.
- Recruit and train the next generation of environmental health sciences leaders and researchers.
- Develop innovative approaches to training, development, and recruitment.
- Focus on increasing access and reducing and addressing barriers to training for underrepresented groups, to promote development and retention of a diverse research workforce and scientific leadership.
- Train across the full range of disciplines important to environmental health sciences, as well as interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary training.
- Promote team science and collaborations across the global biomedical research enterprise.
- Foster cooperation and collaboration among researchers of various disciplines, communities, public health professionals, and others to identify and bridge evidence gaps.
- Educate and engage students beginning with K-12 to generate knowledge and enthusiasm for environmental health sciences and create a pipeline for the professional workforce, as well as an EHS-informed public.
- Provide opportunities for researchers across the biomedical community to incorporate environmental exposures into their research strategies for studying the etiology of human disease.
