CONTINUING EDUCATION
PUBLIC HEALTH LEARNING
• ENVIRONMENTAL STATISTICS WEBCASTS
The Continuing Education (CE) program at the Illinois Occupational and Environmental Health and Safety Education and Research Center (Illinois ERC) exists as a resource on occupational health and safety issues for all and to support the goals and objectives of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Training Grants Program and the WHO Global Plan of Action on Workers’ Health 2007-2017. Over the past 30 years we have worked with professional associations, government agencies, other university and college programs, and individuals to understand and address the occupational safety and health training needs in our region, nationally, and internationally. The Illinois ERC has offered training courses for physicians, nurses, industrial hygienists, safety professionals, and other occupational safety and health professionals, paraprofessionals, technical workers, and health and safety committee members in all CE programs including hazardous substance training and agricultural health and safety.
Recognizing that there are limited resources, we partner with other programs engaged in education and training; respond to needs, especially in underserved populations, and look to make widely available education, training and technical materials through web-based initiatives such as the GeoLibrary www.geolibrary.org. Towards this goal we embrace the philosophy that communication and cooperation, rather than competition, will reduce injuries and illnesses to workers. The target audience for CE at the Illinois-ERC includes anyone who will benefit from training directly, indirectly, or globally including employers, health and safety experts, employees, government agencies, and communities, consistent with the NIOSH definition of customer www.cdc.gov/niosh. CE at the Illinois ERC includes supplemental programs in hazardous substance training and agricultural health and safety that enhance our ability to develop and deliver courses that address training needs.
Leslie Nickels, M Ed,
Illinois ERC Deputy Director and Continuing Education
and Outreach Director Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
School of Public Health (MC922)
University of Illinois at Chicago
2121 West Taylor Street
Chicago, Illinois 60612-7260
Phone: 312-413-1113
FAX: 312-413-7369
E-mail: lnickels@uic.edu
The links at this location lead to several webcasts for continuing education in statistics. The statistics webcasts present beginning and intermediate level statistics principles for air pollution data. These lessons were originally developed for the U.S. EPA Air Pollution Training Institute (APTI), a program that has been discontinued. However, the lessons are useful for persons who collect and interpret many types of environmental data. These lessons are provided here as a public service.
If you have questions or feedback about these presentations, please contact Salvatore Cali at scali@uic.edu.
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