Evaluating a Research Training Program in Environmental Health and Noncommunicable Diseases in Georgia.

ABSTRACT: The Clean Air Research and Education (CARE) program, launched in 2020, aims to enhance environmental health (EH) and noncommunicable disease (NCD) research capacity in the Republic of Georgia. This paper evaluates the first 4.5 years of CARE, summarizing fellows' activities and achievements to date and fellow and faculty reactions to CARE. In February 2025, CARE leadership anonymously surveyed fellows (100% response rate: n = 23/23; 4 Master's of Public Health [MPH], 19 PhD) and faculty (66.7%: n = 10/15; 6 Georgia-based, 4 US-based). Thesis/dissertation topics included tobacco (43.5%), air pollution and respiratory outcomes (each 21.7%), lead exposure and cancer-related and cardiovascular outcomes (each 13.0%), and others. Fellows leveraged CARE's financial support for resea

SUBMITTER: Berg CJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12469674 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature