Environmental Health Research Institute for Nurse and Clinician Scientists (EHRI-NCS) 2026

January 5-9 & 30, 2026
Synchronous Workshop
Virtual or In-Person Online & Durham, NC

About EHRI-NCS

The goal of this program is to enhance the discipline-wide capacity of nurse scientists and their interdisciplinary clinician scientist collaborators for advanced research methods in environmental health through a flipped classroom, train-the-trainer and mentorship program. The flipped classroom model will be utilized as the best-practice pedagogy to achieve higher order learning objectives with pre-recorded, online didactic lectures provided for participant preparation, followed by a synchronous 5-day training and post-course mentorship follow-up. Participants will receive train-the-trainer guides and extensive instructor materials to implement in their own institutions. 

The objectives are for the participant to

1. Design clinical research studies and research education with advanced environmental health methodologies,
2. Mentor other peer, student, and early career nurse scientists in environmental health methodologies,
3. Examine broader theoretical, philosophical, ethical, and legal contexts related to environmental health exposure science with implications for clinical policy, practice, education, and research,
4. Analyze strategies used for clinical environmental health interventions,
5. Describe trends in environmental health molecular approaches of symptom science,
6. Acquire new analytic skills applied to environmental health data, and
7. Compare and contrast the strengths, weaknesses, and applications of environmental exposure science measurements and methods in clinical research. 

We are recruiting participants who have already achieved their terminal doctoral degree and those currently enrolled in a graduate nursing program who educate, train, and mentor registered nurses in research trajectories. We support structures for participants with special circumstances that create a demonstrable need for additional training resource investment.

Course topics will include

1. Theoretical conceptualization
2. Intervention Study Designs
3. Participatory Action Designs
4. Physiologic Measurement with Spirometry
5. Biomarker Measurement
6. Personal and Area Exposure Measurement
7. Informatics and Analytics
8. At-risk Populations, Windows of Susceptibility, and Geomapping Skills.  

Participants will have a year-long opportunity to learn from:

• Dr. Julie Postma, PhD, RN College of Nursing, Washington State University
• Dr. Barbara Polivka, PhD, RN, FAAN University of Kansas Medical Center School of Nursing
• Dr. Lisa M. Thompson, PhD, RN, FNP, FAAN Family Health Care Nursing, University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing and Health Professions
• Dr. Azita Amiri, PhD, MPH, CPH, RN, FAAN College of Nursing, University of Alabama in Huntsville and Bloomberg Fellow in the American Health Initiative at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
• Dr. Jeannie Rodriguez, PhD, RN, APRN Emory, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing
• Dr. Luz Huntington-Moskos, PhD, RN, CPN, FAAN School of Nursing, University of Louisville
• Dr. Kamal Eldeirawi, PhD, RN, FAAN College of Nursing, University of Illinois, Chicago
• Dr. Shawna Beese, PhD, RN College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences and College of Nursing, Washington State University
• Dr. AnnMarie Lee Walton, PhD, MPH, RN, OCN, CHES, FAAN Duke University School of Nursing
• Dr. Katie Huffling, DNP, RN, CNM, FAAN Alliance of Nurses for Health Environments
• Dr. Jessica Castner, PhD, RN-BC, FAEN, FAAN Castner Incorporated, 2021-22 National Academy of Medicine Distinguished Nurse Scholar in Residence

Apply at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc3vjW4WY0mprS-TnF_MA8HFw7LUibFM34jddWIadWg4sVRXw/viewform

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