Trainee Resources

There are three symposia each year that all trainees are invited to attend. 

The symposia are the primary events where all disciplines will be present for; thus, they serve an important purpose to meet your peers, colleagues, and the broad network of COEH faculty and advisory board members. Annually, the Symposia include:

• Welcome Back Symposium

This symposium welcomes in the new academic year and will present an overview and updates from each Program Director. Awards, grants, and theses will also be announced and presented from submissions received over the summer. The event will follw with social gathering with food and drinks.

• Fall Gathering

This symposium will highlight student work by including 2-3 research presentations followed by a social gathering with food and drinks. 

• COEH Builds Bridges

COEH Build Bridges is an annual symposia hosted by the Continuing Education Program of COEH. Each year, the event is centered around a theme and features speakres from academia, goernment, and labor to discuss current-day research, policies, and practices important to occupational and environmental health. 

All COEH trainees should strive to present their research at some point during their graduate studies.

Opportunities include University, regional, national, and international conferences. Trainees can present their work via a poster or oral presentation, depending on the conference, their experience, and their work. Please discuss opportunities and format with your Program Director and/or Research Mentor. Some of the more regional opportunities include: 

• The UCSF Occupational and Environmental Medicine CME Course is held annually in March in SF. 
• The Annual Regional National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA) Young/New Investigators Conference (link is external) held in Salt Lake City annually in April. 

Please remember that as a COEH Trainee who is part of one of our programs, you should acknowledge the NIOSH ERC Training Grant on every presentation of your work (written, oral, or poster). 

COEH plans 2 field trips per year that all trainees can register for.

• Field trips provide an up-close opportunity for seeing the work done while discussing existing and possible hazards and exposures that are/ need to be mitigated
• Field trips are typically scheduled once per semester. Each field trip date may have multiple locations in which trainees can select their preferences to attend. Following each trip, trainees return to campus to discuss their experiences and observations with one another. 
• Some field trips may have a hybrid option (Zoom) if available. 

Please watch out for emails from COEH which will have details and registration links for upcoming field trips.