Workshop: Systems Analysis Approach to Health and Wellbeing in the Changing Urban Environment

该奖项将部分支持一个题为“在不断变化的城市环境中对健康和福祉采取系统分析方法”的讲习班。“本次研讨会的目的是探讨在城市环境中开发健康和福祉系统模型的要求并确定实施计划。这种系统方法将建立在众多科学和工程学科的现有兴趣和项目的基础上。它应揭示缺乏可靠科学认识的人口健康方面的重要问题，从而为制定未来的全球卫生研究议程作出重要贡献。除了对卫生研究作出贡献外，该讲习班还将促进科学和工程信息的交流，并加强不同学科的科学家和工程师之间的合作。 研讨会的学术价值在于，来自许多不同学科的科学家和工程师将首次聚集在一起，探索如何系统地分析研究复杂的城市环境，推进新的方法，促进新的研究方法，从而改善不断变化的城市环境中的健康和福祉。 除了促进科学和工程信息的交流以及不同学科之间的合作外，预计从长远来看，这次研讨会的更广泛影响将导致新的知识基础和科学学科之间的强有力的方法，这些科学学科目前要么只是边缘参与卫生领域，要么只使用定性方法。预计这些学科今后将更多地参与解决卫生问题。

This award will partially support a workshop entitled "Towards a Systems Analysis Approach to Health and Well-being in the Changing Urban Environment." The aim of this workshop is to explore the requirements and determine an implementation plan for developing a systems model for health and wellbeing in the urban setting. Such a systems approach would build on the ongoing interests and projects of numerous scientific and engineering disciplines. It should reveal important issues regarding population health on which reliable scientific understanding is lacking and thus make an important contribution to setting the future global health research agenda. In addition to contributions to health research, this workshop would promote exchange of scientific and engineering information and enhance collaboration among scientists and engineers of varying disciplines. The intellectual merit of the workshop is grounded in that for the first time, scientists and engineers from many different disciplines will be brought together to explore ways in which the complex urban setting can be systematically and analytically studied, advancing new approaches and promoting new research methodologies that can lead to improved health and wellbeing in the changing urban environment. In addition to promoting exchange of scientific and engineering information and collaboration among different disciplines, it is expected that the broader impacts of this workshop will, in the long run, lead to new intellectual foundation and robust approaches among scientific disciplines that currently are either only peripherally involved in the health area or that are using only qualitative approaches. It is also expected that these disciplines will increase their participation in addressing health issues in the future.