EcoHealthNet: Ecology, Environmental Science and Health Research Network

EcoHealthNet：生态学、环境科学和健康研究网络

• 批准号: 0955897
• 负责人: Peter Daszak
• 金额: $ 49.71万
• 依托单位: Ecohealth Alliance inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-01 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0955897&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EcoHealthNet; Ecology; Environmental; Science; Health

Infectious diseases play a key role in ecosystems: regulating wildlife populations, mediating inter-specific competition, causing dramatic population declines, even driving local extinctions of wildlife. During the last two decades, ecologists have led the growth of a new field of disease ecology, developing theoretical and practical research that understands these interactions. However, integration of disease ecology into veterinary and human health sciences has been slow, partly due to the slow response of health science curricula to incorporate these advances. This lack of integration, and the significance of pathogens shared among animals and humans (zoonoes) has led to repeated calls for increased collaboration among ecologists, veterinarians and public health researchers. The objective of this award is to develop "EcoHealthNet," a new "Ecohealth Alliance" linking Centers of Excellence in NGOs, Universities, and Research Societies and fusing the fields of Conservation Medicine, Medical Geography, and the "One Medicine" or "One Health" concept. EcoHealthNet will fill a critical role in bringing together ecologists, environmental biologists and the disciplines more traditionally involved in infectious diseases - veterinary medical, human medical and public health researchers. It will provide mentored training opportunities for more than 100 graduate students, openly recruited from the medical (human and veterinary), ecological, epidemiological, microbiological, economic, and environmental science fields. The training will include workshops in epidemiology, mathematical modeling of infectious disease, and field epidemiology; and international applied field research in ongoing, well-supported programs such as the ecology of Nipah virus, Avian Influenza, rodent pathogen diversity in urban America; West Nile Virus and SARS ecology. Over the five years of this project, over 100 students from diverse backgrounds will be trained in tackling the global problem of emerging diseases which threaten wildlife conservation, public health and development. Research findings will be disseminated through peer-reviewed publications, media interviews, conference presentations, and congressional briefings, in close collaboration with national and intergovernmental agencies that cover conservation, development, trade issues, and public health. Network members will help make data publicly available via online databases, via the student section of the International EcoHealth Association, the Wildlife Trust Alliance and the EcoHealth Alliance.

传染病在生态系统中发挥着关键作用：调节野生动物种群，调节物种间竞争，导致种群数量急剧下降，甚至导致局部野生动物灭绝。在过去的二十年中，生态学家引领了疾病生态学新领域的发展，开展了理解这些相互作用的理论和实践研究。然而，疾病生态学与兽医和人类健康科学的整合进展缓慢，部分原因是健康科学课程对这些进展的反应缓慢。这种整合的缺乏以及动物和人类（人畜共患病）之间共享病原体的重要性导致人们一再呼吁生态学家、兽医和公共卫生研究人员之间加强合作。该奖项的目标是发展“EcoHealthNet”，一个新的“生态健康联盟”，将非政府组织、大学和研究会的卓越中心联系起来，融合保护医学、医学地理学和“一种医学”或“一种健康”概念等领域。 EcoHealthNet 将在将生态学家、环境生物学家和传统上涉及传染病的学科（兽医医学、人类医学和公共卫生研究人员）聚集在一起方面发挥关键作用。它将为 100 多名研究生提供指导培训机会，这些研究生来自医学（人类和兽医）、生态、流行病学、微生物学、经济和环境科学领域。 培训将包括流行病学、传染病数学模型和现场流行病学研讨会；以及正在进行的、得到充分支持的项目中的国际应用实地研究，例如尼帕病毒生态学、禽流感、美国城市啮齿动物病原体多样性；西尼罗河病毒和 SARS 生态。在该项目的五年中，来自不同背景的 100 多名学生将接受培训，以解决威胁野生动物保护、公共卫生和发展的新出现疾病的全球问题。 研究结果将通过同行评审出版物、媒体采访、会议演讲和国会简报等方式传播，并与涵盖保护、发展、贸易问题和公共卫生的国家和政府间机构密切合作。 网络成员将帮助通过在线数据库、国际生态健康协会、野生动物信托联盟和生态健康联盟的学生部分公开数据。