Conference: University of Idaho Institute for Health in the Human Ecosystem Biology of Vector-borne Diseases Course

媒介传播疾病生物学（BVBD）课程的目标是培训研究生和教师，卫生从业人员，政府工作人员和政策制定者，以查看复杂生态系统中植物，动物和人类健康之间的生物相互作用和相似之处，作为目前负担地球仪数亿人的疾病的新干预措施的基础。病媒传播疾病是由病原体引起的，病原体由一种生物体（通常是昆虫）传播给另一种生物体，病原体感染导致疾病。这些疾病中的大多数几乎没有有效的控制干预措施。通过简短的演讲，案例研究，动手建模练习和“邪恶的挑战”的小组讨论，参与者了解植物，动物和人类媒介传播疾病从亚细胞到生态系统规模的生物联系。年度BVBD课程由国际公认的专家教授，来自美国和世界各地的不同参与者，将所有受影响地区的个人联系起来。BVBD课程在内容和方法上是独一无二的，旨在激励不同的利益相关者和行为者同时全面地解决植物，动物和人类媒介传播的疾病作为相互关联的健康挑战。植物、动物和人类媒介传播的疾病导致各大洲的粮食不安全，破坏畜牧业生产，每年造成数百万人死亡。这些病理系统在复杂的生态系统中错综复杂地联系在一起，从密集的城市化地区，从畜牧业到工业规模的农业生产，管理森林和砍伐森林，以及越来越多地遭受极端野火，干旱，气温变化和灾难性天气事件的大片地区。在这些环境中，植物、动物和人类媒介传播疾病的共同生物学和共同驱动因素不仅使病理系统得以持续存在，而且使新的动植物物种能够迁移和入侵，从而促进疾病的出现和重新出现。人们越来越认识到，这些跨多个生物尺度的联系可以而且应该同时利用，以提高新控制计划的效率、可持续性和有效性，从而改善所有生物体的健康状况。然而，我们在实现这些变革方面面临着巨大的知识和后勤障碍。BVBD课程提供了一个综合框架，以打破阻碍我们在复杂生态系统中应对这些疾病挑战的能力的知识和沟通障碍。由于病媒传播疾病给服务不足和资源不足的人群和地区造成了不成比例的负担，因此BVBD参与者和指导者必须反映受这些疾病影响的人群的多样性以及一系列专业知识和经验。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

The goal of the Biology of Vector-borne Diseases (BVBD) course is to train graduate students and faculty, health practitioners, government workers, and policymakers to view the biological interactions and parallels among plant, animal, and human health in complex ecosystems as a basis for novel interventions to diseases that currently burden hundreds of millions of people across the globe. Vector-borne diseases are caused by pathogens transmitted by one organism, often an insect, to another organism with disease resulting from pathogen infection. The majority of these diseases have few to no effective interventions for control. Through short presentations, case studies, hands-on modeling exercises, and group discussions of “wicked challenges”, participants learn about the biological connections across plant, animal, and human vector-borne diseases from the subcellular to the ecosystem scale. The annual BVBD course is taught by internationally recognized experts to diverse participants from across the US and around the world, connecting individuals from all impacted regions. The BVBD course is unique in its content and approach to inspire diverse stakeholders and actors to concurrently and holistically address plant, animal, and human vector-borne diseases as interconnected health challenges. Plant, animal, and human vector-borne diseases drive food insecurity across continents, devastate livestock production and cause the deaths of millions each year. These pathosystems are intricately connected in complex ecosystems that range from areas of dense urbanization, agricultural production from the pastoralist to industrial scales, managed forests and deforestation, and large regions that are increasingly subjected to extreme wildfire, drought, temperature shifts and catastrophic weather events. Within these environments, the shared biology and common drivers of plant, animal, and human vector-borne diseases enable not only pathosystem persistence, but also migration and invasion of new species of plants and animals that can fuel disease emergence and re-emergence. There is growing recognition that these connections across multiple biological scales can and should be leveraged concurrently to increase efficiency, sustainability, and efficacy of new control programs to improve health outcomes across all organisms. However, we face substantial intellectual and logistical obstacles in effecting these changes. The BVBD course delivers an integrated framework to break down intellectual and communication barriers that impede our ability to address these disease challenges in complex ecosystems. Because vector-borne diseases disproportionately burden the most under-served and under-resourced populations and regions, it is critical that BVBD participants and instructors reflect both the diversity of populations impacted by these diseases and a range of expertise and experience.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.