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

会议：爱达荷大学人类生态系统健康研究所媒介传播疾病生物学课程

• 批准号: 2316443
• 负责人: Shirley Luckhart
• 金额: $ 25万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Idaho
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-05-01 至 2028-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2316443&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; University; Idaho; Institute; Health

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.

媒介传播疾病生物学（BVBD）课程的目标是培训研究生和教师，健康实践者，政府工作者和决策者，以查看植物，动物和人类健康之间在复杂的生态系统中的生物学相互作用，并将其相似，以作为目前燃烧着数百人群体的新型疾病的疾病。载体传播的疾病是由一种生物（通常是一种昆虫）传播给另一生物的病原体引起的，并引起病原体感染引起的疾病。这些疾病中的大多数几乎没有有效的控制干预措施。通过简短的演示，案例研究，动手建模练习以及对“邪恶挑战”的小组讨论，参与者了解了从亚细胞到生态系统量表的植物，动物和人类媒介传播疾病之间的生物联系。年度BVBD课程由国际认可的专家向美国和世界各地的潜水员参与者讲授，并将来自所有受影响地区的个人联系起来。 BVBD课程的内容和方法在激发潜水员利益相关者和参与者的内容和方法方面是独一无二的，可以同时解决植物，动物和人类媒介传播疾病，以此作为相互联系的健康挑战。植物，动物和人类媒介传播的疾病促使粮食不安全，破坏牲畜的生产，并每年造成数百万的死亡。这些病态系统在复杂的生态系统中复杂地联系起来，从茂密的城市化地区，农业生产从牧民到工业规模，托管森林和森林砍伐，以及越来越多地遭受极端野火，干旱，温度，温度转移和灾难性天气事件的大型地区。在这些环境中，植物，动物和人类媒介传播疾病的共享生物学和共同驱动因素不仅可以使人持久性，还可以迁移和侵袭新的动植物物种，这些植物和动物可以促进疾病出现和再出现。越来越认识到，多个生物量表的这些联系可以并且应该同时利用，以提高新的控制计划的效率，可持续性和效率，以改善所有组织的健康状况。但是，在影响这些变化时，我们面临着实质性的智力和后勤障碍。 BVBD课程提供了一个综合框架，以打破智力和沟通障碍，这阻碍了我们应对复杂生态系统中这些疾病挑战的能力。因为媒介传播的疾病不成比例地烧毁了最不足和资源不足的人群和地区，因此至关重要的是，BVBD参与者和讲师反映出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的多样性至关重要。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并反映了通过评估的诚实范围的构成者，这是诚实的范围。