Conference: USA-UK-China-Israel Workshop on Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases

该奖项将资助15名美国研究人员参加一个研讨会，以加强来自美国、英国、以色列和中国的科学家在传染病生态学和进化方面的国际合作。该研讨会将于2024年5月22日至23日在英国伦敦威康信托基金会举行。近几十年来，SARS冠状病毒2型（SARS-CoV-2）大流行和其他传染病的爆发，给人类社会和经济造成了巨大的损失。病原体-宿主（植物、动物和人类）-环境系统（PHES）中传染病的发生、传播、扩散和持续是复杂和动态的。除了病原体演变之外，这些传染病大多涉及多种宿主和传播途径，这些宿主和传播途径受到许多迅速变化的社会经济和环境因素的影响。该讲习班将扩大和加强研究人员和机构之间的国际合作。与会者将回顾，评估和了解传染病生态学和进化的最新研究进展。他们将确定数据，信息和知识的主要差距，讨论新的和主要的研究机会，确定研究优先领域，并讨论联合研究和教育活动的可能机制和途径。该研讨会将包括来自不同机构和职业阶段的各种研究人员。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。

This award will fund travel by fifteen US researchers to a workshop to enhance international collaborations in among scientists from the US, UK, Israel, and China who work on the ecology and evolution of infectious diseases. The workshop will be held at the Wellcome Trust, London, UK, on May 22-23, 2024. The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and other infectious disease outbreaks in recent decades have resulted in substantial losses of economy, human life, and the society. Emergence, transmission, spread, and persistence of infectious diseases in the pathogen - host (plant, animal, and human) - environmental systems (PHES) is complex and dynamic. In addition to pathogen evolution, most of these infectious diseases involve multiple hosts and transmission pathways that are affected by many rapidly changing socio-economic and environmental factors. This workshop will broaden and strengthen international collaboration among researchers and institutions. The participants will review, assess, and understand recent research progresses in infectious disease ecology and evolution. They will identify major gaps in data, information, and knowledge, discuss new and major research opportunities, identify research priority areas, and discuss possible mechanisms and pathways for joint research and education activities. The workshop will include a diverse groupe of researchers from a variety of institutions and career stages.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.