New Mexico NIEHS Center

新墨西哥州环境健康科学中心的使命是解决西南社区对环境健康问题的需求和关注，并对区域相关的环境公共卫生问题进行基础和转化研究。许多新墨西哥州和西南部的部落社区在历史上出生了一个不成比例的份额暴露于各种各样的环境毒物在空气中，水 最近有证据表明，许多社区的成员正因环境暴露而遭受不利的健康影响。近年来，人们对研究导致环境疾病风险增加的遗传易感性因素产生了极大的兴趣，事实上，我们中心的研究人员进行的许多研究直接着眼于基因和环境因素的相互作用。然而，在这方面的工作很少。 社会经济地位（SES）和行为问题的影响及其对环境疾病的影响。有新的研究表明，SES和行为问题可能在疾病触发中发挥与遗传因素一样重要的作用。这个NIEHS中心的主题将是“环境疾病和健康促进西南易感人群。“我们将关注气道炎症的潜在环境原因， 哮喘、癌症和其他环境疾病。这一主题是根据我们在新墨西哥州和周边地区的西南社区的感知和真实的健康问题，以及UNM健康科学中心和Lovelace呼吸研究所（LRRI）的能力来选择的，以应对这些问题与人口为基础的研究和转化研究项目。新墨西哥州NIEHS中心将由一位 行政核心，将有三个研究核心（RC），四个设施核心（FC），和一个社区外展和教育计划（COEP）。RC 1将专注于环境疾病中重要的基因-环境相互作用，RC 2将研究包括哮喘和癌症在内的环境肺部疾病，RC 3将成为关注公共卫生，行为和SES问题的人口健康核心。这一核心也将有一个组成部分，审查伦理，社会和法律的影响（ELSI）为基础的人口和社区参与的研究。功能界别将包括FCI：环境评估和暴露，FC2：生物技术（基因组学、蛋白质组学和创新的流式细胞术），FC 3：生物计算和生物信息学，FC 4：生物统计学（也将有一个地理空间信息系统，GIS，组件）。COEP将专注于与美洲原住民主权的既定互动 国家和社区（纳瓦霍、祖尼、杰梅斯、拉古纳、阿科马等）以及与阿尔伯克基南谷和美国-墨西哥社区合作伙伴

The Mission of the New Mexico Environmental Health Sciences Center is to address the needs and concerns of Southwestern communities relating to environmental health issues and to conduct basic and translational research on regionally-relevant environmental public health issues. Many New Mexico and Tribal communities in the Southwest have historically born a disproportionate share of exposure to a wide variety of environmental toxicants in the air, water and soil, and recent evidence raises concerns that members of many communities are suffering adverse health effects from environmental exposures. There has been great interest in recent years in studying genetic susceptibility factors that lead to increased risk of environmental diseases, and indeed many of the studies conducted by our Center investigators look directly at gene and environmental factor interactions. However, there has been little work on the influence of social economic status (SES) and behavioral issues and their influence on environmental disease. There is emerging research that indicates that SES and behavioral issues may play as important a role in disease triggering as genetic factors. The theme of this NIEHS Center will be "Environmental Disease and Health Promotion in Susceptible Southwestern Populations." We will focus on potential environmental causes of airway inflammation, asthma, cancer, and other environmental diseases. This theme was chosen based upon the perceived and real health concerns of our southwestern communities in New Mexico and surrounding areas, as well as the ability of the UNM Health Sciences Center and the Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute (LRRI) to respond to these concerns with population-based studies and translational research projects. The New Mexico NIEHS Center will be led by an Administrative Core, and there will be three Research Cores (RCs), four Facility Cores (FCs), and a Community Outreach and Education Program (COEP). RC1 will focus on gene-environment interactions that are important in environmental disease, RC2 will examine environmental lung diseases including asthma and cancer, and RC3 will be a population health core focusing on public health, behavioral, and issues of SES. This core will also have a component examining Ethical, Social, and Legal Implications (ELSI) for population-based and community-engaged research. The FCs will include FCI: Environmental Assessments and Exposures, FC2: Biotechnology (genomics, proteomics, and innovative flow cytometry), FC3: Biocomputing and Bioinformatics, FC4: Biostatistics (which will also have a geospatial information system, GIS, component). The COEP will focus on established interactions with Native American sovereign nations and communities (Navajo, Zuni, Jemez, Laguna, Acoma, and others) as well as on a community partnership with the Albuquerque South Valley, and with U.S.-Mexico community partners.