Research Training in Health Protection and Preparedness

描述（由申请人提供）：生物医学科学的深刻和持续的进步并没有有效地转化为美国公众整体健康的改善。尽管有许多项目培训基础和临床研究科学家，但医学和公共卫生领域的研究培训却很少。解决这一缺陷对公共卫生至关重要。纽约大学医学院提案的目标是设计、实施和评估一个创新的新项目，以培训博士后、医生研究员从事健康保护和准备研究，并在学术机构和一线公共卫生机构之间建立可持续的研究联系。在对核心公共卫生学科和研究方法进行严格而重点突出的课程学习后，学员将与一名杰出导师合作，在医学和公共卫生的界面上调查现实世界的挑战。组织合作伙伴包括纽约市卫生和心理卫生部门、新泽西州卫生和老年服务部、耶鲁大学公共卫生学院、纽约市卫生和医院公司以及纽约大学灾难准备和应对中心，从而实现了健康保护和准备研究的广泛多样性，以及经验和专业知识的双向转移。促进健康和预防疾病方面的研究机会领域将包括，例如，影响城市弱势人口的问题，如预防癌症，或管理哮喘和预防相关残疾。防备方面的研究机会包括，例如，减轻恐怖主义对城市和移民人口的心理社会后遗症，评价检测和监测新发感染的技术和方法，以及对城市人口进行生物监测。纽约大学医学院GIM部门致力于发展一个自我维持的公共卫生研究和培训中心，为国家公共卫生医生研究人员的大量增加做出贡献。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Profound and ongoing advances in biomedical science are not being translated effectively into improvements in the overall health of the American public. Though many programs train basic and clinical research scientists, training in research at the interface of medicine and public health is scarce. Addressing this deficiency is vital to the public health. The goal of the NYU School of Medicine proposal is to design, implement, evaluate an innovative new program to train post-doctoral, physician fellows in health protection and preparedness research and create sustainable research linkages between academic institutions and front-line public health agencies. After a rigorous and focused curriculum on core public health disciplines and research methods, fellows will work with one of a cadre of outstanding mentors investigating real-world challenges at the interface of medicine and public health. Organizational partners include the NY City Dept. of Health and Mental Hygiene, the New Jersey Dept. of Health & Senior Services, the Yale School of Public Health, the NY City Health & Hospitals Corporation, and the NYU Center for Catastrophe Preparedness and Response, allowing for a broad diversity in exposure to health protection and preparedness research as well as bidirectional transfer of experience and expertise. Areas of research opportunities in health promotion and disease prevention will include, for example, problems affecting vulnerable urban populations, such as preventing cancer, or managing asthma and preventing associated disability. Research opportunities in preparedness include, for example, mitigating the psychosocial sequelae of terrorism in urban and immigrant populations, evaluation of technologies and methods for detection and surveillance of emerging infections, and bio-monitoring in urban populations. The Division of GIM at NYU School of Medicine is committed to development of a self-sustaining Center for Public Health Research and Training contributing to a significant increase in the Nation's supply of physician public health researchers.