Symposium on the Landscape Ecology of Infectious Disease

传染病景观生态学研讨会

• 批准号: 7485536
• 负责人: MICHAEL C WIMBERLY
• 金额: $ 0.5万
• 依托单位: SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-03-15 至 2009-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7485536
• 关键词: Address; Award; Behavioral; Biological; Communicable Diseases; Development; Disease; Disease Outbreaks; Ecology; Epidemiology; Fostering; Future; Genetic; Geographic Distribution; Health; Health Sciences; Information Systems; Lead; Maps; Medical Surveillance; Methodology; Pattern; Process; Public Health; Research; Risk; Risk Factors; Scientist; Students; System; Techniques; Technology; Travel; anthropogenesis; biomedical scientist; concept; disorder risk; environmental change; exposed human population; improved; interest; novel strategies; pathogen; practical application; remote sensing; socioeconomics; symposium; tool; tool development; vector

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): To date, there has been only limited professional interaction between scientists who primarily consider themselves landscape ecologists, and scientists from biomedical fields who are addressing the linkages between environmental change and disease risk. Landscape ecology explores the effects of spatial patterns on ecological processes, placing a particular emphasis on linkages across multiple spatial scales. Spatial epidemiology examines the influences the influences of demographic, environmental, behavioral, socioeconomic, genetic, and infectious risk factors on the geographic patterns of diseases. The development of both of these fields has been closely tied to the emergence of geographical information systems and satellite remote sensing technologies. There is much to be gained by encouraging cross- disciplinary interactions between landscape ecology and the health scientists to foster the exchange of concepts and methodologies. To facilitate this type of interaction, a special session addressing the landscape ecology of infectious disease will be held at the 2008 US-IALE meeting. Travel awards will be offered to graduate student and postdoctoral trainees to stimulate interest and future research in this emerging, interdisciplinary field. The symposium will specifically address how the concepts and techniques developed in the field of landscape ecology can contribute to research into the effects of environmental change on infectious disease risk. It will also explore how a fusion of landscape ecology and the health sciences could result in the development of new tools and practical applications for improving public health. Landscape ecology explores the effects of spatial patterns on ecological processes, placing a particular emphasis on linkages across multiple spatial scales. These themes are clearly relevant to understanding the biological, environmental, and anthropogenic factors that influence the geographic distributions of vector-borne and zoonotic pathogens, as well as the consequent risks of human exposure. Developing a closer linkage between landscape ecology and the health sciences will lead to the development of tools and methodologies with the potential to enhance public health, including improved disease risk maps, new approaches to disease surveillance, and early warning systems to predict disease outbreaks resulting from environmental change.

描述（由申请人提供）： 迄今为止，主要认为自己是景观生态学家的科学家与正在研究环境变化与疾病风险之间联系的生物医学领域的科学家之间的专业互动有限。景观生态学探讨了空间格局对生态过程的影响，特别强调跨多个空间尺度的联系。空间流行病学研究人口、环境、行为、社会经济、遗传和传染风险因素对疾病地理模式的影响。这两个领域的发展与地理信息系统和卫星遥感技术的出现密切相关。通过鼓励景观生态学和健康科学家之间的跨学科互动，促进概念和方法的交流，将有很大的收获。为了促进这种类型的互动，将在2008年美国-IALE会议上举行一次特别会议，讨论传染病的景观生态学。将向研究生和博士后学员提供旅行奖励，以激发他们对这一新兴跨学科领域的兴趣和未来研究。研讨会将专门讨论景观生态学领域的概念和技术如何有助于研究环境变化对传染病风险的影响。它还将探讨景观生态学和健康科学的融合如何导致新工具的开发和改善公众健康的实际应用。景观生态学探讨了空间格局对生态过程的影响，特别强调跨多个空间尺度的联系。这些主题显然与理解影响病媒传播和人畜共患病病原体地理分布的生物、环境和人为因素以及由此产生的人类接触风险有关。在景观生态学和健康科学之间建立更密切的联系，将有助于开发有可能加强公共健康的工具和方法，包括改进疾病风险图、疾病监测的新方法以及预测环境变化引起的疾病爆发的预警系统。