Training Program in Water and Health(RMI)

描述(由申请人提供)： 2002年，塔夫茨大学创建了一个跨学科的博士项目，培训学生以全球视野工作，确保水安全，以保护健康、环境和人类生计。该项目名为水：系统、科学和社会(WSSS)，包括该大学的六个学院：医学、兽医、营养学、文理、工程学和弗莱彻法律与外交学院。WSSS旨在确保学生在发展专业的同时获得跨学科的知识和方法。通过这项应用，我们建议支持WSSS的学生，专注于水与健康。 水的需求、使用和质量问题在世界各地和美国都很普遍，美国国立卫生研究院认为水的需求、使用和质量问题足够重要，应该在2010年健康人目标中特别提到。水与健康培训计划将支持惠普2010年的目标和创建新型跨学科专业人员的新路线图目标。综合的跨学科分析对于理解和管理复杂的与水有关的问题是必要的。我们的愿景是培养熟练的健康相关学科的专业人员，他们可以使用多种学科视角和工具。水与健康专业的毕业生将能够应对与水相关的跨学科、综合性研究挑战。工程师们将理解公共卫生的原理。营养学专业的学生将了解水文学的基础知识。政策专业的学生将了解流行病学的基本原理。这些新的专业人员将能够参与水问题的分析，并与来自许多专业的同事共同努力，利用相关学科的严格方法和工具制定解决方案。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In 2002, Tufts University created an interdisciplinary doctoral program to train students to work with a global view toward assuring water security for the protection of health, the environment, and human livelihoods. The program is called Water: Systems, Science, and Society (WSSS), and includes six schools of the university: Medicine, Veterinary Medicine, Nutrition, Arts and Sciences, Engineering, and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. WSSS is designed to assure that students acquire interdisciplinary knowledge and approaches, even as they develop a specialization. With this application we propose to support students in WSSS with a concentration in Water and Health. Problems of water needs, use, and quality are pervasive throughout the world as well as the US, and are considered important enough by the National Institutes of Health to be mentioned specifically within the goals of Healthy People 2010. The Water and Health training program will support both HP 2010 goals and the New Roadmap goals of creating a new kind of interdisciplinary professional. Integrated, interdisciplinary analysis is necessary to understand and manage complex water related problems. Our vision is to educate professionals skilled in health-related disciplines who can use multiple disciplinary perspectives and tools. Water and Health graduates will be able to respond to the interdisciplinary, integrated water-related research challenges. Engineers will understand the principles of Public Health. Nutrition students will understand the basics of hydrology. Policy students will understand the fundamentals of epidemiology. These new professionals will be able to participate in the analysis of water problems and work to develop solutions jointly with colleagues from many specialties, using the rigorous methods and tools of the relevant disciplines.