Innovative Water & International Research Curricula (RMI)

描述(由申请者提供)：本申请计划支持两个跨学科研究课程目标。 首先是在塔夫茨大学设计并实施一门名为“水与健康”的跨学科课程。塔夫茨大学最近开始了一项跨学科的全大学项目，重点是饮用水。该项目是塔夫茨大学文理学院、工程学院、弗莱彻法律与外交学院、兽医学院和医学院的合作伙伴关系。为了应对开发跨学科综合方法来理解和解决全球水问题的挑战，塔夫茨大学推出了“水：系统、科学和社会”博士和硕士项目。该计划的目的是提供管理与水有关的问题所需的跨学科工具和视角。该项目在塔夫茨大学享有最高级别的支持，包括校长作为WSSS教职员工的参与。 第二个目标是在塔夫茨公共卫生研究生课程和特定的东非公共卫生培训和研究卓越中心之间建立基于互联网的跨学科课程联系。为实现这一目标，自2000年秋季以来，国际和平研究所在东非的大学和教职员工个人一级建立了教育和研究联系。这一目标的目的是开发跨学科共享课程或模块，有助于研究方法的教学和研究网络的建设。 申请者处于开发和实施这些创新课程的理想位置。他是塔夫茨大学医学院公共卫生研究生项目主任，该学院公共卫生硕士项目2004年在美国排名第一，也是一位经验丰富的教育工作者。他也是一名积极的生物医学研究人员，拥有6笔活跃的赠款(5笔NIH，1笔美国国际开发署)，其中5笔在肯尼亚和厄瓜多尔活跃，其中大多数专注于“水”，其中几笔是高度跨学科的。因此，他是塔夫茨研究和学术项目不可或缺的一部分，并有资格在创新的跨学科研究课程中提供领导。这项建议的创新之处包括在这两个具体目标的课程范围内支持学生研究项目。对这些目标的坚定机构承诺过去一直是，现在也是。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application proposes to support two interdisciplinary research curriculum objectives. The first is to devise and implement a 'Water and Health' interdisciplinary course at Tufts University, which has recently started an interdisciplinary, all-University program focusing on drinking water. This program is a partnership of the Tufts University Schools of Arts and Sciences; Engineering; the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; the School of Veterinary Medicine; and the School of Medicine. In order to meet the challenge of developing an integrated approach across disciplines to understand - and solve global water issues, Tufts has launched the "Water: Systems, Science, and Society" PhD and MS Program. The purpose of the program is to provide the interdisciplinary tools and perspectives need to manage water-related problems. This program enjoys the highest level support at Tufts, including the participation of the President as a WSSS faculty member. The second objective is to make concrete an internet based, interdisciplinary curricular linkage between Tufts' Graduate Program in Public Health, and specific East African centers of excellence in public health training and research. The PI has cultivated educational and research linkages at both the University and individual faculty level in East Africa since the fall of 2000 in pursuit of this objective. The purpose of this objective is to develop interdisciplinary shared courses or modules that will lend themselves to the teaching of research methods, and to the building of research networks. The applicant is ideally situated to develop and implement these innovative curricula. He is the Director of the Graduate Programs in Public Health at Tufts University School of Medicine, whose MPH program was ranked #1 in the US in 2004, and a seasoned educator. He is also an active biomedical researcher with 6 active grants (5 NIH, 1 USAID), 5 of which are active in Kenya and Ecuador, most of which have a 'water' focus, and several of which are highly interdisciplinary. As such, he is an integral part of Tufts' research and academic programs, and is qualified to provide leadership in innovative interdisciplinary research curricula. Innovative aspects of this proposal include the support of student research projects within the context of courses in both specific aims. Strong institutional commitment to these objectives has been, and is, present.