Building on Excellence: an Interdisciplinary GEOHealth Hub in Ukraine - USA

描述（由申请人提供）：这笔赠款的目的是计划建立一个全球环境和职业健康（GEOHealth）中心，该中心将设在乌克兰基辅的国家医学科学院（NAMS）职业健康研究所（lOH）。lOH将与NAMS Marzeyev卫生和医学生态学研究所以及NAMS儿科、产科和妇科研究所组成一个联盟。将合作规划这个地球健康中心的联合大学各机构包括公共卫生学院（环境和职业健康科学系和流行病学系）和医学院（全球健康中心）。我们的具体目标是：1)为地球健康中心制定战略计划；2)对需求和机会进行评估，以解决支持乌克兰相关政策制定所需的科学；3)更新乌克兰国家环境卫生行动计划；4)在制定《国家职业卫生行动计划》时提供学术参与；5)挖掘乌克兰家庭和儿童研究的数据，以确定儿童环境卫生政策的优先事项；6)组建两国研究团队，规划未来的研究项目；7)使用专业期刊，方便策划；8)拓展潜在客户

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The purpose of this grant is to plan for the establishment of a Global Environmental and Occupational Health (GEOHealth) Hub that would be based in the Institute for Occupational Health (lOH) of the National Academy of Medical Sciences (NAMS) in Kyiv, Ukraine. lOH will form a consortium with the NAMS Marzeyev Institute for Hygiene and Medical Ecology and the NAMS Institute of Pediatrics, Obstetrics, and Gynecology. The UIC institutions that will collaborate in the planning for this GEOHealth Hub include the School of Public Health (Divisions of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences and Epidemiology) and the College of Medicine (Center for Global Health). Our specific aims are to: 1) Develop a strategic plan for the GEOHealth Hub; 2) conduct an assessment of needs and opportunities that addresses the science needed to support relevant policy development in Ukraine; 3) update Ukraine's National Environmental Health Action Plan; 4) provide academic participation in the development of the National Occupational Health Action Plan; 5) Mine data from the Family and Children of Ukraine study to set priorities for policy on children's environmental health; 6) form bi-national research teams to plan future research programs; 7) use professional journals to facilitate the planning; 8) conduct outreach to potential partners in Belarus, Moldova, and Serbia; and 9) evaluate the success of the planning process. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Occupation and environment are major risk factors for the global burden of disease, especially in Eastern Europe. We are planning to develop an interdisciplinary Global Environmental and Occupational Health Hub in Ukraine that would address these risk factors through research, training, and policy development.