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

描述（由申请人提供）：该补助金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国家医学科学院（NAMS）职业健康研究所（洛）。洛将与NAMS Marzeyev卫生和医疗生态学研究所以及NAMS儿科，产科和妇科研究所组成一个联盟。UIC机构将合作规划这个GEOHealth中心，包括公共卫生学院（环境和职业健康科学和流行病学部门）和医学院（全球健康中心）。我们的具体目标是：1）为GEOHealth中心制定战略计划; 2）进行需求和机会评估，解决支持乌克兰相关政策制定所需的科学; 3）更新乌克兰的国家环境健康行动计划; 4）提供学术参与国家职业健康行动计划的发展; 5）从乌克兰家庭和儿童研究中挖掘数据，以确定儿童环境健康政策的优先事项; 6）组建两国研究小组，规划未来的研究方案; 7）利用专业期刊促进规划;（8）对潜在的 白俄罗斯、摩尔多瓦和塞尔维亚的合作伙伴;以及9）评估规划过程的成功。 职业和环境是全球疾病负担的主要风险因素，特别是在东欧。我们正计划在乌克兰建立一个跨学科的全球环境和职业健康中心，通过研究、培训和政策制定来解决这些风险因素。

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.