One Health Center for Environmental and Occupational Research - United States

描述（由申请人提供）：一些东欧和中亚国家被世界银行视为低收入或中等收入国家（LMIC）。它们不断增长的经济正在经历迅速的变化。因此，环境和职业健康需求很大。佛罗里达大学环境与全球健康系，公共卫生与健康管理学院提议与Babe合作- 罗马尼亚克卢伊-纳波卡的Bolyai大学在BBU创建了一个环境和职业研究GEOHealth中心。GEOHealth Hub将利用已有的研究合作，与其他5个东欧和中亚LMIC的其他11个学术中心合作：阿尔巴尼亚，亚美尼亚，格鲁吉亚，哈萨克斯坦和摩尔多瓦。GEOHealth Hub将专注于3个研究和培训领域：1）水生健康，2）食品安全和3）人畜共患病。 地球健康中心的长期目标是加强12个参与学术中心的环境和职业研究与培训的机构能力。头两年的具体目标是：（1）进行循证需求和机会评估，以确定罗马尼亚、阿尔巴尼亚、亚美尼亚、格鲁吉亚、哈萨克斯坦和摩尔多瓦的环境和职业公共卫生问题;（2）在巴库建立全球环境卫生中心;第三章设计研究报告，解决地球健康中心的重点研究课题，并规划必要的能力建设，开展中心的研究活动;以及4）制定一项评估计划，以监测目标1-3的成功情况。 拟议的GEOHealth Hub具有创新性，因为它将采用“一个健康”跨学科方法，让来自12个学术机构的公共，兽医和环境卫生领域的专家参与研究和培训项目，以改善公共卫生。GEOHealth Hub将得到佛罗里达大学的支持，该大学拥有16所赠地和健康科学学院，可从中汲取研究和培训专业知识，包括One Health导向课程，One Health硕士和博士学位课程以及One Health研究项目。 公共卫生相关性：利用先前存在的研究合作网络，我们将在Babe开发一个GEOHealth Hub。- 罗马尼亚克卢伊-纳波卡的Bolyai大学。该中心将与位于阿尔巴尼亚、亚美尼亚、格鲁吉亚、哈萨克斯坦和摩尔多瓦的11个学术中心协调研究和培训合作。它将侧重于3个研究和培训领域：水产健康，食品安全和人畜共患病。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A number of Eastern European and Central Asian countries are considered by the World Bank as lower or middle income countries (LMICs). Their growing economies are undergoing rapid change. Consequently, environmental and occupational health needs are great. The University of Florida Department of Environmental and Global Health, College of Public Health and Health Professions proposes a collaboration with Babe-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania in creating a One Health Center for Environmental and Occupational Research GEOHealth Hub at BBU. The GEOHealth Hub will capitalize on pre-existing research collaborations in partnering with 11 other academic centers in 5 other Eastern European and Central Asian LMICs: Albania, Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhztan, and Moldova. The GEOHealth Hub will focus upon 3 research and training areas 1) Aquatic Health, 2) Food Safety, and 3) Zoonotic Diseases. The long-term objective of the GEOHealth Hub is to strengthen institutional capacity for environmental and occupational research and training at the 12 participating academic centers. Specific aims in the first 2 years are 1) To conduct an evidence-based needs and opportunities assessment to identify environmental and occupational public health problems in Romania, Albania, Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhztan, and Moldova; 2) To establish the GEOHealth Hub at BBU; 3) To design research studies that address the focal research topics of the GEOHealth Hub and to plan the necessary capacity building to successfully conduct the Center's research activities; and 4) To develop an evaluation plan for monitoring the success of Aims 1-3. The proposed GEOHealth Hub is innovative as it will employ the One Health cross-disciplinary approach to engage experts in public, veterinary, and environmental health fields from each of the 12 academic institutions towards research and training projects to improve public health. The GEOHealth Hub will be supported by the University of Florida which has 16 land grant and health science colleges from which to draw research and training expertise, including One Health-oriented courses, One Health Master and PhD degree programs, and One Health research projects. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Capitalizing upon a previously existing network of research collaborations, we will develop a GEOHealth Hub at the Babe-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. The Hub will coordinate research and training collaborations with 11 academic centers located in Albania, Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhztan, and Moldova. It will focus upon 3 research and training areas: Aquatic Health, Food Safety, and Zoonotic Diseases.