International Training in Environmental Health over the Lifespan

生命周期环境健康国际培训

• 批准号: 10633181
• 负责人: Luz Claudio
• 金额: $ 24.76万
• 依托单位: ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-08-15 至 2025-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10633181
• 关键词: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; Brain Drains; Cessation of life; Child; Collaborations; Communities; Costa Rica; Costa Rican; Country; Disease; Educational process of instructing; Ensure; Environmental Exposure; Environmental Health; Environmental Pollution; Funding; Health; Health Professional; Health Resources; Individual; Institution; International; Intervention; Latin America; Longevity; Malaria; Mentors; Mission; Occupational Health; Participant; Pollution; Publications; Reporting; Research; Research Methodology; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Research Training; Scholarship; Scientist; Short-Term Course; Time; Training; Training Programs; Tuberculosis; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Vulnerable Populations; design; experience; global environment; low and middle-income countries; prevent; programs; skills; underserved community

Project Summary Global environmental health is recognized as the most pressing challenge of our time. A recent report by The Lancet estimated that environmental pollution causes three times more deaths from non-communicable diseases (NCD) than AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria combined and that 92% of pollution-related deaths and diseases occur in low and middle income countries (LMICs). The mission of the Mount Sinai Division of International Health is to collaborate with LMICs to identify, document, prevent and mitigate environmental health problems especially in vulnerable populations such as children and underserved communities. Because of the close, long-term collaborations established through previous NIH-funded programs, we are poised to collaborate with new partners in Latin America. Based on those experiences, we propose to employ a proven, multi-tiered research training strategy that builds on local strengths at the individual, institutional, and regional levels with public university partners in Costa Rica, a country of many environmental strengths and challenges. The Mount Sinai-Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica (UNA) partnership is centered on equality and builds on each partner’s strengths. Our aims are: 1)To create a Mentored Research Scholarship Program in which junior scientists will be paired with mentors in the US for training in research methods and to conduct long-term research projects in Costa Rica. 2) To enhance teaching in Environmental and Occupational Health by collaborating in the creation of short-term courses that enhance research capacity for a broad range of biomedical and health professionals. 3) To promote South-to-South-to-North Collaboration by supporting a program of Advanced Research Scholarships to Costa Rican scientists that have a high potential to be self- sustaining. This multi-level approach to capacity building at the individual, institutional, and regional levels will ensure that the proposed program has both depth and breadth. The guiding principle of this program plan is to recognize the strengths of each partner and build on these through mutual collaboration. The program will, therefore, increase the likelihood of continued long-term impact. In line with our mission, the centerpiece will be a mentoring program uniquely designed to avoid the “brain-drain” of researchers from the partner country and instead builds capacity within Latin America. We expect that the program will result in 30 highly-skilled professionals in environmental health sciences conducting research at local public universities. Their projects will include multinational collaborations and the enhancement of environmental health resources for researchers in Costa Rica. We estimate based on our previous research training programs that the mentored and advanced research projects will generate at least 60 research publications. There will also be an estimated 250 participants in courses who will be able to incorporate environmental and occupational health research into their own projects. Importantly, there will also be many local communities and workers who will benefit from interventions to reduce NCDs caused or aggravated by environmental exposures.

项目摘要 全球环境健康被认为是我们时代最紧迫的挑战。最近的一份报告 《柳叶刀》杂志估计，环境污染导致非传染性疾病死亡的人数是其他疾病的三倍。 非传染性疾病（NCD）比艾滋病，结核病和疟疾的总和还要多，92%的污染相关死亡和 疾病发生在低收入和中等收入国家（LMICs）。西奈山分部的使命 国际卫生组织将与中低收入国家合作， 健康问题，特别是儿童和服务不足社区等弱势群体的健康问题。因为 通过以前NIH资助的项目建立的密切，长期的合作，我们准备 与拉丁美洲的新伙伴合作。根据这些经验，我们建议采用一种经过验证的， 多层次的研究培训战略，建立在个人，机构和区域的本地优势 在哥斯达黎加，一个拥有许多环境优势和挑战的国家，与公立大学合作伙伴建立了一个高水平的伙伴关系。 西奈山-哥斯达黎加（UNA）伙伴关系以平等为中心， 每个合作伙伴的优势。我们的目标是：1）创建一个指导研究奖学金计划，其中 初级科学家将与美国的导师配对，进行研究方法的培训， 哥斯达黎加的研究项目。2)加强环境及职业健康教育， 合作开设短期课程，提高广泛领域的研究能力， 生物医学和卫生专业人员。3)通过支持南南合作， 高级研究奖学金计划，哥斯达黎加科学家，有很高的潜力，是自我， 维持。这种在个人、机构和区域各级进行能力建设的多层次办法将 确保提出的方案既有深度又有广度。本方案的指导原则是， 认识到每个伙伴的优势，并通过相互协作在这些优势的基础上再接再厉。该计划将， 因此，增加了持续长期影响的可能性。根据我们的使命，中心装饰将是 一个旨在避免伙伴国研究人员“人才外流”的独特指导方案， 而是在拉丁美洲内部建立能力。我们预计，该计划将导致30个高技能 在当地公立大学进行研究的环境卫生科学专业人员。他们的项目 将包括多国合作和加强环境卫生资源， 哥斯达黎加的研究人员。我们估计，根据我们以前的研究培训计划， 高级研究项目将产生至少60份研究出版物。也将有一个 估计有250人参加课程，他们将能够将环境和职业健康纳入课程 研究自己的项目。重要的是，也将有许多当地社区和工人， 从干预措施中受益，以减少环境暴露导致或加剧的非传染性疾病。