Drexel Climate Change and Urban Health Research Center (Drexel CCUH)

摘要--总体 德雷克塞尔气候变化和城市健康研究中心(CCUH)的中心主题是 以及传播/翻译将支持城市政策的证据，以解决卫生和公平问题 气候变化对城市的影响。城市地区是气候变化的主要贡献者，也是 不平等现象，但也提供了许多采取行动的机会。城市化在较低和较低的地区发生得更快 在中等收入国家，气候变化正在刺激各国之间的移徙。关于健康的研究 气候变化的影响必须横跨各国的城市社区，但很少有工作集中在内部 或对不同城市之间的这些不平等现象进行比较分析。基于 我们在美国和拉丁美洲的13个机构之间建立了富有成效的合作，我们的目标是建立 德雷克塞尔的机构能力和该形成中心中包括的三个合作伙伴地点(华盛顿大学 加州大学伯克利分校、巴西S圣保罗大学和危地马拉INCAP)，以支持面向行动的 气候变化对不同城市人口健康及健康不平等的影响研究 美洲。具体地说，我们将利用Drexel在城市健康和健康公平方面的现有优势，我们的 拉丁美洲城市健康研究网络(Salud Urbana en America拉美或SALURBAL研究) 以及我们与包括美国大城市健康联盟在内的美国合作伙伴的合作。这一强大的现有基础设施将 使我们能够扩大我们的城市健康和健康公平工作，以涵盖解决方案的产生- 关于气候变化对城市健康影响的定向证据，并将这些证据转化为行动 与社区和政策制定者合作。我们的目标是：(1)建立一个 促进关于气候变化和与政策相关的合作和包容的跨学科和相关研究 美洲各城市的卫生(行政核心)；(2)支持加强研究能力 关于城市环境中气候变化对健康的影响，通过有系统的培训活动，资助试点赠款 和研究方法翻译和支持(研究能力建设核心)；(2)展示 关于气候变化和卫生公平的多国研究的信息性和政策相关性 吸引美国和拉丁美洲研究人员参与的关于城市内部不平等的研究项目(研究 项目)；和(4)通过政策参与提高政策转化和政策影响的能力 创建者和受影响的城市社区，以便为未来的研究问题以及传播提供信息 和翻译工作以最大限度地提高影响(社区参与核心。)通过这些目标，我们将支持 建立扩大所需的基础设施、研究和参与能力以及伙伴关系 关于气候变化对城市地区健康和健康公平的影响的政策相关研究。我们的 最终目标是成为气候变化和城市健康方面的卓越中心，具有很强的公平性 政策制定者和社区的重点、全球影响和有意义的参与，以最大限度地发挥政策影响。

SUMMARY– OVERALL The central theme of the Drexel Climate Change and Urban Health Research Center (CCUH) is the creation and dissemination/translation of evidence that will support urban policies to address the health and equity impacts of climate change in cities. Urban areas are key contributors to climate change and are home to large inequities, but also present many opportunities for action. Urbanization is occurring more rapidly in lower-and middle-income countries, and climate change is spurring migration across countries. Research on the health impacts of climate change must span urban communities across countries, yet little work has focused on intra- urban inequities or conducted comparative analyses of these inequities across heterogeneous cities. Based on our established, productive collaboration across 13 institutions in the US and Latin America, we aim to build institutional capacity at Drexel and at three partner sites included in this formative Center (University of California Berkeley, University of São Paulo in Brazil, and INCAP in Guatemala) to support action-oriented research on the impacts of climate change on population health and health inequities in diverse cities across the Americas. Specifically, we will leverage existing strengths at Drexel in urban health and health equity, our research network on urban health in Latin America (the Salud Urbana en America Latina or SALURBAL study) and our work with US partners including US Big Cities Health Coalition. This robust, existing infrastructure will enable us to expand our urban health and health equity work to encompass the generation of solutions- oriented evidence on the impacts of climate change on health in cities and translate that evidence into actions in partnership with communities and policymakers. Our aims are: (1) to create an organizational structure that promotes collaborative and inclusive transdisciplinary and policy-relevant research on climate change and health across cities of the Americas (Administrative Core); (2) to support capacity-strengthening for research on climate change health impacts in urban settings through structured training activities, funding pilot grants and research methods translation and support (Research Capacity Building Core); (2) to demonstrate the informativeness and policy-relevance of multi-country research on climate change and health equity through a research project on intra-urban inequities engaging researchers from the US and Latin America (Research Project); and (4) to increase capacity for policy translation and policy impact through the engagement of policy makers and impacted urban communities in order to inform future research questions, as well as dissemination and translation efforts to maximize impact (Community Engagement Core.) Through these aims we will support the creation of the infrastructure, research and engagement capacity, and partnerships needed to expand policy relevant research on the impacts of climate change on health and health equity in urban areas. Our ultimate goal is to become a center of excellence on climate change and urban health with a strong equity focus, global reach and meaningful engagement of policy makers and communities to maximize policy impact.