International Training in Environmental Health over the Lifespan

生命周期环境健康国际培训

• 批准号: 10246525
• 负责人: Luz Claudio
• 金额: $ 24.74万
• 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/10246525
• 关键词: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; Brain Drains; Cessation of life; Child; Collaborations; Community Workers; Costa Rica; Costa Rican; Country; Disease; Educational process of instructing; Ensure; Environmental Exposure; Environmental Health; Environmental Pollution; Funding; Health; Health Professional; Health Resources; Individual; 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; base; design; experience; global environment; low and middle-income countries; prevent; programs; 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这个时代最紧迫的挑战。世界银行最近发布的一份报告 《柳叶刀》杂志估计，环境污染导致的非传染性疾病死亡人数是非传染性疾病的三倍 非传染性疾病(NCD)比艾滋病、结核病和疟疾的总和还要多，92%的与污染有关的死亡和 疾病发生在低收入和中等收入国家。西奈山师的任务是 国际卫生组织将与LMICs合作，以确定、记录、预防和缓解环境 健康问题，特别是在弱势群体中，如儿童和服务不足的社区。因为 在通过之前NIH资助的项目建立的密切、长期的合作中，我们准备 与拉丁美洲的新合作伙伴合作。基于这些经验，我们建议使用经过验证的、 多层次研究培训战略，建立在个人、机构和区域的本地优势基础上 哥斯达黎加是一个拥有许多环境优势和挑战的国家，它与公立大学合作伙伴建立了良好的合作关系。 西奈山-哥斯达黎加国立大学(UNA)伙伴关系以平等为中心，并在 每个合作伙伴的长处。我们的目标是：1)创建一个有指导的研究奖学金计划，在这个计划中 初级科学家将与美国的导师结对进行研究方法培训并进行长期研究 哥斯达黎加的研究项目。2)加强环境与职业健康的教学 合作创建短期课程，以增强对广泛领域的研究能力 生物医学和健康专业人士。3)通过支持一个 向哥斯达黎加科学家提供高级研究奖学金计划，这些科学家有很高的自我潜力 持续中。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 确保拟议的计划既有深度又有广度。这项计划的指导原则是 认识到每个合作伙伴的优势，并通过相互协作在此基础上进一步发展。该计划将， 因此，增加了继续产生长期影响的可能性。与我们的使命一致，中心将是 一个独特的指导计划，旨在避免合作伙伴国家和地区的研究人员“人才流失” 相反，它在拉丁美洲建立了产能。我们预计该计划将培养出30名高技能人才 在当地公立大学从事研究的环境健康科学专业人员。他们的项目 将包括跨国合作和加强环境卫生资源，以 哥斯达黎加的研究人员。根据我们之前的研究培训计划，我们估计 高级研究项目将产生至少60份研究出版物。还将有一个 估计有250名学员将能够将环境和职业健康纳入课程 研究他们自己的项目。重要的是，还将有许多当地社区和工人 受益于减少环境暴露引起或加重的非传染性疾病的干预措施。