Spatial Sciences Core

空间科学核心 摘要 空间科学核心(SSC)旨在描述以下地区的社会和自然环境 南部和中部非洲，疟疾流行病学、病媒生物学和寄生虫基因组学研究 将会进行。核心项目将提供环境背景，以便更好地了解疟疾的驱动因素 在疟疾控制不同阶段的地区传播。为了扩展和赞扬这一目标， 空间科学核心包括空间统计研究和应用的专门组成部分 方法：研究方法。我们假设，在空间统计中拥有强大的转换研究部分将允许 项目超越了绘制环境和疟疾指标的地图，而是在统计上将动态变化联系起来 在环境中对疟疾传播的相应变异，从而提供了一种可靠的科学方法 确定环境相互作用，并从研究区域外推至类似的疟疾传播 设置。

SPATIAL SCIENCE CORE Abstract The Spatial Sciences Core (SSC) is designed to characterize the social and physical environment in regions of Southern and Central Africa where studies of the epidemiology of malaria, vector biology and parasite genomics will be conducted. The Core will provide an environmental context to better understand the drivers of malaria transmission in regions with different stages of malaria control. To extend and compliment this objective, the Spatial Science Core includes a dedicated component in the research and application of spatial statistical methods. We hypothesize that having a strong translational research component in spatial statistics will allow projects to move beyond the mapping of environment and malaria metrics to statistically linking dynamic changes in the environment to corresponding variation in malaria transmission, thus providing a sound scientific approach to identifying environmental interactions and extrapolating beyond the study areas to similar malaria transmission settings.