Interdisciplinary Training in Climate and Health

描述（由申请人提供） 这个申请是为了资助一个气候和健康科学的跨学科培训项目。该计划将通过环境健康科学（EHS）部门在哥伦比亚大学管理，并将建立一个专门的队列的前和博士后学员谁研究的一系列问题在气候和健康的关系。这些学生将进入环境健康科学研究的一个既定的，严格的跨学科课程，通过它，他们将获得解决当今社会面临的一些最紧迫的健康问题所需的专业知识和批判性思维能力。这项新计划的目标是培养新一代具有前瞻性的研究人员，他们能够独立开展跨学科工作，并与气候和健康领域的科学家合作。这种发展将在丰富的大学氛围中进行，补充课堂教学和研究，并进行写作，公开演讲和教学培训。培训计划教师由24名活跃，资金充足的研究人员组成，他们具有丰富的指导博士前和博士后学员的经验。这些研究人员拥有气候，工程，流行病学，毒理学，农业和政策学科的专业知识，并位于整个哥伦比亚大学的部门，中心和研究所，包括：环境健康科学系、流行病学系、北方曼哈顿环境健康中心、哥伦比亚大学地球研究所、美国宇航局戈达德空间研究所、拉蒙特-多尔蒂地球观测站、国际气候与社会研究所、国际地球科学信息网络中心、地球与环境科学系、地球与环境工程系、生态学系、进化与环境生物学系。这项培训补助金，沿着进一步的部门和大学的支持，将提供核心资金，以招募有才华的博士。候选人和博士后培训人员进入该计划。 对于博士预科生，项目支持通常将提供两年，之后支持将转移到导师的R 01赠款或个人奖学金。 开放的职位将免费招聘新的博士前学员。每个博士后受训人员将得到两年的支助，但地球研究所等来源可能提供相应的研究金。这个T32气候与健康培训计划将建立在现有的整体EHS部门的博士前和博士后计划的成功。环境健康科学计划的毕业生已经找到了优秀的研究和教师职位，并对各种公共卫生领域产生持续的影响。有了这项气候与健康培训补助金，研究人员将扩大跨学科气候和健康科学的强化培训。这种培训将提高科学认识，最终为气候适应和减缓战略、气候和碳排放政策提供信息，并改善公众健康。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant) This application is for funds to support a program for interdisciplinary training in climate and health science. The Program will be administered through the Environmental Health Sciences (EHS) Department at Columbia University and will establish a dedicated cohort of pre- and post-doctoral trainees who study a range of issues at the nexus of climate and health. These students will enter an established, rigorous interdisciplinary program of study within environmental health sciences through which they will acquire the expertise and critical thinking skills needed to address some of the most pressing health issues facing society today. The investigators' goal with this new program is to develop a new generation of forward-thinking researchers capable of independent interdisciplinary work as well as collaboration with scientists in both the climate and health fields. This development will take place in a rich, collegial atmosphere that supplements classroom instruction and research with training in writing, public speaking and teaching. The Training Program faculty consists of 24 active, well-funded researchers with extensive experience mentoring both pre-doctoral and postdoctoral trainees. These investigators have expertise spanning the climate, engineering, epidemiology, toxicology, agriculture and policy disciplines and are based in departments, centers and institutes throughout Columbia University, including: Environmental Health Sciences, the Department of Epidemiology, the Center for Environmental Health in Northern Manhattan, the Columbia University Earth Institute, the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, the International Research Institute for Climate and Society, the Center for International Earth Science Information Network, and the departments of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Earth and Environmental Engineering, and Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology. This training grant, along with further departmental and university support, will provide core funding with which to recruit talented Ph.D. candidates and post-doctoral trainees into the Program. For the pre-doctoral trainees, program support will typically be provided for two years after which support will be shifted to a mentor's R01 grant or an individual fellowship. Open slots will then be free for the recruitment of new pre-doctoral trainees. The postdoctoral trainees will each be supported for two years though matching fellowship funds may be available from sources such as the Earth Institute. This T32 Climate and Health Training Program will build on the success of the existing overall EHS department pre- and post-doctoral programs. Graduates of the Environmental Health Science program have found excellent research and faculty positions, and are having an ongoing impact on a variety of public health fields. With this Climate and Health training grant, the investigators will expand an intensify training in interdisciplinary climate and health science. Such training will lead to improved scientific understanding that will ultimately inform climate adaptation and mitigation strategies, climate and carbon emissions policies, and improve the public health.