Interdisciplinary Training in Climate and Health

描述(由申请人提供) 这项申请是为支持气候和健康科学的跨学科培训计划而申请的资金。该计划将通过哥伦比亚大学的环境健康科学(EHS)系进行管理，并将建立一个专门的博士后和博士后实习生队列，他们研究气候与健康之间的一系列问题。这些学生将进入环境健康科学领域建立的、严格的跨学科学习计划，通过该计划，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技能。研究人员这个新项目的目标是培养新一代具有前瞻性思维的研究人员，他们能够进行独立的跨学科工作，并能够与气候和健康领域的科学家合作。这一发展将在丰富的大学氛围中进行，通过写作、公开演讲和教学方面的培训来补充课堂教学和研究。培训计划的教职员工由24名活跃的、资金充足的研究人员组成，他们拥有指导博士后和博士后学员的丰富经验。这些调查人员的专业知识横跨气候、工程、流行病学、毒理学、农业和政策学科，分布在哥伦比亚大学的各个系、中心和研究所，包括：环境健康科学系、流行病学系、曼哈顿北部环境健康中心、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，以及地球和环境科学系、地球和环境工程系、以及生态、进化和环境生物系。这笔培训补助金，加上进一步的部门和大学支持，将提供核心资金，用于招募有才华的博士候选人和博士后实习生加入该计划。对于博士前实习生，通常会提供为期两年的项目支持，之后支持将转移到导师的R01补助金或个人奖学金。然后，开放的空位将免费招收新的博士前实习生。每名博士后实习生将得到为期两年的支持，但可能会从地球研究所等来源获得匹配的研究金。这一T32气候与健康培训计划将建立在现有整体EHS系博士后和博士后项目的成功基础上。环境健康科学专业的毕业生已经找到了很好的研究和教师职位，并正在对各种公共卫生领域产生持续的影响。有了这笔气候与健康培训赠款，研究人员将扩大气候与健康科学跨学科的强化培训。这种培训将导致提高科学认识，最终将为气候适应和缓解战略、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.