Oceans and Human Health Symposium and Workshop: Accomplishments and Future Directions

随着世界人口不断增加并继续向沿海地区迁移，同时气候变化可能给沿海地区带来各种灾害，海洋与人类健康学科的紧迫性日益增加。沿海地区的未知因素和气候变化已经将职业健康的普遍问题提升到威胁美国国家安全的程度。五年前，美国国家科学基金会（NSF）和美国国家环境健康科学研究院（NIEHS）合作资助了四个国家海洋与人类健康研究中心。每个NSF-NIEHS中心的任务是积极地将生物医学科学家与海洋科学家配对，以寻求在这两个先前独立的研究领域的界面上出现的科学问题的答案。我们现在已经到了应该综合过去五年来所获得的知识，确定最重要的发现，并试图描述未来海洋和人类健康研究将最有成效的领域的地步。在这一奖项的支持下，迈阿密大学的研究人员将召开一次海洋与人类健康研讨会和讲习班，以全面和综合的方式审查和讨论过去五年NSF-NIEHS四个中心所取得的成就，以及OHH这一新学科在未来十年可能取得的成就。会议定于2010年4月在华盛顿举行。会议议程将围绕两个总体焦点：卫生组织迄今取得的进展和未来的挑战。OHH进展部分的主题将包括：(1)娱乐海水中直接的人类微生物健康危害；(2)海洋食物网健康危害；(3)有害藻华的建模与预测；(4)跨学科培训。未来的挑战部分包括：(1)气候变化；（二）自然灾害；(3)沿海影响；(4)跨学科培训。更广泛的影响：本次研讨会/研讨会将提供一个研究网络和协作互动的场所，不仅在当前中心的研究人员和学生之间，而且在多个联邦机构和其他组织的研究人员，科学管理人员和政策制定者之间，在扩大OHH社区。这也将是所有参与者评估以中心为导向的方法进行联邦政府支持的健康卫生研究的相对优势和劣势的机会。

The urgency of the Oceans and Human Health (OHH) discipline grows daily as the world's population increases and continues to migrate to the coastal zone, at the same time that climate change threatens to impose varied disasters on that coastal zone. The unknowns surrounding the coastal zone and climate change have elevated the general issue of OHH to the level of a national security threat in the United States. Five years ago the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Environmental Health Science (NIEHS) cooperated to fund four national centers of Oceans and Human Health research. Each NSF-NIEHS center was tasked to actively pair biomedical scientists with ocean scientists in the pursuit of answers to scientific questions arising at the interface of these two previously separate areas of inquiry. We have now reached the point where we should synthesize the knowledge we have gained over the past five years, identify the most important discoveries, and attempt to describe areas in which future oceans and human health research would be most productive.With support from this award, researchers at the University of Miami will convene an Oceans and Human Health Symposium and Workshop to review and discuss in a comprehensive and synthetic way what has been accomplished over the past five years by the four NSF-NIEHS Centers and what the new discipline of OHH could accomplish over the next decade. The meeting is scheduled for April, 2010, in Washington, DC.The meeting agenda will be built around two general foci: OHH advances to-date and future challenges. Topics for the OHH advances portin will include: (1) direct human microbial health hazards in recreational marine waters; (2) ocean food web health hazards; (3) modeling and prediction of Harmful Algal Blooms; and (4) interdisciplinary training. The future challenges portion will include: (1) climate change; (2) natural disasters; (3) coastal impacts; and (4) nterdisciplinary training.Broader Impacts: This symposium/workshop will provide a venue for research networking and collaborative interactions not only between current Center researchers and students, but also among other researchers, science administrators, and policy makers in multiple federal agencies and other organizations in the expanding the OHH community. This will also be an opportunity for all participants to assess the relative advantages and disadvantages of a centers-oriented approach to federally supported OHH research.