EcoHealthNet: Ecology, Environmental Science and Health Research Network

传染病在生态系统中起着关键作用：调节野生动物种群，调解种间竞争，导致种群数量急剧下降，甚至推动当地对野生动物的保护。在过去的二十年里，生态学家领导了疾病生态学这一新领域的发展，开发了理解这些相互作用的理论和实践研究。然而，将疾病生态学纳入兽医学和人类健康科学的工作进展缓慢，部分原因是健康科学课程对纳入这些进展的反应缓慢。这种缺乏整合，以及动物和人类（人畜共患病）之间共享病原体的重要性，导致人们一再呼吁加强生态学家，兽医和公共卫生研究人员之间的合作。该奖项的目的是发展“EcoHealthNet”，这是一个新的“生态健康联盟”，将非政府组织、大学和研究协会的卓越中心联系起来，并融合了保护医学、医学地理学和“一种医学”或“一种健康”概念。生态健康网将发挥关键作用，将生态学家、环境生物学家和传统上与传染病有关的学科-兽医、人类医学和公共卫生研究人员-聚集在一起。它将为100多名研究生提供指导培训机会，这些研究生从医学（人类和兽医），生态学，流行病学，微生物学，经济学和环境科学领域公开招聘。 培训将包括流行病学，传染病数学建模和现场流行病学研讨会;以及正在进行的国际应用现场研究，以及支持计划，如尼帕病毒，禽流感，美国城市啮齿动物病原体多样性的生态学;西尼罗河病毒和SARS生态学。在这个项目的五年中，将有100多名来自不同背景的学生接受培训，以解决威胁野生动物保护、公共卫生和发展的新出现疾病的全球问题。 研究结果将通过同行评审的出版物、媒体采访、会议介绍和国会简报，与涉及保护、发展、贸易问题和公共卫生的国家和政府间机构密切合作传播。 网络成员将帮助通过在线数据库、国际生态健康协会学生部、野生动物信托联盟和生态健康联盟公开提供数据。

Infectious diseases play a key role in ecosystems: regulating wildlife populations, mediating inter-specific competition, causing dramatic population declines, even driving local extinctions of wildlife. During the last two decades, ecologists have led the growth of a new field of disease ecology, developing theoretical and practical research that understands these interactions. However, integration of disease ecology into veterinary and human health sciences has been slow, partly due to the slow response of health science curricula to incorporate these advances. This lack of integration, and the significance of pathogens shared among animals and humans (zoonoes) has led to repeated calls for increased collaboration among ecologists, veterinarians and public health researchers. The objective of this award is to develop "EcoHealthNet," a new "Ecohealth Alliance" linking Centers of Excellence in NGOs, Universities, and Research Societies and fusing the fields of Conservation Medicine, Medical Geography, and the "One Medicine" or "One Health" concept. EcoHealthNet will fill a critical role in bringing together ecologists, environmental biologists and the disciplines more traditionally involved in infectious diseases - veterinary medical, human medical and public health researchers. It will provide mentored training opportunities for more than 100 graduate students, openly recruited from the medical (human and veterinary), ecological, epidemiological, microbiological, economic, and environmental science fields. The training will include workshops in epidemiology, mathematical modeling of infectious disease, and field epidemiology; and international applied field research in ongoing, well-supported programs such as the ecology of Nipah virus, Avian Influenza, rodent pathogen diversity in urban America; West Nile Virus and SARS ecology. Over the five years of this project, over 100 students from diverse backgrounds will be trained in tackling the global problem of emerging diseases which threaten wildlife conservation, public health and development. Research findings will be disseminated through peer-reviewed publications, media interviews, conference presentations, and congressional briefings, in close collaboration with national and intergovernmental agencies that cover conservation, development, trade issues, and public health. Network members will help make data publicly available via online databases, via the student section of the International EcoHealth Association, the Wildlife Trust Alliance and the EcoHealth Alliance.