Frontiers in Infectious Disease Ecology: Meeting: Building on Success - Washington, D.C.; April 19-21, 2010

这笔赠款将支持一个为期三天的研讨会，以采取广泛的概述传染病生态学领域，并评估该领域将在未来5至10年的领导。传染病生态学领域相对年轻。虽然有一些可确认的研究可以追溯到至少几十年前，但只是在过去的10到15年里，随着新期刊的建立和研究的大量增加，人们的兴趣才激增。现在是进行这种全面评估的适当时机。有待探讨的问题包括：过去10年的方法学发展、当时成就的局限性、需要哪些新的工具和学科，以及如何在不断变化的世界中更深入地了解疾病动态和控制，提高我们对传染病生态学的认识对公共卫生、农业经济以及野生动物和自然系统的管理具有重要意义。研讨会将评估这些问题上以往取得的成功，并确定新的方法和跨学科的见解，这些方法和见解可以建立在我们对疾病动态的理解基础上，并成为预测、预防和干预疾病暴发的更好手段。

This grant will support a three-day workshop to take a broad overview of the field of infectious disease ecology and assess where the field will be headed in the next 5 to 10 years. The field of infectious disease ecology is relatively young. Although there is identifiable research that extends back at least several decades, it is only in the past 10 to 15 years that there has been a surge in interest with new journals being established and a large increase in research. Now is an appropriate time for such an overview assessment. Issues to be explored include: methodological developments over the past 10 years, limitations in accomplishments over that time, what new tools and disciplines are needed, and how these might allow greater insights into disease dynamics and control in a changing world.Improving our knowledge of infectious disease ecology has important implications for public health, agro-economics, and the management of wildlife and natural systems. The workshop will assess previous successes in these issues and identify novel approaches and interdisciplinary insights that could build on our understanding of disease dynamics and be improved means of predicting, preventing and intervening with disease outbreaks.