International Medical Geography Symposium; East Lansing, Michigan, summer 2013

该奖项旨在为发展中国家的健康和医学地理学学者和学生提供支持，帮助他们参加2013年7月在密歇根州立大学举行的第15届国际医学地理学研讨会(IMGs)。2013年国际医疗保健小组的主题将是“保健和保健系统的可持续性”，这一主题涵盖了世界各地当代和新兴人口的广泛健康需求。IMGs是来自世界各国的卫生和医学地理学家一年两次的会议，使研究人员能够讨论他们最近的研究和教学技术。第一届IMGS于1985年在英国诺丁汉举行，此后在美国、加拿大和欧洲国家举行。该学科内部有必要更积极地从发展中国家，特别是撒哈拉以南的非洲、拉丁美洲和中亚和东南亚招聘卫生和医疗地理学家，以扩大知识和技术的交流，并为这些地区的地理教师和学生提供更多的学习机会。NSF的资助将为来自世界上这些代表性不足地区的教师、研究人员和学生提供支持，使他们能够参加2013年的IMG并参与该学科的全球讨论。2013国际医学地理学研讨会将为来自世界各地的卫生和医学地理学家提供机会，交流有关他们所在地区的健康状况和他们各自的研究的信息，以解决这些健康问题。健康和医疗地理学家在人类、兽医学和公共卫生等更广泛的学科中因其使用的理论方法和技能有助于评估疾病扩散和疾病集群、进行健康风险评估和定位分配医疗服务而受到认可。2013年的综合管理小组将有助于增进世界各地的卫生知识，并促进卫生和医学地理领域内的做法。关于新的教育和培训方法的意见交流将增加对未来卫生和医疗地理学家的指导产生积极影响的潜力。来自发达国家和发展中国家的2013年IMGs参与者之间的讨论将增加来自世界各地的卫生和医学地理学家之间未来合作的潜力，并将增加来自所有国家的学者和学生未来参与未来研讨会的机会。

This award focuses on providing support to enable health and medical geography scholars and students from developing nations to attend the 15th International Medical Geography Symposium (IMGS) at Michigan State University in July 2013. The theme of the 2013 IMGS will be Sustainability of Health and Health Care Systems, a theme that covers a broad range of contemporary and emerging population health needs around the world. The IMGS is a biannual meeting of health and medical geographers from countries around the world that enables researchers to discuss their recent research and teaching techniques. The first IMGS was held in 1985 in Nottingham, England, and thereafter, it has been held in the United States, Canada and European countries. There is a recognized need from within the discipline to more actively recruit health and medical geographers from developing nations, especially Africa south of the Sahara, Latin America, and central and southeast Asia in order to extend the exchange of knowledge and techniques and to provide additional learning opportunities for geography faculty and students from within those regions. NSF funding will provide support for faculty researchers and students from these underrepresented regions of the world to enable them attend the 2013 IMGS and participate in the global discourse of the discipline.The 2013 International Medical Geography Symposium will provide the opportunity for health and medical geographers from throughout the world to exchange information about the health status of their regions and their respective research in order to address these health problems. Health and medical geographers are recognized within the broader disciplines of human and veterinary medicine and public health for their use of theoretical approaches and skills that help evaluate disease diffusion and disease clusters, conduct health risk assessments and locate-allocate healthcare services. The 2013 IMGS will help improve knowledge of health around the world and the advancement of practices within the field of health and medical geography. The exchange of ideas about new education and training approaches will increase the potential to positively impact the mentoring of future health and medical geographers. The discourse among 2013 IMGS participants from developed and developing nations will increase the potential for future collaborations among health and medical geographers from around the world and will increase opportunities for future participation of scholars and students from all nations in future symposiums.