Workshop on Emerging Technologies for Integrated Surveillance and Diagnosis of Infectious Disease and Bio-Secuity Threats; March, 2020; Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security

该奖项将资助一个讲习班，以培养监测和诊断病原体的技术人员；它将于2020年3月在马里兰州巴尔的摩的约翰霍普金斯卫生安全中心举行。为期两天的讲习班将汇集传染病建模、技术创新、监测、控制和公共卫生政策方面的专家，以确定这一领域的需求和机会。由于世界人口的增长、气候和土地利用的变化以及高度互联的全球运输系统，新出现的传染病对人类构成越来越大的风险。工程技术的进步和可及性增加了生物事件造成意外和故意伤害的威胁。为了减轻这些风险，需要改进流行病防范战略，特别是地方、州和国家各级的传染病监测和控制。本次研讨会将汇集一系列学科，探讨科学和技术理解中的关键差距：那些阻碍当前新兴技术转化的差距，以及社区中的差距？未来技术能力所需的基础研究的优先次序。讲习班将查明目前监测方法的差距，并探讨如何利用现有的新兴技术解决这些问题。它将确定对新技术的需求。讲习班的成果将用于指导国家研究议程，从而更好地确定支持机制的目标，以便㈠帮助开发和整合新兴技术，㈡确保将技术转化为公共卫生从业人员；这两项措施都是保护人民免受传染病日益严重威胁的关键步骤。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award will fund for a workshop for the development of technologist for surveillance and diagnosis of pathogens; it will be held at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in Baltimore, MD in March, 2020. The workshop will bring togther experts in infectious disease modeling, technology innovation, surveillance, control, and public health policy over a period of two days to identify needs and opportunities in this area. Emerging infectious diseases pose an increasing risk to humans due to a growing world population, changes in climate and land use, and a highly connected global transport systems. Advances and accessibility to engineering technologies have increased the threat of accidental and deliberate harm from biological incidents. To mitigate these risks requires improved epidemic preparedness strategies, specifically infectious disease surveillance and control at the local, state and national levels. This workshop will bring together a range of disciplines to explore critical gaps in scientific and technological understanding: those that prevent the translation of current emerging technologies, as well as gaps in the community?s prioritization of basic research needed for future technological capabilities. The workshop will identify gaps in current approaches to surveillance methods and explore how these problems should be addressed with available emerging technologies. It will identify needs for new technologies. The results from the workshop will be used to guide the national research agenda and thus better target support mechanisms to i) aid the development and integration of new emerging technologies, and ii) ensure the translation of the technology to public health practitioners; both of which are critical steps to protect the population from the increased threat posed by infectious diseases.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.