Conference: Beyond COVID: Pandemic Preparedness in the Circumpolar North

本次研讨会将来自美国各地的多个COVID-19研究团队聚集到阿拉斯加，分享研究结果，综合结果，并加强对未来大流行的规划和信息传递工作。研讨会将提供比较数据收集和分析方法、发展新的合作和展示研究成果的机会。研讨会参与者将共同努力，综合跨学科研究，解决阿拉斯加社区在文化、经济、基础设施和地理上存在巨大差异的流行病应对问题。通过扩大供资项目的成果，讲习班将增进对大流行病应对措施的了解，加强阿拉斯加的研究能力，并促进对社会挑战采取统一办法。讲习班的成果包括在一份国际期刊上发表一篇经同行评审的出版物，综合了研究小组合作制定的方法、发现和建议；开展一系列公众宣传活动，并对参与者进行科学传播培训。总之，这些活动将在全州范围内形成一个跨学科的研究人员网络，向研究界和公众提供可访问的科学，并提高北极研究对社区健康和福祉的能见度。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 workshop brings multiple COVID-19 research teams from across the U.S. to Alaska to share findings, synthesize results, and enhance planning and messaging efforts for future pandemics. The workshop will provide opportunities to compare data collection and analytic methods, develop new collaborations, and present research findings. Working together, workshop participants will synthesize research across disciplinary lines, addressing pandemic responses in Alaska communities with vast differences in culture, economics, infrastructure, and geography. By amplifying the results of funded projects, the workshop will advance understanding of pandemic responses, strengthen research capacity in Alaska, and foster convergent approaches to societal challenges.Outputs of the workshop include a peer-reviewed publication in an international journal that synthesizes the approaches, findings, and recommendations developed collaboratively by the research teams; a series of public outreach activities, and science communication training for participants. Together, these activities will generate an interdisciplinary network of researchers across the state, deliver accessible science to the research community and the general public, and elevate the visibility of Arctic research on community health and well-being.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.