Conference: USA-UK-China-Israel Workshop on Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases

该奖项将资助15名美国研究人员参加一个研讨会，以加强来自美国、英国、以色列和中国的科学家在传染病生态学和进化方面的国际合作。该研讨会将于2024年5月22日至23日在英国伦敦的威康信托基金会举行。近几十年来，SARS-CoV-2大流行和其他传染病的爆发给经济、生命和社会造成了巨大损失。传染病在病原体-宿主（植物、动物和人类）-环境系统（PHES）中的出现、传播、传播和持续存在是复杂和动态的。除了病原体进化外，这些传染病大多数涉及多个宿主和传播途径，这些宿主和传播途径受到许多快速变化的社会经济和环境因素的影响。这次研讨会将扩大和加强研究人员和机构之间的国际合作。与会者将回顾、评估和了解传染病生态学和进化方面的最新研究进展。他们将确定数据、信息和知识方面的主要差距，讨论新的和重大的研究机会，确定研究重点领域，并讨论联合研究和教育活动的可能机制和途径。研讨会将包括来自不同机构和职业阶段的不同研究人员。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 travel by fifteen US researchers to a workshop to enhance international collaborations in among scientists from the US, UK, Israel, and China who work on the ecology and evolution of infectious diseases. The workshop will be held at the Wellcome Trust, London, UK, on May 22-23, 2024. The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and other infectious disease outbreaks in recent decades have resulted in substantial losses of economy, human life, and the society. Emergence, transmission, spread, and persistence of infectious diseases in the pathogen - host (plant, animal, and human) - environmental systems (PHES) is complex and dynamic. In addition to pathogen evolution, most of these infectious diseases involve multiple hosts and transmission pathways that are affected by many rapidly changing socio-economic and environmental factors. This workshop will broaden and strengthen international collaboration among researchers and institutions. The participants will review, assess, and understand recent research progresses in infectious disease ecology and evolution. They will identify major gaps in data, information, and knowledge, discuss new and major research opportunities, identify research priority areas, and discuss possible mechanisms and pathways for joint research and education activities. The workshop will include a diverse groupe of researchers from a variety of institutions and career stages.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.