2/2 Bangladesh Center for Global Environmental and Occupational Health-US

摘要： 这是“孟加拉国全球环境和职业中心”的更新U2 R申请 健康（GEOHealth）"-沿着2015年授予芝加哥大学（UofC）的U 01赠款， 国际腹泻病研究中心，孟加拉国（ICDDR，B）。项目实施 与Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib医科大学（BSMMU）和选定的美国密切合作 作为本地学术机构，继续并加强与此相关的补充培训专业知识， 提议孟加拉国地球物理健康中心的目标是加强孟加拉国的研究能力 关于紧迫的环境和职业健康威胁。在本供资期间，孟加拉国 地球健康中心对环境健康研究能力的基础产生了积极影响， 孟加拉国通过培训200多名学生，来自不同背景的年轻和职业中期研究人员 通过专门设计的为期2天的国内讲习班和为期2周的短期课程， 基于博士后奖学金和12周（一个学术季度）在UofC培训。短评价 在孟加拉国举办的培训班和讲习班表明，参加者的知识有所增加，满意度很高。 在UofC接受培训的16名研究员在以下方面表现出出色的研究生产力： 出版物、演讲、赠款和职业发展。他们发表了90篇同行评议的出版物 在培训期间和之后。所有16名美国研究员都报告说，他们具有合作性和影响力， 在培训期间，学员继续接受导师的指导，即使在 完成培训。尽管有这些明显的影响， 孟加拉国的研究能力，以解决该国巨大的环境和职业健康负担 鉴于受过现代环境卫生研究方法培训的研究人员严重短缺， 数据科学和移动健康工具和技术。在这次更新申请中，我们建议继续并增加 我们在孟加拉国和美国的培训活动，讲习班（2天），二。短期课程（1-2周） 一个学术季度课程在UofC工作，四。在UofC的硕士学位课程（1年），和v.博士后 在UofC接受培训（1年）。我们将改进过去5年的培训课程， 更多关于利用先进技术和分析工具（人工智能/机器学习）的材料 (AI/ML）、图像分析、移动的健康（mHealth）数据采集/分析、暴露数据科学等）为 利用现有材料分析环境健康数据，所有这些材料都将包含链接的U 01 应用的研究重点。严格的评估制度将有助于行政和外部监督 监督和确保计划成功。我们成功地实施了本阶段的 培训补助金，我们相信我们的更新培训计划将解决环境方面的关键差距， 和职业健康研究能力，并为孟加拉国的各种研究人员带来好处。

ABSTRACT: This is the renewal U2R application for the “Bangladesh Center for Global Environmental and Occupational Health (GEOHealth)”- awarded along with the linked U01 grant in 2015 to the University of Chicago (UofC) and International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B). The project will be implemented in close collaboration with the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) and selected US as well as local academic institutions to continue and augment complementary training expertise relevant to this proposal. The goal of the Bangladesh GEOHealth Center was to strengthen the research capacity of Bangladesh on pressing environmental and occupational health threats. During the current funding period, the Bangladesh GEOHealth Center has positively impacted on the foundation of environmental health research capacity in Bangladesh by training more than 200 students, young and mid-career researchers from diverse background through custom-designed in-country 2-day workshops and 2-week short-courses, and 16 fellows through US- based postdoctoral fellowships and 12-week (one academic quarter) training at the UofC. Evaluation of short courses and workshops in Bangladesh indicated increased knowledge and high satisfaction of the participants. The 16 fellows who received training at UofC have demonstrated outstanding research productivity in term of publications, presentations, grants, and career development. They produced 90 peer-reviewed publications during and after the training period. All 16 US-based fellows reported that they had cooperative and influential, mentor(s) during the training period and the trainees continued to receive guidance from the mentor(s) even after completion of the training. Despite these demonstrable impacts there remains a critical need for additional research capacity in Bangladesh to address the country’s huge environmental and occupational health burden given the acute shortage of researchers trained in modern environmental health research methods, especially data science and mHealth tools and techniques. In this renewal application, we propose to continue and augment our Bangladesh and US- based training activities through i. Workshops (2 day), ii. Short courses (1-2 week) iii. One academic quarter course work at UofC, iv. A master’s degree program (1-year) at UofC, and v. Postdoctoral training (1-year) at UofC. We will refine the training curricula that we used over the past 5 years to incorporate more materials on utilizing advanced technologies and analytical tools (artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML), image analysis, mobile health (mHealth) data capture/analytics, exposure data science, etc.) for analyzing environmental health data with the existing materials, all of which will incorporate the linked U01 application’s research focus. A rigorous evaluation system will help the Administrative and External Oversight Committee to monitor and ensure program success. We have successfully implemented the current phase of the training grant, and we believe that our renewal training program will address critical gaps in environmental and occupational health research capacity, and bring benefit to a wide variety of researchers in Bangladesh.