TUBERCULOSIS ACADEMIC AWARD

最近在美国结核病（TB）的上升归因于 移民、艾滋病毒、无家可归和其他原因。 也许和 任何一个都是对公共卫生的忽视，以及未能应用已知的知识， 如何更好地控制，如果不能有效地消除结核病。 的 华盛顿特区继续有自己的重大问题 结核病患者这项建议的前提是， 通过努力提供更多的 强化教育，加强沟通和协调， 参与结核病治疗和控制的各种团体和机构 在整个大都会地区。具体目标是：（1）提高 乔治敦大学结核病本科医学教学;（2）加强 在乔治敦和城市的研究生医学和护理教育， 尤其是在那些与内城医院和人口有关的人中， 包括每两年安排一次全市结核病会议;（3） 协助重建一个基础广泛的消除结核病 哥伦比亚特区委员会，与美国 肺协和卫生署，为了配合最近 疾病预防控制中心委员会的建议， 并努力加强有关结核病问题的沟通 在华盛顿地区和全国的地方水平。

The rise in tuberculosis (TB) recently in the US has been attributed to immigration, HIV, homelessness, and other causes. Perhaps as important as any is neglect of public health, and failure to apply what is known about how better to control, if not to effectively eliminate TB. The Washington, DC area has continued to have its own significant problems with TB through the years. The premise of this proposal is that the handling of TB in DC will be improved by an effort to provide both more intensive education, and to enhance communication and coordination among the various bodies and institutions involved with TB treatment and control throughout the metropolitan area. Specific aims will be to: (1) improve the undergraduate medical teaching about TB at Georgetown; (2) enhance postgraduate medical and nursing education at Georgetown and in the city, especially among those involved with inner city hospitals and populations, including arrangement of a city-wide TB conference every other year; (3) assist in the re-establishment of a broadly-based Tuberculosis Elimination Committee for the District of Columbia, in collaboration with the American Lung Association and the Health Department, in keeping with the recent recommendations of a CDC Committee that evaluated the tuberculosis situation in DC, and work for enhanced communication on TB matters at all levels locally in the Washington area and nationally.