Innovative Water/ International Research Curricula(RMI)

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请建议支持两个跨学科的研究课程目标。 第一个是在塔夫茨大学设计和实施“水与健康”跨学科课程，塔夫茨大学最近开始了一个跨学科的，所有大学的计划，重点是饮用水。 该计划是塔夫茨大学艺术与科学学院、工程学院、弗莱彻法律与外交学院、兽医学院和医学院的合作项目。 为了应对发展跨学科的综合方法来理解和解决全球水问题的挑战，塔夫茨大学推出了“水：系统，科学和社会”博士和硕士课程。 该计划的目的是提供管理与水有关的问题所需的跨学科工具和观点。 该计划在塔夫茨大学享有最高级别的支持，包括总统作为WSSS教员的参与。 第二个目标是使具体的基于互联网的，跨学科的课程之间的联系塔夫茨大学的公共卫生研究生课程，并在公共卫生培训和研究的卓越的特定东非中心。 自2000年秋季以来，为了实现这一目标，公共研究所在东非的大学和个别教师一级建立了教育和研究联系。 这一目标的目的是开发跨学科的共享课程或模块，这将有助于研究方法的教学，并建立研究网络。 申请人是理想的位置来开发和实施这些创新的课程。 他是塔夫茨大学医学院公共卫生研究生课程主任，其MPH课程在2004年在美国排名第一，也是一位经验丰富的教育家。 他也是一名活跃的生物医学研究员，拥有6项活跃的赠款（5项NIH，1项USAID），其中5项活跃在肯尼亚和厄瓜多尔，其中大部分以“水”为重点，其中一些是高度跨学科的。 因此，他是塔夫茨大学研究和学术课程的一个组成部分，并有资格在创新的跨学科研究课程提供领导。 该提案的创新方面包括在两个具体目标的课程范围内支持学生研究项目。 对这些目标的强有力的机构承诺一直存在，而且仍然存在。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application proposes to support two interdisciplinary research curriculum objectives. The first is to devise and implement a 'Water and Health' interdisciplinary course at Tufts University, which has recently started an interdisciplinary, all-University program focusing on drinking water. This program is a partnership of the Tufts University Schools of Arts and Sciences; Engineering; the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; the School of Veterinary Medicine; and the School of Medicine. In order to meet the challenge of developing an integrated approach across disciplines to understand - and solve global water issues, Tufts has launched the "Water: Systems, Science, and Society" PhD and MS Program. The purpose of the program is to provide the interdisciplinary tools and perspectives need to manage water-related problems. This program enjoys the highest level support at Tufts, including the participation of the President as a WSSS faculty member. The second objective is to make concrete an internet based, interdisciplinary curricular linkage between Tufts' Graduate Program in Public Health, and specific East African centers of excellence in public health training and research. The PI has cultivated educational and research linkages at both the University and individual faculty level in East Africa since the fall of 2000 in pursuit of this objective. The purpose of this objective is to develop interdisciplinary shared courses or modules that will lend themselves to the teaching of research methods, and to the building of research networks. The applicant is ideally situated to develop and implement these innovative curricula. He is the Director of the Graduate Programs in Public Health at Tufts University School of Medicine, whose MPH program was ranked #1 in the US in 2004, and a seasoned educator. He is also an active biomedical researcher with 6 active grants (5 NIH, 1 USAID), 5 of which are active in Kenya and Ecuador, most of which have a 'water' focus, and several of which are highly interdisciplinary. As such, he is an integral part of Tufts' research and academic programs, and is qualified to provide leadership in innovative interdisciplinary research curricula. Innovative aspects of this proposal include the support of student research projects within the context of courses in both specific aims. Strong institutional commitment to these objectives has been, and is, present.