Training Program in Water and Health (RMI)

描述（由申请人提供）： 2002年，塔夫茨大学创建了一个跨学科的博士课程，培养学生以全球视野工作，以确保水安全，保护健康，环境和人类生计。该项目被称为水：系统、科学和社会（WSSS），包括大学的六个学院：医学、兽医学、营养学、艺术和科学、工程学以及弗莱彻法律和外交学院。WSSS旨在确保学生获得跨学科的知识和方法，即使他们发展专业化。有了这个应用程序，我们建议支持学生在WSSS与水和健康浓度。 水的需求、使用和质量问题在全世界以及美国都很普遍，美国国立卫生研究院认为这一问题非常重要，因此在2010年健康人群目标中特别提到。水与健康培训计划将支持惠普2010年的目标和新路线图的目标，创造一种新的跨学科的专业。综合的跨学科分析对于理解和管理复杂的水相关问题是必要的。我们的愿景是教育在卫生相关学科谁可以使用多学科的观点和工具熟练的专业人员。水与健康的毕业生将能够应对跨学科，综合与水有关的研究挑战。工程师将了解公共卫生的原则。营养学学生将了解水文学的基础知识。政策专业的学生将了解流行病学的基本原理。这些新的专业人员将能够参与水问题的分析，并使用相关学科的严格方法和工具，与来自许多专业的同事共同开发解决方案。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In 2002, Tufts University created an interdisciplinary doctoral program to train students to work with a global view toward assuring water security for the protection of health, the environment, and human livelihoods. The program is called Water: Systems, Science, and Society (WSSS), and includes six schools of the university: Medicine, Veterinary Medicine, Nutrition, Arts and Sciences, Engineering, and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. WSSS is designed to assure that students acquire interdisciplinary knowledge and approaches, even as they develop a specialization. With this application we propose to support students in WSSS with a concentration in Water and Health. Problems of water needs, use, and quality are pervasive throughout the world as well as the US, and are considered important enough by the National Institutes of Health to be mentioned specifically within the goals of Healthy People 2010. The Water and Health training program will support both HP 2010 goals and the New Roadmap goals of creating a new kind of interdisciplinary professional. Integrated, interdisciplinary analysis is necessary to understand and manage complex water related problems. Our vision is to educate professionals skilled in health-related disciplines who can use multiple disciplinary perspectives and tools. Water and Health graduates will be able to respond to the interdisciplinary, integrated water-related research challenges. Engineers will understand the principles of Public Health. Nutrition students will understand the basics of hydrology. Policy students will understand the fundamentals of epidemiology. These new professionals will be able to participate in the analysis of water problems and work to develop solutions jointly with colleagues from many specialties, using the rigorous methods and tools of the relevant disciplines.