Research Training in Health Protection and Preparedness

描述（由申请人提供）：生物医学科学的深刻和持续的进步并没有有效地转化为美国公众整体健康的改善。虽然许多项目培训基础和临床研究科学家，但在医学和公共卫生界面的研究培训很少。解决这一缺陷对公众健康至关重要。纽约大学医学院提案的目标是设计，实施和评估一项创新的新计划，以培训博士后，医生研究员进行健康保护和准备研究，并在学术机构和一线公共卫生机构之间建立可持续的研究联系。经过对核心公共卫生学科和研究方法的严格和集中的课程，研究员将与一个优秀的导师调查在医学和公共卫生的接口现实世界的挑战干部之一。组织伙伴包括纽约市部门。健康和心理卫生部，新泽西部。该研究所与耶鲁大学公共卫生学院、纽约市健康与医院公司和纽约大学灾难准备和响应中心合作，允许在健康保护和准备研究方面进行广泛的多样性，以及经验和专业知识的双向转移。健康促进和疾病预防方面的研究机会领域将包括，例如，影响城市弱势人口的问题，如预防癌症，或控制哮喘和预防相关残疾。防备方面的研究机会包括，例如，减轻城市和移民人口中恐怖主义的心理社会后遗症，评估检测和监测新出现的感染的技术和方法，以及城市人口的生物监测。纽约大学医学院的GIM部门致力于发展一个自我维持的公共卫生研究和培训中心，为国家的医生公共卫生研究人员的供应显着增加做出贡献。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Profound and ongoing advances in biomedical science are not being translated effectively into improvements in the overall health of the American public. Though many programs train basic and clinical research scientists, training in research at the interface of medicine and public health is scarce. Addressing this deficiency is vital to the public health. The goal of the NYU School of Medicine proposal is to design, implement, evaluate an innovative new program to train post-doctoral, physician fellows in health protection and preparedness research and create sustainable research linkages between academic institutions and front-line public health agencies. After a rigorous and focused curriculum on core public health disciplines and research methods, fellows will work with one of a cadre of outstanding mentors investigating real-world challenges at the interface of medicine and public health. Organizational partners include the NY City Dept. of Health and Mental Hygiene, the New Jersey Dept. of Health & Senior Services, the Yale School of Public Health, the NY City Health & Hospitals Corporation, and the NYU Center for Catastrophe Preparedness and Response, allowing for a broad diversity in exposure to health protection and preparedness research as well as bidirectional transfer of experience and expertise. Areas of research opportunities in health promotion and disease prevention will include, for example, problems affecting vulnerable urban populations, such as preventing cancer, or managing asthma and preventing associated disability. Research opportunities in preparedness include, for example, mitigating the psychosocial sequelae of terrorism in urban and immigrant populations, evaluation of technologies and methods for detection and surveillance of emerging infections, and bio-monitoring in urban populations. The Division of GIM at NYU School of Medicine is committed to development of a self-sustaining Center for Public Health Research and Training contributing to a significant increase in the Nation's supply of physician public health researchers.