Pacific Rim Global Health Framework

描述(申请人提供)：全球化的影响在环太平洋地区的发展中国家最为突出，这些国家的繁荣程度急剧提高，经济差距迅速扩大，给公众健康带来了新的重大挑战。要了解全球卫生的复杂性和多维方面，就必须整合广泛的学科，以促进科学、为政策提供信息并改善健康和福祉。南加州大学环太平洋地区全球卫生框架(USC-PRGHF)汇集了来自医学院、社会工作学院、老年学学院、药学学院、牙科学院、工程学院、政策规划发展学院、法律学院、传播学院、电影电视学院和文学、艺术和科学学院的世界级教师，与环太平洋地区的其他学术和公共卫生机构合作，开发新的和扩展现有的跨学科课程和培训计划，以促进对新一代全球卫生专家的培训。USC-PRGHF的广泛主题是：在经济和社会转型引发的快速文化、社会和环境变化中，促进亚太地区发展中国家的健康。在PRGHF的三年中，研究和培训核心活动将遵循几条主线，所有这些都与生活方式和健康结果之间的关系有关，越来越多的过渡主要与全球和经济影响有关，包括西方化。在我们位于中国的南加州大学环太平洋跨学科烟草和酒精使用研究中心工作的基础上，PRGHF的初步活动将扩大参与烟草相关研究的学科、教师和学生的数量。未来的线程将扩展我们在肥胖、艾滋病毒预防和环境健康方面的工作。在一开始，PRGHF的活动将集中在中国、印度、斯里兰卡和孟加拉国，通过我们建立的学术和研究网络，几乎立即扩展到亚洲其他发展中国家，并最终扩展到太平洋和拉丁美洲的岛国。指导PRGHF的将是一个由拥有全球研究和培训经验的教师监督的行政结构，以及我们的国际合作者的积极参与和投入。PRGHF的目标与大学继续参与学术活动和在环太平洋地区投资的长期计划是一致的。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Nowhere are the effects of globalization more prominent than in developing nations of the Pacific Rim, where dramatic increases in prosperity together with rapid widening of economic disparities have created significant new challenges to the public health. Understanding the complexities and multidimensional aspects of global health necessitates the integration of a wide range of disciplines to advance science, inform policy and, improve health and well being. The University of Southern California Pacific Rim Global Health Framework (USC-PRGHF) brings together world class faculty from the Schools of Medicine, Social Work, Gerontology, Pharmacy, Dentistry, Engineering, Policy- Planning-Development, Law, Communication, Cinema-TV, and College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, to collaborate with other Pacific Rim academic and public health institutions in the development of new and expansion of already existing interdisciplinary curricula and training programs to foster training for a new generation of global health specialists. The broad theme of the USC-PRGHF is: Health promotion in developing Asia Pacific Rim nations, amid rapid cultural, social, and environmental change arising from economic and social transition. Over the three years of the PRGHF, research and training core activities will follow several threads all linked to the relationship between lifestyle and health outcomes with increasing transitions related largely to global and economic influences, including westernization. Building upon our USC Pacific Rim Transdisciplinary Tobacco and Alcohol Use Research Center (TTAURC) work in China, initial PRGHF activities will expand the number of disciplines, faculty, and students involved in tobacco-related research. Future threads will expand our work in obesity, HIV prevention, and environmental health. At the outset, PRGHF activities will focus on China, India, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh, expanding almost immediately to other developing nations of Asia through our established academic and research networks, and eventually to island nations of the Pacific and Latin America. Guiding the PRGHF will be an administrative structure overseen by faculty with experience in global research and training along with active participation and input from our international collaborators. The objectives of the PRGHF are in line with the University's long-range plans for continuing academic involvement and investment in the Pacific Rim.