Research Training in Health Protection and Preparedness

描述(由申请人提供)：生物医学科学中深刻而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。尽管许多项目培养基础和临床研究科学家，但在医学和公共卫生方面的研究培训却很少。解决这一缺陷对公共卫生至关重要。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，以培训健康保护和准备研究方面的博士后和医生研究员，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。经过关于核心公共卫生学科和研究方法的严格和集中的课程后，研究员将与一批优秀的导师之一合作，调查医学和公共卫生之间的现实世界挑战。组织合作伙伴包括纽约市部门。新泽西州健康和精神卫生部。卫生与高级服务部、耶鲁大学公共卫生学院、纽约市卫生与医院公司和纽约大学灾难准备和应对中心，允许在接触健康保护和准备研究方面的广泛多样性，以及双向的经验和专业知识的转移。例如，健康促进和疾病预防方面的研究机会领域将包括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。例如，防备方面的研究机会包括减轻恐怖主义在城市和移民人口中的社会心理后遗症，评估检测和监测新发感染的技术和方法，以及在城市人口中进行生物监测。纽约大学医学院GIM分部致力于发展一个自给自足的公共卫生研究和培训中心，为显着增加全国医生公共卫生研究人员的供应作出贡献。

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.