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巩固和评估一项创新的新计划的有效性，该计划旨在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。在核心公共卫生学科和研究方法方面经过严格和集中的课程后，研究员与一批优秀的导师之一合作，调查医学和公共卫生相互作用的现实世界挑战。组织合作伙伴包括纽约市卫生和精神卫生局、纽约市卫生和医院公司以及纽约大学灾难准备和应对中心，使人们能够广泛多样地接触健康保护和准备研究，并双向转让经验和专门知识。最初的六名研究员(来自三个学科)现在正在完成这项为期两年的科学硕士学位授予计划的中期，他们参与了各种研究计划，主题从移民中的结直肠癌筛查到改善急诊科儿科患者护理的健康素养干预，再到探索自然语言处理对基于医疗记录的医疗差错检测的能力，以及对综合征监测的影响。纽约大学医学院普通内科医学部致力于建立一个人口健康研究和培训中心，该中心可以对建设全国医生公共卫生研究人员的供应做出有意义的贡献。

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 New York University School of Medicine proposal is to solidify and evaluate the effectiveness of 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 in core public health disciplines and research methods, fellows 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 New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, and the New York University 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. The initial cohort of six fellows (from three disciplines), now mid-way through this two year Master's in Science degree granting program, is engaged in diverse research initiatives on topics from colorectal cancer screening among immigrants to health literacy interventions to improve care of pediatric patients in emergency departments to exploring the power of natural language processing for medical record-based detection of medical errors, with implications for syndromic surveillance. The Division of General Internal Medicine at New York University School of Medicine is committed to developing a Center for Population Health Research and Training that can meaningfully contribute to building the Nation's supply of physician public health researchers.