Forging Synergies Between Environmental Health and Green Chemistry

描述（由申请人提供） 该项目的长期目标是通过加强环境健康科学和绿色化学之间的沟通和科学交流来保护公众健康。这两个新兴的科学领域共同承诺对公共卫生产生重大和日益增长的影响。这两个领域能够跨越学科界限进行交流的程度不仅会影响每个领域的功效，而且会更好地推进它们的共同目标，即为以人类健康为核心的经济建立科学基础。 环境健康科学正在说明化学品干扰生物系统，包括人类健康的许多复杂和微妙的方式。 绿色化学是设计分子，最终是工业材料，这些材料本质上对人类和环境健康是良性的。 然而，直到最近，这两个领域之间几乎没有直接的交流。每个组织都有自己的期刊、科学会议和针对其成员的通信。然而，每一方都越来越依赖于另一方的信息和见解。 环境健康为绿色分子设计提供了必要的信息。 绿色化学为系统性健康问题提供了新的化学解决方案。 近年来，来自这两个学科的个人已经开始建立工作关系。这一进程需要系统化和扩大，以充分利用这两个学科之间的直接交流。 该项目的具体目标是建立一个来自两个科学领域的领导者网络，以加强这两个领域的交流与合作。 推进绿色化学（AGC）的研究设计和方法，以实现这一目标，包括在贝克曼会议中心在欧文的加州大学举行的工作会议。 会议将包括两个部分：一个是向广大听众介绍这两个领域的公共论坛，另一个是科学家之间的私人工作会议，以设计一系列沟通工具和战略，将这两个领域联系起来。 会议结束后，AGC将撰写一篇适合在科学期刊上发表的文章，概述联邦和州政府在这些科学领域投资的机会。 会议结束后，AGC还将建立和启动在线通信工具，以帮助跨科学的合作。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant) The long-term objective of this project is to protect public health by enhancing communication and scientific exchange between Environmental Health Sciences and Green Chemistry. These two emerging fields of science collectively promise to have a significant and growing impact on public health. The degree to which these two fields are able to communicate across disciplinary boundaries will not only impact each field's efficacy, but will better advance their mutual goal of building the scientific base for an economy which has human health impact at its core. Environmental health sciences are illustrating the many intricate and subtle ways in which chemicals interfere with biological systems, including human health. Green chemistry is designing molecules, and ultimately industrial materials, which are inherently benign to human and environmental health. Yet until very recently, there has been little direct communication between the two fields. Each has its own journals, scientific meetings and communications targeting its own membership. Yet each increasingly depends upon information and insights from the other. Environmental health provides information essential for green molecular design. Green chemistry provides new chemical solutions to systemic health problems. In recent years, individuals from both disciplines have begun to initiate working relationships. This process needs to be systematized and broadened to fully capitalize upon direct exchange between the two disciplines. The specific aim of this project is to build a network of leaders from the two sciences that will deliberately enhance communications and cooperation across their two fields. Advancing Green Chemistry's (AGC) research design and methods to achieve this include holding a working meeting at the Beckman Conference Center at the University of California at Irvine. The meeting will consist of two parts: a public forum to introduce the two fields to a wide audience, and a private working session among the scientists to design a series of communications tools and strategies to link the fields. Following the meeting AGC will produce an article suitable for publication in a scientific journal, outlining opportunities for federal and state government investment in these scientific fields. After the meeting AGC will also build and launch on-line communications tools to aid cooperation across the sciences.