Multiple Links Towards Integrating Teams for Understanding of Disease and Environment - Multitude

该项目将组织一次研讨会，将来自广泛不同学科的环境与人类健康方面的专业知识聚集在一起。特别是，它的目的是在目前孤立的卫生/医学专业知识和环境/地球化学学科领域之间建立相互作用和新的研究协作范围。讲习班将在开幕全体会议结束后开始，首先实地考察当地的案例研究地点(ICI/Weston采石场/村庄)，介绍工业、卫生和社区情况。这将说明目前正在解决的问题、正在应用的途径和方法，以及需要新的跨学科研究，以改进调查这种情况的方式，并改善人类健康结果。五个研讨会将集中讨论主要研究专题：--1.有毒污染物在自然环境中的迁移和动态及其对人类健康的影响。2.风险评估、流行病学和监管方面的不确定性。3.环境危害产生和健康影响的社会、经济和行为因素。4.在受污染的情况下改善健康的战略。5.多种有毒污染物对健康的影响。这些会议将由每个专题的两名专家领导，一名专家从健康/医学的角度出发，另一名专家从环境/地球化学的角度出发。在从两个角度确定关键问题的简短介绍性陈述之后，领导人将与与会者展开实质性讨论，以综合这两种方法，确定能够更好地调查情况并提供改善人类健康结果的最佳方法的新的合作研究。每一次研讨会的三次迭代的结果将报告给最后一次合并会议，以汇集和综合整个研讨会的结论。研讨会上发表的论文和每个研讨会的讨论摘要将被撰写在《环境地球化学与健康杂志》的一期特刊上发表。

The project will organise a Workshop to bring together expertise on Environment and Human Health from a wide range of different disciplines. In particular, it aims to establish interaction, and scope for new research collaboration, between currently isolated expertise in the health/medicine and the environmental/geochemical subject area. The Workshop will begin, after an opening plenary session to set the scene, with a fieldtrip to a local case study site (ICI / Weston quarry / village) with presentations by industry, health and the community. This will exemplify the current issues that are being tackled, the approaches and methods being applied, and the need for new interdisciplinary research to improve the way such situations are investigated, and the human health outcomes improved. Five workshop sessions will then concentrate discussion on key topics for research:- 1. Transport and dynamics of toxic pollutants in the natural environment and their effect on human health. 2. Uncertainty in risk assessment, epidemiology and regulation. 3. Social, economic and behavioural factors in the genesis and health impact of environmental hazards. 4. Strategies for improving health in contaminated situations. 5. The effects of multiple toxic pollutants on health. These sessions will be lead by two experts on each topic, one from the health/medicine viewpoint and the other from the environmental/geochemical. After brief introductory presentations to identify the key issues from both perspectives, the leaders will initiate a substantial discussion with the participants to synthesise the two approaches and identify new collaborative research that can better investigate the situation, and provide optimal ways to improve human health outcomes. The finding of each workshop session, over its three iterations, will be reported back to a combined final session to bring together and synthesise the conclusions of the workshop as a whole. The papers presented at the workshop, and summaries of the discussions from each workshop, will be written up for publication in a special issue of the Journal of Environmental Geochemistry and Health.