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

该项目将举办一个讲习班，汇集来自广泛不同学科的环境和人类健康方面的专门知识。特别是，它的目的是在保健/医学和环境/地球化学主题领域目前孤立的专门知识之间建立相互作用和新的研究合作的范围。在开幕式全体会议之后，讲习班将开始实地考察当地的一个案例研究地点（ICI / Weston采石场/村庄），并由工业、卫生和社区进行介绍。这将举例说明目前正在解决的问题、正在应用的途径和方法，以及需要进行新的跨学科研究，以改进调查这种情况的方式，并改善人类健康结果。随后将有五个专题讨论会集中讨论研究的关键主题：1。自然环境中有毒污染物的运输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. 环境危害的成因和对健康的影响中的社会、经济和行为因素。4. 改善受污染情况下健康的战略。5. 多种有毒污染物对健康的影响。这些会议将由两位专家就每个专题主持，一位来自卫生/医学观点，另一位来自环境/地球化学观点。在简要介绍从两个角度确定关键问题之后，领导人将与与会者展开实质性讨论，以综合这两种方法并确定新的合作研究，以便更好地调查情况，并提供改善人类健康结果的最佳途径。每一届讲习班在其三次迭代中得出的结论将报告给最后一届合并会议，以综合和综合整个讲习班的结论。在讲习班上提交的论文以及每次讲习班的讨论摘要将在《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.