2/2-Colombia-Texas GEOHealth Hub Collaborative: U.S.A.

描述(由申请人提供)：哥伦比亚-德克萨斯全球环境和职业健康中心合作(ColTex-GEOH)是一项为期两年的探索性提案，建立在美国德克萨斯州的德克萨斯大学公共卫生学院(UTSPH)和哥伦比亚的Pontifia University Jiveriana(PUJ)人体工程学研究中心之间20年的独特合作基础上，哥伦比亚是一个中等收入国家(LMIC)。在哥伦比亚，环境和职业健康问题长期以来一直是一个紧迫的公共卫生问题，迫切需要采取切实、注重行动的干预措施来解决这一问题。在很大程度上，这些担忧导致研究和培训对迫在眉睫的紧急需求做出反应。然而，为了有效，应根据对需求和机会的明确评估来规划多学科行动，这些优先事项有助于制定对当地敏感和可用的解决办法，承认工作的社会政治背景，以及如何最好地将科学研究成果转化为有效的政策。这项建议是在UTSPH和PUJ以前合作工作的基础上提出的，重点是工作场所安全和工业卫生、人体工程学和人为因素以及心理社会环境。在项目期间，并强调建立可持续和 在自主能力建设方面，我们将：(1)评估哥伦比亚选定职业领域的需求和机会，包括信息和基础设施能力，以确定研究和培训的优先事项和适当的中心合作伙伴；(2)在著名的地方高等院校、政府部门和相关私人利益攸关方中确定高素质、有积极性、得到国家认可的活跃团体，增加拟议的ColTex-GEOH中心成功的可能性；(3)沿着选定的职业健康范围制定活动方案和战略计划，强调对未来政策和方案开发的最大适用性；以及，(4)准备一份评估和惠益计划，说明在建设和维持能力方面的潜在改进。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Colombia-Texas Global Environmental and Occupational Health Hub Collaborative (ColTex-GEOH) is a two year exploratory proposal that builds on two decades of a unique collaboration between The University of Texas School of Public Health (UTSPH) in Texas, USA, and the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (PUJ) Center for Ergonomic Studies in Colombia, a middle-income country (LMIC) as specified by the FOA. In Colombia, environmental and occupational health problems have long been a pressing public health concern, and there is an urgent need for practical, action-oriented interventions to address this concern. For the most part, these concerns have led to research and training responses to immediate urgent needs. To be effective, however, multidisciplinary actions should be planned according to priorities based on a clear assessment of needs and opportunities that foster the development of locally sensitive and available solutions, recognition of the sociopolitical context of work and how best to translate scientific research findings into effectiv policies. Building on previous collaborative work between UTSPH and PUJ, this proposal focuses on workplace safety and industrial hygiene, ergonomics and human factors and the psychosocial environment. During the project period, and with an emphasis on building sustainable and autonomous capacity-building, we will: (1) assess the needs and opportunities, including information and infrastructure capabilities, in the selected occupational areas in Colombia, in order to identify both the research and training priorities and the appropriate Hub partners; (2) identify high-quality, motivated, nationally recognized active groups within prestigious local institutions of higher learning, governmental departments and relevant private stakeholders, increasing the potential for the proposed ColTex-GEOH Hub's success; (3) develop an activities program and strategic plan, along the selected occupational health spectrum that emphasize the greatest applicability to future policy and program development; and, (4) prepare an evaluation and benefits plan demonstrating the potential improvements towards building and sustaining capabilities.