Environmental and respiratory health across the lifespan in Mongolia

描述（由申请人提供）：蒙古/南加州环境健康研究和培训中心（MSCEHRTC）将提供培训和研究机会，在乌兰巴托蒙古健康科学大学和南加州大学洛杉矶分校，加州，美国之间的合作伙伴关系。该中心的主要重点是大气污染的后果，以及在蒙古整个生命周期内引入可持续控制技术对环境健康的影响。乌兰巴托的空气污染正成为一个日益严重的问题，地面空气污染，以颗粒物（PM）衡量，估计超过最高可接受标准的200倍。培训和研究目标将通过国内短期和长期培训机会以及在美国获得研究生学位、访问奖学金的机会以及在南加州大学和洛杉矶儿童医院以及附属中心进行短期培训来实现。NHLBI、NIEHS和南加州空气质量管理区赞助的中心。该计划的资金将包括FIC每年25万美元的资金，以及萨班研究所、萨班家庭基金会、帕萨迪纳行会基金会每年超过25,000美元的真实的美元资金，以及南加州大学全球健康研究所、萨班研究所、NIEHS环境健康研究所、南加州大学、加州再生医学研究所、乌兰巴托基金会以及匿名私人慈善机构。该计划将是可持续的，因为为了响应我们和其他合作者基于证据的方法，蒙古政府最近通过千年挑战赠款资助的努力向格尔居民分发更高效的炉灶，展示了其减少空气污染的实际承诺。蒙古几家主要银行、矿业和自然资源部、能源部、蒙古国家气象和环境局及其国家空气质量办公室正在开展这项工作，该办公室配备了监测全国空气质量的设备。为了实现污染控制的可持续改进，我们获得了Oyun博士的热情政策合作。Oyun博士是牛津大学志奋领奖学金获得者、蒙古国会议员、妇女核心小组领导人、前外交部长和大呼罗珊“清洁空气小组”的主要成员。她是蒙古政府机构内的可持续政策专家倡导者，居住在乌兰巴托，因此认识到在其首都采取紧急循证行动治理空气污染的重要性。她将共同主持我们的国际咨询委员会，并将作为朋友和导师招募，保留和发展MSCEHRTC计划毕业生，以影响可持续的循证变化对整个生命周期的空气污染的后果在蒙古的国家政策和实施层面。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Mongolia/ Southern California Environmental Health Research and Training Center (MSCEHRTC) will provide training and research opportunities in a partnership between Health Sciences University of Mongolia in Ulaanbaatar and University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California, the United States. The major focus of the MSCEHRTC is on the consequences of atmospheric pollution and the introduction of sustainable control technologies on environmental health across the lifespan in Mongolia. Air pollution is becoming an increasingly serious problem in Ulaanbaatar with ground level air pollution, measured in terms of particulate matter (PM), estimated to be >200 times maximum acceptable standards. The training and research objectives will be accomplished by in-country short- and long-term training opportunities as well as opportunities in the US for graduate degrees, visiting scholarships, and short term training at USC and Children's Hospital Los Angeles as well as at affiliated centers sponsored by NHLBI, NIEHS and Southern California Air Quality Management District. Funding for the program will include the $250,000 per year from the FIC as well as real dollar matches of >$25,000 per year each from The Saban Research Institute, The Saban Family Foundation, the Pasadena Guild Endowment, plus available competitive training scholarships from the USC Global Health Institute, Saban Research Institute, NIEHS Environmental Health Institute USC, California Institute for Regenerative Medicine the Ulan Bator Foundation, as well as Anonymous Private Philanthropy. The program will be sustainable because in response to evidence based approaches by ourselves and other collaborators, The Government of Mongolia has recently demonstrated its practical commitment to the reduction of air pollution through efforts funded under the Millennium Challenge Grant to distribute more efficient stoves to Ger dwellers. This effort is being implemented by several major Mongolian banks, the Ministry of Mining and Natural Resources, The Ministry of Energy and the National Agency for Meteorology and the Environment of Mongolia (NAMEM) and its National Office of Air Quality (NAQO) which is equipped to monitor air quality nationwide. To achieve sustainable improvements in pollution control we have enlisted the enthusiastic policy collaboration of Dr. Oyun who is a an Oxford-educated Chevening Scholar, Member of Mongolian Parliament, Leader of the Women's Caucus, former Foreign Minister and leading member of the "Clean Air Group" in the Grand Khuraltai. She is an expert advocate for sustainable policy, working within the Mongolian government structure, who lives in Ulaanbaatar and thus appreciates the importance of urgent evidence-based action on air pollution in her capital city. She will co-chair our international advisory committee and will act as a friend and mentor to recruit, retain and develop MSCEHRTC program graduates to affect sustainable evidence-based change on the consequences of air pollution across the lifespan at the national policy and implementation level in Mongolia.