Human Health, Biodiversity, and Microbial Ecology: Strategies to Educate

描述（由申请人提供）：美国自然历史博物馆（AMNH）请求SEPA支持为期五年的项目“人类健康，生物多样性和微生物生态学：教育战略”。“该项目的总体目标是提高公众意识，加深对生物多样性对人类健康的关键影响的理解，特别关注人类微生物组以及自然创新的多样性-化学，解剖学和生理学-对生物医学研究具有关键价值。实现这一目标的三个具体目标是：（1）通过为公众，学生和教师提供与该领域专家互动的参与机会，关注生物多样性和人类健康交叉点的新兴研究，了解AMNH大厅中的这一关键主题，并通过延伸到AMNH墙壁之外的资源加深他们的理解;（2）向公众和科学文化机构提供信息，使其更好地了解受众的具体兴趣、理解水平以及在生物多样性与人类健康之间的联系方面的知识差距;以及（3）就有效吸引和教育不同受众了解生物多样性与人类福祉的相关性的学习经验和资源的设计提供重要见解，并给他们工具来增加他们对这个主题的理解。具体的项目组成部分包括：在AMNH即将举行的毒物展览中，SEPA展览的一部分;通过生物多样性和人类健康的透镜参观AMNH常设霍尔斯的智能手机应用程序;以科学咖啡馆的形式为成人、学生和教师举办的一系列与专家的对话;博物馆参观者调查，这将有助于对公众对生物多样性和人类健康主题的知识进行差距分析;以及在线资源和传播。外部评价将有助于评估所有组成部分在提高公众对生物多样性和人类健康问题的认识方面的价值，并提供与其他非正式科学机构共享的信息。作为一个领先的科学研究和教育机构，AMNH充分准备利用自己在教育规划和展览方面的专业知识，以及其在比较生物学和分子生物学，遗传学和生物多样性科学方面的研究能力，与参与NIH的科学家合作，将NIH和其他研究人员的工作翻译和传播给广泛的在线和现场观众。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) requests SEPA support for the five-year project, "Human Health, Biodiversity, and Microbial Ecology: Strategies to Educate." The project's overarching goal is to promote public awareness and deepen understanding of the critical impact of biodiversity on human health, with specific attention to the human microbiome and how the diversity of nature's innovations - chemical, anatomical, and physiological - are of critical value to biomedical research. The three specific aims to achieve this goal are: (1) spotlight emerging research at the intersection of biodiversity and human health by providing the general public, students, and teachers with engaging opportunities to interact with experts in the field, learn about this critical topic in AMNH's hall, and deepen their understanding through resources that extend beyond AMNH's walls; (2) provide information to the public and science cultural institutions that will lead to a better understanding of audiences' specific interests, levels of understanding, and gaps in knowledge concerning the connections between biodiversity and human health; and (3) contribute critical insights about the design of learning experiences and resources effective in engaging and educating diverse audiences about the relevance of biodiversity to human well-being, and giving them the tools to increase their understanding of this topic. Specific project components include: a SEPA exhibition element in AMNH's upcoming exhibit on poison; a smartphone application tour of AMNH permanent exhibition halls through the lens of biodiversity and human health; a series of Conversations with Experts for adults, students, and teachers, based on the Science Cafe format; Museum visitor polling that will contribute to a gap analysis of public knowledge of the topic of biodiversity and human health; and online resources and dissemination. External evaluation will help assess the value of all components in increasing public understanding of biodiversity and human health topics, as well as provide information to be shared with other informal science institutions. As a leading scientific research and education institution, AMNH is well prepared to use its own expertise in educational programming and exhibitions, as well as its research capacity in comparative and molecular biology, phylogenetics, and biodiversity science, to work with participating NIH scientists to translate and disseminate the work of NIH and other researchers to broad online and on-site audiences.