Environmental and respiratory health across the lifespan in Mongolia

描述（由申请人提供）：蒙古/南加州环境卫生研究和培训中心（MSCEHRTC）将在乌兰巴托蒙古健康科学大学和美国加利福尼亚州洛杉矶南加州大学之间的合作伙伴关系中提供培训和研究机会。MSCEHRTC的主要重点是大气污染的后果和引进可持续控制技术对蒙古整个生命周期的环境健康的影响。空气污染正在成为乌兰巴托日益严重的问题，以颗粒物（PM）衡量的地面空气污染估计是最高可接受标准的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的机会，访问奖学金，以及在南加州大学和洛杉矶儿童医院以及由NHLBI， NIEHS和南加州空气质量管理区赞助的附属中心进行短期培训来实现。该计划的资金将包括来自FIC的每年25万美元，以及来自萨班研究所、萨班家庭基金会、帕萨迪纳公会捐赠基金的每年50万美元的实际美元比赛，以及来自南加州大学全球健康研究所、萨班研究所、南加州大学NIEHS环境健康研究所、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的竞争性培训奖学金。该项目将是可持续的，因为根据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，向蒙古国居民分发更高效的炉灶，展示了它对减少空气污染的实际承诺。蒙古的几家主要银行、矿业和自然资源部、能源部、蒙古国家气象和环境署（NAMEM）及其国家空气质量办公室（NAQO）正在实施这项工作，该办公室有能力监测全国的空气质量。为了实现污染控制的可持续改善，我们得到了奥云博士的热心政策合作。奥云博士是牛津大学志奋领学者、蒙古议会议员、妇女核心小组领导人、前外交部长和大呼拉尔泰“清洁空气小组”的主要成员。她是可持续政策的专家倡导者，在蒙古政府机构内工作，她住在乌兰巴托，因此她认识到在她的首都乌兰巴托采取紧急循证行动应对空气污染的重要性。她将担任我们国际咨询委员会的联合主席，并将作为朋友和导师，招募、留住和发展MSCEHRTC项目的毕业生，在蒙古的国家政策和实施层面影响空气污染后果的可持续循证变化。

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.