Southwest Center on Resilience for Climate Change and Health (SCORCH)

项目摘要-组件：总体 干旱土地是三分之一人口的家园，全球总人口超过20亿。干旱 陆地社区正面临多种气候变化加剧的影响健康的威胁，包括极端 热事件、野火、沙尘暴、生物多样性丧失、新出现的病原体、糟糕的空气质量和干旱。这个 西南气候变化与健康抗灾中心(SCOCH)汇聚 跨学科研究小组开展团队科学项目，解决干旱土地的健康需求 适应气候变化的社区。该中心的首要使命是改善所有国家的卫生公平 通过加强社区伙伴关系和支持土著、拉丁裔、 美国西南部和全球资源匮乏的城市和农村社区。基于 亚利桑那大学(UArizona)，国际公认的气候科学和适应之家 研究人员和中心，SCOCH将作为扩大亚利桑那州校园倡议的基础 目的是在气候变化科学的交叉点上增加健康研究。三年规划 阶段将用于确定其专业知识与气候变化和健康相一致的研究人员 亚利桑那州和该地区，建立跨学科团队，为社区确定优先研究领域 适应规划，并实施两个研究项目，以发展我们的初始研究重点小组(RFG) 主题。我们最初的三个RFG建立在当前SCOCH团队成员的专业知识基础上，并且是 有目的地广泛地涵盖不断变化的研究优先事项。这三个主题包括：1)健康影响 极端天气事件；2)气候变化健康后果的预测和预警；3) 建筑环境中的适应性反应。研究项目1与RFG 2和3保持一致，以开发一种 可以预测绿地设计潜在健康后果的评估工具。研究项目2对齐 与RFG 1一起研究母亲暴露在极端高温和长期儿童健康后果中的作用。 通过以尊重和信任为基础的社区参与活动，由社区参与核心领导， 和新的数据可视化服务，在集成数据可视化核心的领导下，我们将深化现有 并与具有不同生活经验的学术和社区实体发展新的伙伴关系 知识框架。科奇在美国西南部的地理位置提供了 独特的研究机会，支持土著、拉丁裔、低资源群体的适应和复原力努力 该区域的城市和农村社区，以及解决边境地区的独特情况 区域。SCOCH的潜在国际影响使高影响的气候变化和卫生倡议成为可能 这将在全球范围内得到转化。

PROJECT ABSTRACT – Component: Overall Arid lands are home to one in three people, totaling a population of more than 2 billion spanning the globe. Arid land communities are facing multiple climate change-exacerbated threats impacting health including extreme heat events, wildfires, dust storms, biodiversity loss, emerging pathogens, poor air quality, and drought. The Southwest Center on Resilience for Climate Change and Health (SCORCH) brings together transdisciplinary research groups to conduct team-science projects addressing the health needs of arid lands communities adapting to climate change. The Center's overarching mission is to improve health equity across the lifespan by enhancing community partnerships and supporting adaptation efforts by Indigenous, Latinx, low-resource urban, and rural communities in the Southwestern United States and globally. Based at the University of Arizona (UArizona), home of internationally recognized climate science and adaptation researchers and Centers, SCORCH will serve as a foundation for expanding UArizona campus initiatives aiming to increase health research at the intersection of climate change science. The three-year planning phase will be used to identify researchers whose expertise align with climate change and health across UArizona and the region, build transdisciplinary teams, identify priority research areas for community adaptation planning, and implement two research projects to develop our initial Research Focus Group (RFG) themes. Our initial three RFGs build on the expertise of the current SCORCH team members and are purposefully broad to encompass evolving research priorities. These three themes include: 1) Health impacts of extreme weather events; 2) Forecasting and early warning of climate change health outcomes; and 3) Adaptive responses in the built environment. Research Project 1 aligns with RFG 2 and 3, to develop an assessment tool that can predict potential health outcomes of greenspace designs. Research Project 2 aligns with RFG 1 to examine the role of maternal exposure to extreme heat and long-term child health outcomes. Through community engaged activities founded on respect and trust, led by the Community Engagement Core, and novel data visualization services, led by the Integrated Data Visualization Core, we will deepen existing and develop new partnerships with academic and community entities with diverse lived experiences and knowledge frameworks. The geographic location of SCORCH in the Southwestern United States provides unique research opportunities to support adaptation and resilience efforts of Indigenous, Latinx, low-resource urban, and rural communities in the region as well as addressing the unique circumstances found in borderland areas. The potential international reach of SCORCH enables high-impact climate change and health initiatives that will translate globally.