The Upper Midwestern Center of Excellence for Vector-Borne Disease

项目摘要 该提案详细说明了在维特波恩建立上中西部卓越中心的细节 疾病(MCE-VBD)对CDC RFA-CK-17-005的反应。MCE-VBD包括已完成的 以及来自威斯康星州学术、公共卫生和病媒控制机构的热情合作伙伴， 明尼苏达州、伊利诺伊州、密歇根州和爱荷华州。该中心的广泛和长期目标是激励 该区域专家之间新的和扩大的互动，以便对地方病和 流行性媒介传播疾病得到改善和加速。为了实现这一目标，该项目是 重点关注三个主要目标： 1)增加现有从业人员接受公共卫生昆虫学(PHE)培训的机会 和学生。这一目标将通过公共卫生专业的研究生培训和通过 管理新的PHE证书，课程包括讲习班和短期课程 在病媒识别、监测和控制方法、农药使用许可证和法律方面 点菜课程选项将根据研究生水平的学习而量身定做，包括VBD诊断、模型 口译和笔译、项目管理和质量控制。 2)在县建立包括公共卫生和蚊子控制专家在内的实践社区 和区/市一级，州公共卫生专家和研究的学术科学家 每个州的机构。这一目标将通过建立信息共享程序来实现 在合作伙伴之间，制定以证据为基础和针对区域的公共卫生信息， 互动以建立VBD和疫情管理的最佳实践，并标准化 对白纹伊蚊和肩周炎等入侵媒介的区域监测。这项工作将 通过公共卫生咨询委员会提供便利，并将得到充分支持，以便减轻负担 新的努力不会落到公众健康的头上。 3)研究改善对VBDS的监测和反应。为此，我们将制定方法 改进对疾病出现和暴发的预测，并优化监测网络 和病原体检测。我们还将评估目前控制蚊子和扁虱的方法。 并将开发新的工具来降低人类暴露的风险。来自研究项目的数据将提供 回到为培训公共卫生工程师而开发的工具，以及与公共卫生合作伙伴一起使用的推广产品。 这些目标的成功实现将极大地提高公共卫生的能力 上中西部当局检测和应对新威胁，并提供强有力的 支持以证据为基础的管理病媒传播疾病的做法。

Project Summary This proposal details establishment of the Upper Midwestern Center of Excellence in Vector Borne Diseases (MCE-VBD) in response to CDC RFA-CK-17-005. The MCE-VBD includes accomplished and enthusiastic partners from academic, public health, and vector control institutions in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Michigan and Iowa. The broad and long term goal of the Center is to incentivize new and expanded interactions between experts in the region so that responses to endemic and epidemic vector borne disease are improved and accelerated. To achieve this goal, the project is focused on three major objectives: 1) Increase the opportunities for training in public health entomology (PHE) for current practitioners and students. This objective will be achieved through graduate student training in PHE and through administration of a new Certificate of PHE, with a curriculum including workshops and short courses in vector identification, surveillance and control methods, pesticide application licensure and a la carte course options to be tailored to graduate level study including VBD diagnostics, model interpretation and translation, project management, and quality control. 2) Build a community of practice including public health and mosquito control experts at the county and district/municipal level, state public health experts, and academic scientists at research institution in each state. This goal will be achieved by establishing processes for information sharing between partners, developing evidence-based and region-specific public health messages, interacting to establish best practices for VBD and outbreak management, and standardizing region-wide surveillance for invasive vectors like Aedes albopictus and I. scapularis. This work will be facilitated through a public health advisory board, and will be amply supported so that the burden of new effort does not fall to PH. 3) Research to improve surveillance and responses to VBDs. For this aim, we will develop methods to improve predictions of disease emergence and outbreaks and to optimize surveillance networks and pathogen detection. We also will evaluate current methods of control for mosquitoes and ticks and will develop new tools to reduce human risks of exposure. Data from research projects will feed back into the tools developed to train PHE, and to outreach products for use with PH partners. Successful completion of these objectives will dramatically expand the ability of public health authorities in the Upper Midwest to detect and respond to new threats as well as provide a strongly supported evidence-based practice for management of vector-borne disease.