IRES Water Quality and Household Energy in Post-Earthquake Nepal: Long Term Protection of Community Health

IRES 尼泊尔震后水质和家庭能源：社区健康的长期保护

• 批准号: 1559530
• 负责人: Thanh Nguyen
• 金额: $ 25万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-08-01 至 2020-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1559530&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IRES; Water; Quality; Household; Energy

IRES Water Quality and Household Energy in Post-Earthquake Nepal: Long Term Protection of Community HealthNon-technical descriptionThis IRES award brings together a diverse community of researchers and students from the United States and Nepal. In addition to working directly with local and international scientists, U.S. students will communicate to other undergraduate and graduate students through blogging about international research experience. Participants will also develop education materials, with help from local collaborators, to help inform community members in host countries. Upon return to their home institution, students will present their results through professional seminars and scientific publications. The students trained by this proposed program will be the future leaders of an elite international development workforce diminishing the impact of infectious disease on human health by nurturing the interaction of persons of different disciplines and skill sets to meet water, sanitation, and household energy needs worldwide.Technical descriptionThis U.S. - Nepal international research experience for students (IRES) project supports partnership between researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), the Environment and Public Health Organization, Nepal (ENPHO), the Center for Rural Technology Nepal (CRT-N), the Institute of Engineering, Nepal (IOE) and the Nepal Department of Health Services. Over a three-year period, this program will engage three U.S. undergraduate and three U.S. graduate students annually, for a total of eighteen participants, at multiple research sites in Nepal to study the aftermath of natural disaster like earthquake on microbial water quality compounded with sanitation practices. Following training and research preparation at UIUC, students will travel to Nepal, where they will be co-mentored by professors and researchers from the partner institutes. Each student's research training will include experience with planning and implementation of field strategies for drinking water sampling in the affected areas; interviewing local people to understand the sanitation practices and the sustainability of relief efforts; and data collection on waterborne illnesses. Following each portion of fieldwork and sample processing in Kathmandu, participants return to UIUC to prepare collected samples for metagenomics, 16S and 18S sequencing, qPCR and bioinformatics analysis. These will be studied to identify opportunistic pathogens in collected water sample, and patterns of presence with different sanitation practices. Results will provide new insights on the risks of outbreak of diarrheal diseases after extreme natural events in developing world, and how human practices may increase or decrease these risks.

尼泊尔地点后的水质和家庭能源：长期保护社区Healthnon-Technical Deficdity This Ires Award汇集了来自美国和尼泊尔的各种研究人员和学生的社区。除了直接与本地和国际科学家合作外，美国的学生还将通过博客与国际研究经验进行博客与其他本科生和研究生进行沟通。参与者还将在当地合作者的帮助下开发教育材料，以帮助告知东道国的社区成员。返回家庭机构后，学生将通过专业的研讨会和科学出版物提出结果。通过该拟议计划培训的学生将是一名精英国际发展劳动力的未来领导者，通过培育不同学科的人的相互作用，从而减少了感染性疾病对人类健康的影响，以满足全世界的水，卫生和家庭能源需求，以满足全球的水，卫生和家庭能源需求。 （UIUC），尼泊尔环境与公共卫生组织（ENPHO），尼泊尔农村技术中心（CRT-N），尼泊尔工程研究所（IOE）和尼泊尔卫生服务部。在三年的时间里，该计划将在尼泊尔的多个研究地点与三名美国本科生和三名美国研究生一起参与，总共十八名参与者，以研究自然灾害的后果，例如地震对微生物水质的地震，并使卫生实践复合了。在UIUC进行培训和研究准备工作之后，学生将前往尼泊尔，在那里他们将由合作伙伴学院的教授和研究人员共同授予他们。每个学生的研究培训都将包括计划和实施现场策略的经验；采访当地人，了解卫生实践和救济工作的可持续性；以及有关水传播疾病的数据收集。遵循加德满都的每个现场工作和样本处理之后，参与者返回UIUC，准备收集的样品，以进行宏基因组学，16S和18S测序，QPCR和生物信息学分析。这些将进行研究，以鉴定收集的水样品中的机会性病原体，以及具有不同卫生实践的存在模式。结果将提供有关发展中国家极端自然事件后腹泻疾病爆发风险的新见解，以及人类实践如何增加或降低这些风险。