Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: Risk mapping and targeted snail control to support schistosomiasis elimination in Brazil and Cote d'Ivoire under future environmental change

贝尔蒙特论坛合作研究：风险测绘和有针对性的钉螺控制，支持未来环境变化下巴西和科特迪瓦消除血吸虫病

• 批准号: 2024386
• 负责人: Kamazima Lwiza
• 金额: $ 9.8万
• 依托单位: SUNY at Stony Brook
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-08-01 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2024386&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Belmont; Forum; Collaborative; Research; Risk

This award provides support to U.S. researchers participating in a project competitively selected by a 55-country initiative on global change research through the Belmont Forum. The Belmont Forum is a consortium of research funding organizations focused on support for transdisciplinary approaches to global environmental change challenges and opportunities. It aims to accelerate delivery of the international research most urgently needed to remove critical barriers to sustainability by aligning and mobilizing international resources. Each partner country provides funding for their researchers within a consortium to alleviate the need for funds to cross international borders. This approach facilitates effective leveraging of national resources to support excellent research on topics of global relevance best tackled through a multinational approach, recognizing that global challenges need global solutions.Working together in this Collaborative Research Action, the partner agencies have provided support to foster global transdisciplinary research teams of natural (including climate), health and social scientists and stakeholders from across the globe to improve understanding of climate, environment and health pathways to protect and promote health. The projects will provide crucial new understanding into the health implications arising from the impacts of climate change and variability on; 1) the quality/quantity of food, 2) chronic exposure to increases/changes in heat and humidity and 3) changes in the distribution and incidence of a range of infectious diseases and emergence of novel pathogens. This award provides support for the U.S. researchers to cooperate in consortia that consist of partners from at least three of the participating countries to increase our knowledge of the complex linkages and pathways between the climate, environment and health to help solve complex challenges that face societies. The project seeks to investigate the combined effect of environmental and land use change, such as the development of water management infrastructures, on the distribution of snail-borne schistosomiasis, a debilitating parasitic disease of poverty, affecting more than 200 million people worldwide. The study will focus on Brazil and Ivory Coast as these countries are countries particularly vulnerable to this parasitic disease as a consequence of projected climate change combined with growing human population, deforestation, expansion of agriculture and of marginal urban settings and the development of dams and irrigation canals. The project will couple different model types to understand how species are distributed in response to relevant socio-economic and environmental drivers of schistosomiasis to produce maps of present and future risk for schistosomiasis under projected environmental conditions. The project will provide a major step forward in the development of novel ways to profile schistosomiasis risk by integrating models of schistosomiasis transmission with remote sensing and GIS spatial representation of other ecological, environmental and socioeconomic drivers of schistosomaisis risk. The project will combine field data at different scales with theory to investigate the linked human and natural drivers of parasite transmission to improve understanding of the expected future distribution of schistosomiasis risk. The project will provide a reference framework to investigate the environmental determinants of a wide family of snail-borne and soil-transmitted infections affecting over 1.5 billion of the world’s poorest people.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该奖项为参加一个由55个国家通过Belmont论坛进行全球变更研究的计划竞争性选择的项目提供了支持。 Belmont论坛是一个研究资助组织的财团，专注于支持全球环境变化挑战和机遇的跨学科方法。它的目的是加快迫切需要的国际研究的交付，以通过结盟和动员国际资源来消除可持续性的关键障碍。每个合作伙伴国家为财团内的研究人员提供资金，以减轻资金越过国际边界的需求。这种方法设施有效利用国家资源来支持有关全球相关性主题的出色研究，最好通过跨国方法来解决全球挑战，并认识到全球解决方案需要全球解决方案。在这项合作研究行动中，合作伙伴机构为促进全球跨学科研究团队提供了支持，以促进自然和社会科学家和健康范围的自然企业和健康范围，从而促进跨越的环境和健康范围。这些项目将为气候变化和可变性的影响产生的健康影响提供至关重要的新理解； 1）食物的质量/数量，2）长期暴露于热量和湿度的增加/变化； 3）一系列感染疾病的分布和发生率的变化以及新型病原体的出现。该奖项为美国的研究人员提供了支持在财团中合作的支持，这些奖项由至少三个参与国家的合作伙伴组成，以提高我们对气候，环境和健康之间复杂联系和途径的了解，以帮助解决面对社会面临的复杂挑战。该项目旨在调查环境和土地利用变化的综合作用，例如水管理基础设施的发展，对蜗牛 - 传播血吸虫病的分布，这是一种使人衰弱的贫困疾病，影响了全球超过2亿人。这项研究将重点关注巴西和象牙海岸，因为这些国家是由于预计气候变化而尤其容易受到这种寄生疾病的国家，加上人口不断增长，森林砍伐，农业的扩大和边际城市环境以及大坝和灌溉渠的发展。该项目将依靠不同的模型类型，以了解如何根据相关的血吸虫病的社会经济和环境驱动因素分配物种，以产生在预计的环境条件下对血吸虫病的当前和未来风险的地图。该项目将通过将血吸虫病传播的模型与遥感的模型与其他生态，环境和社会经济驱动因素的其他生态，环境和社会经济驱动因素整合在一起，从而为新颖的方式发展新的方法来介绍血吸虫病风险。该项目将在不同尺度上将现场数据与理论结合起来，以研究寄生虫传播的人类和自然驱动因素，以提高人们对分烟症风险的预期未来分布的理解。该项目将提供一个参考框架，以调查广泛的蜗牛传播和土壤传播的感染的环境决定者，影响了世界上最贫穷的人中有15亿多人。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛的影响来审查Criteria，通过评估来通过评估来获得支持。