DISES: Integrating Socio-Economic and Environmental Interventions to Improve Well-Being in Vulnerable Communities

DISES：整合社会经济和环境干预措施以改善弱势社区的福祉

• 批准号: 2307944
• 负责人: Christopher Barrett
• 金额: $ 159.73万
• 依托单位: Cornell University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-07-01 至 2027-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2307944&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: DISES; Integrating; Socio; Economic; Environmental

Schistosomiasis, the second most socioeconomically burdensome neglected tropical disease globally, is caused by snail-transmitted flatworms that penetrate human skin. It originates in the aquatic ecology of rural communities, defies control efforts, reinforces poverty, and damages children’s health and education advancement because even when provided drugs to clear the infections, humans quickly get re-infected when they return to snail-infested waterbodies. A newly identified solution synergistically leverages feedback in socio-environmental systems through targeted aquatic vegetation harvest at community water access points where most infections occur. The next challenge is how to scale and sustain that solution. If successful, the low-cost, information-based design this project tests can provide a model for community-based solutions to similar poverty-disease traps worldwide. The project advances STEM education for students, creates a multi-institution seminar course and develops a public seminar series to improve the public’s understanding of science and the scientific method.This project implements a randomized controlled trial and field experiments with human subjects, coupled with longitudinal collection of household survey, ecological and human health data. The objective is to evaluate whether education on the public health and/or private economic benefits of vegetation removal can effectively scale and sustain ecologically non-disruptive aquatic vegetation harvest and thereby suppress schistosomiasis infection and boost agricultural productivity and well-being in rural communities. The project also monitors whether these interventions inadvertently induce unintended ecological or social spillover effects and whether the benefits of vegetation removal are distributed towards the relatively poor or better-off households.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.

血吸虫病是全球第二大的社会经济抛光热带疾病，是由蜗牛变质的扁虫引起的，它穿透了人类皮肤。它起源于农村社区的水生生态，违反控制努力，加强贫困并损害儿童的健康和教育进步，因为即使在提供了清除感染的药物以清除感染的药物时，人类在返回蜗牛侵入的水域时也很快被重新感染。新近确定的解决方案通过针对大多数感染的社区水通道点的靶向水生植被收获来协同利用社会环境系统中的反馈。下一个挑战是如何扩展和维持该解决方案。如果成功，低成本，基于信息的设计此项目测试可以为全球类似的贫困疾病陷阱提供基于社区的解决方案的模型。该项目为学生提供了STEM教育，创建了一个多机构的半手课程，并开发了一个公共半身系列，以提高公众对科学的理解和科学方法。该项目实施了一个随机对照试验，并与人类受试者进行了现场实验，并结合了家庭调查，生态和人类健康数据的纵向收集。目的是评估有关植被清除的公共卫生和/或私人经济益处的教育是否可以有效地扩展并维持生态上的非破坏性水生植被收获，从而抑制血吸虫病感染并促进农村社区的农业生产力和福祉。该项目还监视这些干预措施是否无意间引起了意外的生态或社会杂技效应，以及是否将清除植被的益处分配给相对贫困或善良的家庭。这奖反映了NSF的法定任务，并被视为值得通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛影响的评估来通过评估来获得支持。