Conference: Human, Engineering, and Scientific Aspects of Disease Transmission in Natural and Built Environments

会议：自然和建筑环境中疾病传播的人类、工程和科学方面

• 批准号: 2332366
• 负责人: Peter Vikesland
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State 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: 2023-08-01 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2332366&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; Human; Engineering; Scientific; Aspects

This NSF award will support a workshop entitled Human, Engineering, and Scientific Aspects of Disease Transmission in Natural and Built Environments. The workshop will be held during Fall 2023 at the Virginia Tech Executive Briefing Center in Arlington, Virginia. The overarching goal of the conference is to discuss and summarize the current state of the field including the latest advances and critical knowledge gaps on 1) how pathogens and diseases are transmitted in natural and built environments and 2) how human behavior affects and impacts pathogen/disease transmission, mitigation, and prevention in natural/built environments and within communities. Workshop attendees will include environmental engineers, environmental scientists, epidemiologists, policymakers, and other stakeholders. Attendees will exchange ideas and promote the development of new convergent research concepts focused on the topic of indoor and outdoor disease transmission within communities. NSF funding will enable the workshop organizers to provide travel grants to invited speakers, post-doctoral scholars, graduate students, and junior faculty from underrepresented groups. The proposed workshop will be organized by the Virginia Tech Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. The goals of the conference are to (1) catalyze and facilitate the exchange of knowledge between engineers, scientists, health professionals, social scientists, and others with complementary expertise in pathogen/disease transmission, prevention, control, and mitigation; (2) identify and delineate critical knowledge gaps in the science and engineering of pathogen/disease transmission, mitigation, and prevention in natural/built environments and within communities; and (3) facilitate the networking of complementary groups of researchers to enhance the potential for future and transdisciplinary research collaborations to advance the fundamental science and engineering of pathogen/disease transmission and mitigation, and pandemic preparedness and prevention. The expected outcomes of the conference will include the drafting, development, and publications of a report and a peer-reviewed feature article that will discuss and suggest new, holistic approaches to assess and mitigate disease transmission in natural/built environments and within communities.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.

NSF奖将支持自然和建筑环境中疾病传播的人类，工程和科学方面的讲习班。该研讨会将于2023年秋季在弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿的弗吉尼亚技术执行简报中心举行。会议的总体目的是讨论和总结该领域的现状，包括关于自然和建筑环境中的病原体和疾病如何传播的最新进展和关键知识差距，以及2）2）人类行为如何影响和影响病原体/疾病的传播，缓解，缓解，自然/建筑环境中的病原体/疾病传播，缓解和预防。研讨会的参与者将包括环境工程师，环境科学家，流行病学家，决策者和其他利益相关者。与会者将交流思想，并促进新的融合研究概念的发展，这些研究概念集中在社区内室内和室外疾病传播的主题上。 NSF资金将使研讨会的组织者能够为邀请的演讲者，博士后学者，研究生和少年教师提供差旅赠款。拟议的研讨会将由弗吉尼亚理工技术系民用和环境工程部组织。会议的目标是（1）催化和促进工程师，科学家，卫生专业人员，社会科学家与其他具有病原/疾病传播，预防，控制，控制和缓解方面的知识之间的知识交流； （2）在自然/建筑环境和社区内的病原/疾病传播，缓解和预防的科学和工程中识别并描述了批判性知识差距； （3）促进互补研究人员的网络，以增强未来和跨学科研究合作的潜力，以推动病原/疾病传播和缓解的基本科学和工程以及大流行的准备和预防。会议的预期结果将包括报告的起草，开发和出版物以及经过同行评审的功能文章，该文章将讨论并提出新的，整体的方法，以评估和减轻自然/建筑环境和社区中的疾病传播。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过评估基金会的智力和广泛的影响，并通过评估范围进行了评估。