International Training in Environmental Health over the Lifespan

生命周期环境健康国际培训

• 批准号: 10435547
• 负责人: Luz Claudio
• 金额: $ 24.76万
• 依托单位: ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-08-15 至 2025-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10435547
• 关键词: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; Brain Drains; Cessation of life; Child; Collaborations; Community Workers; Costa Rica; Costa Rican; Country; Disease; Educational process of instructing; Ensure; Environmental Exposure; Environmental Health; Environmental Pollution; Funding; Health; Health Professional; Health Resources; Individual; International; Intervention; Latin America; Longevity; Malaria; Mentors; Mission; Occupational Health; Participant; Pollution; Publications; Reporting; Research; Research Methodology; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Research Training; Scholarship; Scientist; Short-Term Course; Time; Training; Training Programs; Tuberculosis; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Vulnerable Populations; base; design; experience; global environment; low and middle-income countries; prevent; programs; underserved community

Project Summary Global environmental health is recognized as the most pressing challenge of our time. A recent report by The Lancet estimated that environmental pollution causes three times more deaths from non-communicable diseases (NCD) than AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria combined and that 92% of pollution-related deaths and diseases occur in low and middle income countries (LMICs). The mission of the Mount Sinai Division of International Health is to collaborate with LMICs to identify, document, prevent and mitigate environmental health problems especially in vulnerable populations such as children and underserved communities. Because of the close, long-term collaborations established through previous NIH-funded programs, we are poised to collaborate with new partners in Latin America. Based on those experiences, we propose to employ a proven, multi-tiered research training strategy that builds on local strengths at the individual, institutional, and regional levels with public university partners in Costa Rica, a country of many environmental strengths and challenges. The Mount Sinai-Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica (UNA) partnership is centered on equality and builds on each partner’s strengths. Our aims are: 1)To create a Mentored Research Scholarship Program in which junior scientists will be paired with mentors in the US for training in research methods and to conduct long-term research projects in Costa Rica. 2) To enhance teaching in Environmental and Occupational Health by collaborating in the creation of short-term courses that enhance research capacity for a broad range of biomedical and health professionals. 3) To promote South-to-South-to-North Collaboration by supporting a program of Advanced Research Scholarships to Costa Rican scientists that have a high potential to be self- sustaining. This multi-level approach to capacity building at the individual, institutional, and regional levels will ensure that the proposed program has both depth and breadth. The guiding principle of this program plan is to recognize the strengths of each partner and build on these through mutual collaboration. The program will, therefore, increase the likelihood of continued long-term impact. In line with our mission, the centerpiece will be a mentoring program uniquely designed to avoid the “brain-drain” of researchers from the partner country and instead builds capacity within Latin America. We expect that the program will result in 30 highly-skilled professionals in environmental health sciences conducting research at local public universities. Their projects will include multinational collaborations and the enhancement of environmental health resources for researchers in Costa Rica. We estimate based on our previous research training programs that the mentored and advanced research projects will generate at least 60 research publications. There will also be an estimated 250 participants in courses who will be able to incorporate environmental and occupational health research into their own projects. Importantly, there will also be many local communities and workers who will benefit from interventions to reduce NCDs caused or aggravated by environmental exposures.

项目摘要 全球环境健康被认为是我们这个时代最紧迫的挑战。最近的报告 柳叶刀估计，环境污染会导致不可传染的死亡人数增加了三倍 疾病（NCD）比艾滋病，结核病和疟疾合并，其中92％与污染有关的死亡和 疾病发生在低收入和中等收入国家（LMIC）。西奈山分区的任务 国际健康将与LMIC合作识别，记录，预防和减轻环境 健康问题，尤其是在弱势群体中，例如儿童和服务不足的社区。因为 通过以前由NIH资助的计划建立的亲密，长期合作，我们被中毒 与拉丁美洲的新合作伙伴合作。根据这些经验，我们建议采用一个经过验证的 多层研究培训策略以个人，机构和地区的本地优势为基础 与公立大学合作伙伴在哥斯达黎加的水平，哥斯达黎加是一个有许多环境优势和挑战的国家。 哥斯达黎加（UNA）伙伴关系的西奈山 - 诺斯弗罗斯达山（Una）的合作伙伴关系以平等为中心 每个伴侣的优势。我们的目标是：1）创建一个指导的研究奖学金计划，其中 初级科学家将与美国的导师配对进行研究方法培训并进行长期。 哥斯达黎加的研究项目。 2）通过 合作创建短期课程，以增强研究能力 生物医学和卫生专业人员。 3）通过支持一个 向哥斯达黎加科学家提供的高级研究奖学金计划，他们具有很高的自我潜力 维持。这种在个人，机构和地区级别建设能力的多层次方法将 确保拟议的程序具有深度和广度。该计划计划的指导原则是 认识到每个合作伙伴的优势，并通过相互合作在这些基础上建立。该程序将 因此，增加长期影响的可能性。与我们的任务一致，核心将是 一项旨在避免合作伙伴国家和 而是在拉丁美洲建立能力。我们希望该计划将导致30个高技能 环境健康科学专业人士在当地公立大学进行研究。他们的项目 将包括跨国合作和增强环境健康资源 哥斯达黎加的研究人员。我们根据以前的研究培训计划进行估计， 高级研究项目将至少生成60个研究出版物。也会有一个 估计有250名参与者参加了能够融入环境和占领健康的课程 研究自己的项目。重要的是，还将有许多当地社区和工人 受益于减少环境暴露引起或汇总的NCD的干预措施。