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.

项目概要 全球环境健康被认为是我们这个时代最紧迫的挑战。 《柳叶刀》估计，环境污染造成的非传染性疾病死亡人数是其他人的三倍 疾病（非传染性疾病）的数量比艾滋病、结核病和疟疾的总和还多，92% 的死亡和污染相关 疾病发生在低收入和中等收入国家 (LMIC)。 国际卫生组织将与中低收入国家合作，识别、记录、预防和减轻环境影响 健康问题，尤其是儿童和服务欠缺社区等弱势群体的健康问题。 通过以前的 NIH 资助项目建立的密切、长期的合作，我们准备 根据这些经验，我们建议与拉丁美洲的新合作伙伴合作。 建立在个人、机构和区域本地优势之上的多层次研究培训战略 哥斯达黎加的公立大学合作伙伴具有许多环境优势和挑战。 西奈山与哥斯达黎加国立大学 (UNA) 的伙伴关系以平等为中心，并建立在 我们的目标是：1）创建指导研究奖学金计划，其中 青年科学家将与美国导师配对，接受研究方法培训并进行长期研究 哥斯达黎加的研究项目 2) 加强环境和职业健康方面的教学。 合作创建短期课程，提高广泛领域的研究能力 3) 通过支持生物医学和卫生专业人员促进南南北合作。 为具有高度自我潜力的哥斯达黎加科学家提供高级研究奖学金计划 这种个人、机构和区域层面的多层次能力建设方法将持续下去。 确保提出的计划具有深度和广度 本计划计划的指导原则是： 认识到每个合作伙伴的优势，并通过相互合作来发挥这些优势， 因此，增加持续产生长期影响的可能性，这与我们的使命相一致。 专门设计的指导计划，以避免合作伙伴国家研究人员的“人才流失”，以及 相反，我们预计该计划将培养 30 名高技能人才。 环境健康科学专业人士在当地公立大学进行研究。 将包括多国合作和加强环境卫生资源 我们根据我们之前指导的研究培训项目进行了估计。 高级研究项目将产生至少 60 篇研究出版物。 估计有 250 名参与者将能够将环境和职业健康纳入课程 重要的是，还有许多当地社区和工人也会参与其中。 受益于减少因环境暴露引起或加重的非传染性疾病的干预措施。