Interdisciplinary Training in Climate and Health

气候与健康跨学科培训

• 批准号: 8666380
• 负责人: Patrick Lott Kinney
• 金额: $ 24.55万
• 依托单位: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-07-01 至 2019-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8666380
• 关键词: Climate; Health; Training

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant) This application is for funds to support a program for interdisciplinary training in climate and health science. The Program will be administered through the Environmental Health Sciences (EHS) Department at Columbia University and will establish a dedicated cohort of pre- and post-doctoral trainees who study a range of issues at the nexus of climate and health. These students will enter an established, rigorous interdisciplinary program of study within environmental health sciences through which they will acquire the expertise and critical thinking skills needed to address some of the most pressing health issues facing society today. The investigators' goal with this new program is to develop a new generation of forward-thinking researchers capable of independent interdisciplinary work as well as collaboration with scientists in both the climate and health fields. This development will take place in a rich, collegial atmosphere that supplements classroom instruction and research with training in writing, public speaking and teaching. The Training Program faculty consists of 24 active, well-funded researchers with extensive experience mentoring both pre-doctoral and postdoctoral trainees. These investigators have expertise spanning the climate, engineering, epidemiology, toxicology, agriculture and policy disciplines and are based in departments, centers and institutes throughout Columbia University, including: Environmental Health Sciences, the Department of Epidemiology, the Center for Environmental Health in Northern Manhattan, the Columbia University Earth Institute, the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, the International Research Institute for Climate and Society, the Center for International Earth Science Information Network, and the departments of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Earth and Environmental Engineering, and Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology. This training grant, along with further departmental and university support, will provide core funding with which to recruit talented Ph.D. candidates and post-doctoral trainees into the Program. For the pre-doctoral trainees, program support will typically be provided for two years after which support will be shifted to a mentor's R01 grant or an individual fellowship. Open slots will then be free for the recruitment of new pre-doctoral trainees. The postdoctoral trainees will each be supported for two years though matching fellowship funds may be available from sources such as the Earth Institute. This T32 Climate and Health Training Program will build on the success of the existing overall EHS department pre- and post-doctoral programs. Graduates of the Environmental Health Science program have found excellent research and faculty positions, and are having an ongoing impact on a variety of public health fields. With this Climate and Health training grant, the investigators will expand an intensify training in interdisciplinary climate and health science. Such training will lead to improved scientific understanding that will ultimately inform climate adaptation and mitigation strategies, climate and carbon emissions policies, and improve the public health.

描述（由申请人提供） 该申请是为了支持一项用于气候和健康科学跨学科培训的计划。该计划将通过哥伦比亚大学的环境卫生科学（EHS）部门进行管理，并将建立专门的专门培训前和博士后学员的同伙，他们研究了气候和健康关系的一系列问题。这些学生将在环境健康科学中输入一项既定，严格的跨学科研究计划，通过该计划，他们将获得解决当今社会面临的一些最紧迫的健康问题所需的专业知识和批判性思维技能。调查人员在这个新计划中的目标是开发新一代的具有独立跨学科工作的前瞻性研究人员，并与气候和健康领域的科学家合作。这一发展将在丰富的大学氛围中进行，以写作，公开演讲和教学的培训来补充课堂教学和研究。该培训计划由24名活跃的，资金丰富的研究人员组成，拥有丰富的指导前和博士后学员的经验。这些研究人员具有跨越气候，工程，流行病学，毒理学，农业和政策学科的专业知识天文台，国际气候和社会研究所，国际地球科学信息网络中心以及地球与环境科学，地球和环境工程以及生态，进化与环境生物学的部门。这项培训补助金，以及进一步的系和大学的支持，将提供核心资金，以招募才华横溢的博士学位。候选人和博士后学员参加了该计划。 对于博士前学员，通常将提供两年的计划支持，然后将支持转移到导师的R01赠款或个人奖学金中。 然后，开放式老虎机将是免费的，可以招募新的博士前学员。尽管可以从地球研究所（Earth Institute）等来源获得匹配的奖学金资金，但博士后学员将分别支持两年。这项T32气候和健康培训计划将基于现有的EHS部门前和博士后计划的成功。环境健康科学计划的毕业生找到了出色的研究和教师职位，并对各种公共卫生领域产生了持续的影响。通过这项气候和健康培训赠款，研究人员将扩大跨学科气候和健康科学的加强培训。这种培训将导致改进的科学理解，最终将为气候适应和缓解策略，气候和碳排放政策提供信息，并改善公共卫生。