HR: 16:35h
AN: ED24A-02    [Abstracts]
TI: IAI Training in Climate and Health in the Americas
AU: * Aron, J L
EM: joanaron@mmscnet.org
AF: Science Communication Studies, 5457 Marsh Hawk Way, Columbia, MD 21045, United States
AB: The Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) has addressed training in climate and health in the Americas in two major ways. First, IAI supports students to engage in research training. A multi-country health activity funded by IAI was the collaborative research network (CRN) on Diagnostics and Prediction of Human Health Impacts in the Tropical Americas, which focused principally on the effect of El Nino/Southern Oscillation and other aspects of climate variability on mosquito-borne diseases malaria and dengue. The CRN involved students in Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia and Jamaica. The CRN was also linked to other climate and health projects that used a similar approach. Second, IAI organizes training institutes to expand the network of global change research scientists and facilitate the transfer of global change research into practice. The IAI Training Institute on Climate and Health in the Americas was held on November 7 - 18, 2005 at the University of the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica, engaging participants from the CRN and other programs in the Americas. The Training Institute's central objective was to help strengthen local and regional capacity to address the impacts of climate variability and climate change on human health in the populations of the Americas, particularly Latin America and the Caribbean. The Training Institute had three core components: Science; Applications; and Proposal Development for Seed Grants. Recommendations for future Training Institutes included incorporating new technologies and communicating with policy-makers to develop more proactive societal strategies to manage risks.
UR: http:www.iai.int
DE: 0800 EDUCATION
DE: 1620 Climate dynamics (0429, 3309)
DE: 1630 Impacts of global change (1225)
SC: Education and Human Resources [ED]
MN: 2007 Joint Assembly