Opportunities for the Gulf Research Program Community Resilience and Health: Summary of a Workshop (2015) / Chapter Skim
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7 Long-term Opportunities
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, and (2) How can the Gulf to better understand socioecological responses and reResearch Program support the development of health, covery following catastrophic events, observed Michael scientific, community, and policy leaders who can ad- Blum, Eugenie Schwartz Professor of River and Coastal dress complex issues at the intersection between human Studies and director of the Tulane/Xavier Center for and ecosystem health?
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Gulf region encompasses tightly coupled human and Developing this kind of perspective requires transnatural ecosystems, research on post-trauma condi- disciplinary research perspectives, which necessitates tions can yield critical and novel understanding of how breaking out of disciplinary silos that are perpetueconomic outcomes are tightly linked to environmen- ated by separate funding agencies with distinct mistal integrity (i.e., ecosystem services) and how com- sions.
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chief science advisor for NOAA's National Ocean Service, • Increase understanding of the ways in which nature urged the Gulf Research Program to focus on ecosystem and biodiversity in the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem services and to quantify the values of these services to support human health, including biological mechahumans. Human health and well-being is the cumula- nisms of action (e.g., effects on the human immune FIGURE 7-2 Conceptual representation of human health and well-being as the focal point of cumulative ecosystem services in healthy and heavily stressed ecosystems.
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"They know the complexity between could significantly advance understanding by develop- the two, and they understand the regime change and ing measurable and meaningful metrics for ecosystem the challenges that [these interactions] present." Sevservices and the processes through which they affect eral examples of the community understanding include human health and well-being.
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A key find- HUMAN HEALTH PROGRAMS ing, she said, is that academics and representatives from state, local, and federal agencies learn more from com- The Oceans and Human Health (OHH) Program, munity members when community members are peers which is funded by NIEHS and NSF, supports activities to at professional meetings, rather than when academics understand how coastal water systems and human popand agency representatives are "in the field," visiting ulations interact and influence one another.
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professor and chair in the Department of Global En- Lichtveld also identified critical challenges hampervironmental Health Sciences at the Tulane University ing human health research design, implementation, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. In her and translation into meaningful, actionable findings presentation, she reviewed elements of the existing benefiting vulnerable communities.
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. The Program could focus on the Funding interdisaster research can provide a reason- linkages among these three components through gap able health status baseline upon which studies in the analysis and risk reduction, translation into applications, postevent response phase can build.
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All of these approaches require ter research has shown that people who are more refunding, she observed, and this funding needs to be in cently arrived in a community are the least likely to hand before rather than after a disaster if it is to be fully understand the things that need to be done in the case effective in building sustainable community–academic of disaster. Many communities around the Gulf Coast partnerships.
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cross-boundary education, training, and interactions for academics, policy makers, and community mem LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT bers. Michael Blum, Tulane University, noted that there are models of disaster resilience leadership academies, At many points during the workshop, several par- but that they are generally focused on educating policy ticipants highlighted the need to develop cross-sector makers; the Gulf Research Program could build upon leaders who are able to address complex issues at the these models and develop a curriculum that could be intersection of health and the environment.
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