整合知识资源以应对复杂的环境卫生挑战。
Interweaving Knowledge Resources to Address Complex Environmental Health Challenges.
作者信息
Anderson Beth Ellen, Naujokas Marisa F, Suk William A
机构信息
Superfund Research Program, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA.
出版信息
Environ Health Perspect. 2015 Nov;123(11):1095-9. doi: 10.1289/ehp.1409525. Epub 2015 Apr 24.
BACKGROUND
Complex problems do not respect academic disciplinary boundaries. Environmental health research is complex and often moves beyond these boundaries, integrating diverse knowledge resources to solve such challenges. Here we describe an evolving paradigm for interweaving approaches that integrates widely diverse resources outside of traditional academic environments in full partnerships of mutual respect and understanding. We demonstrate that scientists, social scientists, and engineers can work with government agencies, industry, and communities to interweave their expertise into metaphorical knowledge fabrics to share understanding, resources, and enthusiasm.
OBJECTIVE
Our goal is to acknowledge and validate how interweaving research approaches can contribute to research-driven, solution-oriented problem solving in environmental health, and to inspire more members of the environmental health community to consider this approach.
DISCUSSION
The National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Superfund Research Program (SRP), as mandated by Congress, has evolved to become a program that reaches across a wide range of knowledge resources. SRP fosters interweaving multiple knowledge resources to develop innovative multidirectional partnerships for research and training. Here we describe examples of how motivation, ideas, knowledge, and expertise from different people, institutions, and agencies can integrate to tackle challenges that can be as complex as the resources they bring to bear on it.
CONCLUSIONS
By providing structure for interweaving science with its stakeholders, we are better able to leverage resources, increase potential for innovation, and proactively ensure a more fully developed spectrum of beneficial outcomes of research investments.
CITATION
Anderson BE, Naujokas MF, Suk WA. 2015. Interweaving knowledge resources to address complex environmental health challenges. Environ Health Perspect 123:1095-1099; http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1409525.
背景
复杂问题不受学术学科界限的限制。环境卫生研究是复杂的，并且常常超越这些界限，整合各种知识资源以应对此类挑战。在此，我们描述一种不断发展的范式，用于将各种方法交织在一起，这种范式在相互尊重和理解的全面伙伴关系中整合了传统学术环境之外的广泛多样的资源。我们证明，科学家、社会科学家和工程师可以与政府机构、行业和社区合作，将他们的专业知识编织成隐喻性的知识结构，以共享理解、资源和热情。
目的
我们的目标是认识并验证交织研究方法如何有助于在环境卫生领域以研究为驱动、以解决方案为导向地解决问题，并激励更多环境卫生领域的成员考虑这种方法。
讨论
美国国立卫生研究院的国家环境卫生科学研究所超级基金研究计划（SRP），根据国会的授权，已发展成为一个涵盖广泛知识资源的计划。SRP促进多种知识资源的交织，以建立创新的多向研究与培训伙伴关系。在此，我们描述了不同的人、机构和机构的动机、想法、知识和专业知识如何整合，以应对与他们所运用的资源一样复杂的挑战。
结论
通过为科学与其利益相关者的交织提供架构，我们能够更好地利用资源，增加创新潜力，并积极确保研究投资产生更全面发展的一系列有益成果。
引用
Anderson BE, Naujokas MF, Suk WA. 2015. Interweaving knowledge resources to address complex environmental health challenges. Environ Health Perspect 123:1095 - 1099; http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1409525.
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