Welcome  to  Public  Health  moment from  the  University  of  Minnesota. Determining  the  best  method  for  training our  military  combat  medics  is  the  goal  of  an $11,000,000  Department  of  Defense  Project. Project  will  be  led  by  University  of Minnesota  Health  Sciences  researchers. The  team  will  analyze  and  compare traditional  training  methods  with more  modern  methods  such  as  Mannequin  simulations. Professor  Julie  Jaco  from  the  U  of  M  School  of Public  Health  is  a  key  member  of  the  team. The  purpose  of  the  project  is  to  perform a  comparison  among  a  variety of  different  training  methods. And  what  we're  hoping  to  be  able  to  do  is  streamline the  training  with  new  technological  models of  how  to  get  that  done. At  the  same  time,  try  to  mitigate  some of  the  costs  associated  with  the  training. We're  looking  at  a  population  of  individuals, namely  combat  casualty  medics. And  we're  asking  the  question, how  can  we  help  these  individuals  deliver the  highest  quality  of  care possible  to  our  population  of  soldiers  around  the  world. Public  health  researchers  will conduct  a  cost  analysis  and a  comparison  of  the  effectiveness of  different  training  methods. Jaco  will  focus  on  the  role  of human  and  environmental  factors  in delivering  care  in  combat  settings. We're  very  interested  in  understanding  how  things  like temperature  and  humidity  and  stress  and  old  faction, and  a  whole  variety  of different  environmental  stressors  affect  performance. How  perhaps  some  of  those  environmental  factors  can  be mitigated  based  upon  the  way  that these  combat  medics  are  actually  trained.