Vanderbilt-Nigeria Biostatistics Training Program (VN-BioStat)

范德比尔特-尼日利亚生物统计学培训计划（VN-BioStat）

• 批准号: 10470510
• 负责人: Muktar Hassan Aliyu
• 金额: $ 29.95万
• 依托单位: VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-04-01 至 2027-01-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10470510
• 关键词: AIDS/HIV problem; Academic Medical Centers; Address; Africa; Big Data; Biomedical Research; Biometry; Clinic; Clinical Investigator; Collaborations; Data; Data Scientist; Doctor of Philosophy; Educational workshop; Faculty; Funding; Grant; HIV; Hour; Institution; Joints; Lead; Leadership; Mentorship; Methodology; Methods; Modeling; Nigeria; Nigerian; Parents; Principal Investigator; Publications; Research; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Research Training; Resources; Southern Africa; Supervision; Survival Analysis; Teaching Hospitals; Training; Training Programs; United States; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Writing; cohort; design; global health; programs; statistics

PROJECT ABSTRACT It is critical to build biostatistics capacity in West Africa. Biomedical HIV research is growing in West Africa, but biostatistical support and expertise are lagging. In collaborative HIV studies between West Africa and U.S. institutions, the biostatistics leaders are almost always from the U.S. It is important to develop biostatistics leaders in West Africa – biostatisticians who will not be technicians, but co-investigators, principal investigators, and thought-leaders in funded HIV/AIDS research. There are several statistics PhD programs in West Africa, but they often have little or no connection with biomedical research. Funded training initiatives over the past ten years have been successful at building biostatistics in Southern Africa and East Africa, but no such programs currently exist in West Africa. The Vanderbilt-Nigeria Biostatistics Training Program (VN-BioStat) builds on long-standing collaborations between two leading research institutions in Nigeria and the United States, namely, Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH) and Vanderbilt University Medical Center (Vanderbilt) to establish a research and training platform for biostatisticians doing HIV-related research in Nigeria. VN-BioStat will build upon the resources of AKTH and its parent institution, Bayero University in Kano (BUK), to create a cohort of highly skilled Nigerian biostatisticians with the capacity to lead and supervise biostatistical activities in West Africa. VN-BioStat leverages the highly successful, collaborative and rapidly expanding portfolio of U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other funded research at AKTH, with joint leadership from Vanderbilt investigators. To train biostatistician leaders in Nigeria, the VN-BioStat program proposes to bring two Nigerian data scientists per year (total of 10 over 5 years) to Vanderbilt to immerse them in biostatistics and to receive hands on training. During the one-year training period, trainees will lead the design, analysis, and publication of a collaborative research project using HIV data from AKTH. They will also lead a related, methodologically focused project that will culminate in a publication. While at Vanderbilt, they will interact with a team of HIV biostatisticians, take appropriate biostatistics courses (up to 8 credit hours per semester for 2 semesters), attend biostatistics and global health seminars, participate in a grant-writing workshop, attend biostatistics clinics, and collaborate with other Nigerian investigators. They will receive mentorship from Vanderbilt faculty (one biostatistician and one clinical investigator) and AKTH faculty. We will also conduct annual workshops in Nigeria to provide mid- level biostatistics training for up to 25 HIV researchers. Potential course topics include methods to address missing data, introduction to causal inference, regression modeling strategies, big data in biomedical research, and survival analysis.

项目摘要 在西非建立生物统计学能力至关重要。西非生物医学艾滋病毒研究正在增长，但 生物统计支持和专业知识落后。在西非与美国之间的合作艾滋病毒研究中 机构，生物统计学领导者几乎总是来自美国 西非的领导人 - 不会成为技术的生物统计学家，而是共同投资者，校长 研究人员和资助的艾滋病毒/艾滋病研究中的思想领袖。有几个统计博士学位课程 西非，但它们通常与生物医学研究几乎没有联系。资助的培训计划 在过去的十年中，已经成功地在南部非洲和东非建立生物统计学，但没有 此类计划目前存在于西非。 范德比尔特尼日利亚生物统计学培训计划（VN-Biostat）建立在长期合作的基础上 在尼日利亚和美国的两个主要研究机构之间，即Aminu Kano教学 医院（AKTH）和范德比尔特大学医学中心（Vanderbilt）建立研究和培训 生物统计学家在尼日利亚进行与HIV相关的研究的平台。 vn-biostat将基于 Akth及其家长机构，位于卡诺（BUK）的Bayero University，创建了一群高技能的尼日利亚人 生物统计学家有能力领导和监督西非的生物统计活动。 vn-biostat 利用美国国立国家研究院的非常成功，合作和迅速扩大的投资组合 范德比尔特调查员共同领导卫生（NIH）和其他资助的研究。训练 尼日利亚的生物统计学家领导人，VN-Biostat计划的建议提案，要求两名尼日利亚数据科学家 范德比尔特（Vanderbilt）的年份（总计10年）将其沉浸在生物统计学中并接受培训。 在一年的培训期间，学员将领导合作的设计，分析和出版 研究项目使用来自AKTH的艾滋病毒数据。他们还将领导一个相关的，以方法为重点的项目 这将在出版物中达到顶峰。在范德比尔特（Vanderbilt）期间，他们将与艾滋病毒生物统计学家团队互动 参加适当的生物统计学课程（每学期最多8个学分，为期两个学期），参加生物统计学 以及参加赠款写作研讨会，参加生物统计学诊所并合作的全球卫生半手 与其他尼日利亚调查员。他们将获得范德比尔特教师（一位生物统计学家和 一位临床研究员）和AKTH教师。我们还将在尼日利亚举办年度研讨会，以提供中期 多达25名HIV研究人员的生物统计学培训。潜在的课程主题包括解决的方法 缺少数据，因果推理简介，回归建模策略，生物医学研究中的大数据， 和生存分析。