1/2 - GEOHealth Hub for Research and Training in eastern Africa - Ethiopia

1/2 - 东非 GEOHealth 研究和培训中心 - 埃塞俄比亚

• 批准号: 8972047
• 负责人: Kiros T Berhane
• 金额: $ 10.35万
• 依托单位: ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-28 至 2020-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8972047
• 关键词: Address; African; Air; Air Pollution; Area; Biometry; California; Camping; Capital; Case Study; Child; Childhood; Chronic; Cities; Cohort Studies; Collaborations; Communication; Complement; Country; Development; Eastern Africa; Education; Educational workshop; Environment; Environmental Health; Environmental Monitoring; Environmental Risk Factor; Environmental and Occupational Exposure; Epidemiology; Ethiopia; Evaluation; Flowers; Fostering; Funding; Future; Goals; Guidelines; Health; Heat Stress Disorders; Hospitalization; Indoor Air Pollution; Industrialization; Industry; Institution; Interdisciplinary Study; Kenya; Lead; Leadership; Length; Link; Measures; Modality; Modeling; Monitor; Needs Assessment; Occupational; Occupational Exposure; Occupational Health; Paper; Participant; Persons; Phase; Pilot Projects; Play; Policies; Policy Making; Pre-Par; Principal Investigator; Regulation; Research; Research Activity; Research Infrastructure; Research Personnel; Research Training; Resources; Respiratory physiology; Role; Rwanda; Schedule; Scientist; Solutions; Structure; Sustainable Development; Symptoms; System; Telephone; Temperature; Time; Training; Training Activity; Training Programs; Translational Research; Translations; Uganda; Universities; Urbanization; Vision; Wisconsin; adverse outcome; ambient air pollution; base; burden of illness; climate change; cohort; design; environmental change; evidence base; experience; flexibility; innovation; meetings; mortality; occupational health/safety; programs; respiratory; restraint; skills; spatial temporal variation; success; trend; web site

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application proposes a progressive and tiered training program that will develop researchers and research teams able to carry out the research agenda in the linked UO1 application (1/2 - GEOHealth Hub for Research and Training in eastern Africa - Ethiopia) and to facilitate the translation of the evidence into impactful actions. The training program will be implemented in collaboration with Addis Ababa University (AAU) in Ethiopia, the Hub institution for the linked application; the Spoke institutions are in Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda. The training program will build the competencies needed to address the research themes identified as most critical in the Situational Analysis and Needs Assessments (SANA) carried out during the planning phase: indoor and outdoor air pollution as the leading theme; occupational health, particularly in regard to temperature and air pollution, and climate change and health as secondary themes. The team assembled for the U2R application includes experienced researchers and educators from the University of Southern California and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-M), both groups having collaborated with AAU previously. The SANAs document a shared need across the Hub and Spokes for enhanced research capacity, along with skills in policy translation in the domestic and regional context. Our approach responds to these broad needs and involves a tiered training program that will create scientific leaders (Lead Scientists) at the national level who can function as principal investigators for research that provides evidence relevant to national and regional issues. They will also be expected to take leadership for locally developed training and to help to assure sustainability. Three cohorts of four will be identified and trained. Beyond these national leads, we anticipate a broad array of shorter-term training opportunities that will prepar the research teams to address the thematic areas of the Hub's research program. The national lead investigators will play a collaborative and progressive role in the design and implementation of the national and regional training initiatives. Given the feasibility restraints posed by financial resources, distance, and the need to integrate training into the ongoing responsibilities of trainees, we plan to use a flexible array of educational modalities that will include stays of limited length at USC and the UW-M; in-country workshops and short courses; distance-based approaches that are both asynchronous and synchronous; and use of selected local courses, e.g., in epidemiology or biostatistics. We will also use innovative approaches to facilitate translation that involve education and engagement of stakeholders. Evaluation will track the success of the participants in meeting their development goals on the short-term and, for the longer-term, successful completion of the proposed research, scientific presentations and papers, and successful funding applications. Through careful case-studies, we will examine the impact of the trainees on policy indicators, such as new air quality standards and guidelines, regulations, and changes in practices.

 描述（由应用程序提供）：本申请提案是一项渐进式培训计划，将开发研究人员和研究团队可以在链接的UO1应用程序中执行研究议程（1/2-东非 - 埃塞俄比亚的研究和研究枢纽），并促进证据转化为有影响力的行动。该培训计划将与埃塞俄比亚的亚的斯亚贝巴大学（AAU）合作实施，埃塞俄比亚是链接应用程序的枢纽机构；讲座机构在肯尼亚，卢旺达和乌干达。该培训计划将建立在计划阶段进行的情况分析和需求评估（SANA）中确定为最关键的研究主题所需的能力：室内和室外空气污染是主要主题；职业健康，特别是在温度和空气污染方面，气候变化和健康作为次要主题。为U2R申请组装的团队包括南加州大学和威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校（UW-M）的经验丰富的研究人员和教育工作者，两组曾与AAU合作。萨纳斯（Sanas）记录了整个枢纽的共同需求，并发出了增强的研究能力，以及在国内和地区背景下的政策翻译技能。我们的方法响应了这些广泛的需求，并涉及一项分层的培训计划，该计划将在国家一级创建科学领导者（主要科学家），他们可以充当研究的主要研究人员，提供与国家和地区问题有关的证据。他们还将期望他们领导本地发展的培训并帮助确保可持续性。将确定和培训三个队列的四个队列。除了这些国家领导人之外，我们还希望有各种各样的较短的培训机会，这些机会将使研究团队做好准备，以应对枢纽研究计划的主题领域。国家首席研究人员将在国家和地区培训计划的设计和实施中发挥合作和进步的作用。鉴于财务资源，距离以及将培训纳入受训者持续责任的必要性所带来的可行性限制，我们计划使用一系列灵活的教育方式，其中包括在USC和UW-M长度有限的时间；国内研讨会和短期课程；基于距离的方法既异步又同步；并使用选定的本地课程，例如流行病学或生物统计学。我们还将使用创新的方法来促进涉及利益相关者教育和参与的翻译。评估将跟踪参与者在短期内实现其发展目标的成功，并长期成功完成拟议的研究，科学演示和论文以及成功的基础应用。通过仔细的案例研究，我们将研究受训者对政策指标的影响，例如新的空气质量标准和准则，法规和实践变化。