UNC Wits AIDS Implementation Research and Cohort Analyses Training Grant

北卡罗来纳大学获得艾滋病实施研究和队列分析培训补助金

基本信息

批准号：
8710944
负责人：
Audrey Pettifor
金额：
$ 30.25万
依托单位：
UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2014
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2014-06-01 至 2019-03-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8710944
关键词：
AIDS/HIV problem Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Africa South of the Sahara African Caring Cessation of life Cohort Analysis Country Databases Dental Development Doctor of Philosophy Educational Curriculum Educational process of instructing Effectiveness Epidemic Epidemiology Faculty Family Funding Government Agencies Grant HIV Health Sciences Health system Home environment International Agencies Intervention Joints Life Medicine Methodology Methods Monitor National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease Occupations Pharmacy facility Public Health Public Health Nurses Public Health Nursing Public Health Schools Qualitative Evaluations Research Research Personnel Research Support Research Training Risk Schools Site South Africa Students Systems Analysis Trainers Training Training Training Programs Training Support Universities Wit Work Writing cohort cost expectation health economics implementation research implementation science improved longitudinal analysis programs scale up

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Building on more than a decade of joint Fogarty and NIAID research and training support to our two universities, The UNC-Wits AIDS Implementation Science and Cohort Analyses Training Grant will train Wits junior faculty and advanced trainees and strengthen the MSc in Epidemiology by creating a new concentration of implementation science at the Wits School of Public Health. South Africa continues to have an HIV epidemic with 5.6 million living with HIV/ AIDS, the most of any country, and 270,000 deaths annually. Implementation science is crucial to understand how HIV programs are working and develop strategies for improved effectiveness, to determine how proven interventions can be scaled up effectively, to conduct research, and provide informed answers to SA government and international agencies. The current method of sending SA trainees overseas for long term training is costly, not sustainable, increases the risks of the trainees not returning, jeopardizes their jobs and families at home, and often exposes them to courses not directly relevant to their home countries. There are no implementation science training programs in Sub- Saharan Africa. Trainees from Wits Faculty of Health Science schools and its alumni from diverse backgrounds (nursing, public health, medicine, pharmacy, dental) will participate in a 3 year, 12 course curriculum (long- term) co-taught by UNC and Wits faculty leading to an MPH or MSc in Epidemiology with a concentration in Implementation Science. Additional students will take at least one course (medium and short-term) of the curriculum and receive a certificate. The content, identified by the Wits SPH faculty as gaps in their curriculum, include database development and management, longitudinal analysis and causal inference, health economics, spatial analysis and GIS in public health, m-health, systems analysis, monitoring and evaluation, qualitative and formative research. To save on costs, all courses will be taught on site in 2 week intensive blocks. During years 4 and 5, the courses would start over again, with more responsibility taken by the Wits faculty and previous Fogarty funded trainees ("train the trainers"). Those obtaining a Masters or a PhD would work on existing long term South African HIV cohorts including Right to Care, IeDEA, and Hlabisa. Advanced students would take a year-long grant writing program with the expectation of submitting a grant. Long term sustainability would be guaranteed by incorporating the courses into the Wits curriculum taught by Wits faculty. We have commitments of additional funding and in-kind contributions from UNC and Wits totaling $350,000 over 5 years. By the end of the 5 years we expect to have funded 20 MSc or MPH students, 4 PhD graduates, 6 Wits faculty in specific course methodologies, as well as up to 160 students taking at least one module. This proposal will increase the depth and breadth of this research training and develop a critical mass of South African investigators and Wits faculty who will conduct synergistic research.

描述（由申请人提供）：以 Fogarty 和 NIAID 十多年来对我们两所大学的联合研究和培训支持为基础，北卡罗来纳大学金山分校艾滋病实施科学和队列分析培训补助金将培训金山大学初级教员和高级学员，并加强流行病学理学硕士，在威斯公共卫生学院创建了一个新的实施科学集中点。南非的艾滋病毒疫情持续蔓延，有 560 万人感染艾滋病毒/艾滋病，为所有国家中感染人数最多的国家，每年有 27 万人死亡。实施科学对于了解艾滋病毒项目如何运作、制定提高有效性的策略、确定如何有效扩大经过验证的干预措施、开展研究以及向南澳政府和国际机构提供明智的答案至关重要。目前将SA学员派往海外进行长期培训的方法成本高昂，不可持续，增加了学员不接受培训的风险。回国会危及他们在国内的工作和家庭，并经常让他们接触与本国不直接相关的课程。撒哈拉以南非洲地区没有实施科学培训计划。来自 Wits 健康科学学院的学员及其来自不同背景（护理、公共卫生、医学、药学、牙科）的校友将参加由 UNC 和 Wits 教师领导共同教授的 3 年 12 门课程（长期）获得流行病学硕士学位或硕士学位，专注于实施科学。其他学生将至少修读课程中的一门课程（中期和短期）并获得证书。这些内容被 Wits SPH 教师确定为课程中的空白，包括数据库开发和管理、纵向分析和因果推理、卫生经济学、公共卫生中的空间分析和 GIS、移动医疗、系统分析、监测和评估、定性和形成性研究。为了节省成本，所有课程都将分两周集中在现场教授。在第 4 年和第 5 年，课程将重新开始，Wits 教职人员和以前由 Fogarty 资助的学员承担更多责任（“培训培训师”）。那些获得硕士或博士学位的人将在南非现有的长期艾滋病毒队列中工作，包括 Right to Care、IeDEA 和 Hlabisa。高级学生将参加为期一年的资助写作计划，并期望提交资助。通过将这些课程纳入 Wits 教师教授的 Wits 课程，可以保证长期的可持续性。我们承诺在 5 年内从 UNC 和 Wits 获得总计 350,000 美元的额外资金和实物捐助。到 5 年后，我们预计将资助 20 名理学硕士或公共卫生硕士学生、4 名博士毕业生、6 名特定课程方法的 Wits 教师，以及最多 160 名至少修读一门模块的学生。该提案将增加研究培训的深度和广度，并培养一批进行协同研究的南非研究人员和 Wits 教员。