Interdisciplinary malaria research training in Malawi

马拉维跨学科疟疾研究培训

• 批准号: 9274057
• 负责人: Miriam K. Laufer
• 金额: $ 21.36万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-05-10 至 2021-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9274057
• 关键词: Address; Area; Biology; Biometry; Collaborations; Doctor of Philosophy; Epidemiologist; Faculty; Future; Health; Infectious Diseases Research; Institution; International; Laboratories; Life; Malaria; Malawi; Maryland; Medicine; Mentors; Mentorship; Michigan; Molecular; Molecular Epidemiology; Prevention; Research; Research Methodology; Research Personnel; Research Training; Risk; Rotation; Supervision; Training; Training Programs; Universities; college; design; didactic education; effective intervention; experience; innovation; insight; member; programs; senior faculty; skills; success; synergism; transmission process; vector

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Malaria continues to be one of the greatest threats to health and life in Malawi, and recent control efforts have yielded only moderate success. New insights into what determines risk and how to design more effective interventions are imperative to enhance control and ultimately eliminate malaria in the region. This Global Infectious Diseases Research Training Program is established on the basis of long-standing and productive collaborations between senior faculty members at the University of Malawi College of Medicine and a core team of international investigators who have been engaged in malaria research in Malawi for decades. The training program was crafted to train the experts required to develop independent research teams in Malawi capable of designing, leading and analyzing results of locally and internationally relevant studies, and to create a robust and sustainable graduate program in Malawian universities. Careful selection and training of a molecular epidemiologist, a vector biologist and two biostatisticians will prepare leaders in the health research agenda, focused on hypothesis-driven scientific questions. We will also provide formal short course training in specific research methods and tailor opportunities for laboratory rotations to provide succession planning to create a pipeline of future PhD candidates and the junior faculty members who support them. Through the direct supervision, guidance and mentorship of the training team members, these trainees will benefit from outstanding didactic educations and also from the hands-on mentoring provided by experienced colleagues and recent graduates who are now faculty members in Malawi. This interdisciplinary training program is designed achieve the following specific aims: (1) Train successful investigators in molecular epidemiology, vector biology and biostatistics, (2) Establish core faculty for a rigorous, independent PhD program in Malawi, and (3) Support succession planning for future PhD trainees and mentors within Malawi. The specific areas of training were identified as essential to on-going and future health research in Malawi, reflect strengths of the collaborating institutions (University of Maryland, Michigan State University and University of the Witwatersrand), and create synergies with emerging opportunities within the University of Malawi. Cross- cutting, innovative, well-executed and expertly analyzed studies will address specific challenges of malaria treatment, prevention, and transmission reduction. In addition, the skill sets developed by all the trainees in this proposed effort will be applicable to a wide range of infectious as well as non-communicable diseases.

 描述（由申请人提供）：疟疾仍然是马拉维健康和生命面临的最大威胁之一，最近的控制工作仅取得了一定的成功，因此必须对风险决定因素以及如何设计更有效的干预措施提出新的见解。该全球传染病研究培训计划是在马拉维大学医学院高级教员与国际研究人员核心团队之间长期和富有成效的合作基础上建立的。从事该培训计划旨在培训马拉维发展独立研究团队所需的专家，使其能够设计、领导和分析当地和国际相关研究的结果，并在马拉维创建一个强大且可持续的研究生项目。精心挑选和培训一名分子流行病学家、一名媒介生物学家和两名生物统计学家，将培养健康研究议程的领导者，重点关注假设驱动的科学问题。我们还将提供具体研究方法的正式短期课程培训，并为他们量身定制机会。实验室轮换以提供连续性计划创建未来的博士候选人和支持他们的初级教职人员的渠道，通过培训团队成员的直接监督、指导和指导，这些学员将受益于出色的教学教育以及提供的实践指导。该跨学科培训计划旨在实现以下具体目标：(1) 培养分子流行病学、媒介生物学和生物统计学方面的成功研究人员，(2) 建立严格的核心师资队伍。 ，独立博士课程马拉维，以及 (3) 支持马拉维境内未来博士生和导师的继任计划 培训的具体领域被认为对马拉维正在进行和未来的健康研究至关重要，反映了合作机构的优势（密歇根州马里兰大学）。跨领域、创新、执行良好且经过专业分析的研究将解决疟疾治疗、预防和减少传播的具体挑战。此外，所有学员在本次拟议工作中开发的技能组合将适用于广泛的领域 传染病和非传染性疾病。