Infectious Disease in East Africa: A Behavioral and Economic Research Collaborative (IDEA-BERC)

东非传染病：行为和经济研究合作组织 (IDEA-BERC)

• 批准号: 9884660
• 负责人: EDWARD ANDREW MIGUEL
• 金额: $ 24.37万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-04-05 至 2023-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9884660
• 关键词: Address; Affect; Africa; African; Area; Behavior; Big Data; Communicable Diseases; Communities; Decision Making; Dimensions; Disease Outbreaks; Ebola virus; Economics; Educational process of instructing; Ensure; Epidemic; Faculty; Government; Grant; Health; Healthcare; Home environment; Human; Incentives; Institution; Intervention; Investments; Lateral; Malaria; Mentors; Mentorship; Observational Study; Participant; Patients; Postdoctoral Fellow; Poverty; Price; Public Health; Research; Research Infrastructure; Research Methodology; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Review Literature; Rwanda; Scientific Evaluation; Sexually Transmitted Diseases; Social Sciences; Training; Universities; Writing; Zika Virus; behavioral economics; curriculum development; design; diarrheal disease; disorder control; disorder risk; fight against; helminth infection; implementation research; implementation science; improved; insight; model development; pandemic disease; peer coaching; peer networks; population health; programs; research and development; service delivery; skills; social; symposium; technological innovation

Project Summary While technological innovation has traditionally been considered essential in the fight against infectious diseases, recent outbreaks of the Ebola and Zika viruses have revealed a compelling need to integrate insights from social science to help control potential epidemics and pandemics. It is essential to understand how clinicians, patients, and communities make economic and social decisions about health care and infectious disease risk—particularly in the context of poverty, which significantly affects human decision-making. To address these challenges, the Infectious Disease in East Africa: A Behavioral and Economic Research Collaborative (IDEA-BERC) will offer rigorous, regionally-tailored training in implementation research applied to infectious disease challenges. The 5-year program includes medium-term training for 12-15 doctoral and post-doctoral East African researchers, who will be equipped— through coursework, mentored field research, and curriculum development— to address the social, behavioral, and economic dimensions of infectious disease. Trainees' research projects will focus on one of 4 themes (i.e. health incentives, information, pricing, and service delivery) applied across a range of topics, from diarrheal diseases and helminth infections, to malaria and sexually transmitted infections. Trainees will subsequently return to their home nations to conduct research under ongoing mentorship by UC Berkeley faculty and East African peer mentors. They will join a tight network of peer researchers at IDEA-BERC's three partner East African research institutions: the African Population Health Research Center, University of Nairobi and the University of Rwanda--all of which are eager to develop capacity in this promising interdisciplinary area. As part of IDEA-BERC, these partners will carry out at least 8 short-term trainings related to implementation science, reaching more than 200 participants, and focused on complementary research skills like Grant Writing, Big Data, and Literature Reviews as they relate to implementation research. Unique to the program are its rigorous standards across a range of quantitative and qualitative social sciences—focusing not only on observational research and model development (areas in which many East African researchers already excel), but on scientific evaluation of interventions to improve infectious disease- related behaviors. In the long term, IDEA-BERC will create a robust regional network of investigators and institutions with the technical capacity and research infrastructure to inform the design of government and multi-lateral infectious disease control efforts. Regional capacity will be further built via focused investments in South-South networking and convening opportunities, including an annual regional conference and mini-grants to promote the teaching of implementation research methods. These activities will ensure that the trainees develop into a sustainable scientific community, with greater sustainability—and public health impact—than any investigator or institution can achieve in isolation.

项目概要 虽然传统上认为技术创新对于对抗传染病至关重要 疾病，最近爆发的埃博拉和寨卡病毒表明迫切需要整合见解 为了帮助控制潜在的流行病和流行病，了解如何从社会科学中获取信息至关重要。 支持者、患者和社区就医疗保健和传染病做出经济和社会决策 疾病风险——特别是在贫困的背景下，它严重影响人类的决策。 为了应对这些挑战，东非的传染病：行为和经济 研究合作组织 (IDEA-BERC) 将提供严格的、针对地区的实施研究培训 该项目为期 5 年，包括针对 12-15 名博士生的中期培训。 以及东非博士后研究人员，他们将通过课程作业、指导领域获得装备 研究和课程开发——解决社会、行为和经济方面的问题 受训者的研究项目将集中于 4 个主题之一（即健康激励、 信息、定价和服务提供）应用于一系列主题，从腹泻病到 蠕虫感染、疟疾和性传播感染。 学员随后将返回自己的祖国，在持续的指导下进行研究 由加州大学伯克利分校的教员和东非同行导师组成，他们将加入一个由同行研究人员组成的紧密网络。 IDEA-BERC 的三个合作伙伴东非研究机构：非洲人口健康研究中心、 内罗毕大学和卢旺达大学——都渴望在这一前景广阔的领域发展能力 作为IDEA-BERC的一部分，这些合作伙伴将开展至少8个相关的短期培训。 到实施科学，参与者超过 200 人，并专注于补充研究 与实施研究相关的技能，如资助写作、大数据和文献评论。 该计划的独特之处在于其在一系列定量和定性社会方面的严格标准 科学——不仅关注观测研究和模型开发（许多东方国家在这些领域 非洲研究人员已经表现出色），但在对改善传染病的干预措施进行科学评估方面—— 从长远来看，IDEA-BERC 将创建一个强大的区域调查员网络和 具有技术能力和研究基础设施的机构，可以为政府和政府的设计提供信息 将通过重点投资进一步建设区域传染病控制能力。 南南网络和召集机会，包括年度区域会议和小额赠款 这些活动将确保受训者促进教学实施方法的研究。 发展成为一个可持续的科学界，比其他科学界具有更大的可持续性和公共卫生影响 任何研究者或机构都可以单独实现。