Wits-UNC Partnership: Expanding Capacity in HIV Implementation Science in South Africa

Wits-UNC 伙伴关系：扩大南非艾滋病毒实施科学的能力

• 批准号: 9769462
• 负责人: Audrey Pettifor
• 金额: $ 29.84万
• 依托单位: UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-06-01 至 2024-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9769462
• 关键词: AIDS prevention; Adherence; Africa; Award; Caring; Cessation of life; Degree program; Epidemic; Faculty; Foundations; Future; Goals; Government; HIV; HIV Infections; Health; Improve Access; Institutes; Institution; Lead; Mentors; Modeling; North Carolina; Ownership; Persons; Prevention; Prevention program; Prevention therapy; Public Health Schools; Recording of previous events; Reproductive Health; Research; Research Personnel; South Africa; South African; Students; Training; Universities; Work; antiretroviral therapy; base; career development; experience; implementation science; improved; innovation; prevent; programs; treatment program; uptake

Contact PD/PI: Pettifor, Audrey PrPorjoejcetcSt uSmummmarayry South Africa continues to be at the center of the HIV epidemic with the most persons living with HIV globally. While access to HIV prevention and antiretroviral therapy (ART) has expanded in recent years, there are still significant gaps in the proportion of people accessing prevention and care programs. To successfully reach the UNAIDS goal of epidemic control, access and adherence to effective prevention and treatment programs must be significantly expanded. Implementation science can help in understanding how to improve access to, uptake of and quality of programs needed to curtail the epidemic. By increasing the number of implementation science experts and organizations, our proposal can effect change. In the current D43 award (2014-2019), the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) and the School of Public Health (SPH) at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa successfully developed and implemented the first Masters and Doctoral program in Implementation Science (IS) in South Africa and the Africa region and built research capacity among South African faculty, students and government. Wits and UNC faculty worked closely together to develop new courses in IS, set up the degree program and taught 11 courses together. With this strong academic foundation in place, in this renewal, we seek to strengthen the degree program developed, for Wits to take full ownership of the program and to expand our training and mentoring model by partnering with three leading South African HIV research organizations affiliated with Wits (Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute (RHI), Anova Health Institute, and Aurum Institute) to build a critical mass of IS expertise based on identified need within their organizations. In this project we aim: 1) To establish Wits SPH as a center of excellence in implementation science training and to support Wits SPH to independently lead the IS degree program into the future. 2) To support Wits faculty, and those affiliated with Wits at our 3 HIV research partners and UCT, in career development and progression to becoming independent researchers with expertise in both IS and HIV. 3) To develop expertise in implementation science among 3 leading South African HIV research organizations: Wits RHI, Anova and Aurum. This renewal will solidify a successful program in IS that Wits and UNC jointly implemented in the current D43. We will leverage our experience and strong collaborative history between UNC and Wits to establish Wits as a leader in IS training and to expand the groundwork laid in our current D43 by joining forces with leading HIV Research Institutions—Wits RHI, Anova and Aurum. In this renewal we aim to expand the cadre of IS researchers who can conduct rigorous and innovative IS research to improve the uptake and delivery of prevention and care programs, ultimately preventing new HIV infections and deaths.

联系人 PD/PI：Pettifor、Audrey 基础研究 南非仍然是艾滋病毒流行的中心，是全球艾滋病毒感染者最多的国家。 尽管近年来获得艾滋病毒预防和抗逆转录病毒治疗 (ART) 的机会有所扩大，但仍然存在一些问题 获得预防和护理计划的人口比例存在显着差距。 联合国艾滋病规划署控制流行病、获得和遵守有效预防和治疗方案的目标必须 显着扩展实施科学可以帮助了解如何改善获取和吸收。 通过增加实施科学的数量来减少流行病所需的计划的数量和质量。 专家和组织，我们的建议可以影响大学当前的D43奖（2014-2019）。 北卡罗来纳州教堂山分校 (UNC-CH) 和北卡罗来纳大学公共卫生学院 (SPH) 南非威特沃特斯兰德（Wits）成功开发并实施了首个硕士和博士课程 南非和非洲地区的实施科学（IS）计划，并在其中建立了研究能力 南非教师、学生和政府与北卡罗来纳大学教师密切合作，开发新的产品。 凭借深厚的学术基础，开设了学位课程并共同教授了11门课程。 在这次更新中，我们寻求加强所制定的学位课程，让 Wits 完全拥有 该计划并通过与南非艾滋病毒领域的三位领先者合作来扩展我们的培训和指导模式 Wits 附属研究机构（Wits 生殖健康和艾滋病毒研究所 (RHI)、Anova Health 研究所和 Aurum 研究所）根据其内部已确定的需求建立大量的信息系统专业知识 在这个项目中，我们的目标是： 1) 将 Wits SPH 建立为卓越的实施中心。 科学培训并支持 Wits SPH 独立领导 IS 学位课程走向未来。 2) 支持 Wits 教员以及我们 3 个 HIV 研究合作伙伴和 UCT 中与 Wits 相关的人员， 职业发展和进步，成为在信息系统和信息系统领域拥有专业知识的独立研究人员 3) 在南非 3 个领先的艾滋病毒研究领域发展实施科学方面的专业知识。 组织：Wits RHI、Anova 和 Aurum 此次更新将巩固 IS that Wits 的成功计划。 和 UNC 在当前的 D43 中联合实施，我们将利用我们的经验和强大的合作历史。 UNC 和 Wits 之间的合作旨在将 Wits 打造为 IS 培训领域的领导者，并扩大我们在 目前的 D43 是通过与领先的 HIV 研究机构 Wits RHI、Anova 和 Aurum 合作来实现的。 我们的目标是扩大信息系统研究人员的队伍，使他们能够进行严格和创新的信息系统研究 改善预防和护理计划的实施和实施，最终预防新的艾滋病毒感染和 死亡人数。