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: 10369649
• 负责人: EDWARD ANDREW MIGUEL
• 金额: $ 24.19万
• 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 2025-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10369649
• 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; 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.

项目摘要 传统上，技术创新被认为是与传染性的斗争至关重要的 疾病，最近的埃博拉病毒和寨卡病毒的爆发表明，迫切需要整合见解 从社会科学帮助控制潜在的流行病和大流行病。了解如何了解如何 临床医生，患者和社区就医疗保健和传染性做出经济和社会决策 疾病风险 - 尤其是在贫困的背景下，这严重影响了人类的决策。 为了应对这些挑战，东非的传染病：一种行为和经济 研究合作（Idea-Berc）将在实施研究中提供严格的区域性训练 应用于传染病挑战。 5年的计划包括12-15个博士学位的中期培训 以及将配备配备的博士后研究人员 - 通过课程，Mendored Field 研究和课程开发 - 解决社会，行为和经济方面 传染病。学员的研究项目将重点介绍4个主题之一（即健康激励措施， 信息，定价和服务交付）遍及腹泻疾病和 蠕虫感染，疟疾和性传播感染。 随后，受训人员将返回家庭国家进行研究 加州大学伯克利分校的教职员工和东非同行导师。他们将加入一个紧密的同伴研究人员网络 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 - 所有这些都渴望在这一诺言中发展能力 跨学科区域。作为Idea-Berc的一部分，这些合作伙伴将至少进行8个与短期培训有关 进行实施科学，吸引200多名参与者，并专注于完整的研究 与实施研究有关的技能，诸如赠款写作，大数据和文献综述。 该计划独有的是其在一系列定量和定性社会中的严格标准 科学 - 不仅关注观察性研究和模型开发（许多东方的领域 非洲研究人员已经表现出色），但是在对改善感染性疾病的干预措施的科学评估中 相关行为。从长远来看，Idea-Berc将建立一个强大的研究人员的区域网络， 具有技术能力和研究基础设施的机构，以告知政府的设计 多边传染病控制工作。区域能力将通过重点投资进一步建立 南南网络和召集机会，包括年度区域会议和迷你奖励 促进实施研究方法的教学。这些活动将确保受训者 发展成为一个可持续的科学界，具有更大的可持续性和公共卫生影响 - 任何研究人员或机构都可以孤立地实现。