Training Program Plan to Improve Intervention Research for Prevention of Childhood Pneumonia in Guatemala

危地马拉改进预防儿童肺炎干预研究的培训计划

• 批准号: 10684117
• 负责人: CELIA CORDON-ROSALES
• 金额: $ 9.8万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF THE VALLEY OF GUATEMALA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-08-15 至 2025-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10684117
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Lower respiratory infections, primarily pneumonia, are a leading cause of early childhood mortality globally, responsible for about 750 thousand deaths annually in children aged <5 years. Although most regions have seen declines in mortality over the past several decades, childhood pneumonia mortality rates remain high in low- and middle-income countries, including Guatemala. The reasons for this variability in childhood pneumonia are not fully understood and limit the development of effective policies for disease prevention. Members of our team have been studying childhood pneumonia in Guatemala for over a decade, building a strong, though incomplete, foundation for a formal training program in this area. A collaboration with the US CDC and the Guatemalan Ministry of Health has developed a surveillance program to provide systematic measurement of incidence, risk factors and etiologies of respiratory and other acute infectious diseases at public health facilities in Guatemala. Furthermore, several large international intervention studies have evaluated ways to reduce household air pollution and its effects on childhood respiratory illnesses, including pneumonia. This interdisciplinary research combines expertise from implementation science, environmental health, molecular epidemiology, and childhood respiratory disease. Despite the success of these programs, Guatemala has not yet developed the capacity to to sufficiently train scientists and public health professionals to contribute fully to this research agenda. These current research projects at UVG and future research priorities on childhood pneumonia prevention in Guatemala create demand for local epidemiologists prepared to lead the research. Our long-term vision is to develop a sustainable training program that provides expertise both on subjet matter of childhood pneumonia in Guatemala and methodological on intervention research. This future program will help build capacity through both degree and non-degree training activities based in Guatemala and the University of Georgia. The goal for this planning grant is to prepare and submit a proposal for the envisioned training program, prepare the UVG and UGA faculty trainers to conduct the program, and improve or develop materials for the proposed curriculum. For the two-year planning process, our specific aims are: 1. Define a leadership team and develop a strategic plan for building research capacity in childhood infectious disease epidemiology; 2. address the critical faculty development needs among potential Guatemala- and US-based trainers that relate to intervention research and the epidemiology of childhood pneumonia; 3. identify and assess the needs of a pool of potential trainees from Guatemala that have career goals related to research on prevention of childhood pneumonia or similar health issues; and 4. outline a training program and develop new courses and programs to include in D43. By undertaking a rigorous approach to collaboratively planning a Guatemala- and US-based training program in intervention research with a focus on childhood pneumonia, we will build the capacity required to strengthen prevention of the leading infectious cause of death in Guatemalan children.

下呼吸道感染，主要是肺炎，是全球幼儿死亡率的主要原因， 年龄在<5岁的儿童中每年约有7.5万人死亡。虽然大多数地区已经看到 在过去的几十年中，死亡率下降，在低和 中等收入国家，包括危地马拉。儿童肺炎这种变异性的原因不是 充分理解并限制了预防疾病的有效政策的制定。我们团队的成员 十多年来一直在研究危地马拉的童年肺炎，建立了一个强大但不完整的 该领域正式培训计划的基础。与美国疾病预防控制中心和危地马拉的合作 卫生部已制定了一项监视计划，以提供系统的发病率，风险 危地马拉公共卫生设施的呼吸道和其他急性传染病的因素和病因。 此外，一些大型国际干预研究评估了减少家庭空气的方法 污染及其对包括肺炎在内的儿童呼吸道疾病的影响。这项跨学科研究 结合实施科学，环境健康，分子流行病学和童年的专业知识 呼吸道疾病。尽管这些计划取得了成功，但危地马拉尚未发展能力 足够培训科学家和公共卫生专业人员，以充分为这项研究议程做出贡献。这些 UVG的当前研究项目以及危地马拉儿童预防儿童肺炎的未来研究重点 对准备领导研究的当地流行病学家提出需求。 我们的长期愿景是制定一项可持续培训计划，该计划提供有关征品问题的专业知识 危地马拉儿童肺炎和干预研究方法论。这个未来的计划将 通过危地马拉和大学的学位和非学位培训活动来帮助建立能力 佐治亚州。这项计划赠款的目标是为设想的培训做准备并提交一项建议 编程，准备UVG和UGA教师培训师来进行计划，并改进或开发材料 对于拟议的课程。对于为期两年的计划过程，我们的具体目的是：1。定义领导 团队并制定战略计划，以建立儿童传染病流行病学的研究能力； 2。解决与潜在的危地马拉和美国培训师之间关键的教师发展需求 干预研究和儿童肺炎的流行病学； 3。确定并评估 来自危地马拉的潜在学员库具有与童年预防研究有关的职业目标 肺炎或类似的健康问题； 4。概述培训计划并开发新课程和计划 包括在D43中。通过采取严格的方法来协作计划危地马拉和美国 干预研究的培训计划以童年的肺炎为重点，我们将建立所需的能力 加强危地马拉儿童中主要传染病死亡原因的预防。