Developing research leaders at the intersection of malnutrition and tuberculosis in Tanzania

培养坦桑尼亚营养不良和结核病交叉领域的研究领导者

基本信息

批准号：
10588197
负责人：
Scott K Heysell
金额：
$ 24.83万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2022
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2022-03-01 至 2027-02-28
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10588197
关键词：
Africa COVID-19 Caring Categories Cessation of life Clinical Research Communicable Diseases Communication Communities Developing Countries Diabetes Mellitus Disease Education Emerging Communicable Diseases European Faculty Foundations Funding Grant Growth Health Infectious Diseases Research Infrastructure International Lead Leadership Learning Malnutrition Medical Mentors Needs Assessment Policy Making Postdoctoral Fellow Poverty Public Health Reporting Research Research Institute Research Training Scientist Structure Tanzania Testing Training Training Programs Tuberculosis United States National Institutes of Health Universities Virginia World Health Organization Writing career college design doctoral student experience global health health equity minority health nutrition post-doctoral training skills undergraduate student

项目摘要

PROJECT SUMMARY / ABSTRACT This application for a new Global Infectious Diseases Research Training program (GIDRTP) at the University of Virginia (UVA) extends decades of training global leaders in diseases of poverty and infectious diseases through cycles of support of International Training and Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases, Actions for Building Capacity, Minority Health International Research Training, and Fogarty GIDRTPs. These prior experiences provide lessons learned and tested mechanisms for developing trainees into independent public health scientists. Despite the prior focus on early stage trainees such as undergraduate, Masters or doctoral students, we have noted unique barriers in progression through postdoctoral training to research leadership in Tanzania. We performed a needs assessment among Tanzanian postdoctoral scientists in 2021 which confirmed this observation and outlined gaps and opportunities with which to structure a postdoctoral focused GIDRTP. UVA, the Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, and the Center for Global Health Equity have been at the forefront of research and training in malnutrition and its infectious consequences for decades. In non- pandemic periods, tuberculosis (TB) is the leading killer from a curable infectious disease. COVID-19 has further disrupted TB care and is projected to increase deaths from TB by 20% over the next five years. Malnutrition, both undernutrition and poor nutrition leading to conditions such as diabetes mellitus, is the most important driver of TB disease globally. Therefore, this GIDRTP aims to strengthen existing educational and research linkages with the UVA and the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College/ Kilimanjaro Clinical Research Institute (KCMUCo/KCRI) in Tanzania, to support Tanzanian postdoctoral trainees' growth to research leaders working at the intersection of malnutrition and TB. We aim to train 6 postdoctoral scientists with 3 years of support each through an individualized research leadership plan based on the framework of the Path to Research Leadership in Africa Report (2020). In addition to matching postdoctoral fellows to Tanzanian and UVA mentors, the individualized research leadership plan will include assessment by Lead Educators and core programmatic faculty including a biostatistician to design personalized coursework and skills building toward the metric categories of research team management, communication, grant writing, professionalism and career trajectory. We will harness the current infrastructure of funding from the National Institutes of Health, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, European and Developing Countries Trials Partnership, World Health Organization and the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs for TB and malnutrition research in Tanzania, and we expect to launch the careers of junior scientists and content leaders that will compete for independent funding, set research agendas, make policy and benefit their communities in- line with the World Health Organization's End TB Strategy.

项目概要/摘要这份申请是为英国大学新的全球传染病研究培训计划 (GIDRTP) 弗吉尼亚州 (UVA) 延续了数十年对贫困疾病和传染病领域全球领导者的培训新发传染病国际培训和研究的支持周期、建设行动能力、少数民族健康国际研究培训和福格蒂 GIDRTP。这些之前的经历提供经验教训和经过测试的机制，将受训者培养成独立的公共卫生人员科学家。尽管之前的重点是本科生、硕士生或博士生等早期学员，我们注意到坦桑尼亚通过博士后培训晋升为研究领导者的独特障碍。我们于 2021 年对坦桑尼亚博士后科学家进行了需求评估，证实了这一点观察并概述了构建以博士后为重点的 GIDRTP 的差距和机会。长波紫外线，传染病和国际卫生司以及全球卫生公平中心数十年来一直处于营养不良及其传染性后果研究和培训的前沿。在非大流行期间，结核病 (TB) 是可治愈传染病的头号杀手。 COVID-19 进一步结核病护理受到干扰，预计未来五年内结核病死亡人数将增加 20%。营养不良，营养不足和营养不良导致糖尿病等疾病，是最重要的驱动因素全球结核病的发病率。因此，GIDRTP 旨在加强现有的教育和研究联系与 UVA 和乞力马扎罗基督教医科大学学院/乞力马扎罗临床研究所合作（KCMUCo/KCRI）在坦桑尼亚，支持坦桑尼亚博士后学员成长为研究领导者处于营养不良和结核病的交叉点。我们的目标是通过个性化研究培养 6 名博士后科学家，每人提供 3 年的支持基于非洲研究领导力之路报告（2020）框架的领导力计划。此外为了将博士后研究员与坦桑尼亚和 UVA 导师相匹配，个性化的研究领导计划将包括首席教育者和核心课程教师的评估，包括生物统计学家的设计针对研究团队管理的指标类别进行个性化课程和技能建设，沟通、资助写作、专业精神和职业轨迹。我们将利用现有的基础设施来自美国国立卫生研究院、比尔和梅琳达·盖茨基金会、欧洲和发展中国家的资助国家试验伙伴关系、世界卫生组织和丹麦外交部结核病和坦桑尼亚的营养不良研究，我们期望启动初级科学家和内容领导者的职业生涯他们将争夺独立资金、制定研究议程、制定政策并造福于他们的社区—— 符合世界卫生组织的终结结核病战略。