Partnerships for the Next Generation of HIV Social Science in South Africa

南非下一代艾滋病毒社会科学伙伴关系

• 批准号: 9130039
• 负责人: Christopher James Colvin
• 金额: $ 37.11万
• 依托单位: BROWN UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-09-01 至 2018-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9130039
• 关键词: AIDS prevention; AIDS/HIV problem; Address; Adult; Africa South of the Sahara; Area; Attention; Behavioral; Child; Chronic Disease; Collaborations; Communities; Complex; Counseling; Country; Development; Discipline; Educational Curriculum; Educational process of instructing; Environment; Epidemic; Ethnography; Faculty; Family; Family Practice; Fostering; Foundations; Gender; Generations; Goals; Grant; Growth; HIV; HIV Seropositivity; Infection; Institution; Interdisciplinary Study; International; Intervention; Investigation; Investments; Knowledge; Life; Mentors; Methods; Modeling; Phase; Plant Roots; Population; Positioning Attribute; Postdoctoral Fellow; Prevalence; Prevention; Prevention strategy; Principal Investigator; Process; Public Health; Public Health Schools; Recording of previous events; Research; Research Infrastructure; Research Methodology; Research Personnel; Research Priority; Research Training; Risk; Scholarship; Scientist; Severities; Shapes; Social Sciences; South Africa; Southern Africa; Supervision; System; Testing; Training; Universities; Woman; Youth; antiretroviral therapy; base; behavioral/social science; biomedical scientist; curriculum development; experience; graduate student; infrastructure development; innovation; insight; inter-institutional; interdisciplinary approach; meetings; next generation; programs; public health relevance; research and development; response; social; social science research; therapy adherence; treatment center

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We propose a strategic partnership between University of Cape Town's School of Public Health and Family Medicine (UCT-SPHFM) and Brown University's School of Public Health. Our 'Partnership for the Next Generation of HIV Social Science in South Africa' has the overarching goal of developing a new cadre of rigorously trained HIV social scientists who can provide sustainable interdisciplinary solutions to HIV/AIDS. Using a model of bi-directional exchange, the partnership leverages investments by building on natural synergies between our institutions, which have a history of excellence, complementary strengths, and an existing foundation of successful collaborative research. Our partnership will draw on Brown's experience in social and behavioral science HIV/AIDS research, including Brown's recent development of a Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences to offer enhanced technical capacity for development of a similar new Division at UCT-SPHFM. We also build on Brown's commitment to global partnerships, and UCT-SPHFM's excellence in HIV research for an institutional global scholarly exchange. We also build on Brown's teaching excellence and UCT's record of outstanding scholarship to help UCT develop sustained growth in social science capacity. UCT-SPHFM offers a unique environment to invest in the next generation of social science-public health researchers to address HIV/AIDS. Our specific aims include: 1) development of academic capacity through curriculum development and strengthened teaching and mentoring systems, 2) fostering a culture of excellence in the interdisciplinary HIV social science research environment, and 3) building on these investments to create innovative social science research opportunities in three strategic areas, or GAP themes: Gender in HIV/AIDS Risk and Response, Antiretroviral Therapy Adherence and Expansion, and HIV Prevention for Women, Youth and Families. Through integrated infrastructure development and research aims, we will train the next generation of HIV social science researchers to address high-priority research areas and contribute to long-term reductions in the scope and severity of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

描述（由申请人提供）：我们提出了开普敦大学公共卫生与家庭医学学院（UCT-SPHFM）与布朗大学公共卫生学院之间的战略合作伙伴关系。 我们的“南非下一代艾滋病毒社会科学的伙伴关系”的总体目标是开发一个新的受过严格培训的艾滋病毒社会科学家干部，他们可以为艾滋病毒/艾滋病提供可持续的跨学科解决方案。使用双向交流的模型，该合作伙伴关系通过基于我们机​​构之间的自然协同作用来利用投资，这些机构具有卓越历史，互补的优势和现有的成功协作研究基础。 我们的伙伴关系将借鉴布朗在社会和行为科学艾滋病毒/艾滋病研究方面的经验，包括布朗最近开发的行为和社会科学系，以增强了UCT-SPHFM类似新部门的技术能力。我们还基于布朗对全球合作伙伴关系的承诺，以及UCT-SPHFM在机构全球学术交流方面在艾滋病毒研究方面的卓越研究。 我们还基于布朗的卓越教学和UCT的杰出奖学金记录，以帮助UCT发展社会科学能力的持续增长。 UCT-SPHFM提供了一个独特的环境，可以投资下一代社会科学公共健康研究人员来解决艾滋病毒/艾滋病。 我们的具体目的包括：1）通过课程发展发展学术能力并加强教学和指导系统，2）培养跨学科HIV社会科学研究环境中的卓越文化，以及3）建立这些投资以创造创新的社会科学研究在三个战略领域的机会或差距主题：艾滋病毒/艾滋病风险和反应中的性别，抗逆转录病毒疗法的依从性和扩张，以及针对妇女，青年和家庭的艾滋病毒预防。 通过综合基础设施发展和研究目的，我们将培训下一代的HIV社会科学研究人员，以解决高优先级研究领域，并为艾滋病毒/艾滋病流行病的范围和严重程度的长期降低做出贡献。