Sub-Saharan Africa Regional Partnership (SHARP) for Mental Health Capacity Building - Capacity-Building

能力建设核心--摘要 撒哈拉以南非洲精神卫生区域伙伴关系能力建设核心(CBC) 能力建设(夏普)通过以下方式应对撒哈拉以南非洲巨大的精神卫生治疗缺口 通过能力建设倡议，将研究人员和政策制定者作为目标。这些举措包括 发展实施研究和研究应用技能，提供应用机会 新获得的技能，并为研究人员和 政策制定者。CBC活动将受益于UNC在执行领域表现出的专业知识 科学和心理健康以及该机构与马拉维卫生部现有的牢固伙伴关系， 马拉维大学医学院、卫生伙伴、坦桑尼亚卫生部和穆亨比利 健康与联合科学大学。 CBC建议(1)提供关键技能的短期课程计划，以确保参与者能够设计 并根据具体情况开展基于证据的心理健康干预措施实施研究 并将这项研究转化为日常实践；(2)开发一个多方面的平台，促进对话 政府、学术和非政府机构的研究人员和政策制定者之间的联系；(3) 提供从事应用实施科学研究的机会，并申请试点资助，涉及 研究和政策团队；以及(4)创建导师计划，以培养研究人员和 政策制定者受训人员，他们可以作为医学和公共卫生专业学生的独立导师。 我们提议的计划确保研究人员和政策制定者既有技能又有 有意义地评估和有效应用循证护理和治疗所需的基础设施 心理健康障碍的模型，如抑郁症，这在LMIC环境中很普遍，并与 发病率和死亡率都很高。我们的方法反映了对LMIC背景的欣赏和 认识到持续的能力取决于让受训人员具有广泛的视角并提供 他们拥有深入的知识和有组织的机会来实践和分享这些知识。我们的多- 一个由当地和国际专家组成的专门队列设计了一种综合方法，具有经过验证的 指导和有意义的合作的记录，并承诺带来变革性和 可转移到LMICs的变化，承受着高度精神卫生保健治疗缺口。

CAPACITY BUILDING CORE – ABSTRACT The Capacity Building Core (CBC) for the sub-Saharan Africa Regional Partnership for Mental Health Capacity Building (SHARP) responds to the large mental health treatment gap in sub-Saharan Africa by targeting both researchers and policy makers through capacity building initiatives. These initiatives include developing implementation research and research application skillsets, providing opportunities for applying newly acquired skills, and creating a platform for outcome driven dialogue between researchers and policymakers. CBC activities will benefit from UNC’s demonstrated expertise in the fields of implementation science and mental health and the institution’s strong existing partnerships with the Malawi Ministry of Health, University of Malawi College of Medicine, Partners in Health, Tanzania Ministry of Health, and Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences. The CBC proposes to (1) provide a short course program for key skills to ensure participants can design and conduct implementation research on contextually appropriate, evidence-based mental health interventions and translate that research into routine practice; (2) develop a multi-faceted platform to facilitate dialogue between researchers and policymakers in governmental, academic, and non-governmental institutions; (3) provide opportunities to engage in applied implementation science research and apply for pilot grants involving research and policy teams; and (4) create a Mentor the Mentors program to develop researcher and policymakers trainees who can serve as independent mentors to medical and public health students. Our proposed program ensures that researchers and policymakers will have both the skills and infrastructure needed to meaningfully appraise and efficiently apply evidence-based care and treatment models to mental health disorders such as depression, which are prevalent in LMIC settings and associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Our approach reflects an appreciation of the LMIC context and an understanding that sustained capacity rests on engaging trainees with a breadth of perspectives and providing them with a depth of knowledge and structured opportunities to practice and share that knowledge. Our multi- pronged approach has been designed by a dedicated cohort of local and international experts with a proven record of mentorship and meaningful collaboration and holds the promise of bringing transformative and transferable change to LMICs burdened by high mental health care treatment gaps.