Building Research in Inter-Disciplinary Gender and HIV through the Social Sciences (The BRIDGES Programme)

通过社会科学建立跨学科性别和艾滋病毒研究（桥梁计划）

• 批准号: 10379995
• 负责人: Christopher James Colvin
• 金额: $ 30.22万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-04-16 至 2024-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10379995
• 关键词: Address; Africa South of the Sahara; Area; Behavioral Sciences; Collaborations; Development; Doctor of Philosophy; Family Practice; Female Adolescents; Foundations; Gender; Growth; HIV; Incidence; Institution; International; Justice; Light; Measures; Medical Research; Performance; Postdoctoral Fellow; Public Health; Public Health Schools; Research; Research Personnel; Research Priority; Research Project Grants; Social Sciences; South African; Students; Training; Training Activity; Training Programs; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; bridge program; improved; innovation; institutional capacity; men; next generation; programs; social science research; success; symposium; young woman

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Over the last few years, the Division of Social and Behavioural Sciences (DSBS) – part of the School of Public Health and Family Medicine at the University of Cape Town (UCT) – has grown rapidly in its capacity to conduct high-quality, interdisciplinary social science research in priority HIV areas. Our recent growth, however, has focused primarily on supporting Master’s students working on a wide array of HIV social science research projects. To sustain and build on these gains, this D43 training program seeks to invest in developing our advanced graduate training—of PhD and Postdoctoral Fellows—in our Division’s priority research area of Gender and HIV. The overall objective of the BRIDGES training program is to strengthen UCT’s capacity to serve as a global leader in gender and HIV social science research by: a) helping develop the next generation of researchers capable of conducting rigorous, interdisciplinary social science research on gender and HIV (Aim 1), and b) strengthening the institutional training platform for innovative gender and HIV social science research in South/sub-Saharan Africa in priority areas aligned with both local needs and NIH HIV research priorities (Aims 2 and 3). The BRIDGES Programme will help consolidate UCT’s place as an exceptional HIV social science research institution addressing urgent gender and HIV priorities by intensively training 4 PhD and 2 Postdoctoral Fellows (Aim 1), developing new semester PhD courses (2) and short courses (3) to address existing training gaps (Aim 2), and hosting an Annual BRIDGES Symposium that will offer training, networking and professional development in gender and HIV social science at UCT (Aim 3). The project cuts across global, national and NIH “high priorities” for HIV research in its two Thematic Areas of focus: 1) Reducing HIV incidence in adolescent girls and young women, and 2) Improving the performance of men in the HIV cascade. Training activities will be delivered through collaboration with a diverse team of UCT, South African, and international co-investigators drawn from Brown University (key collaborator), the Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation (DTHF), South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC), and Sonke Gender Justice. The success of BRIDGES will be measured by our institutional capacity to sustain a productive, innovative, responsive and impactful program of interdisciplinary HIV social science research aligned with the Trans-NIH Plan for HIV-Related Research. Strengthening this aspect of the University’s research capacity is particularly important in light of the University’s strong track record of HIV-related innovation in other aspects of public health.

项目总结/摘要 在过去的几年里，社会和行为科学部（DSBS）-公共学院的一部分， 健康和家庭医学在开普敦大学（UCT）-在其能力迅速增长， 在艾滋病毒优先领域开展高质量的跨学科社会科学研究。我们最近的增长， 然而，主要集中在支持硕士生从事广泛的艾滋病毒社会科学 研究项目。为了维持和巩固这些成果，D43培训计划旨在投资于开发 我们的高级研究生培训的博士和博士后研究员，在我们司的优先研究领域， 性别与艾滋病毒。桥梁培训计划的总体目标是加强UCT的能力， 作为性别和艾滋病毒社会科学研究的全球领导者：a）帮助培养下一代 有能力就性别和艾滋病毒问题进行严格的跨学科社会科学研究的研究人员 (Aim B）加强创新性别和艾滋病毒社会科学的机构培训平台 在南部/撒哈拉以南非洲的优先领域进行研究，与当地需求和NIH艾滋病毒研究相一致 优先事项（目标2和3）。桥梁计划将有助于巩固UCT作为一个特殊的艾滋病毒 社会科学研究机构通过密集培训，处理紧迫的性别和艾滋病毒优先事项 和2名博士后研究员（目标1），开发新学期的博士课程（2）和短期课程（3）， 解决现有的培训差距（目标2），并主办一个年度桥梁研讨会，提供培训， 在首都地区大学建立性别和艾滋病毒社会科学方面的网络和专业发展（目标3）。项目削减 在全球、国家和国家卫生研究院的两个重点主题领域开展艾滋病毒研究的“高度优先事项”：1） 减少少女和年轻妇女的艾滋病毒发病率，以及2）改善男子在 艾滋病毒级联。培训活动将通过与南卡罗来纳大学的多元化团队合作进行。 来自布朗大学（主要合作者）的非洲和国际共同调查员德斯蒙德·图图 艾滋病毒基金会、南非医学研究理事会和Sonke性别公正。的 桥梁的成功将通过我们的机构能力来衡量，以维持一个富有成效的，创新的， 响应和跨学科的艾滋病毒社会科学研究与跨NIH一致的影响力计划 艾滋病毒相关研究计划。加强联合国大学这方面的研究能力， 重要的是，鉴于大学在公共卫生的其他方面与艾滋病毒有关的创新的良好记录， 健康