Mentoring Network for Global Mental Health Research on Social Drivers Of Mental Illnesses across the Lifespan (gmhCONNECT)

NIMH 2020战略计划将全球心理健康确定为跨领域研究主题， 学院的目标。在全球精神卫生领域，人们越来越认识到， 对社会驱动因素进行干预，以大幅减少精神疾病造成的全球疾病负担。 这个R25申请提出了一个关于全球心理健康中社会驱动因素干预的研究教育计划。 健康该计划，全球精神卫生研究的社会驱动因素的精神疾病 Lifespan（gmhspan ECT）是位于芝加哥的伊利诺伊大学和乔治华盛顿大学的 拥有大量的美国和国际高级全球心理健康研究人员。导师网络 还包括来自全球精神卫生同伴网络的精神疾病患者。学员还将 与世卫组织、联合国儿童基金会、联合国难民署和主要人道主义组织的从业人员接触。一致 根据PAR-20-080的要求，该计划针对研究生和健康专业学生，医学 居民，博士后学员和早期职业教师谁是美国公民和永久居民谁 正在计划提交或目前通过NRSA，K奖，Fogarty奖学金或项目赠款资助。 在全球心理健康研究中建立职业生涯涉及掌握复杂的挑战，包括与以下人员合作： 殖民主义、权力差别、地方文化、机构和官员、国际和地方非政府组织的遗产， 以及非专家和同行提供者。该计划的目的是促进他们作为独立的成功 研究人员和全球精神卫生研究界的成员。我们的节目亮点 关于社会驱动因素如何影响精神疾病、预防和护理人群的干预研究 在低收入和中等收入国家以及其他低资源环境中。具体目标是：目标1： 提供培训，主要是通过暑期研究所，提高受训者的研究知识， 社会驱动因素如何影响精神疾病、预防和护理，以及社会驱动因素和 目标2：提供为期一年的重点强化辅导 （二元和三元）来自美国和LMIC的多学科和多样化的GMH专家库，以支持 学员的研究兴趣和职业轨迹。目标3：提供一系列协同指导学习 机会，包括小组指导，结构化的同伴指导，以及与生活在一起的人交往。 精神疾病和从业人员在执行组织，这将使受训者形成其独特的 指导网络;目标4：评估gmhcECT对学员的网络，知识和 生产力，在评估生产力指标时强调公平和协作。成功 这些目标的实施将为有前途的早期职业科学家提供更多的研究支持， 提高成功率，加快获得NIH资金的时间，并产生更公平和 科学严谨的全球精神卫生合作研究。

The NIMH 2020 Strategic Plan identifies Global Mental Health as a cross-cutting research theme integral to the institute’s goals. Within global mental health, there is growing recognition of the gaps in understanding how to intervene on social drivers to substantially reduce the global burden of disease attributable to mental illnesses. This R25 application proposes a research education program on social driver interventions in global mental health. The program, Global Mental Health Research on SoCial Drivers Of MeNtal IllNessEs aCross The Lifespan (gmhCONNECT), is based at the University of Illinois at Chicago and George Washington University with a large U.S. and international faculty of senior global mental health researchers. The mentorship network also includes the people living with mental illness from the Global Mental Health Peer Network. Mentees will also engage with practitioners from the WHO, UNICEF, UNHCR, and major humanitarian organizations. In keeping with the requirements of PAR-20-080, this program targets graduate and health professional students, medical residents, postdoctoral trainees, and early-career faculty who are U.S. citizens and permanent residents who are planning to submit or currently funded through NRSAs, K awards, Fogarty Fellowships, or project grant. Building a career in global mental health research involves mastering complex challenges including working with: the legacies of colonialism, power differentials, local culture, agencies and officials, international and local NGOs, and non-specialist and peer providers. The purpose of this program is to facilitate their success as independent researchers and members of the research community in global mental health. Our program highlights intervention research concerning how social drivers impact mental illness, prevention, and care for populations in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and other low-resource settings. The specific aims are: Aim 1: Provide training, primarily through a Summer Institute, which advances the trainees’ research knowledge and skills on the ways in which social drivers impact mental illness, prevention, and care and how social drivers and their impact can be addressed through interventions; Aim 2: Provide one-year of focused intensive mentorship (dyadic and triadic) from a US and LMIC pool of multidisciplinary and diverse GMH experts to support the mentees’ research interests and career trajectories. Aim 3: Provide a range of synergistic guided learning opportunities including group mentorship, structured peer mentorship, and engagements with people living with mental illness and practitioners at implementing organizations, which will enable trainees to form their unique mentoring networks; Aim 4: Evaluate the impact of gmhCONNECT on the mentee’s networks, knowledge and productivity, with an emphasis on equity and collaboration when evaluating productivity metrics. Successful implementation of these aims will provide promising early-career scientists with more support for their research, an increased success rate, accelerated time for acquiring NIH funding, and generate more equitable and scientifically-rigorous collaborative global mental health research.