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

NIMH 2020战略计划将全球精神卫生确定为一个贯穿各领域的研究主题， 研究所的目标。在全球心理健康领域，人们越来越认识到在理解如何 对社会驱动因素进行干预，以大幅减轻可归因于精神疾病的全球疾病负担。 这个R25应用程序提出了一个关于全球心理中社会驱动干预的研究教育计划 健康。该项目名为全球精神健康研究，针对全球范围内精神疾病的社会驱动因素 LifeSpan(GmhCONNECT)，总部设在伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校和乔治华盛顿大学 拥有一大批美国和国际资深全球心理健康研究人员。导师关系网络 还包括来自全球精神健康同行网络的精神疾病患者。学员还将 与世界卫生组织、联合国儿童基金会、联合国难民事务高级专员公署和主要人道主义组织的从业人员接触。在保持 根据PAR-20-080的要求，该项目面向研究生和卫生专业学生，医学 住院医生、博士后实习生和职业生涯早期教师，他们是美国公民和永久居民 计划提交或目前通过NRSA、K奖、Fogarty奖学金或项目赠款提供资金。 在全球心理健康研究领域建立职业生涯需要掌握复杂的挑战，包括以下方面的工作： 殖民主义遗产、权力差异、地方文化、机构和官员、国际和地方非政府组织、 以及非专家和同行提供者。这项计划的目的是促进他们独立后的成功 全球精神卫生领域的研究人员和研究界成员。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(LMIC)和其他低资源环境。具体目标是：目标1： 提供培训，主要是通过暑期学院，提高受训者的研究知识和 关于社会驱动因素如何影响精神疾病、预防和护理的技能，以及社会驱动因素和 它们的影响可以通过干预措施来解决；目标2：提供为期一年的重点强化指导 (二元和三元)来自美国和LMIC的多学科和多样化的GMH专家池，以支持 被辅导者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、有组织的同伴指导以及与与 精神疾病和执行组织的从业者，这将使受训人员能够形成他们独特的 指导网络；目标4：评估gmhCONNECT对被指导者的网络、知识和 工作效率，在评估工作效率指标时强调公平和协作。成功 这些目标的实现将为有前途的早期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、协作性的全球心理健康研究。

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.