GEOHEALTH HUB FOR RESEARCH AND TRAINING IN EASTERN AFRICA - U.S.

东非地球健康研究和培训中心 - 美国

• 批准号: 10448055
• 负责人: Kiros T Berhane
• 金额: $ 29.81万
• 依托单位: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-28 至 2027-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10448055
• 关键词: Address; Africa South of the Sahara; African; Air; California; Cameroon; Case Study; Child; Collaborations; Colorado; Competence; Country; Development; Doctor of Philosophy; Eastern Africa; Educational Status; Educational workshop; Ensure; Environmental Health; Ethiopia; Evaluation; Funding; Ghana; Goals; Grant; Guidelines; Institution; Kenya; Leadership; Length of Stay; Link; Mentors; Modality; NCI Scholars Program; Needs Assessment; Occupational Health; Paper; Participant; Policies; Productivity; Public Health Schools; Records; Regulation; Request for Applications; Research; Research Personnel; Research Training; Rwanda; Training; Training Activity; Training Programs; Translations; Uganda; Universities; Women' s Health; ambient air pollution; base; climate change; cost effective; experience; flexibility; innovation; low and middle-income countries; meetings; programs; skills; success

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT This application requests renewal of a progressive and tiered training program that equips researchers and research teams with the skills to advance the occupational and environmental health research and translational agenda in the linked U01 application (1/2: GEOHealth Hub for Research and Training in Eastern Africa – Ethiopia). The trainees will be equipped to become regional research and training leaders and knowledgeable in guiding policy. Building on successes and lessons from the current program, the proposed training and research will advance translation of locally relevant scientific evidence around pressing issues in environmental and occupational health, including climate change, into impactful actions. The training program will be implemented in collaboration with Addis Ababa University (AAU) in Ethiopia, the Hub institution for the linked application; the Spoke institutions are in Kenya (University of Nairobi) and Uganda (Makerere University). Additional training partners will be in Rwanda, Ghana, and Cameroon further expanding the Hub's reach beyond Eastern Africa, and longer-term plans will move toward more targeted expansion across sub-Saharan Africa. The training program will build the competencies needed to address critical research themes emerging from comprehensive Situational Analysis and Needs Assessments for these low- and middle-income countries: indoor and outdoor air pollution, with a focus on children's and women's health; occupational health, specifically heat exposure and worker productivity; and climate change. The U2R team includes experienced researchers and educators from Columbia University, Colorado School of Public Health, Colorado State University, and the University of Southern California who have records of collaboration with AAU and other partner institutions. Tiered training activities will promote enhanced research capacity—creating national scientific leaders who can advance research that addresses issues in occupational and environmental health—and skills in policy translation, for national and regional contexts. In line with these goals and to ensure sustainability, the Hub and Spoke institutions will assume leadership for locally developed training. The Hub Scholar program will continue to use a flexible, cost-effective array of training modalities, including limited-length stays at Columbia University and other US partner institutions; in-country MS- and PhD-level training with co-advising by US-based and Eastern African mentors; in-country workshops and short courses; and synchronous and asynchronous distance- based approaches. We also will continue to use innovative approaches to facilitate policy translation through real-world engagement with stakeholders. Evaluation will track participants' success in meeting their development goals in the short term and, in the longer term, in completing the proposed research, contributing scientific presentations and papers, and attaining grant funding. Through careful case studies, we will continue to examine the impact of trainees on policy indicators, such as implementation of new national air quality standards and guidelines, regulations, and changes in practices.

项目总结/摘要 该申请要求更新一个渐进和分层的培训计划， 研究团队的技能，以促进职业和环境健康的研究和翻译 U 01申请中的议程（1/2：东非全球环境卫生研究和培训中心- 埃塞俄比亚）。学员将有能力成为区域研究和培训领导者并知识渊博 指导政策。在当前方案的成功经验和教训的基础上，拟议的培训和 研究将推动围绕环境领域紧迫问题的当地相关科学证据的翻译 和职业健康，包括气候变化，转化为有效的行动。培训计划将是 与埃塞俄比亚的阿迪斯-亚的斯亚贝巴大学合作实施，亚的斯亚贝巴大学是与非洲经济联系的中心机构， Spoke学院位于肯尼亚（内罗毕大学）和乌干达（Makerere大学）。 其他培训合作伙伴将在卢旺达，加纳和喀麦隆进一步扩大中心的影响力 长期计划将转向在撒哈拉以南非洲更有针对性的扩张。 该培训计划将建立所需的能力，以解决关键的研究主题出现， 对这些低收入和中等收入国家进行全面的情况分析和需求评估： 和室外空气污染，重点是儿童和妇女的健康;职业健康，特别是热 暴露和工人生产力;以及气候变化。U2 R团队包括经验丰富的研究人员， 来自哥伦比亚大学、科罗拉多公共卫生学院、科罗拉多州立大学和 南加州大学谁与AAU和其他合作机构的合作记录。 分层培训活动将促进提高研究能力，培养国家科学领导人， 推进解决职业和环境健康问题的研究-以及政策技能 翻译，为国家和地区的背景。为了实现这些目标并确保可持续性，中心和 分支机构将领导当地开发的培训。Hub Scholar计划将继续 使用灵活、具有成本效益的一系列培训模式，包括在哥伦比亚大学的短期停留 和其他美国合作机构;国内MS和博士水平的培训，由美国和 东非辅导员;国内讲习班和短期课程;同步和异步远程培训， 基于方法。我们还将继续采用创新方法，通过以下方式促进政策转化： 与利益相关者的真实接触。评估将跟踪参与者在满足其 在短期和长期的发展目标，在完成拟议的研究，促进 科学演讲和论文，并获得赠款资金。通过仔细的案例研究，我们将继续 审查受训人员对政策指标的影响，例如实施新的国家空气质量 标准和准则、法规以及实践中的变化。