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.

项目摘要/摘要 该申请要求续签一项进步和分层的培训计划，以使研究人员和 具有推进职业和环境健康研究和翻译的技能的研究团队 链接的U01申请中的议程（1/2：东非研究和培训的地卫生枢纽 - 埃塞俄比亚）。学员将等效地成为区域研究和培训领导者和知识渊博的 在指导政策中。以当前计划，拟议的培训和教训为基础 研究将推动围绕环境中紧迫问题的本地相关科学证据的翻译 以及包括气候变化在内的职业健康，成为有影响力的行动。培训计划将是 与埃塞俄比亚的亚的斯亚贝巴大学（AAU）合作实施，链接的枢纽机构 应用;讲座机构位于肯尼亚（内罗毕大学）和乌干达大学（Makerere University）。 其他培训合作伙伴将在卢旺达，加纳和喀麦隆进一步扩大枢纽的范围 东非以及长期计划将朝着撒哈拉以南非洲地区更具针对性的扩张迈进。 培训计划将建立解决关键研究主题所需的能力 这些低收入和中等收入国家的全面情境分析和需求评估：室内 和室外空气污染，重点是儿童和妇女健康；占据健康，特别是热 暴露和工人的生产力；和气候变化。 U2R团队包括经验丰富的研究人员， 科罗拉多州立大学科罗拉多州哥伦比亚大学的教育工作者，科罗拉多州立大学和 南加州大学与AAU和其他合作伙伴机构合作记录。 分层的培训活动将促进增强的研究能力 - 创造国家科学领袖 提前研究解决占领和环境健康问题以及政策技能的研究 翻译，用于国家和地区环境。符合这些目标，并确保可持续性，枢纽和 Skok机构将领导本地发展的培训。集线器学者计划将继续 使用灵活，具有成本效益的培训方式，包括在哥伦比亚大学的有限长度 和其他美国合作伙伴机构；国内MS和PHD级培训，并由美国和 东非导师；国内研讨会和短期课程；并同步和异步距离 基于方法。我们还将继续使用创新方法来促进政策翻译 现实世界与利益相关者的互动。评估将跟踪参与者在满足他们的成功方面的成功 在短期内，从长远来看，在完成拟议的研究时， 科学演讲和论文，并获得赠款。通过仔细的案例研究，我们将继续。 检查受训者对政策指标的影响，例如实施新的国家空气质量 标准和准则，法规和实践变化。