International West Africa Symposium and Workshop on Infectious Diseases

国际西非传染病研讨会暨讲习班

• 批准号: 10540552
• 负责人: Nevan J Krogan
• 金额: $ 2.96万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-07-13 至 2023-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10540552
• 关键词: Achievement; Address; Africa; African; Area; Award; Basic Science; Clinical; Clinical Research; Clinical Sciences; Collaborations; Communicable Diseases; Communication; Communities; Country; Data; Dengue; Dengue Fever; Developed Countries; Discipline; Disease; Ebola; Educational workshop; Emerging Communicable Diseases; Epidemic; Epidemiology; Exposure to; Financial Support; Funding; Future; Ghana; Goals; Government; Government Agencies; Grant; HIV; Health Personnel; Immersion; Infectious Diseases Research; Institution; Instruction; International; Knowledge; Lead; Learning; Location; Malaria; Mentorship; Modality; Motivation; Nigeria; Outcome; Participant; Patients; Positioning Attribute; Problem Solving; Reagent; Request for Applications; Research; Research Personnel; Resources; Sampling; Scientist; Senior Scientist; Series; Sierra Leone; Site Visit; Therapeutic; Training; Translational Research; Travel; Tuberculosis; United States National Institutes of Health; Vision; Writing; combat; demographics; empowered; fighting; meetings; member; novel strategies; pathogen; posters; prevent; programs; research study; skills; social; symposium; tool; zika fever

PROJECT SUMMARY West African countries suffer enormous impacts due to infectious diseases such as HIV, malaria, tuberculosis, Lassa, Ebola and Dengue. Despite the high relevance of basic and clinical research studies and the abundant availability of patient-derived samples and data, most of the sixteen West African nations lag behind developed nations and many other African nations in combating these epidemics. As a result, it is increasingly recognized that there is great value in increasing opportunities for West African scientists, particularly from countries such as Sierra Leone, which have been slower to progress as compared to others like Ghana and Nigeria. One goal is to have them participate more in basic and clinical research, both as independent researchers and as part of international consortia and collaborations. Until now, however, there has been little opportunity to bring the entire West African infectious disease research community together with leading researchers from other African nations and beyond. For this reason, we propose to hold the first International West Africa Symposium and Workshop on Infectious Diseases in Freetown, Sierra Leone. There are four specific objectives of this meeting. First, we aim to bring together the international infectious disease community in Sierra Leone to facilitate infectious disease research on a number of key pathogens highly relevant to the region. To accomplish this goal, we are planning a series of keynote and plenary speakers from many leading experts in the field from within Africa and around the world, along with a poster session, talks selected from poster abstracts and other activities including a site visit. Since the challenges in this field are daunting and will require collaborative efforts to solve, a second goal is to enhance interactions between diverse groups, such as academic basic science, epidemiological, clinical and translational science, as well as non-governmental and governmental institutions. To this end, we are specifically inviting participants representing these groups, with sessions to facilitate knowledge exchange and collaborations. A third objective is to bring hands-on training and workshops that our team is uniquely positioned to provide. To this end, there will be several days of workshops taught by experts and developed in close collaboration with team members on the ground in Sierra Leone, who understand the local needs. A fourth objective is to invest intellectually and financially in the future by supporting promising young trainees. The goal is to encourage trainees to be successful and stay in the field by providing intellectual support through discussions and mentorship with senior scientists, poster sessions, opportunities to speak, awards that recognize their achievements, and by providing financial support with competitive travel awards. The expected outcomes are increased collaborations between scientists working in different disciplines, retention of young scientists in the field, identification of new opportunities to mesh basic and clinical research, and exploration of new approaches for the study of infectious diseases and strategies to combat them.

项目摘要 西非国家由于艾滋病毒，疟疾，结核病等传染病而遭受巨大影响 拉萨，埃博拉和登革热。尽管基础研究和临床研究很高，并且丰富 患者衍生的样品和数据的可用性，16个西非国家的大部分落后于落后的大部分 国家和许多其他非洲国家在打击这些流行病方面。结果，它越来越被认可 西非科学家增加了机会，特别是来自此类国家的机会，这是有很大价值的 就像塞拉利昂（Sierra Leone）一样，与加纳和尼日利亚等其他人相比，进步速度较慢。一个目标 是让他们更多地参与基础研究和临床研究，无论是独立研究人员还是 国际财团和合作。但是，到目前为止，几乎没有机会带来整个 西非传染病研究社区以及其他非洲国家的主要研究人员 及以后。因此，我们建议举行首个国际西非研讨会和研讨会 关于塞拉利昂弗里敦的传染病。这次会议有四个具体目标。首先，我们 旨在将塞拉利昂的国际传染病社区汇集在一起​​，以促进感染力 疾病研究与该地区高度相关的许多关键病原体。为了实现这一目标，我们是 计划来自非洲境内的许多领域领域的许多主要专家的主题演讲者和全体会议者 全世界，以及海报会议，从海报摘要和其他活动中选出的会谈，包括 现场访问。由于该领域的挑战令人生畏，需要协作努力来解决，所以 目标是增强不同群体之间的互动，例如学术基础科学，流行病学， 临床和转化科学以及非政府和政府机构。为此，我们 特别邀请代表这些群体的参与者，并进行促进知识交流的会议 和合作。第三个目标是进行我们团队独特的动手培训和讲习班 定位提供。为此，专家教授的研讨会将有几天 与了解当地需求的塞拉利昂（Sierra Leone）的地面上的团队成员密切合作。第四 目标是通过支持有前途的年轻学员在未来的智力和财务上进行投资。目标 是鼓励学员成功并通过通过 与高级科学家，海报会议，讲话机会的讨论和指导，认可的奖项 他们的成就，并通过竞争性旅行奖提供财政支持。预期的结果 在不同学科工作的科学家之间的合作增加，年轻科学家在 该领域，确定新的机会来融合基础和临床研究，并探索新的机会 研究传染病和对抗它们的策略的方法。