Vanderbilt-Nigeria Biostatistics Training Program (VN-BioStat)

范德比尔特-尼日利亚生物统计学培训计划（VN-BioStat）

• 批准号: 10594548
• 负责人: Muktar Hassan Aliyu
• 金额: $ 29.77万
• 依托单位: VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-04-01 至 2027-01-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10594548
• 关键词: Academic Medical Centers; Address; Africa; Big Data; Biomedical Research; Biometry; Clinic; Clinical Investigator; Collaborations; Data; Data Scientist; Doctor of Philosophy; Educational workshop; Faculty; Funding; Grant; HIV; HIV/AIDS; Hour; Institution; Joints; Lead; Leadership; Mentorship; Methodology; Methods; Modeling; Nigeria; Nigerian; Parents; Principal Investigator; Publications; Research; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Resources; Southern Africa; Survival Analysis; Teaching Hospitals; Training; Training Programs; United States; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Writing; cohort; design; global health; programs; skills; statistics

PROJECT ABSTRACT It is critical to build biostatistics capacity in West Africa. Biomedical HIV research is growing in West Africa, but biostatistical support and expertise are lagging. In collaborative HIV studies between West Africa and U.S. institutions, the biostatistics leaders are almost always from the U.S. It is important to develop biostatistics leaders in West Africa – biostatisticians who will not be technicians, but co-investigators, principal investigators, and thought-leaders in funded HIV/AIDS research. There are several statistics PhD programs in West Africa, but they often have little or no connection with biomedical research. Funded training initiatives over the past ten years have been successful at building biostatistics in Southern Africa and East Africa, but no such programs currently exist in West Africa. The Vanderbilt-Nigeria Biostatistics Training Program (VN-BioStat) builds on long-standing collaborations between two leading research institutions in Nigeria and the United States, namely, Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH) and Vanderbilt University Medical Center (Vanderbilt) to establish a research and training platform for biostatisticians doing HIV-related research in Nigeria. VN-BioStat will build upon the resources of AKTH and its parent institution, Bayero University in Kano (BUK), to create a cohort of highly skilled Nigerian biostatisticians with the capacity to lead and supervise biostatistical activities in West Africa. VN-BioStat leverages the highly successful, collaborative and rapidly expanding portfolio of U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other funded research at AKTH, with joint leadership from Vanderbilt investigators. To train biostatistician leaders in Nigeria, the VN-BioStat program proposes to bring two Nigerian data scientists per year (total of 10 over 5 years) to Vanderbilt to immerse them in biostatistics and to receive hands on training. During the one-year training period, trainees will lead the design, analysis, and publication of a collaborative research project using HIV data from AKTH. They will also lead a related, methodologically focused project that will culminate in a publication. While at Vanderbilt, they will interact with a team of HIV biostatisticians, take appropriate biostatistics courses (up to 8 credit hours per semester for 2 semesters), attend biostatistics and global health seminars, participate in a grant-writing workshop, attend biostatistics clinics, and collaborate with other Nigerian investigators. They will receive mentorship from Vanderbilt faculty (one biostatistician and one clinical investigator) and AKTH faculty. We will also conduct annual workshops in Nigeria to provide mid- level biostatistics training for up to 25 HIV researchers. Potential course topics include methods to address missing data, introduction to causal inference, regression modeling strategies, big data in biomedical research, and survival analysis.

项目摘要 西非生物统计能力建设至关重要。西非的艾滋病毒生物医学研究正在不断发展，但是 生物统计支持和专业知识滞后。西非和美国之间的艾滋病毒合作研究 机构中，生物统计学的领导者几乎都来自美国。发展生物统计学很重要 西非的领导者——生物统计学家将不是技术人员，而是合作研究者、负责人 资助艾滋病毒/艾滋病研究的调查人员和思想领袖。有多个统计学博士课程 西非，但他们通常与生物医学研究很少或根本没有联系。资助培训计划 过去十年在南部非洲和东非成功建立了生物统计数据，但没有 此类方案目前在西非存在。 范德比尔特-尼日利亚生物统计学培训计划 (VN-BioStat) 建立在长期合作的基础上 尼日利亚和美国两家领先的研究机构 Aminu Kano Training 之间的合作 医院（AKTH）与范德比尔特大学医学中心（Vanderbilt）建立研究和培训中心 为在尼日利亚进行艾滋病毒相关研究的生物统计学家提供的平台。 VN-BioStat 将利用以下资源： AKTH 及其母校卡诺巴耶罗大学 (BUK) 旨在培养一批高技能的尼日利亚人 有能力领导和监督西非生物统计活动的生物统计学家。越南生物统计公司 利用美国国立研究院高度成功、协作且快速扩展的投资组合 健康 (NIH) 和 AKTH 的其他资助研究，由范德比尔特研究人员共同领导。训练 尼日利亚生物统计学家领导者，VN-BioStat 计划提议为每个人配备两名尼日利亚数据科学家 年（5 年内总共 10 次）前往范德比尔特大学，让他们沉浸在生物统计学中并接受实践培训。 在为期一年的培训期间，学员将领导设计、分析和发布协作性研究成果 使用 AKTH 的 HIV 数据的研究项目。他们还将领导一个相关的、以方法论为重点的项目 最终将出版一份出版物。在范德比尔特大学期间，他们将与艾滋病毒生物统计学家团队互动， 参加适当的生物统计学课程（每学期最多 8 个学分，共 2 个学期），参加生物统计学 和全球健康研讨会、参加资助写作研讨会、参加生物统计诊所并进行合作 与其他尼日利亚调查人员一起。他们将接受范德堡大学教师（一名生物统计学家和 一名临床研究员）和 AKTH 教员。我们还将在尼日利亚举办年度研讨会，以提供中期 为最多 25 名 HIV 研究人员提供水平生物统计学培训。潜在的课程主题包括解决问题的方法 缺失数据、因果推理简介、回归建模策略、生物医学研究中的大数据、 和生存分析。