INTERDISCIPLINARY TRAINING IN HIV/AIDS EPIDEMIOLOGY

描述：该提案旨在每年为五名博士前和两名博士后候选人提供多学科项目培训，重点关注艾滋病毒/艾滋病流行病学，最终获得硕士学位。 （仅限博士后）或博士学位。对于那些拥有流行病学博士学位的人来说，可以进行流行病学学位和博士后研究。 多学科教员的 23 名成员包括艾滋病毒/艾滋病研究人员，其研究项目涉及流行病学、生物统计学、免疫学、病毒学、临床医学、神经学、心理学和行为科学。 除了流行病学、生物统计学、艾滋病毒生物学、控制艾滋病毒的行为和公共卫生策略、预防艾滋病毒感染和监测的健康策略等核心课程外，学员还需要学习其他生物学、社会学和/或数学学科的额外课程，并参加正在进行的艾滋病毒/艾滋病研讨会。 学员还可以从加州大学洛杉矶分校提供的十七门艾滋病毒/艾滋病课程中选修课程。 学员将与该项目的跨学科教师合作，撰写有关艾滋病毒/艾滋病的论文和博士后研究。 这些项目可能在美国或东南亚进行。 将特别努力从代表性不足的少数群体中招募合格的候选人。

DESCRIPTION: This is a proposal to provide training for five predoctoral and two postdoctoral candidates each year in a multidisciplinary program focusing on HIV/AIDS epidemiology leading to the M.S. (postdoctorals only) or Ph.D. degrees and for postdoctoral studies in epidemiology for those with a prior doctoral degree in epidemiology. The twenty-three members of the multidisciplinary faculty include HIV/AIDS investigators with reserch programs in epidemiology, biostatistics, immunology, virology, clinical medicine, neurology, psychology and behavioral sciences. In addition to a core program of courses in epidemiology, biostatistics, the biology of HIV, behavioral and public health strategies for control of HIV, health strategies for prevention of HIV infection and surveillance, trainees will be required to take additional courses in other biologic, sociologic and/or mathematical disciplines and to participate in an ongoing seminar on HIV/AIDS. Trainees may also take elective courses from among seventeen additional courses in HIV/AIDS offered at UCLA. Trainees will develop theses, dissertations and postdoctoral research in HIV/AIDS in collaboration with the interdisciplinary faculty of the program. These projects may be conducted in the United States or in Southeast Asia. Special efforts will be made to recruit qualified candidates from underrepresented minority groups.