UAB-AKU: Intl Maternal & Child Health Research/Training

描述(申请人提供)：这项倡议的目的是 通过合作研究和培训，加强和维持 巴基斯坦科学家为妇幼健康做出贡献的能力 通过解决适合巴基斯坦的因素进行研究 导致妊娠结局不佳和母亲健康状况不佳 和巴基斯坦的儿童。本培训计划的目的是 多学科，包括生物医学、社会文化和行为 研究问题。此申请正在与一项 对在巴基斯坦建立妇幼保健机构的答复 阿拉巴马大学伯明翰分校(UAB)和 巴基斯坦卡拉奇的阿加汗大学(AKU)，作为全球网络的一部分 《妇女？S与儿童？S健康研究计划》(RFA HD-QO-007)。这个 我们福格蒂国际公司的培训和研究能力建设努力 国际妇幼保健研究和培训中心 计划(IMCHRT)旨在促进妇幼健康研究 改善巴基斯坦的怀孕和生育结果，如将由 UAB-AKU母婴健康研究在全球范围内提交 网络程序。该计划将从高度高效的 UAB Fogarty艾滋病国际与巴基斯坦关系的成功 培训和研究计划。我们预计将加强建立一个 卡拉奇阿加汗大学妇幼研究中心 提供生物医学、行为和预防研究方面的关键专业知识 在妇幼保健方面向巴基斯坦科学家和研究提供支持 工作人员。培训将在美国的UAB和AKU提供，并将 包括公共卫生学位获取培训、短期培训和 UAB和AKU之间的基于网络的远程学习计划。这项培训计划 将推动启动新的妇幼保健研究 UAB-AKU全球网络研究中心(如果获奖)，并促进 建立美中之间的长期合作关系 调查人员和巴基斯坦实习生。我们相信，我们的重点是 发展AKU-S的独立能力，在全球提供区域领导 培训和研究是Fogarty和NICHD最好的长期投资 资源。

DESCRIPTION (Provided by applicant): The purpose of this initiative is to strengthen and sustain, through collaborative research and training, the capability of Pakistani scientists to contribute to maternal and child health research efforts by addressing factors appropriate to Pakistan which contribute to poor pregnancy outcomes and the poor health status of mothers and children in Pakistan. This training program is intended to be multidisciplinary and to include both biomedical, sociocultural and behavioral research issues. This application is being submitted concurrently with a response for the establishment in Pakistan of a Maternal and Child Health Research Center between the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and the Aga Khan University (AKU) in Karachi, Pakistan, as part of a Global Network for Women?s and Children?s Health Research Program (RFA HD-QO-007). The training and research capacity building efforts of our Fogarty International Center (FIC) International Maternal and Child Health Research and Training Program (IMCHRT) are meant to facilitate maternal and child health research to improve pregnancy and birth outcomes in Pakistan such as will be undertaken by the UAB-AKU Maternal and Child Health Research submitted under the Global Network program. This program will build efficiently from the highly successful UAB-Pakistan relationship of the UAB Fogarty AIDS International Training and Research Program. We expect to strengthen the establishment of a Maternal and Child Research Center at the Aga Khan University in Karachi by providing critical expertise in biomedical, behavioral and prevention research in maternal and child health to Pakistani scientists and research support staff. Training will be offered both in the U.S. at UAB and at AKU and will include degree-seeking training in Public Health, short- term training, and a web-based distance-learning program between UAB and AKU. This training program will promote the initiation of new maternal and child health research within the UAB-AKU Global Network Research Center (if awarded) and facilitate the establishment of long-term collaborative relationships between U.S. investigators and Pakistani trainees. We are confident that our emphasis on developing AKU?s independent capacity to provide regional leadership in training and research is the best long-term investment of Fogarty and NICHD resources.