CITAR-The UTSPH Program for Advanced Training on AIDS Research

描述（由申请人提供）：得克萨斯大学公共卫生学院（UTSPH）的CITAR是一个关于艾滋病毒预防研究的高级培训计划。奖学金是为外国卫生专业人员在休斯顿UTSPH获得4年博士学位，然后在其本国进行第5个博士后年的监督研究。对CITAR研究员的支持可能来自各种来源，但迄今为止几乎完全来自越南教育基金会（VEF），该基金会提供2年的津贴和机构支持。AITRP赠款将支持剩余的3年和休斯顿与我们在越南的研究和培训地点之间的差旅费。CITAR的目标是：1。教育和培训优秀的[外国]卫生专业人员在其本国从事公共卫生领域艾滋病毒和艾滋病毒相关问题的研究工作，并帮助他们获得开展这些工作的资金; 2.促进发展中国家的研究和研究能力; 3.促进美国与其他国家的理解与合作。我们选择了越南，因为早期但迅速扩大的艾滋病流行病，越南政府的承诺，但其目前的公共卫生人力的严重限制相结合，使其特别适合从我们的教师谁是艾滋病研究和国际卫生经验丰富的受益。目前，我们有7名越南研究员（6名来自维也纳环境论坛，1名获得越南政府奖学金），另有3名研究员将于2005年秋季开始工作。我们预计在接下来的每一年都会有2到4名新的学生。CITAR培训经验有6个要素：1.教师监督艾滋病毒领域的研究，导致论文; 2。学术课程; 3。每周研讨会，其中教师和研究员分享有关艾滋病毒和相关问题的介绍和讨论，4。5. Practica;国际研究的实际问题课程; 6.密切指导教育经验的各个方面。一个关键的跨领域要素将是伦理学，重点是将出现在所有教学要素中的科学道德行为。AITRP不仅符合CITAR的理念和目标，而且还将利用Fogarty的资源，支持已经进入博士课程两年的研究员，并证明他们的学术表现和对越南研究的承诺。我们将在越南举行旨在成功重返社会的师生活动，包括短期课程和越南。

Description (provided by applicant): The CITAR of the University of Texas School of Public Health (UTSPH) is a program for advanced training on HIV prevention research. Fellowships are for foreign health professionals leading to a 4 year doctoral degree at the UTSPH in Houston followed by a 5th post-doctoral year doing supervised research in their home country. Support for CITAR Fellows may come from a variety of sources but to date has been almost exclusively from the Vietnam Education Foundation (VEF) which provides 2 year of stipends and institutional support. An AITRP grant would support the remaining 3 years and travel expenses between Houston and our research and training sites in Vietnam. The goals of CITAR are: 1. Education & training of outstanding [foreign health professionals for research careers in public health in their home country on HIV and HIV related issues and to help them obtain funding to carry out those careers; 2. Foster research and research capacity in developing countries; 3. Promote understanding and cooperation between the United States and other countries. We chose Vietnam because the combination of the early but rapidly expanding AIDS epidemic, commitment of the Vietnamese government but severe limitations of its current public health manpower make it uniquely suited to benefit from our faculty who are highly experienced in AIDS research and international health. .Presently we have 7 Vietnamese Fellows (6 from VEF and 1 on a VN government scholarship) and 3 more VEF Fellows starting Fall 2005. We expect to have 2 to 4 new additional students in each subsequent year. There are 6 elements to the CITAR training experience: 1. Faculty supervised HIV field research leading to a thesis; 2. Didactic academic courses; 3. Weekly seminar in which faculty and fellows share presentations and discussions about HIV and related issues, 4. Practica; 5. Course on practical issues of international research, and; 6. Close mentoring of all aspects of the educational experience. A critical cross-cutting element will be ethics, focusing on the ethical conduct of science which will occur in all of the teaching elements. An AITRP would not only fit the philosophy and goals of CITAR for these Vietnam trainees, it would leverage Fogarty resources by supporting fellows already two years into their doctoral programs, with proven academic performance & commitment to research in Vietnam. We will hold student-faculty activities in VN aimed at successful reentry including short courses & VN based.