CITAR-The UTSPH Program for Advanced Training on AIDS Research

描述（由申请人提供）：德克萨斯大学公共卫生学院（UTSPH）的CITAR是一个艾滋病毒预防研究高级培训项目。奖学金是为在休斯敦UTSPH获得4年博士学位的外国卫生专业人员提供的，然后在他们的祖国进行第5年的博士后研究。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。一笔AITRP拨款将支持剩下的3年，以及休斯顿和我们在越南的研究和培训地点之间的旅费。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有关艾滋病毒和艾滋病毒相关问题的公共卫生研究工作，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之间的理解与合作。我们之所以选择越南，是因为早期但迅速扩大的艾滋病流行，越南政府的承诺，以及其目前公共卫生人力的严重限制，使其特别适合从我们在艾滋病研究和国际卫生方面经验丰富的教员中受益。目前，我们有7名越南研究员（6名来自越南发展基金，1名获得越南政府奖学金），从2005年秋季开始，我们还将增加3名越南发展基金研究员。我们预计在接下来的每一年都有2到4名新学生。CITAR的培训经历有6个要素：1。教师监督艾滋病毒领域研究，导致论文；2. 说教式学术课程；3. 每周一次的研讨会，教师和研究员分享关于艾滋病毒和相关问题的演讲和讨论。Practica;5. 国际研究实际问题课程；6. 密切指导各方面的教育经验。一个关键的交叉要素将是伦理，重点是科学的道德行为，这将出现在所有的教学要素中。AITRP不仅符合CITAR对这些越南学员的理念和目标，还可以利用福格蒂资源，支持那些已经完成两年博士课程、学术表现和对越南研究的承诺得到证实的学员。我们将在越南举办旨在成功重返越南的师生活动，包括短期课程和以越南为基础的活动。

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.