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是一个关于艾滋病毒预防研究的高级培训计划。奖学金是给外国卫生专业人员的，他们在休斯顿的UTSPH获得了4年的博士学位，然后是第5年的博士后，在本国进行监督研究。对Citar研究员的支持可能来自各种来源，但到目前为止，几乎完全来自越南教育基金会(VEF)，该基金会提供两年的津贴和机构支持。AITRP的一笔赠款将支持剩下的3年时间以及休斯顿与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]，以便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事业，并帮助他们获得从事这些事业的资金；2.培养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。我们选择越南，是因为早期但迅速扩大的艾滋病疫情、越南政府的承诺以及其现有公共卫生人力的严重限制，使其非常适合受益于我们在艾滋病研究和国际卫生方面经验丰富的教员。目前，从2005年秋季开始，我们有7名越南研究员(6名来自越南教育基金会，1名获得越南政府奖学金)和另外3名越南教育基金会研究员。我们预计在接下来的每一年都会有2到4名新的学生。Citar的培训经验有6个要素：1.教师监督艾滋病毒实地研究导致一篇论文；2.教学学术课程；3.每周研讨会，教员和研究员在研讨会上分享关于艾滋病毒和相关问题的陈述和讨论；4.实践；5.关于国际研究的实际问题的课程；6.密切指导教育经验的所有方面。一个重要的交叉要素是伦理学，重点是所有教学要素中将出现的科学的伦理行为。AITRP不仅符合Citar为这些越南实习生制定的理念和目标，还将利用Fogarty资源，支持已攻读博士课程两年、学术表现已得到证实并致力于越南研究的研究员。我们将在越南举办旨在成功重返中国的师生活动，包括短期课程和以越南为基础的课程。

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.