ICOHRTA Visiting Scientists Program

描述（由申请人提供）：在本申请中，我们建议扩展 我们成功的CAPS-Fogarty访问科学家计划通过战略 与我们的长期合作伙伴巴西，研究中心， 艾滋病做南里奥格兰德（CEARGS）在波尔图阿莱格雷，巴西。艾滋病中心 预防研究（CAPS），NIMH资助的艾滋病预防中心赠款， 加州大学旧金山弗朗西斯科的流行病学研究 进入第四个五年融资周期。我们的CAPS-Fogarty访问 科学家计划有13年的历史，成功地培养了100名 来自34个发展中国家的科学家参与艾滋病毒预防研究， 启动国内研究项目。在我们提出的ICOHRTA巴西 科学家？方案中，我们将重点设计艾滋病干预研究 巴西访问科学家在CAPS的研究。我们还将扩大范围 通过巴西的CEARGS进行国内培训的深度和广度。具体到 第1-3年，两名巴西访问科学家将设计试点干预措施 在CAPS的夏季强化培训计划期间，我们进行了一项研究项目， 随后将资助其国内试点研究。在第四年和第五年，这些 六个人将返回CAPS的两个写作休假之一， 分析他们的数据并准备科学手稿。在CEARGS， CAPS的附属机构，我们将培训八名巴西科学家， 1-3年级艾滋病基本预防和流行病学研究方法 并资助较小规模的试点研究。在第4年和第5年，我们将帮助他们 数据管理和分析以及科学写作。CAPS和CEARGS将工作 在整个补助期内以完全一体化的方式。我们设计了我们的 目标和活动，以补充我们与福格蒂现有的联系 公共卫生学院国际培训和研究项目， 加州大学伯克利分校以及加州大学旧金山分校的国际教师 正在进行或正在开发的研究和培训项目。我们的整体 目标是在巴西培养能够自给自足的研究科学家， 设计和实施艾滋病干预研究的独立或 与美国调查人员合作。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In this application, we propose to extend our successful CAPS-Fogarty Visiting Scientists Program through a strategic partnership with our long-time Brazilian collaborator, the Centro de Estudos de AIDS do Rio Grande do Sul (CEARGS) in Porto Alegre, Brazil. The Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS), an NIMH-funded center grant for AIDS prevention and epidemiologic studies at the University of California, San Francisco, is just entering our fourth five-year funding cycle. Our CAPS-Fogarty Visiting Scientists Program has a 13-year history of successfully training 100 scientists from 34 developing countries in HIV prevention research and launching in-country research projects. In our proposed ICOHRTA Brazilian Scientists? Program, we will focus on the design of AIDS intervention research studies by Brazilian visiting scientists at CAPS. We will also extend the scope and depth of in-country training through CEARGS in Brazil. Specifically, in Years 1-3, two Brazilian visiting scientists will design pilot intervention research projects during a summer intensive training program at CAPS, and we will subsequently fund their in-country pilot studies. In Years 4 and 5, these six individuals will return to CAPS to one of two writing sabbaticals to analyze their data and to prepare scientific manuscripts. At CEARGS, an established affiliate of CAPS, we will train eight Brazilian scientists per year in Years 1-3 in basic AIDS prevention and epidemiologic research methods and fund smaller scale pilot studies. In Years 4 & 5, we will assist in their data management and analysis and scientific writing. CAPS and CEARGS will work in a fully integrated fashion throughout the grant period. We have designed our aims and activities to complement our existing affiliation with the Fogarty International Training and Research Program at the School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, as well as UCSF faculty international research and training projects that are underway or in development. Our overall goal is to create self-sufficient research scientists in Brazil who are capable of designing and implementing AIDS intervention research independently or in collaboration with U.S. investigators.