International Training in Injury Control Research

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请寻求在莫桑比克共和国建立一个创伤护理和伤害控制研究的培训项目。它建立在美国大学（埃默里大学）和莫桑比克大学（Eduardo Mondlane大学或UEM）之间已有的伙伴关系的基础上。莫桑比克是一个南部非洲国家，与受伤有关的医疗保健负担沉重，目前加强受伤患者护理的临床或研究基础设施很少。本申请中描述了三个阶段的培训：正式的学术培训，在美国的桥梁奖学金，以及随后的国内研究。正式的学术培训以UEM目前教授的核心硕士课程为基础，辅以创伤护理、暴力和伤害预防的重点课程，以及流行病学的远程教育课程。此外，南非大学社会和健康科学研究所已同意作为受训人员的区域资源，在选修的基础上提供额外的重点伤害课程。埃默里大学的布里奇奖学金将起到“迷你休假”的作用，以培养研究协议，并提供有关研究的伦理、法律和社会影响的培训。最后，受训者将返回莫桑比克，在小额启动赠款的支持下进行国内研究，以帮助受训者在持续的指导下启动他们的第一个项目。将在所有三个阶段持续不断地提供密切的后续行动和合作。有些受训者将接受所有三个阶段的培训，而其他受训者可能只需要选择一些阶段（也许在南萨援助院花更多的时间学习补充课程，或花更多的时间进行国内研究）。提出了强有力的国内支持的证据。这个计划有几个优点：它具有很高的成本效益，它依赖于两个世卫组织伤害控制合作中心（埃默里大学和UNISA）的优势，它采用区域或“南对南”培训方法，国内补充培训将覆盖我们核心学员以外的其他人，它表明埃默里有意成为莫桑比克的长期合作伙伴，帮助该国建立开展高质量创伤护理和伤害控制研究的能力。它为区域合作奠定了基础，最终可能导致这种创伤和伤害控制研究从莫桑比克扩展到南部和东部非洲的其他国家。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application seeks to establish a training program in trauma care and injury control research in the Republic of Mozambique. It is built on a preexisting partnership between a US University (Emory University) and a Mozambican University (University Eduardo Mondlane or UEM). Mozambique is a southern African nation with a significant healthcare burden related to injury, and with minimal current clinical or research infrastructure to strengthen the care of injured patients. Three stages of training are described in this application: formal academic training, bridge fellowships in the U.S., and subsequent in-country research. The formal academic training is based on the core MPH curriculum currently taught at UEM, supplemented with focused courses in Trauma Care, Violence and Injury Prevention, and a distance education course in Epidemiology. In addition, the University of South Africa (UNISA), Institute for Social and Health Sciences, has agreed to serve as a regional resource for trainees, offering additional focused injury coursework on an elective basis. The Bridge Fellowships at Emory will function as "mini-sabbaticals" to nurture research protocols and provide training in the ethical, legal and social implications of research. Finally, trainees will return to Mozambique to undertake in-country research supported by small startup grants to help trainees launch their first project with ongoing mentorship. Close follow-up and collaboration will be provided during all three phases, and on an ongoing basis. While some trainees will undertake all 3 phases of the training, others may require only select phases (perhaps spending more time at UNISA in supplemental courses, or spending more time on in-country research). Evidence of strong in-country support is presented. This plan has several advantages: it is highly cost-effective, it relies on the strengths of two WHO collaborating centres for injury control (Emory and UNISA), it uses a regional or "south to south" training approach, in-country supplemental training will reach others beyond our core trainees, it signals Emory's intent to Mozambique to be a long-term partner in building the nation's capacity to conduct high quality research in trauma care and injury control, and it lays the foundation for a regional collaborative that could ultimately lead to expansion of this trauma and injury control research beyond Mozambique to include other nations in Southern and East Africa.