Emory AIDS International Training and Researach Program

描述（由申请人提供）：位于亚特兰大，埃默里艾滋病国际培训和研究计划（AITRP）已经建立了自己作为一个独特的跨学科的培训环境，生产高素质的艾滋病毒/艾滋病研究人员。通过2002年的竞争性补充，我们第一轮资助的合作国家名单（墨西哥、格鲁吉亚、亚美尼亚和越南）增加到埃塞俄比亚。最近从伯明翰的亚拉巴马大学招聘了苏珊艾伦博士到埃默里大学，进一步扩大了埃默里大学国际培训和研究方案，将赞比亚和卢旺达包括在内。这种地理上的增长极大地增强了我们的AITRP的国际相关性，包括新生（前苏联新独立国家），新兴（越南和墨西哥）和成熟（我们的非洲伙伴）流行病的国家。在我们的第一个埃默里AITRP资助周期的主要成就包括18名长期研究员从埃默里大学获得学位，25名短期学员，十几个国内培训，并在同行评审期刊上发表了48篇由学员撰写的论文，其中包括21篇首次撰写的文章。来自赞比亚和卢旺达的另外19名研究员撰写了70多篇同行评审的期刊文章，其中4篇是第一作者，他们通过由UAB艾伦博士建立和指导的非洲AITRP部分获得了流行病学硕士学位。下一个资金周期的主要优势包括：1）我们对跨学科交叉培训的创新重点; 2）我们最近的地理扩张和Susan艾伦博士的加入，以及3）我们与DHHS资助的机构和计划的合作，包括埃默里大学艾滋病研究中心，疾病控制和预防中心，以及埃默里大学K30资助的MSCR计划。我们的培训计划的具体目标包括：1。在我们的合作国家建立人力资源能力，向各类杰出的青年研究人员提供艾滋病毒/艾滋病方面的长期、中期和短期培训和研究机会。2.促进埃默里大学、疾病控制和预防中心（CDC）以及墨西哥、格鲁吉亚、亚美尼亚、越南、埃塞俄比亚、卢旺达和赞比亚的调查人员之间关于艾滋病毒预防和护理的合作培训和研究。3.提供跨学科的交叉培训，这是我们计划迄今为止取得的成功之一，通过短期培训计划，使我们所有的学员以及其他AITRP计划的学员受益。4.建立国内研究能力，支持将研究成果转化为合作国家的政策和实践。5.通过利用我们合作国家现有的区域英才中心，加强南南合作。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Located in Atlanta, the Emory AIDS International Training and Research Program (AITRP) has established itself as a unique interdisciplinary training environment, producing highly qualified HIV/AIDS researchers. Through a competitive supplement in 2002, our list of collaborating countries from the first cycle of funding (Mexico, Georgia, Armenia, and Vietnam) has grown to include Ethiopia. The recent recruitment to Emory of Dr. Susan Allen from the University of Alabama at Birmingham further expands the Emory AITRP to include Zambia and Rwanda. This geographic growth greatly enhances the international relevance of our AITRP by including countries with nascent (Newly Independent States of the former Soviet Union), emerging (Vietnam and Mexico), and established (our African partners) epidemics. Key accomplishments in our first Emory AITRP funding cycle include 18 long-term fellows awarded degrees from Emory, 25 short term trainees, more than a dozen in-country trainings, and 48 trainee-authored publications in peer reviewed journals, including 21 first authored articles. An additional 19 fellows from Zambia and Rwanda, who have authored more 70 peer-reviewed journal articles, including 4 as first author, received Masters degrees in Epidemiology through the Africa AITRP component established and directed by Dr Allen at UAB. Major strengths for this next funding cycle include 1) our innovative focus on inter-disciplinary cross-training; 2) our recent geographic expansion and the addition of Dr. Susan Allen, and 3) our collaboration with DHHS-funded agencies and programs, including Emory's Center for AIDS Research, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Emory's K30-funded MSCR program. The specific aims of our training program include: 1. To build human resource capacity in our collaborating countries by providing long, medium and short-term training and research opportunities in HIV/AIDS to a diverse group of outstanding young researchers. 2. To foster collaborative training and research among Emory, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and investigators in Mexico, Georgia, Armenia, Vietnam, Ethiopia, Rwanda and Zambia on HIV prevention and care. 3. To provide interdisciplinary cross-training, which is one of our program's signal successes to date, by having short-term training programs that will benefit all our trainees as well as trainees from other AITRP programs. 4. To build in-country research capacity that will support evidence-based translation of research into policy and practice in our collaborating countries. 5. To enhance south-south collaboration by taking advantage of existing regional centers of excellence in our collaborating countries.