Emory AIDS International Training and Researach Program

描述（由申请人提供）：位于亚特兰大的埃默里艾滋病国际培训和研究项目（AITRP）已经建立了一个独特的跨学科培训环境，培养了高素质的艾滋病研究人员。通过2002年的一项竞争性补充，我们第一轮供资的合作国家名单（墨西哥、格鲁吉亚、亚美尼亚和越南）已扩大到埃塞俄比亚。最近埃默里大学从伯明翰阿拉巴马大学招收了苏珊·艾伦博士，进一步扩大了埃默里AITRP，将赞比亚和卢旺达纳入其中。这种地域上的增长极大地增强了我们援助方案的国际相关性，因为它包括了刚刚出现（前苏联新独立国家）、正在出现（越南和墨西哥）和已经形成（我们的非洲伙伴）流行病的国家。我们第一个埃默里AITRP资助周期的主要成就包括18名长期研究员获得埃默里学位，25名短期实习生，十几名国内培训，以及48篇在同行评审期刊上发表的论文，其中包括21篇第一作者论文。来自赞比亚和卢旺达的另外19名研究员通过艾伦博士在非洲大学建立和指导的非洲AITRP组成部分获得了流行病学硕士学位，他们发表了70多篇同行评议的期刊文章，其中4篇为第一作者。下一个融资周期的主要优势包括：1)我们对跨学科交叉培训的创新关注；2)我们最近的地理扩张和苏珊·艾伦博士的加入，3)我们与dhhs资助的机构和项目的合作，包括埃默里艾滋病研究中心，疾病控制和预防中心，以及埃默里k30资助的MSCR项目。我们培训计划的具体目标包括：1。通过向不同群体的杰出青年研究人员提供长期、中期和短期的艾滋病毒/艾滋病培训和研究机会，在我们的合作国家建立人力资源能力。2. 促进埃默里大学、美国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、卢旺达和赞比亚的研究人员在艾滋病毒预防和护理方面的合作培训和研究。3. 提供跨学科的交叉培训，这是我们项目迄今为止取得的显著成功之一，通过短期培训项目，使我们所有的学员以及来自其他AITRP项目的学员受益。4. 建设国内研究能力，支持将基于证据的研究成果转化为我们合作国家的政策和实践。5. 利用合作国家现有的区域卓越中心，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.