Emory AIDS International Training and Researach Program

描述(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计划(AITRP)已成为一个独特的跨学科培训环境，培养出高素质的艾滋病毒/艾滋病研究人员。通过2002年的竞争性补充，我们的第一轮资助合作国家(墨西哥、格鲁吉亚、亚美尼亚和越南)的名单已经扩大到包括埃塞俄比亚。最近从伯明翰阿拉巴马大学招募苏珊·艾伦博士到埃默里，进一步扩大了埃默里AITRP，将赞比亚和卢旺达包括在内。这种地域上的增长极大地增强了我们的AITRP的国际相关性，因为它包括了新出现的国家(前苏联的新独立国家)、新兴国家(越南和墨西哥)和已有疫情的国家(我们的非洲伙伴)。在我们的第一个Emory AITRP资助周期中，主要成就包括18名从Emory获得学位的长期研究员、25名短期实习生、十几次国内培训以及48篇由实习生在同行评议期刊上发表的文章，其中包括21篇第一作者的文章。来自赞比亚和卢旺达的另外19名研究员，他们撰写了70多篇同行评议的期刊论文，其中4篇是第一作者，他们通过由阿伦博士在UAB建立和指导的非洲AITRP部分获得了流行病学硕士学位。下一个资助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)我们最近的地域扩张和Susan Allen博士的加入；3)我们与国土安全部资助的机构和项目的合作，包括Emory的艾滋病研究中心、疾病控制和预防中心以及Emory的K30资助的MSCR计划。我们培训计划的具体目标包括：1.通过向不同的优秀年轻研究人员提供长期、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设人力资源能力。2.促进埃默里大学、疾病控制和预防中心以及墨西哥、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就艾滋病毒预防和护理开展合作培训和研究。3.提供跨学科交叉培训，这是我们项目迄今取得的显著成功之一，通过提供短期培训计划，使我们所有的受训人员以及其他AITRP项目的受训人员受益。4.建设国内研究能力，支持以证据为基础将研究转化为我们合作国家的政策和实践。5.利用我们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.