International Traineeships in AIDS Prevention Studies

描述（由申请人提供）：艾滋病预防研究国际培训计划（ITAPS）吸引培训和发展中国家科学家在艾滋病毒预防研究的职业生涯。ITAPS是NIMH资助的艾滋病预防研究中心（CAPS）的三个不同的培训计划之一，也是CAPS国际核心的主要培训计划。在过去的18年里，我们已经开发了一个独特的，创新的和高生产力的计划，其中访问学者的多学科小组来CAPS参加为期10周的基本艾滋病毒预防研究方法培训计划。受训人员专注于制定一项行为或流行病学试点研究方案，以便在本国实施。随后，我们为完成数据收集的学者提供为期8周的科学写作研讨会，以撰写科学手稿。迄今为止，我们已经培训了来自39个国家的150名访问学者。我们的校友的研究已在同行评审的期刊和科学会议上广泛传播，许多校友已经采取了公共卫生和学术领导职位在他们的祖国。我们建议建立在我们现有的计划，并引入一个创新的新的培训计划，以帮助我们最成功的计划校友从美国国立卫生研究院获得独立的研究资金。我们将（1）继续提供我们的基础研究方法课程和科学写作研讨会;（2）为我们最成功的校友创建一个新的为期10个月的高级研究培训课程，重点是生产可资助的R系列或其他赠款提案，以及（3）继续为所有计划校友提供持续的技术援助，积极的研究项目，科学手稿和会议演示文稿。具体来说，我们建议在01年和04年分别接待10名学者，他们将参加我们的基本艾滋病毒预防研究方法课程，并制定在本国实施的试点研究方案。在02、03和05年级，我们将举办每组十名学者的科学写作研讨会。最后，我们将每年招募两名非常有前途的访问学者，参加为期10个月的高级研究培训课程，重点是进一步学习研究方法和发展赠款。CAPS中心赠款（2006-11）是作为P-30资助，并提供基础设施，以支持教师进行的国际研究，但不提供ITAPS计划的资金。在我们目前的赠款周期，ITAPS已从其他来源获得资金，以支付在CAPS短期访问学者的旅费和生活费。然而，这些来源特别禁止使用资金来支持教师和行政费用。在这个应用程序中，我们寻求规划和教学ITAPS计划所需的教师和行政人员的资金，并提供持续的指导和学者的技术支持。我们还寻求在每个赠款年度两个10个月的高级研究培训的旅费和生活费的资金。世界上大多数新的艾滋病毒和艾滋病病例发生在发展中国家。该项目的目标是提高发展中国家科学家在本国进行艾滋病预防研究的能力。我们将通过在弗朗西斯科加州大学为发展中国家科学家提供研究方法和科学写作方面的短期培训来实现这一目标。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The International Traineeships in AIDS Prevention Studies Program (ITAPS) attracts trains and advances the careers of developing country scientists in HIV prevention research. ITAPS is one of three distinct training programs at the NIMH-funded Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS) and the primary training program of the CAPS International Core. Over the past 18 years, we have developed a unique, innovative and highly productive program in which a multidisciplinary group of visiting scholars comes to CAPS to participate in a 10- week Basic HIV Prevention Research Methods Training Program. Trainees focus on developing a behavioral or epidemiologic pilot research protocol for implementation in their home countries. Subsequently, we provide 8-week Scientific Writing Workshops for scholars who have completed data collection to write a scientific manuscript. To date, we have trained 150 visiting scholars from 39 countries. The research of our alumni has been broadly disseminated in peer-reviewed journals and at scientific conferences, and many alumni have taken public health and academic leadership positions in their home countries. We propose to build upon our existing program and introduce an innovative new training initiative to assist our most successful program alumni in securing independent research funding from the NIH. We will (1) continue to offer our basic research method course and scientific writing workshops; (2) create a new 10-month advanced research training course for our most successful alumni with a focus on producing fundable R-series or other grant proposals, and (3) continue to provide ongoing technical assistance to all program alumni with active research projects, scientific manuscripts and conference presentations. Specifically, we propose to host groups of ten scholars each in Years 01 and 04 who will attend our basic HIV prevention research methods course, and develop pilot research protocols for implementation in their home countries. In Years 02, 03 and 05, we will host groups of ten scholars each for scientific writing workshops. Finally we will recruit two highly promising visiting scholars per year for a 10-month advanced research training course focused on further study in research methods and grant development. The CAPS Center Grant (2006-11) is funded as a P-30 and provides infrastructure to support international research conducted by faculty, but does not provide funding for the ITAPS program. As in our current grant cycle, ITAPS has secured funding from other sources to cover travel and living expenses for short-term visiting scholars at CAPS. However, these sources specifically disallow use of funds to support faculty and administrative costs. In this application, we seek funds for faculty and administrative staff required for planning and teaching the ITAPS program, and providing ongoing mentoring and technical support of scholars. We also seek funding for travel and living expenses for two 10-month Advanced Research Traineeships in each grant year. The majority of the world's new cases of HIV and AIDS are in the developing world. The goal of this project is to raise the capacity of developing country scientists to conduct AIDS prevention research studies in their home countries. We will accomplish this goal by providing short-term training in research methods and scientific writing for developing country scientists at the University of California, San Francisco.