Social Science Training and Research SMS-HMU Partnership

描述（由申请人提供）：在社会科学培训和研究（STAR）伙伴关系中，哥伦比亚大学梅尔曼公共卫生学院社会医学科学系的教师将与越南社会科学家合作，包括河内医科大学新成立的社会医学系的领导，建立一个国家卓越的社会科学方法研究艾滋病毒的预防、治疗和护理中心。STAR伙伴关系有四个组成部分。首先，基础设施发展包括：1)加强管理和行政能力（财政和赠款管理以及战略规划方面的能力建设）；2)研究伦理能力（通过对伦理委员会以及更广泛的教职员工群体的培训）；3)研究基础设施（改善图书馆资源、计算基础设施；以社区为基础的实地工作实验室；每月一次的STAR研讨会），以及4)为社会医学系开设医学人类学、政策科学和伦理学课程。第二，STAR教师将为河内医科大学教师、高年级学生和其他有前途的研究人员提供与政策有关的社会科学研究的跨学科培训，培训40名研究员，分为三个重叠的队列。第三，STAR研究员将在三项试点研究（关于男性气质与艾滋病毒风险、扩大抗逆转录病毒治疗的社会影响和减少危害的政治）中获得实践指导的研究经验。第四，将通过一年一度的研讨会、我们备受瞩目的越南咨询委员会的支持、每月的STAR研讨会、出版物以及在国家民族学博物馆举办的关于越南艾滋病的顶点展览来进行传播。STAR伙伴关系将共同支持河内医科大学新成立的社会医学系的体制发展。加强河内医科大学与更广泛的越南艾滋病毒研究和政策界，包括河内公共卫生学院、越南社会科学院、卫生部、非政府艾滋病研究和宣传组织以及国际捐助界主要成员之间的联系，将扩大这些密集的个人和机构一级投资对区域和国家的影响。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In the Social Science Training and Research (STAR) Partnership, faculty from the Department of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health will collaborate with Vietnamese social scientists, including the leadership of Hanoi Medical University's newly founded Department of Social Medicine, to create a national center of excellence in social science approaches to the study of HIV prevention, treatment and care. The STAR Partnership has four components. First, infrastructure development includes: 1) enhanced management and administrative capacity (capacity building in financial and grants management and strategic planning); 2) research ethics capacity (via training for the IRB as well as the broader community of faculty and staff); 3) research infrastructure (improvements in library resources, computing infrastructure; community-based fieldwork labs; a monthly STAR seminar), and 4) the development of courses in Medical Anthropology, Policy Science, and Ethics for the Department of Social Medicine. Second, STAR faculty will provide interdisciplinary training in policy-relevant social science research to Hanoi Medical University faculty and advanced students and other promising researchers, training 40 fellows in three overlapping cohorts. Third, STAR fellows will gain hands-on mentored research experience in three pilot studies (on masculinity and HIV risk, the social impact of ART scale-up, and the politics of harm reduction). Fourth, dissemination will take place via an annual symposium, support from our high-profile Vietnam Advisory Board, the monthly STAR seminar, publications, and a capstone exhibit on AIDS in Vietnam at the National Museum of Ethnology. Together, the STAR Partnership will support the institutional development of Hanoi Medical University's newly founded Department of Social Medicine. Strengthening ties between Hanoi Medical University and the broader Vietnamese HIV research and policy community, including the Hanoi School of Public Health, the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, the Ministry of Health, non-governmental AIDS research and advocacy organizations, and key members of the international donor community will amplify the regional and national impact of these intensive individual and institutional-level investments.