Social Science Training and Research SMS-HMU Partnership

描述(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，以创建一个研究艾滋病毒预防、治疗和护理的社会科学方法的国家卓越中心。STAR伙伴关系有四个组成部分。首先，基础设施建设包括：1)加强管理和行政能力(财务和赠款管理及战略规划方面的能力建设)；2)研究伦理能力(通过对IRB以及更广泛的教职员工进行培训)；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；每月举办明星研讨会)；4)为社会医学系开发医学人类学、政策科学和伦理课程。其次，明星教员将为河内医科大学教员、高级学生和其他有前途的研究人员提供与政策相关的社会科学研究方面的跨学科培训，培训三个重叠队列中的40名研究员。第三，明星研究员将在三个试点研究(关于男子气概和艾滋病毒风险、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，传播将通过每年一次的研讨会、我们备受瞩目的越南顾问委员会的支持、每月的明星研讨会、出版物以及在国家民族学博物馆举行的关于越南艾滋病的顶级展览来进行。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机构发展。加强河内医科大学与更广泛的越南艾滋病毒研究和政策团体之间的联系，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倡导组织以及国际捐助界的主要成员，将扩大这些密集的个人和机构一级投资的区域和国家影响。

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.