International Partnership for Interdisciplinary Research Training

跨学科研究培训国际合作伙伴关系

• 批准号: 8337168
• 负责人: CHRISTOPHER O OLOPADE
• 金额: $ 22.91万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-07-12 至 2017-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8337168
• 关键词: Affect; African; Area; Asthma; Basic Science; Behavioral Sciences; Bioethics; Biometry; Cancer Biology; Chicago; Chronic; Chronic Obstructive Airway Disease; Clinical; Clinical Pharmacology; Clinical Research; Collaborations; Communicable Diseases; Communities; Country; Demography; Dentistry; Dimensions; Discipline; Discipline of Nursing; Disease; Doctor of Philosophy; Economics; Educational Status; Epidemiology; Fostering; Goals; Health; Health Policy; Hospitals; Human Genetics; Immunology; Incidence; Interdisciplinary Study; International; Joints; Lateral; Longevity; Malignant Neoplasms; Methodology; Nigeria; Ophthalmology; Pharmacogenetics; Pollution; Prevention; Research; Research Design; Research Methodology; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Research Support; Research Training; Sickle Cell Anemia; Social Sciences; Societies; Tanzania; Thinking; Training; Training Programs; Universities; Women' s Health; base; career; college; interdisciplinary approach; interest; malignant breast neoplasm; molecular pathology; prevent; programs; prototype; skills

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Chicago (UC) has supported active clinical and basic research programs as well as community-based research into the epidemiology and socio-cultural factors that contribute to disparities in the incidence and expression of breast cancer in partnership with the University of Ibadan (UI) and the University College Hospital (UCH) for more than a decade. The proposed "International Partnership for Interdisciplinary Research Training in Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases and Disorders across the Lifespan" program will deepen research methods skills amongst trainees in clinical research and introduce an important research methods dimension consistent with the needs expressed by in country collaborators. The dimension of interest is an interdisciplinary approach, a "lateral shift", whereby trainees receive distinct added research training in another health related discipline such as bioethics, biostatistics, behavioral science, cancer biology, clinical pharmacology and pharmacogenetics, economics, demography, epidemiology, health policy, human genetics, immunology, molecular pathology, and the social sciences,. This "lateral shift" will increase capacity amongst trainees at various career levels to develop relevan hypotheses, plan appropriate study designs, operationalize research findings, nurture collaborations between investigators of different disciplines and in some trainees potentiate considerable shifts in thinking and approaches to preventing and curing the diseases that most affect this region and continent. Prototype trainees would be those who at the end of the program have deepened her/his primary research training in the clinical field they are most familiar with and has leveraged new health related discipline research methods OR one who has shifted to a primary focus on health related discipline with Masters or PhD level training and focusing on a given clinical topic; both with the goal of conducting team based interdisciplinary research that leads to substantive improvements in practical prevention and treatment practices. By consolidating and reorganizing existing research capacity within UI, strategic African-US teams will increasingly become fully operational and expand upon research projects to develop truly shared interdisciplinary programs. Program areas of focus have been selected by the joint Ibadan and Chicago training advisory group, and are particular areas where the UC can provide research support. The training program in Cancer is now fully operational having trained more than 200 Africans in the past ten years and now will advance to train a projected 416 Africans in 1) other non-communicable disorders such as Sickle Cell Disease, Asthma/COPD and Indoor Pollution as well as Women's Health; 2) expand to additional training methodologies and health disciplines such as dentistry, nursing and ophthalmology; 3) expand to other emerging South-South collaborations such as a new Nigeria-Tanzania partnership fostered by UC and 4) expand to other African countries through the African Organization on Research and Training In Cancer and African Society of Human Genetics. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The University of Ibadan has the burden of history as the premier university in Nigeria to continue to provide leadership in the creation and deployment of knowledge for development. The proposed international partnership will allow Ibadan to realize its present vision of transforming into a postgraduate, research-driven university with focus on the development of translational research capacity and skills-set to meet the growing health needs of the country and the entire continent of Africa.

描述（由申请人提供）：芝加哥大学（UC）与伊巴丹大学（UI）和大学学院医院（UCH）合作，支持积极的临床和基础研究计划以及基于社区的流行病学和社会文化因素研究，这些因素导致乳腺癌发病率和表达的差异超过十年。拟议的“慢性非传染性疾病和疾病跨学科研究培训国际伙伴关系”方案将深化临床研究受训者的研究方法技能，并引入一个重要的研究方法维度，与国内合作者表达的需求相一致。感兴趣的方面是一个跨学科的方法，一个“横向转移”，使学员接受另一个健康相关学科，如生物伦理学，生物统计学，行为科学，癌症生物学，临床药理学和遗传药理学，经济学，人口学，流行病学，卫生政策，人类遗传学，免疫学，分子病理学和社会科学，独特的研究培训。这种“横向转移”将提高不同职业层次的受训人员的能力，以发展相关假设，规划适当的研究设计，将研究结果付诸实施，促进不同学科研究人员之间的合作，并使一些受训人员在预防和治疗影响本区域和本大陆最严重的疾病方面的思维和方法发生重大转变。原型学员将是那些在计划结束时加深了她/他在他们最熟悉的临床领域的主要研究培训，并利用了新的健康相关学科研究方法的人，或者是那些已经转向主要关注健康相关学科的人，硕士或博士水平的培训并专注于给定的临床主题;两者的目标都是进行基于团队的跨学科研究，从而大幅改善实际的预防和治疗实践。通过巩固和重组UI内现有的研究能力，战略非洲-美国团队将越来越多地成为全面运作，并扩大研究项目，以开发真正共享的跨学科项目。重点项目领域由伊巴丹和芝加哥联合培训咨询小组选定，是加州大学可以提供研究支持的特定领域。癌症培训方案现已全面实施，在过去十年中培训了200多名非洲人，现在将进一步培训预计的416名非洲人：（1）其他非传染性疾病，如镰状细胞病、哮喘/慢性阻塞性肺病和室内污染以及妇女健康;（2）扩大到其他培训方法和保健学科，如牙科、护理和眼科; 3）扩大到其他新兴的南南合作，如由UC促进的新的坦桑尼亚-坦桑尼亚伙伴关系，4）通过非洲癌症研究和培训组织和非洲人类遗传学协会扩大到其他非洲国家。 公共卫生相关性：伊巴丹大学作为尼日利亚首屈一指的大学，肩负着继续领导创造和部署知识促进发展的历史重任。拟议的国际伙伴关系将使伊巴丹实现其目前的愿景，即转变为一所研究生，研究驱动的大学，重点是发展转化研究能力和技能，以满足该国和整个非洲大陆日益增长的健康需求。