Fogarty Global Health Fellows Coordinating Center

描述（由申请人提供）：北卡罗来纳大学、约翰霍普金斯大学、莫尔豪斯医学院和杜兰大学基于20多年的研究和培训合作，成立了一个联盟，启动福格蒂全球健康研究员计划（FGHF）。该联盟汇集了非洲（加纳、马拉维、南非（2个）、斯威士兰、乌干达（2个）、赞比亚）、亚洲（孟加拉国、中国（3个）、印度、泰国）和南美洲（阿根廷、巴西、秘鲁）的17个主要研究培训地点。我们的建议侧重于更高级的学员，区域合作伙伴关系，多层次的指导。每个主要培训地点都有悠久的历史，包括美国国立卫生研究院和美国政府的研究资助，美国和国际研究学员的培训，以及实地教师导师，其中许多人都是通过福格蒂国际中心项目培训的。其中12个拟议的培训地点目前是福格蒂国际临床研究学者和研究员计划的一部分

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of North Carolina, Johns Hopkins University, Morehouse School of Medicine, and Tulane University have formed a consortium, based on over 20 years of research and training collaboration, to launch the Fogarty Global Health Fellows Program (FGHF). This consortium brings together 17 primary research training sites in Africa (Ghana, Malawi, South Africa (2), Swaziland, Uganda (2), Zambia), Asia (Bangladesh, China (3), India, Thailand) and South America (Argentina, Brazil, Peru). Our proposal focuses on more advanced trainees, regional partnerships, multilayered mentoring. Each primary training site has a lengthy history of NIH and US government research funding, training of US and international research trainees, and on-the-ground faculty mentors, many of whom were trained through Fogarty International Center programs. Twelve of the proposed training sites are currently part of the Fogarty International Clinical Research Scholars & Fellows program. We will preferentially recruit advanced post-doctoral researchers from more than 50 T32 training grants at the affiliated institutions in all disciplines of health sciences, as well a early-stage post- doctoral researchers, and doctoral and health science students from Schools of Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Public Health and Veterinary Medicine at our 4 universities and around the US. Trainees from the international sites will be "twinned" with US trainees through additional resources including other existing Fogarty training grants and the Gilead Foundation to build research capacity at the sites to which the consortium has long-standing commitment. The areas of research focus include a broad range of topics that are consistent with the NIH Fogarty 2008-2012 Strategic Plan, recognizing the growing importance of non- communicable diseases while continuing the commitment to infectious diseases. Trainee applications will be judged on the quality of the research proposal, their previous track record, and commitment to a global health academic research career. Trainees will be assigned a team of mentors, with at least one senior and one junior mentor, who will closely monitor the progress of the trainee and provide on-site supervision. Drawing on existing linkages between sites and training faculty, we will enhance regional partnerships in order to provide training and guidance for junior mentors. Trainees and their twins will have access to biostatistical and epidemiologic consultation from UNC and Tulane faculty for both data analyses and grant writing purposes as well as supplemental funding for their research from multiple small grant opportunities at UNC. FGHF leverages a unique set of resources, training faculty, and sites in order to directly respond to three of the four Fogarty Strategic 2008-2012 Goals: bridging the training gap, fostering sustainable research, and building strategic partnerships.