The Lifespan/Brown Criminal Justice Research Program on Substance Use and HIV

描述(由申请人提供)：在美国，参与刑事司法系统、使用药物以及感染艾滋病毒和丙型肝炎病毒(丙型肝炎病毒)是共同的。尽管存在这场公共健康危机，但相对缺乏针对以下方面的临床研究 改善CJ人群的治疗结果。为了弥补这一差距，并增加临床科学家在CJ人群中工作的数量和能力，我们在LIFESPAN/Tuft/Brown Center for AIDS Research(CFAR)并与Brown Program in Public Health合作建立了这一临床研究培训计划。该计划将通过现有的研究网络、合作和相关科学会议的传播，每年从美国和波多黎各招聘5名博士后研究人员。该计划为期24个月，包括在国际扶轮普罗维登斯举行的具体课程模块和研讨会，以及将在参与者所在机构进行的指导性研究体验。该计划有以下目标：1)通过让参与者参加布朗大学公共卫生计划提供的为期六周的夏季临床和翻译研究学院，为临床研究提供坚实的教育基础，包括研究方法和科学写作技能。2)通过暑期学院课程的现场教学，该计划将就CJ人群特有的问题提供补充教育。3)提供有指导的研究经验，包括为试点项目提供资金，这将使参与者有机会开发适用于未来国家卫生研究院赠款的初步数据集，并在国家会议上和通过同行评议的文献传播他们的研究结果。4)通过召开正在进行的研究研讨会，审查数据收集、分析和传播工作，并提供结合研究经验的技术赠款撰写援助，提供持续的指导研究支助和协作学习经验。科学指导将由执行委员会和外部咨询委员会提供；并将利用LifeSpan/Brown的教职员工和资源为参与者创建一个研究指导网络，其中包括LifeSpan/Tuft/Brown艾滋病研究中心、囚犯健康和人权中心、酒精和成瘾研究中心、行为和预防医学中心、公共卫生计划和酒精研究中心(ARCH)。该计划将通过评估传播活动、赠款提交和在参与计划后两年资助的赠款来进行评估。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Involvement with the criminal justice system, substance use, and infection with HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) are syndemic in the United States. Despite this public health crisis, there is a relative dearth of clinical research aimed at improving treatment outcomes among CJ populations. To address this gap and increase the number and capacity of clinical scientists working with CJ populations, we have established this clinical research training program based at the Lifespan/Tufts/Brown Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) and in collaboration with the Brown Program in Public Health. The program will recruit five early career research scientists at the post-doctoral level annually from the U.S. and Puerto Rico through existing research networks, collaborations, and dissemination through relevant scientific meetings. The program is 24 months in length and is comprised of specific course modules and seminars held in Providence, RI, and a mentored research experience which will be conducted at the participant's home institution. The program has the following aims: 1) Provide a solid educational foundation for clinical research including research methodology and scientific writing skills by having participants attend the six week Summer Institute for Clinical and Translational Research offered by the Brown University of Program in Public Health. 2) Through on-site teaching during the Summer Institute course, the program will provide supplemental education on issues unique to CJ populations. 3) Provide a mentored research experience including funds for pilot projects that will provide participants with the opportunity t develop preliminary datasets appropriate for future NIH grants and to disseminate their findings at national meetings and through the peer-reviewed literature. 4) Provide ongoing mentored research support and collaborative learning experiences by convening research-in-progress seminars to review data collection, analyses, dissemination efforts, and to provide technical grant writing assistance that integrates the research experience. Scientific guidance will be provided by an Executive Committee and an external Advisory Committee; and a research mentoring network for participants will be created leveraging the faculty and resources at Lifespan/Brown including the Lifespan/Tufts/Brown Center for AIDS Research, the Center for Prisoner Health and Human Rights, the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, the Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine, the Program in Public Health, and the Alcohol Research Center on HIV (ARCH). The program will be evaluated by assessing dissemination activities, grant submissions, and grants funded for two years following program participation.