The Water and Health in Limpopo Innovations Fellowship Program

描述(由申请人提供)：林波波市水与健康创新奖学金计划将在未来五年内为12名博士后研究员提供全球卫生创新方面的跨学科培训，其中6名来自美国，6名来自南部非洲农村。该方案将重点关注与此密切相关的问题，即南部非洲农村地区难以获得水和卫生设施，以及与儿童早期腹泻有关的高发病率和高死亡率。弗吉尼亚大学(UVA)和南非文达大学之间近十年的合作将主办这一项目，该项目由国际公认的全球卫生领导者和早期儿童腹泻(ECD)专家理查德·格雷兰特博士领导，他是弗吉尼亚大学的理查德·格雷兰特博士，以及UNIVEN教授兼微生物学主席帕斯卡尔·贝松博士。这一合作得到了来自两个机构的多学科教员小组的支持，他们在肠道疾病、农村净水战略、农村护理、社区规划、基于代理人的建模、儿童发展、跨文化人种学以及与水和人权有关的南非法律方面具有特殊专长。该小组在过去四年中成立，并为跨学科和跨大洋的协调、学术和培训制定了协议和战略。WHIL创新奖学金将为来自美国和南部非洲的有前途的、经过博士培训的潜在全球卫生领导者提供机会，参加有指导的全球卫生研究和教育培训，重点是水和ECD的获取和质量。培训方案的主要目标是：(1)培养参与创新的全球卫生研究合作所需的技能，包括在社区参与、农村水资源管理、幼儿发展影响的衡量、全球卫生模拟建模、跨学科合作、全球卫生研究伦理、项目等方面的具体定制培训 (2)在多学科WHIL计划的背景下开展一个创新的、有指导的全球卫生研究项目；(3)开发一系列研究和培训成果，作为个人努力的框架，并作为未来研究员和其他受训者的资源。我们计划从多个学科招募研究员，并希望通过我们成熟和多样化的教师培训团队来吸引优秀的应聘者。我们期望我们的受训人员将在世界水和卫生倡议项目的背景下，对农村水和卫生设施的提供以及幼儿发展做出有意义的新研究。更重要的是，我们将确保他们准备以创新的务实态度思考这些问题，这意味着，当他们制定令人兴奋的新干预措施、程序和政策时，他们将预见并纳入社区可接受性、有效性、可负担性、可获得性和可扩展性等问题。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Water and Health in Limpopo (WHIL) Innovations fellowship program will provide cross-disciplinary training in global health innovation to twelve post-doctoral fellows, six from the United States and six from rural Southern Africa, over the next five years. The program will focus on the closely related issues of poor access to water and sanitation in rural areas of Southern Africa and unacceptably high rates of morbidity and mortality associated with early childhood diarrhea. The nearly decade old collaboration between the University of Virginia (UVa) and the University of Venda, South Africa that will host this program is led by the internationally-recognized global health leader and early childhood diarrhea (ECD) specialist, Dr. Richard Guerrant, at UVa, and by Dr. Pascal Bessong, UNIVEN Professor and Chair of Microbiology. The collaboration is supported by a multi-disciplinary group of faculty from both institutions with particular expertise in enteric disease, rural water purification strategies, rural nursing, community planning, agent- based modeling, child development, cross-cultural ethnography, and South African law related to water and human rights. This group has formed over the past four years and has developed protocols and strategies for trans-disciplinary and trans-oceanic coordination, scholarship, and training. The WHIL Innovations fellowship will provide promising doctorally-prepared potential global health leaders from the US and Southern Africa with the opportunity to participate in mentored global health research and education training with a particular focus on access to and quality of water and ECD. Major objectives of the training program are: (1) To build skills necessary to engage in innovative global health research collaborations including specific tailored training in community engagement, rural water management, measurement of impacts of ECD, simulation modeling in global health, trans-disciplinary collaboration, global health research ethics, project management, and laboratory management; (2) To conduct an innovative, mentored global health research project in the context of the multi-disciplinary WHIL program; and (3) To develop a portfolio of research and training outputs that will serve as a framework from which to develop individual efforts and as a resource for future fellows and other trainees. We plan to recruit fellows from many disciplines and expect to attract outstanding candidates thanks to our well-established and diverse faculty training group. We expect that our trainees will contribute meaningful new research relating to rural water and sanitation provision and ECD in the context of the WHIL program. More importantly, we will ensure that they are prepared to think with innovative pragmatism about these issues meaning that, as they develop exciting new interventions, processes and policies, they will anticipate and incorporate questions of community acceptability, efficacy, affordability, accessibility, and scalability.